EDUCATION
2013 Otis College of Art and Design, MFA, Public Practice
2010 California State University, Fresno, BA, Art, Drawing and Painting
EDUCATOR
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Teaching Artist, 2015 – 2018
Sites: Aliso Pico Recreation Center, Central Juvenile Hall, Villa Parke, Villa 500, Camp Gonzalez Juvenile Probation Camp
California State University, Fresno
Lecturer, 2014 - 2016
Art 102: Ideas of Visual Culture: Art, Media and the Computer
Otis College of Art and Design
Teaching Assistant, 2010-2013
Courses taught: RADI-O, Mobile Local: LA’s Food Truck Revolution, Disaster Design: Collaborating with Catastrophe, and
graduate-level
Video Production
California Arts Academy, Fresno, CA
Art Instructor, 2008 - 2010
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Art Instructor, 2007 and 2009
ART PRACTICE
I. PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
Art Moves
2021 The View From Here: Recent Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Not I Throwing Voices, (1500 BCE - 2020 BCE), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2020 TamaYoga, Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
BCAM 1 Gallery, Chris Burden, Robert Irwin and Richard Serra, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Guided Snack Hour
2020 The Guided Snack Hour: Quesadilla Consultations, LA Art Core, Los Angeles, CA
The Guided Snack Hour, STEM Launch, Denver, CO
Experimental Quesadilla Lab
2021 (upcoming) LA Made, Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Food Day LA 2019, Current LA:Food, Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Comida es Medicina, Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
Sunday Funday, LA Food Fest, Civic Center Studios, Los Angeles, CA
TAG Workshop, Museum of Contemporary Modern Art San Diego, Artist Guest Lecture, San Diego, CA
Thickets, Art Space Gallery, Fresno City College, Fresno, CA
2017 Food Day Tulare County, Exeter, CA
Pico Block Party: Culture Mapping 90404, Santa Monica, CA
Wildwood Multicultural Symposium, Wildwood School, Santa Monica, CA
San Joaquin Farmers Market, San Joaquin, CA
Firebaugh Community Center, Firebaugh, CA
2016 Food Matters, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA
California Arts Council Public Input Meeting, Fresno, CA
2015 Selecto Planta Baja, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Spanspek Music and Arts Festival, Orosi, CA
Experimental Quesadilla Night, For Your Art, Los Angeles, CA
Digital Mural Mapping Project
2015- 2017 Project Director, Creative Fresno and Central Valley Community Foundation, Fresno, CA
Rad Fresno State Women
2015-16 California State University, Fresno and Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
FresnYoga
2016 LA Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Mini-Maker Faire, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
2013 Passages/Home: A Central Valley Art-Guided Bus Tour, San Joaquin Valley, CA
The Freedom School
2016 Collaborative mural at Camp McNair, juvenile probation camp, Lancaster, CA
Assistant Artist, Armory Center for the Arts
2015 Collaborative mural at Camp Gonzales, juvenile probation camp, Malibu, CA
Lead Artist, Armory Center for the Arts
Mobile Mural Project
2014-15 Public locations around Fresno and Madera counties, Creative Fresno and Central Valley Community Foundation
2010 Fresno/LA Mural Exchange, Mobile Mural Lab, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Wilson Street Mural, Fresno, CA
II. SITE SPECIFIC INTERVENTIONS
2017 Open Lecture Mic, Spike Art Quarterly, Berlin, Germany
2013 Invasion of the Fresnans, For Your Art, Los Angeles, CA
It's 559 Somewhere: Highway 99 Pit Stop Intervention, The Flying J, Bakersfield, CA
III. SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Center Core, Tower Violin Studio, Fresno ,CA
2009 Ay Muchacha, Milano, Fresno, CA
2009 Center Core: New Works and Video Installation, DCAC, Fresno, CA
2008 The Secret Solo Show, Severance Hall, Fresno CA
IV. GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2020 home @acogerdor.space, Acogerdor, Los Angeles, CA
Shrieks at Midnight, Art Center DTLA, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Centennial, 100 Years of Otis College Alumni, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
#HOWWEHEAL, National Day of Racial Healing, Array, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Comida es Medicina, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
It's Time: An Uncensored Look at the Time's Up & #MeToo Movements, Orange County Center for Contemporary
Art, Santa Ana, CA
