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victoria arriola

CURRICULUM VITAE : Artist Statement: While my professional path has evolved over time, my studio practice has remained a constant thread. My interdisciplinary mixed-media practice explores the relationships between memory, place and material history. Influenced by my Latin roots in LA, science at JPL/NASA and Caltech, my ongoing connection to Denmark as a second home, and perspectives gained through travel, I investigate how cultural identity and landscape shape personal and collective narratives. / I repurpose and re-contextualize weathered detritus - objects that carry traces of lived experience and environment. Through these materials, I explore flow, resilience, cultural continuity, and the quiet stories embedded in everyday matter. Exhibitions: (A full overview continues in Exhibitions - tab below) 2025 “Long Shadows Fall” Installation for “Roots of Cool”, Stuart Haaga Gallery, Group Exhibition 2025 “Father Father Zero” Installation, MorYork Gallery, Highland Park/Los Angeles, Solo Exhibition 2024 “Drop by Drop” Avenue 50 Studio Gallery, Solo Exhibition 2023 “Shape and Form”, Stuart Haaga Gallery/Descanso Gardens, La Cañada, Group Exhibition 2023/25 “Brand 51,53, Works on Paper”, Jurors Award (51), Brand Art Library, LA, Juried Group Exhibit 2023 “Within, Without”, Audubon Center, LA, Joint Installation 2023 “Small Works”, JamesMay Gallery, Wisconsin, Group Exhibition 2023 “Unspoken Silence”, Kunstbiblioteket, København, Dk 2023 “As it Is to Be”, BanjaRathnov Galleri, København, Dk 2022 “As it is to Be”, SPARC Gallery, Solo Exhibition 2020/21/22/23 “The Art of Water IV, V”, JamesMay Gallery, Wisconsin, Group Exhibition 2021 “Evanescence of a Dream”, Avenue 50 Studio Gallery, Solo Exhibition 2020-2025 Annual Cultural Guide, Latino Heritage Month, LA Dept. of Cultural Affairs 2020 “Art in Covid” Group Exhibition, El Camino College, Los Angeles, Group Exhibition 2019 “Friends and Family” Group Exhibition curated by Keith Mayerson, Peter Mendenhall Gallery, LA 2019 “Textiles Today”, SPARC Gallery, Group Exhibition 2017/21/23 ”La Casita Muerta”, ”Salida”, “Monologue with an Onion”, “Emergence” Dia de Los Muertos, Ave50 Studio, Los Angeles, Group Exhibition 2017 ”Beneath the Flow”, Gallery North, København, Denmark, Solo Exhibition 2017 ”Thistles”, Århus Research Hospital, Århus, Denmark, Public Art, VideoRaum/Collaboration 2017 “Milky Way”, South Pasadena, Public Art 2017 “Drifters”, SPARC, South Pasadena, Electrical Box, Public Art Agency/ Free Lance Creative Director of Art + Design in Advertising / Academia: Select Advertising Agencies: BBDO, LA/Paris; Chiat Day, LA; Ogilvy,NYC, LA; DDB Needham, LA, NYC; Deutsch, LA; 1995 - 2017 Guest Lecturer of Art/Design, Fullbright Specialist, Danish School of Media and Journalism, Denmark 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Board Member, California Institute of Technology, Caltech Y (Youth Organization), June 2018 - 2021 Adjunct Professor of Design, Typography, University of California, Berkeley, CA 2020 - 2022 Adjunct Professor of Visual Communications: Visualizing Information + Data, Advertising Design + Production, Intro to Advertising, Digital Tools for Design - USC, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, 2003 - 2017 Adjunct Professor of Design, Digital Tools for Design, USC, Roski School of Fine Arts Adjunct Professor of Art + Design, Digital Tools for Design, East Los Angeles Community College, Fall 2010, 2019 Artist in Residence Program Co-Administrator: Curriculum, Instructor, Curator, Board Member - South Pasadena Arts Center, 2008-2016  Adjunct Professor of Design, 2D design, portfolio preparation, CalState, Los Angeles, 2006 Board Member, Los Angeles County Arts Commission for the South Pasadena School District, 2007 Board Member, South Pasadena Education Foundation 2004 - 2007 On-going guest teacher/lecturer at private and public primary/secondary schools and universities Professional Awards: Recognition for Design + Arts Education (in brief) Descanso Gardens, Grant for Roots of Cool, Group Exhibition, 2025 Fullbright Specialist, Danish School of Media and Journalism, Denmark, 2018, 2019, 2020 SPARC City of South Pasadena Utility Box Grant, Concept “Drifters”, 2016 East Los Angeles Community College, Teacher Appreciation Award for Contributions to Design, 2011 South Pasadena Chamber of Commerce Marketing Maestros Award, 2009 Certificate of Recognition from California State Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, 2009 Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from U.S. Congressman Adam Schiff, 2009 Commendation, County of Los Angeles, from Presented by Supervisor Michael Antonovich, 2009 New York Andy Awards (Blue Cross of California) 1995 Belding Advertising Award (Blue Cross of California) 1995 MAIP - Multicultural Advertising Internship Award, 1st Place, American Association of Advertising Agencies, NYC 1990