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RESUME

Award Ceremony - Francisco Alvarado After Nice
Acrylic on Paper Permanent Collection W. Keith & Jane

EXHIBITIONS 2024

June 22 - July 19, 2024

  • Los Angeles Art Association  Online Exhibition SUMMERSTOCK – an all media special art sale/summer clearance!
  • SUMMERSTOCK is an online only exhibition featuring artwork by LAAA artists running June 22 - July 19, 2024.


June 8 - July 27, 2024

  • The Human Head  exhibition, opening on June 8, 2024, at Art Division. 
  • Curators Luis Serrano and Dan McCleary's


May 4 - June 7, 2024

  • Los Angeles Art Association  Online Exhibition SUMMERSTOCK – an all media special art sale/summer clearance!
  • Curator Ray Beldner


April 6 - April 26, 2024

  • Los Angeles Art Association presents our next online exhibit Turf, an all-media exhibit exploring Global reflections on Planet Earth circa 2024. 


March 16 - April 5, 2024

  • Los Angeles Art Association presents POP ABOVE ALL, an all-media exploration of Pop Art tropes in contemporary art practice running online only March 16 - April 5, 2024.


February 17 - March 15, 2024

  • Los Angeles Art Association proudly presents Reputed- an all- media exploration of an artist's "signature" style or exemplar of their work .

EXHIBITIONS 2022

July 30, 2022

"Survival Mechanisms"
Francisco Alvarado and Kristine Schomaker
in Conversation

Curated by Kristine Schomaker


March 26 - April 16, 2022

  • Los Angeles Art Association LAA825 proudly presents Gleaming Apollo, an all -media celebration of, and commentary on Los Angeles as viewed by the community's local emerging artists.  
  • Gleaming Apollo is an online exhibition and sale featuring artwork by LAAA artists running March 26 - April 16, 2022

Call and Response: Collaboration at a Distance  2022 Program

In March 2020 when we went on lockdown due to the pandemic, the Shoebox Arts team created “Call and Response: Collaboration at a Distance” as a way to stay connected and to check in with and support each other.   

  • The project draws on the tradition of Jazz and Exquisite Corpse as a way for the artists to ping pong creatively off of each other   
  • Call-and-response-collaboration-at-a-distance- Round 14 March 2022-Through- Round 15  May 2022   
  • See the Collaborations Page for Details

EXHIBITIONS 2021

 August 28 & 29, 2021 

  • NOMAD -Presented by the Torrance Art Museum, City of Torrance, Cultural Arts Commission, in partnership with Discover Torrance, Torrance Art Museum Advocates (TAMA), ARTRA Curatorial, CA 90503 Curated by Max Presneill Artist/Curator

May 15 - June 11, 2021.

  • Los Angeles Art Association LAA825 is proud to present Apocrypha, an all media exploration of artist influences. Apocrypha will run online only May 15 - June 11, 2021.

MARCH 6 -26, 2021

  • Los Angeles Art Association LAA825 is proud to present GILD – an all media exploration of embellishment or exaggeration in contemporary art practice.

Call and Response: Collaboration at a Distance  2021 Program  

In March 2020 when we went on lockdown due to the pandemic, the Shoebox Arts team created “Call and Response: Collaboration at a Distance” as a way to stay connected and to check in with and support each other.  

  • The project draws on the tradition of Jazz and Exquisite Corpse as a way for the artists to ping pong creatively off of each other   
  • Call-and-response-collaboration-at-a-distance- Round 11 February 2021-Through- Round 13  April 2021  
  • See the Collaborations Page for Details

EXHIBITIONS 2020

NOVEMBER 4, 2020 - DECEMBER 11, 2020

  • Los Angeles Art Association LAA825 -  AURORA 

As we all work to slow the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus) by self distancing, we are still committed to giving our artists exposure and access. 

  • Los Angeles Art Association LAA825 is proud to present AURORA, LAAA's Holiday Art Sale featuring artwork priced at $1,000 and less. 


OCTOBER 17- NOVEMBER 3, 2020

  • Los Angeles Art Association LAA825 -  FESTOON  

As we all work to slow the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus) by self distancing, we are still committed to giving our artists exposure and access. 

  • Los Angeles Art Association LAA825 is proud to present FESTOON, an all-media exploration of decorative practice. FESTOON is an online exhibition featuring artwork by LAAA artists


August 12 - 28, 2020

As we all work to slow the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus) by self distancing, we are still committed to giving our artists exposure and access.

  • Los Angeles Art Association proudly presents  EXALTED ONE an all -media exploration of contemporary portraiture as viewed by  our community's local emerging artists.


August 29 - September 12, 2020

As we all work to slow the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus) by self distancing, we are still committed to giving our artists exposure and access. 

  • Los Angeles Art Association proudly presents Non sequitur,   an  all-media exploration of surrealism in contemporary art. 

Call and Response: Collaboration at a Distance  2020 Program

 In March 2020 when we went on lockdown due to the pandemic, the Shoebox Arts team created “Call and Response: Collaboration at a Distance” as a way to stay connected and to check in with and support each other. 

