Visiting Artist Lecture - Maria De Los Angeles, Interdisciplinary Artist

Maria De Los Angeles is a Mexican-born, American artist who addresses ideas of migration, belonging, and identity through her drawing, painting, printmaking, and wearable sculptures. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Art (2015), a BFA from Pratt Institute (2013), and an associate degree from Santa Rosa Junior College (2010). Maria was awarded the Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize by the Yale School of Art in 2015 and the William Aguilar Cultural Award in 2023, by the AHHE American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Inc. for her artwork and her role within her communities. 

She has been an Artist in Residence at the Sun Valley Museum of Art, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, MASS MOCA, El Museo del Barrio, LACMA, Monira Foundation, and Schneider Museum of Art within Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University.  

Solo exhibitions at Schneider Museum of Art (2018 & 2019), the Museum of Sonoma County (2019), and Goggleworks (2022). Group exhibitions at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, LACMA, Self Help Graphics, and the San Diego Mesa College. Her artwork was featured in We the People: The Radical Notions of Democracy at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. 

Public murals include Glen Ellen, California (2021), Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital (2022), Santa Rosa Junior College (2023) and the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts 2023).  

Her artworks are in the permanent collection of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Museum of Sonoma County, the Green Family Art Foundation, the Marcus Collection, San Diego Mesa College, Smith College, and the Jack Leissring Studio. 

She is currently a Critic and Acting Director of Graduate Studies for the Painting and Printmaking Program at the Yale School of Art. Her work will be on view in 2025 at the Sun Valley Museum of Art and in 2026 at the Fairfield University Art Museum, CT. De Los Angeles is based in Jersey City, NJ, Santa Rosa, CA, and New Haven, CT.  

Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artnet, New York Magazine, HelloGiggles, and The Observer. IG @delosangelesart 

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Visual & Performing Arts Center, 43 Lake Avenue Extension, Danbury, United States