curriculum vitae
Education
2009 MA, Aesthetics and Politics, School of Critical Studies, CalArts, CA
1999 MFA, Painting, Claremont Graduate University, CA
1996 BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
1989-1990 Instituto de Arte Federico Brandt, Caracas, Venezuela
Selected Exhibits
2011
The Utopian Tense of Green (solo) Ruth Bachofner Gallery; Bergamot
Station, Los Angeles, CA
Abstract Numbers of a Revolution (solo)
Staging Gallery; University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
An Exchange with Sol Lewitt MASS MoCA (Curated by
Regine Basha)
Drawing Connections Siena Art Institute; Siena, Italy
Southern California Abstraction Southwestern College Gallery; San
Diego, CA (Curated by John Lewis)
Collective Show L.A. 2011 (with Los Angeles Road Concerts) 995 North
Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA
2010
The Utopian Tense of Green (solo) Soho20 Gallery; NY, NY
Muse/Reuse Doug Adams Gallery/ Badè Museum; Berkeley, CA
Between the Lines Soho20 Gallery; NY, NY
Give a Fig (benefit) LACE Gallery; Los Angeles, CA
2009
White Ruth Bachofner Gallery; Bergamot Station, Los Angeles,
CA
Incognito Santa Monica Museum; Los Angeles, CA
ID517 Distributed Gallery; Los Angeles, CA
Bridge Art Fair (with Soho20 Gallery); NY, NY
A Day in LA Washington Blvd; Los Angeles, CA (curated by Stephen van
Dyck)
2008
1,000 Drawings Artists Space; New York, NY
FIA (with Galería Alternativa); Caracas, Venezuela
Gender Politics Biennial Loranger Gallery; Detroit, MI
2007
The Divine Geometry of Chocolate (solo)
Soho20 Gallery; NY, NY
Fresh Museum of Contemporary Art; Los Angeles, CA
Extrapictórico (curated by Miguel Miguel) Corp Banca Cultural
Center; Caracas, Venezuela
Postcards from the Edge (benefit) James Cohan Gallery;
NY, NY
Pinta Latin American Art Fair(with Galería Alternativa);
NY, NY
2006
La Divina Geometría del Chocolate (solo)
Galería Alternativa; Caracas, Venezuela
Latino Art Wistariahurst Museum; Holyoke, MA
Generations A.I.R. Gallery; NY, NY
Square Foot Art Gotham; NY, NY
2005
Wish You Were Here A.I.R. Gallery; NY, NY
Small Works 2005 Attleboro Arts Museum; Attleboro, MA
Levity in Detail (solo) Ruth Bachofner Gallery; Bergamot Station, Los Angeles,
CA
Small Works Upstream Gallery; Dobbs Ferry, NY
National Prize 2005 Kathryn Schultz Gallery; Cambridge, MA (Juried, J. Thompson,
Mass MOCA)
2004
New Directions Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (Juried, Tina Kukielski, Whitney Museum)Snap to Grid Los Angeles Center for Digital Art; Los Angeles, CA
Woman in the Middle Walker's Point Art Center, WI (Juried, Helen Klebesadel)
2003
On Sugar, Spice, and Other Delectable Abstractions (solo) Oresman Gallery, Brown Fine Arts Center, MAThird Annual Art Auction (invitational) Huntington Beach Art Center; Huntington Beach, CA
2002
Puntos Suspensivos (solo) Galería Alternativa, Caracas, VenezuelaMajority Rules Free Gallery, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Five by Ten Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College; MA
Second Annual Art Auction (invitational) Huntington Beach Art Center; Huntington Beach, CA
2001
Lining (solo) Sweeney Art Gallery; University of California, RiversideHomage DA Center for the Arts; Pomona, CA
Post-Partum Blues (solo) Ruth Bachofner Gallery; Bergamot Station, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Virtual Consanguinity (solo) Ruth Bachofner Gallery; Bergamot Station, Los Angeles, CADigital Resolutions DA Center for the Arts; Pomona, CA
1999
Big Wave II Andrew Shire Gallery; Los Angeles, CA
New Arrivals Patricia Correia Gallery; Bergamot Station, Los Angeles, CA
Líneas de Sangre (solo) Chozen Gallery; Palm Springs, CA
Reviews / texts
Benko, Susana, "Extra-pictórico," Art Nexus, 66, Vol.
