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MARIA RENDÓN - Artists - Sullivan Goss Art Gallery

MARIA RENDÓN works and lives in Santa Barbara and maintains an active presence in the L.A. art community. She completed a BFA at the Universidad Anáhuac Mexico City and a second at the Art Center College of Design, where she then taught for over ten years. During that time, she worked as an illustrator for an impressive list of international clients. Her work is featured in New American Paintings #123, Graphis #355 and Taschen’s book, Illustration Now!  She earned her MFA from U.C.S.B. in 2014.

 

Videos

42:43. |  Bruce Robertson and Maria Rendón for MARIA RENDÓN: Holy Water, 2024.

5:32  |  Narrated by Jeremy Tessmer & Maria Rendón  |  Released for MARIA RENDON: Rain, 2021

4:04  |  Narrated by Jeremy Tessmer  |  Released for JUST BETWEEN US: Wesley Anderegg, Rafael Perea de la Cabada & Maria Rendon

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EDUCATION​

2021  Advanced Mentorship Program, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snow Mass, CO 

2014  MFA University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

1992  BFA Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

1987  BFA Universidad Anahuac, México City

 

TEACHING

2015  Adjunct, Santa Barbara City College

2012-2014  University of California Santa Barbara

1996-2007  Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

 

PRESS

2019  DOT, Art Center College of Design Alumni Magazine, 4x4 feature 

2018  Maake Magazine, Issue Seven, curated by Tiger Strikes Asteroid 

2017  Santa Barbara Magazine

2017  Young Space Blog, curated by Kate Mothes 

2016  Santa Barbara Sentinel

2015  New American Paintings #123

2015  Santa Barbara Independent

2015  Where People Create by Leela Cyd, Santa Barbara Seasons

2014  Scene Magazine Santa Barbara News Press, Santa Barbara, California 

2010  Dpi MagazineTaiwan - Feature Article

2006  Illustration Now/Taschen, Editor, Julius Wiederman - Feature Article 

2005  Graphis 355, Writer, Stuart I. Frolick - Feature Article

1994  Revista a! Writer, Tracey Stoll - Feature Article

 

AWARDS

2013  Israel Levitan Graduate Fellowship in Art Studio, University of California Santa Barbara 

2013  Ludington-Parshall Scholarship, Santa Barbara Art Association

2012  American Illustration 31

2003  The Society of Illustrators 47, 48

2000  Communication Arts Illustration Annual

1996  Society of Publication Designers SPD Annual

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2023  At Daybreak II, Korean Craft and Design Foundation, Seoul, Korea

2023  Elsewhere, Artbug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2022  At Daybreak, HeyThere Projects, Joshua Tree, CA

2021  MARIA RENDÓN: Rain, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

2020  But Only So An Hour, HeyThere Projects, Joshua Tree, CA

2020  TSA Yardwork, Tiger Strikes Asteroid GVL, Ashville, NC

2018  Lightforms, Baer Gallery, Bush Art Center, St Norbert College, Wisconsin

2017  Two by Two, curated by Salomón Huerta, July Kamikaze 2017 at PØST, Los Angeles, CA 

2015  Missing Rib, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

2014  ALTER / MFA Thesis Show, Art, Design and Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, CA 

2013  Rock Paper Candy, Glass Box Gallery, University of California Santa Barbara

2013  Just Between Us, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA

2012  Crave: Art, Food, & Social Experience, Contemporary Arts Forum (CAF), Santa Barbara, CA 

2001  Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA

1998  Riverside Community College, Los Angeles, CA

1997  Random Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 The Sublime: Where Words Fail, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA

2023 Where The Wild Things Grow, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA

2023  Surreal Women: Surrealist Art by American Women, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA

2023  Cartographies of Images in Exhile, ScandiLa/Artbug, Stockholm, Sweden 

2022  Formalize: Strategies of Abstraction, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA

2022  Shapeshifter, 515 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2021  Bio/Mass: Contemporary Meditation on Nature, Wildling Museum, Solvang, CA

2020  8x8: March 8 by 8 Women, Glass Box Gallery, University of California Santa Barbara

2020  The Red Book, Women’s Salon LA, Mexican Consulate of Los Angeles, CA

2019  The Box Project, Women’s Salon LA, The Duron Gallery at SPARC, Venice, CA

2019  Mixology: Classic + Contemporary Combinations, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA

2018  Spring Break, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA

2017  SUR: biennial, Espacio Entre / Entre Espacio, Rio Hondo College, Los Angeles CA

2017  Disorderly Construct, The Arts Fund, Santa Barbara, CA

2017  Brand 45/Works On Paper, Brand Library Art Center, Glendale, CA

2017  Out of Place, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

2016Shift, Stretch, Expand: Everyday Transformations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara 

2015Flock, Birds on The Brink, Ganna Walska Lotusland Pavilion, Santa Barbara, CA

2014  Drift & Fixation, The Arts Fund, Santa Barbara, CA

2014  WWBD, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 

2013  GLAMFA, California State University Long Beach, CA

2013  Unholy Mess, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, at McCormick House, Santa Barbara, CA 

2013  Confluence, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

2013  Swarm, A Collaboration with Bees, Ganna Walska Lotusland Pavilion, Santa Barbara, CA 

2013  Remnants, Gallery 479, UC Santa Barbara

2012  Happy With Either, College of Creative Studies Gallery, UC Santa Barbara

2012  Agitprop, Left Coast Books, Santa Barbara, CA

2012  Figure Fragments, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

2012  Lift, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

2011  Sabor, ARTS Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA

2010  A Labor of Line, Gallery Nucleus, Alhambra, CA

2009  Small Images, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

2006  Drawn to Expression, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA 

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