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SOLO SHOWS
EGAD !! (2024) - Midway Exhibition for candidacy advancement.CURATORIAL PROJECTS
VESSEL (2024) - VESSEL examines the tangible and intangible edges of selfhood and systems.
OOPS! 2 (2024) - In collaboration with Core Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV
EGAD !! (2024) - Midway Exhibition for candidacy advancement.
Desert Biennial Project (2023) - Cofounder of a traveling Nevada Biennial Art exhibition. Participated in the inaugural iteration, Stone Soup 2023, Jean Dry Lakebed, NV
OOPS! (2023) - Displayed the work of 47 artists as a curational community-based project designed to accumulate and celebrate the failures of artists in the community. Grant Hall Gallery, Las Vegas, NV.EXHIBITION RECORD
Clothesline '24 (2024) - Mcnamara hall Gallery, University of Reno, Nevada
Queer Monuments (2024) - Winchester Dondero Cultural Center, Las Vegas, NV
Hand Wash Only (2024) - Holland Project, Reno, NV
Eco Coture (2024) - Las Vegas, NV
Contemporary Roots (2024) - SFCC in collaboration with Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
EGAD !! (2024) - Grant Hall Gallery, Solo, Las Vegas, NV
Stone Soup (Desert Biennial Project) (2023) - Jean Dry Lakebed, NV
Temporary Relief (2023) - Grant Hall Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Medium Rare (2023) - UNR, Reno, NV
Up High + Down Low (2023) - Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Raggedy Stan’s Closet (2023) - Grant Hall Gallery
Hot Reads (2023) - Grant Hall Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Overkill (2023) - Student Union Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Solstice (2022) - Grant Hall Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Eat Your Heart Out (2022) - Winchester Dondero Cultural Center Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Out of the Blue (2022) - Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ
Ex Post Facto (2021) - ASU, Phoenix, AZ - BFA Thesis Exhibition
Roadside Attraction: Now it’s Political (2020) - Multichannel Projection 3:54 Min. Shown at The ASU Art Museum in Tempe, AZ, and ArtFarm in Phoenix, AZ.
Conception (2017) - Emergency Arts, Downtown Las Vegas, NV, SoloAWARDS + GRANTS
Laird Scholarship (2024)
Harris Knudson Scholarship (2024)
GPSA UNLV Grant Funding (2023)
STEAM-Powered Girl Scholarship Fund (Em)powered by Axosoft (2020)
J. Russell & Bonita Nelson Scholarship (2020)
Katherine K. Herberger Scholarship (2020)
School of Art Special Talent Award (2020)
Windgate Foundation Scholarship (2019)
United States Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete Award (2017)BIBLIOGRAPHY + PRESS
Journal of Americana (Issue 34) - The Second thing we touch (2024)
Scarlet and Gray (Volume 67 Issue 11) - OOPS! (2023)
Beyond Thought Journal (2023) - Featuring ‘PEEPSHOW’
2D Design Student Sample Portfolio (https://apcentral.collegeboard.org) (2017)COMMUNITY
Arts Community Coalition Nevada - Co-founder of arts 501(c)(3) for the longevity of the arts in Nevada
Desert Biennial Project - Co-founder of a Nevada Based Biennial Art Exhibition
My Boyfriend’s Out of Town - Member and Co-founder of collective
Aluminati 2023 To the Core - Collaborator, Live foundry pour and collaborative mold making
Manifest Gallery - Artist Talk 2023 (Virtual)PUBLIC ART
City of Las Vegas Pre-Qualified Sculptor list (2024-2026)
ZAP! Public mural utility box (2024)RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Executive Director and Co-founder 2024 - Arts community Coalition Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Graduate Assistant 2023 - 2024 - Exhibitions management, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Teaching Assistant 2024 - Advanved Sculpture
Instructor of Record 2024 - Drawing 1 Spring 2024, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Instructor of Record 2023 - Design Fundamentals Fall 2023, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Graduate Assistant 2022 - Teaching Assistant (Painting, Photography)
Contract Fabricator and Designer - Various
Studio Assistant 2019 - Lucille Khornak, Manhattan + Long Island CIty, NY
Gallery Manager 2019 - Lucille Khornak Gallery, Southampton, NYEDUCATION
University of Nevada, Las Vegas August 2022 - May 2025 - Studio Art (MFA)
Arizona State University - Intermedia (BFA), Psychology (BS)

VESSEL examines the tangible and intangible edges of selfhood and systems. The vessel is the human body. The vessel also is a set of parameters defined by traditional American ideologies. This exhibition investigates bodies in the context of larger systems, while considering societal and political constraints. The fragility of the human form is contrasted against the mechanisms of power and American capitalism to highlight the urgency to exercise one's voice and one’s agency.

