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EDUCATION:
• B.F.A. in Printmaking, CSU Long Beach (CSULB), Long Beach, CA, 2013-2016
• M.F.A. Concentration in Printmaking, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2016-2018
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
• California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita, CA, Director of Print and Media Lab and Technical Faculty, 8/ 2022 - Present
Classes: Etching, Letterpress: Relief, Relief Mid-Size, Silkscreen, Monotype and Print & Media
• California State Summer School for the Arts, Santa Clarita, CA, Full-time Instructor - Print and Design / 2023 - Print / 2024
• Pre-CSSSA Pilot Program in California State Summer School for the Arts, Santa Clarita, CA, Full-time Instructor - Print / 2024
• University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, Lecturer - Intro to Print , 4/ 2022 - 6/2022
• Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA, Adjunct - Print and 2-D Design, 8/ 2019 - 5/2020
PRINT RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:
• Raoul Textiles, Santa Barbara, CA, Print Consultant and Project Management, 12/ 2018 - 2022
• Guest Artist in Print Program, Austin, TX, GAPP Print Coordinator, 8/ 2017 - 5/ 2018
• University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, Teaching Print Assistant, 8/ 2016- 5/ 2018
• Re:Surgo, Austin, TX, Assistant Printmaker, 10/ 19- 26th 2016
• Josephine Press, Santa Monica, CA, Print Intern, 11/ 2014- 5/ 2016
• Daniel Dove Editions, Santa Barbara, CA, Lead Printmaker, 9/ 2010- 11/ 2010
GALLERY EXPERIENCE:
• Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, Gallery Sitter, 8/ 2012- 5/ 2013
• Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, Intern, 8/ 2011 - 5/ 2012
• Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, Shadow Show Performer for Christine Marie, 2/ 2/ 2012
SELECT EXHIBITIONS:
2024 • Mexic- Arte Museum, Creating Encuentros: Changarrito 2012-2024, Austin, TX,
2023 • Puertográfico, Lawful/Unlawful, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2022 • Atkinson Gallery, Evelyn Contreras and Tamar Halpern, Santa Barbara, CA
2021 • Angels Gate Culture Center, Borderline, San Pedro, CA
2020 • Rockport Center For The Arts, The Fragile, Rockport, TX (solo)
• Proyecto Galería Y Proyectos De Residencía, We Exist, Mexico City, Mexico
2019 • Mexic- Arte Museum, Expresiones en Esculturas/ Expressions in Sculptures, Austin, TX,
2018 • Women and their Work, Red Dot, Austin, TX
• Visual Art Center, Affordable Dream House, Austin, TX
• Mexic- Arte Museum, YLA 23: Beyond Walls, Between Gates, Under Bridges, Austin, TX
• Women and their Work, Art Bash, Austin, TX
2017 • Visual Art Center, Room Before, Austin, TX,
2016 • Visual Art Center, Alphabet Show, Austin, TX,
• Palos Verdes Art Center, Now Trending, Palos Verdes, CA
• Dr. Maxine Merlino Gallery, Metastasis , Long Beach, CA (solo)
2015 • President Jane Close Conoly Home, Selected Works from the School of Art, Long Beach, CA • Dr. Maxine Merlino Gallery, Stoned, Long Beach, CA
• University Art Museum, Annual Student Exhibition, Long Beach, CA
• El Minia University, The 4th Student International Small Print Show, Cairo, Egypt
2014 • Atkinson Gallery, Art Alumni Invitational, Santa Barbara, CA
• University Art Museum, Annual Student Exhibition, Long Beach, CA
• Dutzi Gallery, INK 13: Fiction Non Fiction, Long Beach, CA
2013 • Atkinson Gallery, Student Exhibition, Santa Barbara, CA
• Atkinson Annex, Radiance, Santa Barbara, CA
2012 • ArtSpace, Printmaking Club of SBCC, Santa Barbara, CA
• Atkinson Gallery, Student Exhibition, Santa Barbara, CA
GRANTS, AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS:
2021 NALAC Actos de Confianza
2018 Dedalus Foundation Nomination
2017 International Education Fee Scholarship
The Mort Baranoff Endowment
Diversity Cont. Fellowship
Learning Tuscany Fellowship
2016 Diversity Fellowship
Materials Library Grant
2015 Los Angeles Printmaking Society
Eichholz Foundation Arts
Dramatic Allied Arts Guild
2014 Eichholz Foundation Arts
Los Angeles Printmaking Society
2013 Eichholz Foundation Art
Cross Discipline Jacobson Creative Spirits
Santa Barbara Art Association
2012 Santa Barbara Art Association
COLLECTIONS:
2018 Mexic- Arte Museum
2016 Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art
2015 El Minia University
2012 Santa Barbara City College Art Collection
LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOP:
2024 •“Artist Talk,” CSULB, Silkscreen Class - Kimiko Miyoshi, Long Beach, CA Mar 18th.
2022 •“Silkscreen with Mix Media Workshop,” Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara CA Oct 19th.
2021 •“GIFs: Yesterday-Today, Presentation + Workshop”, Presenters will incluede Brandi Cordier Sjostrom and Evelyn Contreras, Angels Gates Culture Center, San Pedro, CA Feb 27.