  • The project draws on the tradition of Jazz and Exquisite Corpse as a way for the artists to ping pong creatively off of each other  
  • Call-and-response-collaboration-at-a-distance- Round 3 June 2020-Through- Round 9  December 2020 
  • See the Collaborations Page for Details

EXHIBITIONS 2019

  • October 13, 2019 Arte Para La Gente - Opening Reception - Chimaya Art Gallery
  • May 13, 2019 to June 30, 2019 - Solo show at the Vista Libray in Vista CA -           Curated by Skye Amber Sweet
  • Underpinnings of a Digital Landscape. The show will run at the Monica Film Center till May, 2019. Sales benefit the Laemmle Foundation and its support of humanitarian and environmental causes in Los Angeles.  Curated by Joshua Elias
  • January 26, 2019 Kitsch-In-Sync : Art and Its Opposite - Coastline Community College Art Gallery.          Curated by Bradford J. Salamon 

EXHIBITIONS 2018

  • December 6, 2018 The Neutra Presents One Hundred Vibrant Artists          Curated By Geoffrey Levitt 
  • November 18, 2018 Fall Exhibitions - Chimmaya Art Gallery 
  • October 22, 2018 Frida Y los Muertos - Chimmaya Art Gallery          Curated by Steven Acevedo
  • July 1, 2018 13th Anniversary Exhibition - ChimMaya Art Gallery    Curated by Steven Acevedo
  • June 23, 2018 Benefit Show Lyme Away 3:  The Tag Gallery   Curated by Genie Davis 
  • June 16, 2018 The Magnificent Seven, at Coagula Curatorial   Curated by Francisco Alvarado
  • May 15, 2018 Coexistence - Opening show at Shoebox Projects May 2018  Curated by Francisco Alvarado 
  • May 15, 2018 Francisco Alvarado and Robert Soffian artists-in-residence at Shoebox Projects! 
  • May 2, 2018 050218 Artist & Researcher 2 at the Hoyt Gallery USC Keck School of Medicine  Curated by Ted Meyer 
  • April 8, 2018 ECHO One at FM Fine Art Gallery   Curated by Karrie Ross

EXHIBITIONS 2017

  • December 4, 2017 Annual Give The Gift of Art Exhibition and Sale FM Fine Art Gallery          Curated by Louis Jacinto 
  • December 6, 2017 Benefit Show Lyme Away 2: Help Nicole Saari and Baby Aaron Saari - The Loft at Liz's          Curated by Genie Davis 
  • November 11, 2017 Honoring Expression: Work by United States Artist-Veterans · Norco College Art Gallery        Curated by Quinton Bemiller 
  • November 10, 2017 - Off the Wall, Small Works Exhibition -· Shoebox Projects          Curated by Kristine Schomaker 
  • November 5, 2017  Eleven · Lamperouge Fine Art          Curated by Art Critic Shana Nys Dambrot 
  • October 14, 2017 Artists for Olivia - Fundraiser and Art Exhibition · Hawthorne Arts Complex          Curated by Gloria Plascencia 
  • September 23, 2017 INK & CLAY 43 · Kellogg University Art Gallery          Juried by Joan Takayama-Ogawa, Nancy Haselbacher and Anne Martens 
  • August 27, 2017  Red on Red 6 PM · Balconi Coffee Company          Curated by Kio Griffin 
  • July 9th, 2017 11x14 Group Exhibition · ChimMaya Art Gallery         Curated by Steven Acevedo
  • June 30,  2017 Frida@110 · ChimMaya Art Gallery         Curated by Steven Acevedo 
  • May 14, 2017 FAUX POP · Balconi Coffee Company          Curated by Kio Griffin 
  • April 20, 2017 Art On Red Walls: FAUXism SHOs at Balconi's · Los Angeles, California           Curated by Kio Griffin 
  • March 19, 2017 MAR 19 Benefit Show Lyme Away - Help Nicole Beat Late Stage Lyme Disease          Curated by Genie Davis 
  • February – May 2017 Art in the Arthouse presents Francisco Alvarado -  NoHo7 Theater          Curated by Joshua Elias