ALEXYS KELLER
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ALI FATHOLLAHI
Instagram
Ali Fathollahi’s art is a dialogue that occupies the viewers’ mind for a longer period. His works have an experiential aspect. This is conveyed to the viewer using space, lighting, sound, smell, etc. or in simpler words, the relationship between the viewers and anything they experience while encountering the piece. Fathollahi’s works consist of multiple scenarios happening parallel to one another, each complete on their own and yet, a part of a bigger whole. Multiple fragments of these pieces involve the viewers in a conversation which makes them think and question the relationships between the objects, forms and meanings behind them. A group of these objects are taken directly from the daily life. However, the function of the objects is lost or distorted through their new placement, independently or in relation with other objects in the piece.During or after the process of experiencing the piece, the viewers go through different emotions. These emotions include, but are not limited to fear, anxiety, curiosity, embarrassment, pleasure, etc. However, Fathollahi’s approach to these experiences is mixed with a sense of humor and this way succeeds to bring the viewers closer to his point of view.Fathollahi’s work during the past few years criticizes the contemporary era obsession with “Survivalism”, as both a lifestyle and an ideology, motivated by fear and nostalgia.

ANONYMOUS ARTIST
Google AI: “The term "colonizer" is used to describe someone who takes control of a foreign area or people, especially when the exploitative nature of colonialism is being discussed. It can imply that the colonizer benefited from or actively participated in the exploitation.”

CLARICE TARA CUDA
Instagram
A drooping abstracted breast inverted defies gravity. While still holding her weight, she rises up in her roundness, her fullness. She sits as a still missile questioning her post in silence. She is fat with her own internal thoughts unaware of her figure in relation to the world she naturally resists. She is a defiant act of generative resistance.Clarice Tara Cuda is a multidisciplinary artist who thrives in meticulous processes, exploring female narratives through process-driven work. There is consistency in her deconstruction of the female body and emphasis on materiality. Currently, she is drawn to round and weighted things as she explores the new terrain of motherhood. She received her BFA in Sculpture and Painting in 2019 from the University of Nevada where she is currently working towards her MFA in Art.

E.A. ADAMS
Instagram
The entire construction of the femme-presenting vessel has been systematically modeled to serve only as an extension to the male experience. The Black American femme vessel has been designated for sex, breeding, and labor.And Release is a photograph of a Black American femme vessel exploring itself to rapture. The existence and fabrication of the image challenges presumptions of gaze, agency, and femme presenting sexuality.Created at the Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist’s Residency summer program in Saugatuck, Michigan, Porn On Paper: Chine-collè Pasties (Yellow) further explores ideas of agency, pornography, audience, medium, accessibility, broadcasting, consumption, and pleasure.An expression of the dark femme, E. A. Adams is an imp of perversion. She draws references from contemporary, ancient, and political history as well as literature that includes allegory, mythology, creatures, deities, and the occult. Using sculpture, photography, witchcraft, installation, performance, and costuming, she installs images and objects in an effort to work through trauma by creating personal mythologies that reflect darkness, duality, temporality, and transformation. Invested in the surface, she is driven by aesthetic beauty, color, pornography, and popular culture. Adams uses self-portraiture to define humor, depression, and loneliness in the examination of love, pleasure, and feminine rage.

ERIN TARRANT
Instagram
My pieces all touch on different topics and themes. They mostly revolve around the human body, our social difficulties and our connections with animalistic comparisons. Such as my “Craving Innocence” painting and sculpture. This one touches on childhood innocence being taken and later craving it in unhealthy ways. My piece “Hanging by a Thread” touches on the prey aspects and “submitting”. The idea that doing too much for people will leave you "Hanging by a thread".I want to get people thinking about my artwork. My work revolves around the body, our social problems, and our connections with other animals that I found underappreciated with the commitment of relationships. I use all types of mediums but mostly go towards oil paint, oil pastels, and clay. These mediums are important to me in regards to how tedious and precious they are and exactly similar to my topics.

FUNKY RED LIPS
Instagram
This is a self portrait, a random night in Vegas and like most nights I’d been drinking. Sitting in the passenger seat I made the somewhat conscious decision of not putting my seatbelt on.
Head on into a tree the car was totaled and I’m lucky I didn’t fly out the window.
With a broken tooth, and a gash on my head
I reached for my disposable camera in my pocket, pointed the lends towards me and took this photograph.3rd generation Mexican-American
Born in San Diego, California and raised in Downtown Las Vegas.
I like taking pictures.

GEO
Instagram
The title translates to “the border crossed me” and is from a song by Los Tigres del Norte lamenting about the Mexico - US border and it's construction. The border bisects land and is manmade. It is a division of property and eliminates accessibility between lands that were once traversed without barrier. The text is also pixelated and distorted. It requires an insightful look to decipher. An insightful look is also required when investigating the problems of the border.geo (he/they) is a Chicano/e artist living in Las Vegas.
– currently attending UNLV for a BFA in sculpture and drawing/painting/printmaking
– co-curated a traveling show with Cesar Piedra of Reno titled Hija/e/o/x(s) de Su—
– participated in multiple group exhibitions, most notably; FUTURE RELICS: Artifacts for a New World and the 2021 Bullfrog Biennial
– illustrated The ABCs of Latinidad Coloring Book for Latinos Who Lunch
– designed and painted Tres Fases and Nuestras Máscaras murals
– working with design, muralism, installation, performance, and Culture

