CINDY SANTOS BRAVO
EDUCATION
2006 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2002 BA, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
2015 San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2006 Casa Vecina, Mexico City, MX
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Fast Forward|The Future is Brown, Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2021
A Little Bit of Home, Bermudez Projects, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles
2018 - 2019
Día de Muertos: Cultural Perspectives, Strathmore Museum, Baltimore, MD
Building Bridges: Chicano/Mexican Art from LA to CDMX, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, México, DF
2017
Ghetto Gloss | The Chicana Avant-Garde, 1980-2010, Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2016
This Machine Kills, Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ
Thunder in Our Hearts, Noysky Projects, Los Angeles, CA
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer), SDAI Project Space, San Diego, CA
2015
The Distinctions Remain, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA*
2014
BEASTS, Mack Sennett Studios, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Mexicali Biennial, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Mexicali Biennial, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexicali B.C., Mexico
2012
Unpopular Inbetween., Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
Unpopular Inbetween,, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Consejos Graficos, Taller Boricua, New York , NY
2010
Here. There. & Beyond., Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Surface Tensions_What Remains of a Building, G727, Los Angeles, CA
The Highs and Lows: On the Street, G727, Los Angeles, CA
2009
A Day in LA, Washington Blvd Concert, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Conventions and Attitudes (a projected exhibition), Exchange Rate, Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY
Common Ground, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Latitiude, LA ArtCore, Los Angeles, CA
Link, I-Scope Gallery, Phoenix, AR
Ah-peh-Jee-doh, Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Monster Rally Drawing, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2006
MexiCali Biennial, La Casa de la Tia Tina, Mexicali, B.C., Mexico
Ejercicio del Diálogo #1, Casa Vecina, Mexico City, Mexico
Poesía y Combate, Casa Vecina, Mexico City, Mexico
Goods to Declare-MFA International, Ben Gurion Airport, Bezalel Art,, Tel Aviv, Israel
Supersonic, Barnsdall Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Collisions & Pile-ups, Armory Northwest/965, Pasadena, CA
Rebelución, Gallery D301, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2005
SAP (second auditory perception), Main Gallery, CalArts, Valencia, CA
2003
Inaugural Juried Exhibition of Dallas/Fort Worth Latino Artists, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX,
2002
subsist & persist, Ice House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
(hi’brid)n., Irving Art Center, Irving, TX,
(hi’brid)n., University of Dallas, Irving, TX
PRESENTATIONS
Guest Panelist, CalArts' Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Remote Panel
Visiting Artist, University of California-LA, Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Artist, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Panelist, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Moderator:Stylishly Dead,Self-Help Graphics and Art, Los Aneles, CA
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2020-
The School of Now
2013
Terrestrial, Rancho+Hipster, Monterrey, Mexico
2011
DREAM+ACT, Freewaves, Self Help Graphics and Art, Los Angeles, CA
2010
The Highs and Lows Vol 2:Cadillac Café, Original Scores by Maetar and Valleys and Empires,
2009
Island Monument, Karen Atkinson, Bernard Brunon and Nancy Ganacheau, Los Angeles, CA
2007
MexiCali Biennial DVD soundtrack, Ed Gomez, MexiCail, B.C, Mexico
I’m going to LA ZONA, Enrique Castrejon, Phoenix, AR
2006
Marching to El Centro, Alfonso Romero, Mexico City, Mexico
Dialogue Exercises, Venereas Edecanes, Mexico City, Mexico
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Simonett, Helena and Dávila,César Burgos, "Mexican Pointy Boots and the Tribal Scene", Transatlantica, 2015
Chung, Hyun Joo, "MexiCali Biennial: The Horrors of (Supposed) Oral Fixation", LatinoLA, January 2013
Cannibalism is the theme of the Mexicali Biennial", LA Weekly, January 2013
“Younger then Jesus’, New Museum Artist's Directory, Phaidon. 2009
Reyes, Moises. "CSUN Graduate Studies Interview”. May 2008
Finoki, Brian, "MexiCali Style." subtopia.com, October 2007
Tompkins, Pilar. "Remix’, Latitude Exhibition Catalogue. October 2007
Moshayedi, Aram."10x10”, uber.com, April 2007
“Goods to Declare-MFA International”, Exhibition Catalogue. 2006
“SuperSonic”, Exhibition Catalogue. 2006
Cindy Santos Bravo", MexiCali Exhibition Catalogue. September 2006
Compton, JR. "Sudden Transitions”, Dallasartsrevue.com. February 2001
A Little Bit of Home, Bermudez Projects, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles
2018 - 2019
Día de Muertos: Cultural Perspectives, Strathmore Museum, Baltimore, MD
Building Bridges: Chicano/Mexican Art from LA to CDMX, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, México, DF
2017
Ghetto Gloss | The Chicana Avant-Garde, 1980-2010, Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2016
This Machine Kills, Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ
Thunder in Our Hearts, Noysky Projects, Los Angeles, CA
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer), SDAI Project Space, San Diego, CA
2015
The Distinctions Remain, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA*
2014
BEASTS, Mack Sennett Studios, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Mexicali Biennial, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Mexicali Biennial, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexicali B.C., Mexico
2012
Unpopular Inbetween., Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
Unpopular Inbetween,, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Consejos Graficos, Taller Boricua, New York , NY
2010
Here. There. & Beyond., Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Surface Tensions_What Remains of a Building, G727, Los Angeles, CA
The Highs and Lows: On the Street, G727, Los Angeles, CA
2009
A Day in LA, Washington Blvd Concert, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Conventions and Attitudes (a projected exhibition), Exchange Rate, Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY
Common Ground, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Latitiude, LA ArtCore, Los Angeles, CA
Link, I-Scope Gallery, Phoenix, AR
Ah-peh-Jee-doh, Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Monster Rally Drawing, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2006
MexiCali Biennial, La Casa de la Tia Tina, Mexicali, B.C., Mexico
Ejercicio del Diálogo #1, Casa Vecina, Mexico City, Mexico
Poesía y Combate, Casa Vecina, Mexico City, Mexico
Goods to Declare-MFA International, Ben Gurion Airport, Bezalel Art,, Tel Aviv, Israel
Supersonic, Barnsdall Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Collisions & Pile-ups, Armory Northwest/965, Pasadena, CA
Rebelución, Gallery D301, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2005
SAP (second auditory perception), Main Gallery, CalArts, Valencia, CA
2003
Inaugural Juried Exhibition of Dallas/Fort Worth Latino Artists, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX,
2002
subsist & persist, Ice House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
(hi’brid)n., Irving Art Center, Irving, TX,
(hi’brid)n., University of Dallas, Irving, TX
PRESENTATIONS
Guest Panelist, CalArts' Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Remote Panel
Visiting Artist, University of California-LA, Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Artist, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Panelist, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Moderator:Stylishly Dead,Self-Help Graphics and Art, Los Aneles, CA
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2020-
The School of Now
2013
Terrestrial, Rancho+Hipster, Monterrey, Mexico
2011
DREAM+ACT, Freewaves, Self Help Graphics and Art, Los Angeles, CA
2010
The Highs and Lows Vol 2:Cadillac Café, Original Scores by Maetar and Valleys and Empires,
2009
Island Monument, Karen Atkinson, Bernard Brunon and Nancy Ganacheau, Los Angeles, CA
2007
MexiCali Biennial DVD soundtrack, Ed Gomez, MexiCail, B.C, Mexico
I’m going to LA ZONA, Enrique Castrejon, Phoenix, AR
2006
Marching to El Centro, Alfonso Romero, Mexico City, Mexico
Dialogue Exercises, Venereas Edecanes, Mexico City, Mexico
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Simonett, Helena and Dávila,César Burgos, "Mexican Pointy Boots and the Tribal Scene", Transatlantica, 2015
Chung, Hyun Joo, "MexiCali Biennial: The Horrors of (Supposed) Oral Fixation", LatinoLA, January 2013
Cannibalism is the theme of the Mexicali Biennial", LA Weekly, January 2013
“Younger then Jesus’, New Museum Artist's Directory, Phaidon. 2009
Reyes, Moises. "CSUN Graduate Studies Interview”. May 2008
Finoki, Brian, "MexiCali Style." subtopia.com, October 2007
Tompkins, Pilar. "Remix’, Latitude Exhibition Catalogue. October 2007
Moshayedi, Aram."10x10”, uber.com, April 2007
“Goods to Declare-MFA International”, Exhibition Catalogue. 2006
“SuperSonic”, Exhibition Catalogue. 2006
Cindy Santos Bravo", MexiCali Exhibition Catalogue. September 2006
Compton, JR. "Sudden Transitions”, Dallasartsrevue.com. February 2001