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Born 1968, Los Angeles, Ca.



AWARDS & HONORS

2008
Maestra’s Atelier Residency, Self Help Graphics, East Los Angeles, CA

2007
Artists' Resource for Completion Grant, Durfee Foundation, Santa Monica, CA

2005
Artists' Resource for Completion Grant, Durfee Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Artist Grant, Yellow Fox Foundation, Palos Verdes, CA

2004
Scholarship Award, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, CA
Technical Assistance Grant, National Arts and Disability Center/California Arts Council
Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2003
Artist Grant, Artists' Fellowship Inc., New York, NY



SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007
Koelsch Gallery, Monogenetic Dreams From the Rag Trade, Houston, TX
George Billis Gallery, All Done But None, Los Angeles, CA
Torrance Art Museum, A Girl Apart, Torrance, CA

2006
Gallery 825, My Identity Lab, Los Angeles, CA

2004
I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005
George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Hybrids and Mongrels, Santa Monica, CA

2003
Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Cutting Patterns, Santa Monica, CA



SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2008
Seattle University Center for the Arts, Bookish, Seattle, WA
Los Angeles Art Show, George Billis Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2007
Greene Contemporary, Outside the Box, Sarasota, FL
Pounder Kone Artspace, Circumnavigating the Soul, Los Angeles, CA
Galleri Urbane, Dark Objects Light Matter, Marfa, TX
Riverside Art Museum, Material Girls, Riverside, CA (Catalog)
Craft & Folk Art Museum, HEALING: A Cultural Exploration, Los Angeles, CA

2006
LA Municipal Art Gallery, Perspectives, Los Angeles, CA
I-5 Gallery, SURVIVING: Kinkade, Los Angeles, CA
LAAA South/Michael Napoliello Gallery, Biannual, Hermosa Beach, CA
LA Artcore, Multicultural Self-taught Artists, Los Angeles, CA, (Catalog)
The Art of Time, Zimmer Children’s Museum, Los Angeles, CA, (Catalog)
Bentley Projects, Configuration, Phoenix, AZ

2005
BGH Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ontario International Airport, How to Look at Art, Ontario, CA
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
Gallery 825, In the Abstract, Los Angeles, CA

2004
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
Gallery 825, Outsiders, Los Angeles, CA
Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Identification, Santa Monica, CA

2003
Bedlam Art Salon, 5 LA Women Artists, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery 825 Bergamot Station Annex, Petite Works, Santa Monica, CA
The Art Center, Mechanicsburg, PA (Award)
The Office: An Art Space, Brush, Huntington Beach, CA
Imagine Art, Austin, TX

2002
Angels Gate Cultural Center, words., San Pedro, CA
three. Gallery, Held Ransom, San Pedro, CA
Dougherty Art Center, Austin, TX

2001
Art Share Warehouse Gallery, Featured Artist, Los Angeles, CA
La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Bush Barn Art Center, Salem Arts Association, Salem, OR

2000
West Side Art Gallery, (1999-2000), Venice CA
New Alchemy Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

1999
Track 16 Gallery, Forming the Early Days of LA Punk, Santa Monica, CA
Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
New Alchemy Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

1998
Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
New Alchemy Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

1997
University of Arizona, The Brain & Self, Copenhagen & Elsinore, Denmark
Verve Gallery, West Hollywood, CA



SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2008
Los Angeles Times, Picture Brightens for Self Help Graphics, Agustin Gurza, Los Angeles, CA

2007
NY Arts Magazine, January/February vol. 12 No. 1-2, New York, NY
Coagula #85, LA’s Top 10, Los Angeles, CA
Jewish Journal, Keren Engelberg, Los Angeles, CA
Favorpill LA, #213: Carol Es at George Billis, Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles, CA
Long Beach Press-Telegram, Women Turning Personal Pain into Art, Shirle Gottlieb, LBC, CA
ArtScene Visual Radio, The Mat Gleason Seven (Review), Los Angeles, CA
Press-Enterprise, The Fabric of Art, Vanessa Franko, Riverside, CA

2006
San Pedro Magazine/Long Beach Press-Telegram, Joshua Stecker, Long Beach, CA
Flavorpill LA, #161, Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles, CA
Daily Breeze, A Pattern of Creativity, Josh Grossberg, Torrance, CA

2005
Umbrella, Vol. 28, #2-3, Judith Hoffberg, Santa Monica, CA
Art Muscle, Coagula Corner, Mat Gleason, Los Angeles, CA
Coagula Art Journal #75, Interview with Mat Gleason, Editor, Los Angeles, CA
Flavorpill LA, #106, Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles, CA

2004
Flavorpill LA #73, Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles, CA
SMC Corsair #10, Monica Pachenco, Santa Monica College, CA
Uprising, Pacifica Radio KPFK 90.7 FM, Interview with Sonali Kolhatkar, Los Angeles, CA

2003
Olam Magazine, Los Angeles, CA
Digresss, interview with Annie Knight, Riverside, CA
Feline Magazine, Interview, Woodhaven, NY

2002
Get Underground, Healing Art: An Alternative Therapy, Los Angeles, CA
The Morning Show, Pacifica Radio KPFK, Interview with Sonali Kolhatkar, Los Angeles, CA
Artesian Arts Magazine, Scotland, UK
Playful & Provocative, Nancy Nield, Ph.D., University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Austin American-Statesman, Emerging Artist Within, Austin, TX

2001
Raw Vision #37, New York & Watford, UK
Picklebird Alternative Art, Los Angeles, CA
Verge Art Magazine, Los Angeles & Washington, DC

2000
Internet Tonight, TechTV, San Francisco, CA
Art Thought Journal, Towson, MD

1998
Art Venues Magazine, Target Headed Carol Es, Donna Klaasen, Capistrano Beach, CA
NoHo News, featured artist, North Hollywood, CA
Art Collector Magazine, Vol. 2 #1, Beverly Hills, CA



SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Centre Pompidou, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Paris, France
J. Paul Getty Trust, Research Institute Library, Los Angeles, CA
The Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Otis College of Art & Design Library, Artists’ Books Collection, Los Angeles, CA
The Ann Savage Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
UCLA Library, Special Collections, Los Angeles, CA
UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic & Multicultural Archives, Santa Barbara, CA
Memory Bridge, Chicago, IL
Zetter Collection, Lois Zetter, Carlsbad, CA
Gail Zone, Los Angeles, CA