HAIDE CALLE
Instagram
This piece is about continuing the solidarity with people who have been and continue to be impacted by colonialism. To many its an act of revenge while others its more about fighting for the right to our relationship with earth. It’s about addressing displacement and protecting land in a way that is suppose to save the planet from our own greed. It goes back to the ideologies of Turtle Island and advocating for more comprehensive land claims and self-governing agreements. By using discarded land to construct this piece it further emphasizes the message being expressed.Haide Calle is a multidisciplinary artist who creates mixed media work with the use of repurposed material to recontextualize waste in today’s society. In doing so she transforms these materials that become deities with certain cultural familiarity within her Otomi indigenousness and values that come with it. Calle works on manipulating her material to create an unrestricted hypothetical fiction in today's environment.

IKA PEARL
Instagram
Interview - Transcript on Substack
Both pieces were made without drafting and completed in one session. The piece titled 'lesbian porn' was made because I just did it and I didn't think too hard as to what I was making or why I was doing it. I don't know why I chose the title, but I did and I don't spend time asking myself why because I don't care to. i do love lesbians.
I made the piece 'USA ALL THE WAY' a week before my dog died of cardiac arrest on the 4th of July from the sound of the fireworks. I imagine he shook himself to death and I was not there to comfort him like each year before. Sometimes I wonder if this was the last message and I have had a hard time making work ever since.

ISAAC ROMAN QUEZADA
Instagram
Blind Appetite
It’s about the artist journey, both prey and hunter, harmonizing creating life from life. The traps cushion mixed with malachite beads signifying interpersonal comfort, for the potential trapping of our selfs to create, thus the hunt ends where it started. Appearing crisp and clean instead of weathered, this trap is meant to be attractive and seductive. Being made from raw found materials, its toon expressive look is also meant to be recognized and identified instantly. Paying a lot of respects to my inner child like wonder.Las Vegas based mix media artist creating art depictions of gruesome, often disturbing visuals, that challenge the mainstream while staying close to his roots. a controlled chaos of its own kind. I am bringing the world my medicine, expressing from the depths of my heart. Developing a new love for sculptures and getting into curatorial work with shows like Never a Cats Paw and Lucky Gut as well as assisting in group exhibitions has become another passion of his.

LUIS AVILA CHAVEZ
Instagram
My piece Tearjerker highlights a problem I and others are used to seeing in Las Vegas. The aftermath of reckless driving, leaving homes and families damaged.First generation Las Vegas native, I use the tools I have around me to express myself creating introspective and thought provoking pieces.

MAX KROSTA
Instagram
My two featured works, The American Hunter’s Psychosis and Where Americans Go For Target Practice, were created in reaction to the 2022 Uvalde Shooting. The kids weren’t spared by right-wingers after being slaughtered. I picture their little bodies not yet at room temperature as Ted Cruz accepts another NRA check, and Alex Jones convinces us this never really happened. I will forever feel guilty working in the gun industry. Every day we are silent, we advocate for another shooting.Max Krosta is a local Las Vegas artist. He is determined to be a painter, but he really just likes being crafty.

MY BOYFRIEND’S OUT OF TOWN
Instagram Website
ONE MUST IMAGINE BILLIONAIRES SKIING
The industrial collision of pristine and withering, when one begins to eat away at itself in pursuit of the ceasing of its own gradual destruction and escaping the restlessness of anticipation. In its deterioration, it finds stability in its most basic chemical form, and the guise of safety where it may begin to bleed into what was untouched by decay, plaguing the plague itself.LEGALLY OWNED GUN
The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun (CEO of the NRA, 2012), but it's hard to see which one's which under all that blood!My Boyfriend's Out of Town is a feminist collective invested in uplifting voices that critique patriarchal structures. Supporting all media through collaboration and fabrication, My Boyfriend's Out of Town aims to protect and uphold the ability for work to be made free from censorship and exclusion from discourse.

VESSEL examines the tangible and intangible edges of selfhood and systems. The vessel is the human body. The vessel also is a set of parameters defined by traditional American ideologies. This exhibition investigates bodies in the context of larger systems, while considering societal and political constraints. The fragility of the human form is contrasted against the mechanisms of power and American capitalism to highlight the urgency to exercise one's voice and one’s agency.Individuals create communities. Ideologies create systems. Built on the history of Eurocentric colonialism, outdated systems perpetuate a constant violence. Wars over bodies and land are forcing us to question our own agency in our political structures. Our nation's policies have widely influential impacts on the rest of the world, as well as right here at home. These policies create parameters for freedom, contingent on who they serve. These parameters define us through regulating our bodies and deregulating corporate greed and corrupt power. It's time for these parameters to serve our interests and protect our freedoms. Our institutions define limitations akin to the boundaries of our own bodies, but maintain a malleable form through democracy, if we use our voices for the betterment of our communities and others’.

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