Thickets, Art Space Gallery, Fresno City College, Fresno, CA
2017 Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Ohne Prickelnd, Sanft, Spike Art Quarterly, Berlin, Germany
Animating the Archives: The Woman’s Building, a Metabolic Studio Special Project in Archiving, Avenue 50 Studio,
Los Angeles, CA
2015 Viva la Muxer, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
2013 A Mess and a Pleasure: MFA Public Practice Graduate Exhibition, ForYourArt, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Spanspek Music and Arts Festival, Orosi, CA
2010 Centennial Alumni Exhibition, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA
Muralathon, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
2009 Celebrating Women Artists 35th Anniversary, Gallery 25, Fresno, CA
"…And homeless near a thousand homes, I stood.” Silva Salazar Studios, Fresno, CA
Rogue Festival, Fresno, CA
2008 Open Show 2008, Gallery 825, David Pagel, LA Times, Juror, Los Angeles, CA
Open Show 2008 Screening, Center for the Preservation of Democracy, Los Angeles, CA
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Espada de Dos Filos, Arte Américas, Fresno, CA
Spanspek Music & Arts Festival, Orosi Memorial Hall, Orosi, CA
Juneros, Cultural Arts Building, Fresno, CA
Fresno Film Festival, Tower Theater, Fresno, CA
Annual Student Senior Show, Conely Art Gallery, Fresno, CA
Student Exhibition, Dean’s Gallery, CSUFresno, Fresno, CA
Rogue Festival, Ashtree Studios, Fresno, CA
2007 Florence in Fresno: Summer Arts Student Culmination, Conely Art Gallery, Fresno, CA
Art Under the Stars, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Planes of Existence, Conely Art Gallery, Fresno, CA
Fresno Film Festival, Tower Theater, Fresno, CA
Women In Art, Satellite Student Union, Fresno, CA
Creative Expressions, Conely Art Gallery, Fresno, CA
Promising Art Majors to Watch, Art Space Gallery, Fresno, CA
V. PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
I. CONFERENCES, PANELS & PUBLIC CONVERSATIONS
2020 Kinda Chicana, home @acogerdor.space, Acogedor, Los Angeles, CA
Panelist, Artists in Conversation, home @acogedor.space, Acogedor, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Artist Lecture, TAG Workshop, Museum of Contemporary Modern Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
Panelist, Artist Talk, Time’s Up: An Uncensored Look at the Time’s Up & #MeToo Movements, Orange County Center
for Contemporary Art
Santa Ana, CA
Presentation, Six x Ate, Art Space Gallery, Fresno, CA
2017 Animating the Archives: The Woman’s Building, a Metabolic Studio Special Project in Archiving, Avenue 50 Studio,
Los Angeles, CA
2016 Panelist, Gallery Talks, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
2015 Presentation, Arts and Culture Leadership Exchange and Idea Workout, Central Valley Community Foundation,
Fresno, CA
Presentation, Fresno County’s Connection to Chicano
Muralism,
Digital Mural Mapping Project, Fresno, CA
2014 Artist talk, Viva la Muxer, Arte Américas, Fresno, CA
2012 Presentation, Fence Jumping 101, Open Engagement, Portland, OR
2011 Moderator, Creative Fresno’s Mindforum: Pop Surrealism, Arte Américas, Fresno, CA
2010 Presentation, 14 Police Stops, Pecha Kucha, Vol. V: Benchmarks and Milestones, Starline, Fresno, CA
2008 Panelist, Independent Filmmakers Panel, Fresno Film Festival, Fresno, CA
II. VISITING ARTIST & GUEST LECTURES
2021 Artist Workshop, Spanish Sin Pena, nationwide via Zoom
2020 Guest Lecture, Art and Community, Gregory Sale, Arizona State University
Guest Lecture, Art & Professional Practices, Bill Kelley Jr., California State University, Bakersfield
Guest Lecture, Digital Art and Photography, Terrance Reimer, Ohio University, Athens, OH
2018 Visiting Lecture, Feminist Activism, Dr. Larissa Mercado-Lopez, Women’s Studies, California State University, Fresno,
Fresno, CA
Presentation, Six x Ate, Art Space Gallery, Fresno, CA
2017 Workshop, Youth Now, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Workshop, Landscape, Mythology and Memory: Reconstructing Chicana Narratives in the Central Valley through
Muralism, California
State University,Fresno, Fresno, CA
2016 Visiting Lecturer, Public/Social Practice Market Lab, Public Practice MFA, Otis College of Art and Design,
Los Angeles, CA
2015 Takeover Artist, Otis College of Art and Design, @otisalumni Instagram account
2013 Visiting Artist, Community Arts in LA, S.A. Bachman, Artists, Community and Teaching Program, Otis College of Art
and Design,
Los Angeles, CA
2012 Visiting Artist, Intermediate Drawing, Professor Anne Scheid, Art Department, Fresno City College