6, 2007
Miguel, Miguel "Mariángeles Soto-Díaz" Arte
al Día 03/2007
Carreño, Freddy, "Fia 2007," Art Nexus, 66, Vol. 6,
2007
Yáñez, Ondina "Mariángeles Soto-Díaz en
un Laboratorio de Chocolate" Revista GP 2007
Méndez, María Gabriela "El Chocolate y sus Divinas Proporciones" El
Universal 11/2006
Carr, Carlin "Gallery: Mariángeles Soto-Díaz" New
England Watershed 10/2005
Rodríguez, Bélgica "Mariángeles Soto-Díaz:
Puntos Suspensivos" for El Nacional, unpublished, 06/2002
Monsalve, Jasmín "Mariángeles Soto-Díaz Muestra
Abstracción con Olor a Canela" El Universal 06/2002
Feely, Erik "Mariángeles Soto-Díaz at the Galería
Alternativa" The Daily Journal 06/2002
Cun, Lan "Exhibitions at the Sweeney" Radar 01/2001
Knaff, Devorah "Revelatory Art" The Press
Enterprise 01/2001
Ollman, Leah "Blood Oaths" Los Angeles
Times 09/2000
Letran, Vivian "Grave Events" Los Angeles
Times, 11/2000
Conferences / Symposia / Visiting Artist Lectures
College Art Association Conference, New York, NY
Presentation: "Neither Pure nor Flat" ("Painting: Practice as
Strategy," Panel Chair, Thomas Berding, Michigan State University) (2011)
College Art Association Conference, New York, NY
Presentation: "Post-partum Blues" ("Blue," Panel
Chair, Steve Shipps, Emerson College) (2007)
John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH
Presentation: " Bloodlines / Líneas de Sangre" ("Latina Feminisms," Roundtable
Chair, Mariana Ortega, John Carroll University) (2006)
Association of British Art Historians 30th Annual Conference, University
of Nottingham, U.K.
Presentation: "Othering Abstraction" ("Interventions/Intersections:
The future of feminist art, histories and critique," Panel Chairs,
Penny Florence, Slade School of Art and Marsha Meskimmon, Loughborough
University) (2004)
College Art Association Conference, New York, NY
Presentation: "Subaltern Subjectivities and Developing Abstractions" (Abstract
Painting, "Once Removed," Panel Chair, Jane Sharp, Rutgers
University) (2003)
Artist Lecture: University of California, Riverside (2001)
Symposium: "Caribbean and Latin American Art," Museum of Latin
American Art, Long Beach, CA (1998)
Grants / Fellowships / Awards
Obermann Grant Wood Fellowship, University of Iowa, IA
Ahmanson Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, CA
Five College Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of the
Americas
Fellowship, Five Colleges, MA
Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts Grant, MA
Claremont Graduate University Fellowship, CA
Arco Iris Community Arts Program Award, MA
Public Service Social Change Program Grant, Hampshire College, MA
Hampshire College Women's Art Collective Grant
Published Writings
“The Pink Elephant in the Room: a Monochrome Performance in 7 Waves” in catalogue for Womanhouse v4.0, a publication by Parallax Space, NE, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the CalArts' Feminist Art Program (forthcoming, Parallax Space, 2012).
“Post Partum Blues: The Figure/Ground,” in Reconciling Art and Motherhood, ed. Rachel Buller (forthcoming, Ashgate, 2012).
“The Divine Geometry of Chocolate: Artist Essay,” Contemporary Aesthetics Vol. 2, Special Issue (2009).
“On Sugar and Spice,” Postcolonial Studies (Routledge) Vol. 8, Issue 2 (Spring 2005).
“Featured Artist’s Work,” Meridians, Journal of Feminism,
Transnationalism and Culture (Smith College/ Wesleyan University) Vol.
4., Issue 2 (Spring 2004).
Community / Artist Residencies
Director, Art Instructor, Florence/Hampshire Heights Art
Program,
Northampton, MA (1995-1996)
Founder, Art Instructor, Director, Making Lines
After School Arts Program, Florence Heights, MA(1995)
Director (Summer 1996), Art Instructor, (1994-1997), Arco
Iris Community Arts, Holyoke, MA(1994-1997)
Artist-in-Residence, Institute for Arts Education,
San Diego, CA (with Las Palmas School in San Diego)
(1997-1998)
Artist-in-Residence, Leighton Studios, Banff Centre for the Arts,
Canada (2006)
Gallery Representation
Soho20 Gallery, New York
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Bergamot Station, Los Angeles
curatorial projects
2011 Gifting Abstraction (as part of Abstraction at Work, see <abstractionatwork.org/projects/gifting-abstraction>), Soho20 Gallery; NY, NY