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Miyo Stevens-Gandara
Born February 1973
Education
1996 BFA California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
2000 MFA California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Selected Awards
2018 Selected Artist, Echo Park Film Center Super 8 Film Commission
2016 Selected Artist, We Are Los Angeles, print edition for the California Community Foundation portfolio, Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Selected Artist, La Havana, International Printmaking Exchange with the Taller Experimental de Gráfica, Havana, Cuba
2003 Artist in Residence, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2002 Artist in Residence, Side Street Projects, Pasadena, CA
Selected Exhibitions
2020 Virtual Collect + Connect Photo L.A., Maho Kubota Gallery
2020 Videotopia, Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Utopia/Dystopia, Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
2019 We Rise L.A., We Rise L.A. 2019 Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Infinite Light, Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Entre Tinta y Lucha: 45 Years of Self Help Graphics & Art, Cal State L.A. Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Windows of Little Tokyo, National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Forever is Composed of Nows, Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Self Help Graphics: Aztlán, the Permanent Collection, and Beyond, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2016 Natural Witness: Human History Revealed Through Plants (co-curator and featured artist), Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
2016 We Are Los Angeles, Public art installation for the California Community Foundation, Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA
2016 LA Havana, International Printmaking Exchange, Museum of Latin American Art at the L.A. Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Welcome!, Cal State L.A. Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 2015 Survey of the Los Angeles River (curator and featured artist), Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Una Cita con la Vida, Self Help Graphics 41st Annual Dia de los Muertos Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Out of the Blue, Angel's Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
2010 Little Tremors: An Exhibition of L.A. Artists, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
2008 This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs, The Huntington Library Boone Gallery, San Marino, CA
2002 Summertime, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Ghetto Fabulous, Watts Towers Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
Publications and Media
2016 KPCC, Take Two radio program: Live interview with A. Martinez at KPCC studios (November)
2018 Pen Magazine: April Issue 449, “The Unforgettable Photograph”, pg. 61
2019 Irvine Weekly: March 11, 2019, "Laguna Art Museum Celebrates Culture & Identity with Self Help Graphics Exhibit", Ryan Najjar
2019 Voyage LA: February 5, 2019, "Meet Miyo Stevens-Gandara"
Curatorial Projects
2019 Utopia/Dystopia (curator and featured artist), Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Infinite Light (curator and featured artist), Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Natural Witness: Human History Revealed Through Plants (co-curator, with Dalila Paola Mendez and featured artist), Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
2015 2015 Survey of the Los Angeles River (curator and featured artist), Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