•“Borderline Artist & Curiator Talk”, Presenters will incluede curators: Mahsa Farhadikia, Mandy Palasik, Brandi Sjostrom, and Naomi Stewart. Borderline includes works by: Michael Chang, Evelyn Contreras, Christian Franzen, , Julian Lombardi, Mandy Palasik, Allison Peck, Gazelle Samizay, Weng San Sit and JoshuaThomen, Angels Gates Culture Center,
San Pedro, CA Jan 22.
2020 •“Mix Media Resin Pour Workshop”, Rockport Center For The Arts, Rockport, TX Nov 3-5.
•“Artist Talk”, Rockport Center For The Arts, Rockport, TX Oct 24th.
2018 •“Illuminated Pop Up Homes and LED Throwies” The Land of Light: Art, Science and Play, Santa Paula Art Museum, Santa Paula, CA, Oct 6.
•“PRINT/TECH” Future Faculty Career Exploration Program, Evelyn Contreras, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, Sep 28.
•“Family Day with Evelyn Contreras” Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX, June 24.
•“YLA Curator’s Tour and Artists Talk” YLA 23: Beyond Walls, Between Gates, Under Bridges, Rocha-Rochelli, Lisette Chavez, Evelyn Contreras, Adrian Delgado, Raul Gonzalez,
Alejandro Macias, Juan Mora, Andrew Ordonez, Natalia Rocafuerte, Abel Saucedo, Ana Treviño, and Jose Villanueva, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX, June 16.
•“CIRCUIT_FLO_ID_SYSTEM: HOW_ART_HACKS_THRU_BINDS” Making Art Shaping Society, Hiba Ali and Evelyn Contreras, Feminist Action Project, and Queer and
Trans Student Alliance, Austin, TX, March 29.
•“WOC in the Arts” Academic Health, Presenters will include Omiseeke Tinsley, Indrani Chatterjee, Simone Browne, Natassja Gunasena Evelyn Contreras, BIWOC
(Black, Indigenous, Women of Color) Week, Austin, TX, March 19.
•“PRINT/TECH” Presenters will include Evelyn Contreras and Hiba Ali, Women & their Work, Austin, TX, February 10.
•“Evelyn Contreras (My Practice)” Print Futures, Dr. Paul Laidler, Lari Gibbons, R. Eric McMaster, and Evelyn Contreras. Moderated by Jason Urban, PrintAustin, Austin, TX, January 28.
RESIDENCIES:
2020 The Virtual Artists’ Residency, PRMX, Online and Mexico City, Mexico
Rockport Residency, Rockport Center For The Arts, Rockport TX
Forum Residency, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance CA
2018 Changarrito Art Residency, Mexic- Arte Museum, Austin TX
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2024 • Cunningham, Sarah. “Glitches & glitter” Lum Art Magazine, No. 7 - Spring 2024, https://www.lumartzine.com/
2022 • Todd, Ella. “Alumna Evelyn Contreras presents her art at Atkinson Gallery exhibit” The Channels, Oct 24, 2022,
• Woodard, Josef. “Dimensional Notions and Motions at Santa Barbara City College Gallery” The Independent, Oct 5, 2022,
https://www.independent.com/2022/10/05/dimensional-notions-and-motions-at-santa-barbara- city-college-gallery/
• Todd, Ella. “Atkinson Gallery features artwork exhibition made by 2 SBCC alumni” The Channels, Sept 26, 2022,
2020 • Jacoby, Stewart. Interview with Evelyn Contreras. Community Arts Calendar, KEDT - NPR Nov 10
• “Evelyn Contreras: The Fragile,” Glasstire, Oct 20
• Diafano Magazine, Vol.3 Iss.4, May 31
2018 • Ali, Hiba. “Beyond, Between, And Under The Border Navigating The Carceral State” THE SEEN | Chicago’s International Journal of Contemporary & Modern Art .Issue 07
(2018) EXPO CHICAGO. Web. 30 September 2018.
• Andrea Hyland, “Beyond the Bio: Evelyn Contreras,” Art Alliance Austin, Jul 3, 2018, https://www.artallianceaustin.org/carousel/beyond-the-bio-evelyn-contreras
• “Young artists explore what’s beyond walls in popular Mexic-Arte exhibit,” MyStatesman, June 29, 2018
• Print Austin, Cover, vol. 5, 2018
• Lindsey Reynolds, “Dreaming of Our Abuelitos: “YLA 23” at Mexic-Arte Museum Explores Border Identity,” Sight Line, August 17 2018,
https://sightlinesmag.org/young-latinx-artists-mexic-ate-museum-explores-border-identity
2014 • “Artistic Echoes in Hallowed Halls,” Santa Barbara News-Press, Scene Magazine, pp 42-43,November 20th, 2014
2012 • “SBCC Annual Student Show,” Santa Barbara News-Press, Scene Magazine, pp. 36-37, May 17,2012
SPECIAL SKILLS:
• Printmaking-Silkscreening, etching, relief, letterpress, monotype, photo process (photopolymer plates, solar plates. proto plates)
• 3-D Simplify, 3-D Scanning, TinkerCAD, Maya, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Word, Excel, Power Point, Filemaker, Quickbook
• Bilingual-Spanish/English