Born 1978, San Francisco, CA
2005 MFA California Institute of the Arts
2000 BA UCLA
SOLO EXHIBTIONS
2009
To Be Titled, Space 47, San Jose, CA
2007
Shizu Saldamando, Pasadena City College, Walter Shatford Library
Shizu Saldamando, Tropico De Nopal Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Looking at Art, The Reception, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery D-301 CalArts, Valencia, CA
2004
Shizu Saldamando, Lime Gallery, Mid-residency Exhibition, CalArts, Valencia, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Drawing the Line, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
The Whole World Is Watching, Glendale College Art Gallery, CA
East of Eden, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, LA,CA
The Art of Style, MACLA, San Jose CA
Arte Contemporaneo Puerto Vallarta, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Vexing, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Lowrider Arte, Petersen Automotive Museum, L.A., CA
Con Safos, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL
Phantom Sightings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Traveling to Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
2007
The Pyramid Show, Monte Vista Projects, Highland Park, CA
Aqui no Hay Virgenes, L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center, CA
Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions, CalArts, Valencia, CA
Unprimed, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
2006
The News Stand Show, Los Angeles, CA
Chicano Demiurge, Pharmaka Gallery, L.A., CA
Color Exchange 2, Setagaya Musuem, Tokyo, Japan
Leaving Aztlan, Wignall Musuem, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Tigers and Jaguars, The Craft and Folk Art Museum, L.A., CA
Folding Screens, Hollyhock House Gallery @ Barnsdall Art Park, Hollywood, CA
Color Exchange, SomArts Space, San Francisco, CA
2005
Dia De Los Muertos, Tropico De Nopal Art Space, L.A., CA
Shipping and Receiving, Armory Northwest, Pasadena, CA
Supersonic, L.A. Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Brown on Brown, Slanguage, Wilmington, CA
2004
The Bumper Sticker Show, Ruben Ochoa’s Mobile Class C Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hecho en Califas, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Visions of a Post-Modern Aztlan, Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA
13 y 13, Self-Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Redo China, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY
Mexicanidad, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL
Che y Que, Self-Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Substance of Choice, Galeria De La Raza, San Francisco, CA
The Game, The Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
A Legacy of Printmakers, Pico Rivera Center for the Arts, Pico Rivera, CA
2001
Air Raids, L.A. Freewaves Festival 7th celebration of
Experimental Media Arts, @: Side Street Live, Armory Center for the Arts,
California Museum of Photography, California State University Northridge Art Galleries,
Los Angeles, CA
2000
LATITUDES: A collaborative installation, Self-Help Graphics & Art, L.A., CA
Back to the Future, Cal Sate Dominguez Hills University Art Gallery, Carson, CA
Soup, Senior Exhibition, UCLA’s Wight Art Gallery, L.A., CA
FELLOWSHIPS
California Community Foundation 2006 Fellowship for Emerging Visual Artists
RESIDENCIES
Art Omi International Artist Colony, County Route 22, New York, 2002
PANELS
Barbara Carrasco, A Brush with Life, East Los Angeles City College, CA 2008
Necessary Positions: An Intergenerational Conversation, REDCAT Gallery 2006
Leaving Aztlan, Chaffey College 2006
Skin Deep: Image, Identity and Politics, Rio Hondo College, 2005
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Interview with Shizu Saldamando, Lowrider Japan, December 2008, no. 89, p.52-53
Phantom Sightings, Connect, LACMA Magazine, March/April 2008, p. 2
Loca Motion, The Art of Shizu Saldamando, Giant Robot Magazine, 2007, no. 50, p. 70-74
Shizu Saldamando, Los Angeles Times, August 2nd, 2007, p. E 12
Projects in the Making, by Diana McClure, Art Asia Pacific, Summer 2004 no. 41, p. 96
Reviews, Soy y Que at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, by David Buuck, Artweek, February 2005, no. 36, p.16