STEPHANIE MERCADO
Artist and Cultural Worker
EDUCATION
California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, California
Bachelor of Fine Arts Drawing, Painting, Printmaking
California State University International, Florence, Italy
Drawing and Painting International Program (Merit Scholarship)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
The Seeds of Dreams, Breck Create, Breckenridge, CO., October, 2023
2022
Emerge, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX, June, 2022
2021 – 2022
Sustain: Essential Workers Portraits, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, September, 2021 – 2022
2017
Just a Title, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX, September, 2017
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Grow, ESMOA, Lawndale, CA, March – September, 2024
2024
Xicana!, ESMOA, El Camino College, Torrance, CA, September – December, 2024
Into Action 2024, Resolution Studios, Chicago, IL, August 2024
Rasquachismo, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA, April – June, 2024
2023
Rasquachismo, Golden West College Art Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA, September – November, 2023
2022
Creative Resilience, Downtown Los Angeles Artist District, Los Angeles, CA, October, 2022
Inspiraciones: Del Pasado Hacia el Futuro, Marlborough School, Los Angeles, CA, October – November, 2022
Nuestra Tierra, Market View Arts, York, PA, September – October, 2022
Many, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, May-September, 2022
The Box, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX, December 2021-January 2022
2021
California Society of Printmakers 107th Annual Exhibition, virtual exhibition, CAPrintmakers.org, San Francisco, CA, 2021
Artists and Poems, Suturo, virtual exhibition, Durden and Ray Gallery, Los Angeles, February 2021
2020
Under Pressure National Printmaking Exhibit, The Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO, Feb – April, 2020
106th Annual California Society of Printmakers Exhibition, Piedmont Center for the Arts, CA, March – April, 2020
2019
50th Anniversary Group Show, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, Tx, Dec – Jan 2020
7th Annual Juried Exhibition, New Grounds, Remarque Print Shop, Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 5 – January 25, 2020
We Are Here, Here We Are: A Celebration of the Americas, San Jacinto College Art Gallery, Pasadena, TX, October 10 – November 6, 2019
ImMigration Project, by LA Printmaking Society, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy, October 3 – October 30, 2019
Umbra, New Prints for a Dark Age, Curated by Alison Saar, International Print Center New York, IPCNY, July 11 – Sept 28, 2019
13th Annual California Centered: Printmaking Exhibition, Merced Multicultural Arts Center, April 16 – June 1, 2019
Nuestra Realidad, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX – April 2019
Perspectives from the West, Union Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX – March 2019
Haugesund Internasjonale Tresnitt (Haugesund International Woodcut), Billedgalleri, Haugesund, Norway, May – August 2019
RESIDENCIES
2022
Breck Create, Breckenridge, CO
2020
Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
2013
Serie Print Project, Coronado Studios, Austin, TX
2008
Artist Residency, Rome, Italy
PUBLIC ART
2024 – 2025
Two mural commissions, City of Los Angeles
Westwood/VA Hospital Station Construction Site Mitigation Banners, Metro Art
2024
East Los Luv, Las Dahlias, Affordable Housing Mural Commission
Address: 4655 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA, 90022
2023
Raleigh, NC, Walmart Community Mural Program
Pico Rivera, CA, Walmart Community Mural Program
Palmdale, CA, Walmart Community Mural Program
2022
National City, CA, Walmart Community Mural Program
Fresno, CA Walmart Community Mural Program
2020
Metro Art LA, Silver Linings Poster Series
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2025
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Permanent Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Mendocino Farms, Permanent Collection, Displayed Nationally in Multiple Locations, USA
2023
Mendocino Farms, Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Metro Public Transit Authority, Metro Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Tamarind Institute of Lithography, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2020
Southern Graphics Council International, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA
2020