EXHIBITIONS 2016

  • FAUX * 2 REAL - Sun December 13, 2016                Curator Kio Griffith  
  • Following Ed Moses installation, Francisco Alvarado installation on  display at Mori Sushi  - April 2016 - December 2016               Curator Minoru Ohira   
  • FAUX Sho DAD Centennial Part 2  - Thursday Nov 17, 2016               Curator Kio Griffith  
  • 11th Anniversary Exhibition - October 16, 2016               Hosted by ChimMaya Art Gallery  
  • My own Private Moon - Sunday, September 11, 2016              Hosted by  Karrie Ross  
  • CicLAvia's Inagural Fund Raiser Saturday, September 17, 2016              Hosted by CicLAvia  
  • FAUX Sho' Land Art - Sunday September 18, 2016               Curator Kio Griffith  
  • The Pasadena Art Show 2016 - Opening Reception - Thursday June 2, 2016             Hosted by Lynn Chang Enterprises  
  • FAUX Sho' Chinese Landscapes- Sunday June 26, 2016               Curator Kio Griffith  
  • Dulce Stein Presents Second Annual Mask-Art Show:  Mascara Reception - Saturday, May 7, 2016 
  • Boots on the Ground - Saturday May 21, 2016      Hosted by Eva Polonkai and Dulce Stein 
  • FAUX Sho' DADA Centennial- Sunday April 10, 2016             Curator Kio Griffith  
  •  Francisco Alvarado and Sophia Tise - Conversation in Color April 2016              Hosted by Francisco Alvarado and Sophia Tise              Neutra Institute Gallery & Museum 
  • Neo Japonism: Shunga - Tuesday March 15, 2016             Curator Kio Griffith  
  • MAS 12: San Diego - Saturday March 19, 2016              Curator Kio Griffith and Ginger Shulick Porcella  
  •  FAUX Sho' California Abstraction-Thursday February 4, 2016              Curator Kio Griffith

EXHIBITIONS 2015

  • FAUX * REAL - Sun Dec 13, 2015                Curator Kio Griffith  
  • Dulce Stein Presents: Stocking stuffers 2015 - Sat Dec 12, 2015 at EklectoMania  
  • SILVER LAKE ART COLLECTIVE 2015 Exhibition - Sat Nov 14, 2015 at 2379 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90039  
  • MASque ATTACK - Sat Oct 31, 2015 at Temporary Space                 Hosted by Max Presneil  
  • "Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos" - A Group exhibition - Sat Oct 24, 2015 at Gallery H of Phantom Galleries LA in Hawthorne         Curator Gloria Plascencia  
  •  October/Fall Exhibition ChimMaya Art Gallery, East LA.                 Curator Steven Acevedo  
  •  Faux Sho': Japonism - Sun Oct 18, 2015                Curator Kio Griffith  
  • Finding Yourself - a one day pop up art exhibition - Sun Sep 6, 2015 at 4551 San Fernando Road, #213, Glendale, CA 91204                 with Michael Maas and Jane Szabo  
  • 2 in Color Sun Aug 30, 2015 at EklectoMania               With Jane Szabo  
  • Faux Sho': Social Realism - Sun Aug 16, 2015               Curator Kio Griffith  
  • Art Fusion 2015 - a Juried Show - Fri Jul 17, 2015 at Gallery H of Phantom Galleries LA in Hawthorne                Curator Gloria Plascencia  
  • Mask-Art show and Masquerade Ball Event - Sat Jul 11, 2015 at KGB Gallery                Hosted by Dulce Stein  
  • Faux Sho': Expressionism - Wed May 27, 2015                Curator Kio Griffith  
  •  Dulce Stein Presents : Artworld Bootcamp Group Show : NEW WORK : Opening reception - Sat Apr 4, 2015  
  • Faux Sho': Cubism - Sun Mar 29, 2015                Curator Kio Griffith  
  •  Chaos Theory: Feb 7-21, 2015 • 560 pieces of art by 173 artists - Orange County Center for Contemporary Art                Hosted by Stephen Anderson  
  • 215 Movement - Art Takes the Stage - Sat Jan 17, 2015 at 6567 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90038                Curator Lark Larisa Pilinsky

EXHIBITIONS 2014

  • MAS 7 : Santa Monica - Sat Dec 13, 2014 at Santa Monica Art Studios 

Hosted by Kio Griffith 

  • Zver, Liverman, Skiba, Alvarado Opening Reception - Sat Jul 12, 2014 at Kellogg University Art Gallery 

Curated By Michele Cairella Fillmore  

  • Fresh, 2014 exhibition South Bay Contemporary November 8 - December 28, 2014  

Curated By Mat Gleason 

EXHIBITIONS 2013

  • "Yes" art exhibition M.D. Art Gallery September 20th - October 18th 

Curated By Peter Frank  

  • The Kellogg University Art Gallery July 7 – August 16 

Curated By Quinton Bemiller  

  • Norco College Art Gallery ANEKANTAVADA Diverse Perspectives in Art - March 4-April 8

Curated By Quinton Bemiller, Karin Skiva  

  • Spectrum 2014 Exhibit Keystone Gallery October 11 - October 19 

Curated by Silver Lake Artist Community SLAC

EXHIBITIONS 2012 - 2009

  • INK AND CLAY 38 - Kellogg Gallery Exhibitions March 15 - April 27, 2012  

Curated By Quinton Bemiller 

  •  Offramp Gallery - Benefit Art Sale Supporting Jade Bemiller's Fight – July 2011  

Curated by Jane Chafin 

  • International Mail Art Exhibition June 27 – August 22, 2010 Armory Center for the Arts  

Curated by Jay Belloli 

  • Project_210 Gallery – December 3 – 19, 2009      

Curated By Quinton Bemiller

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