2009 Fresno Addy Awards, Fresno, CA
PROJECTS
I. INSTITUTIONAL
2016 Videographer, The Tie that Binds, Mel Chin, Current: LA, Public Art Biennial, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Consuming Nature and Portable Parks IV, Pacific Standard Time, Otis College of Art and Design, Santa Monica
Place,
Santa Monica, CA
Re/Locating Learning: Public Practice as Art, Otis College of Art and Design, College Art Association, Los Angeles
Convention Center,
Los Angeles, CA
2011 Pacific Standard Time: Inquiry as Art, Los Angeles Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Dismantled, Otis College of Art and Design Public Practice MFA program, site of the former Fresno Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
Fresno, CA and UC San Diego, San Diego, CA
II. COMMUNITY BASED
2017 Guest artist, Intercultural Dumpling Exchange, Grace Hwang Residency, Camera Obscura, Santa Monica, CA
2016 Facilitator, Tellmenovela, a project by Betty Marin, Pasadena City Hall, Pasadena, CA
2015 Public/Social Practice Market Lab, Los Angeles, CA
BeMoSo, artist collaborative focusing on racial solidarity in Los Angeles, CA
James Rojas, placeit.org workshop, Fresno Arts Council, Fresno, CA
2008-2010 Board Member, Fresno Filmworks, Fresno, CA
2010 Board Member, Arte Américas, Fresno, CA
2007-2010 Founding Member, Fresno Filmmakers Forum, Fresno, CA
REVIEWS & PROFILES
2020 “Teresa Flores Explores Her Chicanx Roots Through Dance”, Five Artists Share New Work and What Inspired Them |
Chelo Montoya, “TamaYoga: An Experiential Art”, LACMA Unframed,
2018 Monique Quintana, Teresa Flores’ Experimental Quesadilla Lab, Luna Luna Magazine, July 3, 2018
Alan Nakagawa, VISITINGS Radio Show, DUBLABS 99.1FM, June 18, 2018,
2017 Ezra David Romero, “Have Murals Lost Their Punch? Fresno Artists Say They Still Have Things They ‘Want To Say’”,
Valley Edition,
KVPR 89.3FM, January 31, 2017,
they-still-have-things-they-want-say#stream/0, website
Hannah Brandt, “Landscape, Mythology and Memory: Chicana Narratives in Murals”, Community Alliance
Newspaper, April 3, 2017,
murals/, website
2015 Joe Moore and Ezra David Romero, “How Many Murals are in Fresno County? Creative Fresno is Mapping Them
Out”, Valley Edition,
KVPR 89.3FM, August 11, 2015,
creativefresno-mapping-them-out#stream/0, website
2014 Andrea Castillo, “Mural at Fresno Fair draws painters of all ages, skills” The Fresno Bee, October 6, 2014, A1, A3, A7,
newspaper, http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/local/central-valley/article3297125.html, website
“Creative Fresno mural project comes to the Big Fresno Fair”, The Fresno Bee, October 5, 2014,
Donald Munro, “A successful Mini Maker Faire”, Fresno Beehive, April 14, 2014, http://fresnobeehive.com/archives
/32349, website
Interview by the Community Alliance, “Community Building One Mural at a Time”, Community Alliance Newspaper,
November 1, 2014, https://fresnoalliance.com/building-community-one-mural-at-a-time/
2011 Aileen Imperatrice, State of the Art, Fresno Magazine, August 2011, magazine
2010 Rebecca Plevin, Espada de dos Filos, Vida en el Valle, April 2010, newspaper
Rebecca Plevin, A new generation of muralists, Vida en
el Valle,
March, 31, 2010,
http://blogs.vidaenelvalle.com/blog/2010 /03/31/a-new-generation-ofmuralists/, website
2009 National Art Education Association Conference, Extra-visual Content and theTemporality of Perception, Dan
Nadaner,
Minneapolis, MN
2008 Through Video Art, Dan Nadaner, Art Education, 61 (1), 19-24
2006 National Art Education Association Conference, Alternate Routes: Video Art as Dream and As Critique, Dan
Nadaner,
New York, NY
GRANTS / AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIPS
2020 Otis Alumni Scholarship for Entrepreneurship, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Certificate of Appreciation, Experimental Quesadilla Lab, City of Los Angeles
2017 Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, Berlin, Germany
Animating the Archives Fellowship: The Woman’s Building, a Metabolic Studio Special Project in Archiving,
Metabolic Studio, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Central Valley Drought Stories, CV LEAD Arts and Storytelling Grant, Central Valley Community Foundation
2015 Experimental Quesadilla Lab, Arts and Culture Grant, Central Valley Community Foundation
Digital Mural Mapping Project, Engagement Pathway Grant, Fresno Regional Foundation
2014 Mobile Mural Project, Engagement Pathway Grant, Fresno Regional Foundation
2013 Outstanding Contribution Award, Otis College of Art and Design