Curriculum Vitae
Lauren Vazquez
loloveeartist@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2016-2018 Master of Fine Arts Degree, Public Practice, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Undergraduate work at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill
2007-2010 BA Studio Art, minor in Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies, CSU Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA
2003-2007 Associate of Arts Degree, Liberal Studies, Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS
2019-Present Lecturer B, California State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA
2019-Present Adjunct Professor, Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA
2018-Present Member of XMALL Artist Collective, Programming for Side Bar: Artist-Run Space, Culver City, CA
2017-Present Art Instructor, Private Lessons, Drawing
2017-Present Art Instructor, Bakersfield Art Association, Bakersfield, CA
2017 Workshop and Teacher Training, Certified Zentangle Teacher Seminar #29, Providence, RI
2017 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Community Radio C.A.I.L., Otis College of Art and Design, Spring 2017 & Fall 2017
2009 Art Instructor D.R.E.A.M. Summer Camp for Foster Youth, Kern County Network for Children, California State University, Bakersfield, CA
2008-2010 Afterschool Tutor and Mentor, California State University, Bakersfield, D.R.E.A.M. Center, Kern County Network for Children, Bakersfield, CAEXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS
2018
Exhibitions
How To Stay Thin (Cheetos) (2017), film screening, Otis College of Art and Design Graduate Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Subject (Re)Formation, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
See Something, Say Something, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018Publications
Local Expressions, Bakersfield Magazine, Winter 2018 Edition, 2018
Special Projects
Skill Share: Veterans & Immigrants Oral History Recording, in collaborations with Michele Jaquis and Side Street Projects, Pasadena, May 2018
Awarded Full Artist Scholarship to Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO, June 2018
Awarded Full Scholarship to Community Works Institute, West, Los Angeles, July 20182017
Exhibitions
Score Performance, Group Performance, Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
NO, Group Exhibition, Otis College of Art and Design Graduate Studios, Los Angeles, CAPublications
Taniel Morales, Pirate Radio [Radio Pirata], Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy, and Activism in the Americas, Lauren Vazquez, Los Angeles, CASpecial Projects
Getty Foundation Initiative LA/LA: Talking To Action, Collaborative Workshop with Grupo Etcetera
Feminism Symposium, The Main Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Shapes of Water Sounds of Hope, Intern with Artist Suzanne Lacy, Brierfield, England2016
Exhibitions
What is Gender?, Workshop at screening of documentary Real Boy, Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA
Block Party, Group Exhibition, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA2010
Exhibitions
Senior Exhibition, Group Exhibition, California State University, Bakersfield, CA
2007
Exhibitions
Senior Exhibition, Juried Group Exhibition, Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA