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
2013
Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX
FELLOWSHIPS
2018
National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures, San Antonio, TX
AWARDS
2019
Career Development Award, Supplemental Course Work, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS
New American Paintings, Pacific Coast Issue #169, Open Studio Press, 2024
Creative Resilience Highlights the High Road, LA Weekly Art Pick, Shana Nys Dambrot, October 2022
Repair, Artist Feature, Mid America Print Council Journal, Minneapolis, MN, July 2022
Exhibit finds the Skirball and Star Trek on Common Ground, Los Angeles Times, Tim Greiving, Los Angels, CA, October, 2021
Homaging Its Late Founder, Gallery’s Holiday Show Ushers Viewers Outside the Box, Houston City Book, Chris Decker, Houston, TX, December, 2021
The Tipping Point, Artist Feature and Cover Art, Mid America Print Council Journal, Minneapolis, MN, April, 2021
Artist Feature, New York City’s Young Professionals in Transportation, New York, NY, March, 2021
Artist Feature, CSULB 49er, Art and Culture section, Long Beach, CA, February, 2021
Artist Feature, Shout Out LA, Voyage LA Magazine, Los Angeles, CA, February, 2021
HIT Festival, Exhibition Catalog, Haugesund Billedgalleri
Kunstens skatt kiste åpnet i Haugesund (Art Treasure Chest Opened in Haugesund), Stavanger Aftenblad, Trond Borgen, May, 2019
Art & Life, Voyage LA Magazine, March 2019
Arts and Culture, The State of the Arts, Houston – September, 2017
Lives of Women, Hollywood Reporter, April 2017
Art of Memory, Cover Art, La Lectura Books, December 2016
Capsule Review, There, Here, Now, Jim Tommaney, Houston Press, July 2014
Opportunity Comes Knocking for Emerging Artists, Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, July 2014
On The Set – Entertainment Weekly, Hollywood Design Report 2013 Mark Snetiker, Entertainment Weekly, November, 2013
Blurred Lines, A Conversation Between Art and Fashion, Jessica Gagliardi, Natural Child Magazine, July – August, 2013
A Snow White Story, Turned on its Head, Carol Es, Huffington Post, May, 2013
Glass Tire, Austin TX February, 2013
CRATE Magazine, University of Riverside, January 2013
Artist Feature, South Pasadena, Highland Park Patch, Kristen Lepore, January 27, 2012
Artist Feature, Pasadena Now, January 14, 2012
Artist Feature, LOUD Mouth Magazine, Issue 18, Cover Art, January 2011
Haiku Review, Mat Gleason, Huffington Post, October 2010
Rococo Love Triangle, Meagan Boyd, The Examiner, October 16, 2010
Women on the Verge, Richard May, Artillery, August 1,2010
Grave Glamour at the Calavera Fashion Show, Lisa Boosin, Racked, November 10, 2009
Los Inbetween Review, Holly Myers, Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2009
Where Young Artists can Leave Their Imprint, Mindy Farabee, Los Angeles Times, February 28, 2008
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2022
Artist Talk, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2022
Artist Talk, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA
2021
Art Careers, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2019
Art Careers, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
Artist Talk, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
CA AME (Arts Media Entertainment) Leadership Institute, San Diego, CA
Drawing & Painting Alumni Banquet, California State University Long Beach
2018
Winds from Fusang: Mexico and China in the Twentieth Century, Getty PST:LA/LA,USC Pacific Asia Museum, Dirk Hagner, Marianne Sadowski, Stephanie Mercado
SELECT WORKSHOPS
2024
Summer Arts Workshop, Block Printmaking Workshop, Greetings South Central Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Family Art Night, Coloring and Collage Workshop, Hollenbeck Middle School, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Block and Roll, Block Printing Workshop, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
2022
Nature and Being, Coloring and Collage Workshop for Noah’s Ark at the Skirball, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Visions and Values, Coloring and Collage Workshop, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2021
East Los Luv, Co-create Workshop, Variety Boys and Girls Club, Boyle Heights, CA
East Los Luv, Co-create Workshop, with Sergio Arau, Zoom
East Los Luv, Co-create Workshop, Belvedere Park, East Los Angeles, CA
2011
Youth Arts Camp Workshop, South Pasadena Arts Center, South Pasadena, CA
AFFILIATIONS
California Society of Printmakers, Member
California Lawyers for the Arts, Member
ArtTable, Member