ALISA OCHOA

RESUME

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2003

2001

education

MFA in Art, University of California, Santa Barbara

BFA in Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (*SOLO SHOW)

Domestic City, Kidd Yellin, Brooklyn, NY. Organized by Nichole van Beek and Vincent Contarino.

Lonely Fire, Camel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Julian Calero and Chris Rawson.

Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Juried by Charles Long.
Out of Sorts, Studio Miko, Brooklyn, NY. Organized by Amber McMillan.

Postcards from the Edge, Metro Pictures, New York, NY.

HapLapNapTap, Chashama, New York, NY. Curated by Erik Sanner and Anna Ogier-Bloomer.

Lend Me Your Ears, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY. Organized by Christopher Rawson.

Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Juried by David Humphrey.

Alter(native) Spaces, LAX International Airport, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Jay Lizo.

A/V, Blue Seats, New York, NY. Organized by Nichole van Beek.

Benefit, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY.

Spills, Concrete Walls Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

Postcards from the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY.

Open Book, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY. In tandem with Ceci n’est pas.

A Store, Hayes Valley Market Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

Protubrance(s), Buia Gallery, New York, NY.

Colony, Donna Beam Fine Arts Gallery, Las Vegas, NV. On Board and Awake, UCEN, Santa Barbara, CA.

Sympathy Palace, POST Gallery, Los Angles, CA. Curated by Laurel Beckman.
Meanwhile..., Frumkin-Duvall Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
*Sunbeams of Health, 1434 Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.

Girl on Girl, Miller Durazo Contemporary Artists Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Sherin Guirguis-Barrie.

9 Good Reasons to Take Up Piano Lessons, 1434 Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
I Left My Baby at the Supermarket and All I Got Were These Lousy Prints, 1434 Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.

Special, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV.
Annual Juried Student Art Show, Donna Beam Gallery, Las Vegas, NV. Juried by Michael Reafsynder.
Untitled, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV. Juried by Libby Lumpkin.

10, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV. Juried by Anita Jung.
* Happy Tails Are Here, Grant Hall Gallery, Las Vegas, NV.

Annual Juried Student Art Show, Donna Beam Gallery, Las Vegas, NV. Juried by Ingrid Calame.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

UCSB College of Creative Studies Post-Graduate Fellowship, Santa Barbara, CA.

Arts Affiliate Award, Santa Barbara, CA.
Steven Cortwright Memorial Award, Santa Barbara, CA.

Doctoral Scholar Fellowship, Santa Barbara, CA.

Mary Alice Devos Fine Art Scholarship, Las Vegas, NV.

Nevada Gaming Foundation Scholarship, Las Vegas, NV.
Boulder City Art Guild Scholarship, Boulder City, NV.

The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Summer Seminar, Colorado Springs, CO.*

CURATORIAL

D.I.T. One Night Art Situation, Storefront, LA, collaborative undergraduate and graduate work.
Cover Your Hairy Chest (Co-Curated with Eli Neugeboren), 1434 Gallery, UCSB, student t-shirts.

MEUving Right Along, Mobile Space, Santa Barbara, student prints and artist’s books.
Sunny D’s, 1434 Gallery, diverse range of works by 4D Fundamental students.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Talisa Chang, “Brave Brooklyn/ OSA,” The Greenpoint Gazette, front page (color photo)

Hrag Vartanian, "Art Exhibit as Swap Meet: Have a Painting? Leave a Painting. Need a Painting? Take a Painting", art21 blog (color photo)

The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles/Recent Art (exhibition catalogue), New York, Grey Art Gallery, New York University. Edited by Lynn Gumpert, p. 106 (acknowledgment)

Ingrid Calame: Constellations (exhibition catalogue), New York: James Cohan Gallery. Essays by Karen Lang and Pepe Karmel, p.13 (color photo)

Allison Bruce, “A Lesson in Corporate Creativity,” Ventura County Star, May 13, p 128
“Collide-A-Scope Mural Unveiled,” 93106 (picture)

Charlie Finch, “Christmas Shopping”, artnet, December 21. www.artnet.com
Sanam Petri, “Sounds Beautiful,” Santa Barbara Independent, October 7, p 33
Gregory Crosby, “Escaping the Colony,” Las Vegas City Life, July 15-21, p 46
Ellen Ziegler, “Exhibit Explores Behavior Patterns,” The View, July 9, p 11
Danny Lewis, “Do It Together,” Daily Nexus, May 20, p 7
Leah Ollman, “No Fuzz and a Few Feathers,” Los Angeles Times, February 6, pp E31-32

Joseph Woodward, “Interior Speculations,” Santa Barbara News-Press, June 11, p D3
Steve Roden, “Alisa Ochoa,” Meanwhile... (exhibition catalogue), pp 20-21 (color photos)

David Pagel, “Women Lost In Their Multimedia Reveries,” Los Angeles Times, November 22, p. E21

Chuck Twardy, “Art and Lit,” Las Vegas Weekly, June 7, p 39

Alonza Robertson, “Cover Draws Calls,” Las Vegas Review Journal, July 26, B1-3

2009

2005

2004

ARTIST LECTURES

University of Arizona, Tuscon

Friendship Manor Retirement Home, Goleta, CA.

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.
Donna Beam Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas