Bia Gayotto Artist Exhibition + Reception 5.9
- May 9 - July 7
- All Day
- The Sea Ranch Lodge
Reception: Thursday, 5.9, from 4pm-6pm
Exhibition: 5.9 through 7.7
The Sea Ranch Lodge
Bia Gayotto takes the spotlight as our featured artist in May & June. Join us for a reception at The Lodge on Thursday, May 9, from 4pm to 6pm. View the exhibition and sip a complimentary glass of bubbles!
BIa Gayotto is a contemporary multimedia artist and curator whose interdisciplinary practice includes photography, video installations, and books, and combines elements of documentation, fieldwork, performance and collaboration. Her interest lies in creating artworks that make the invisible visible, deepening our relationship with the natural world.
Gayotto earned an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1996 and her work has been featured in many exhibitions nationally and internationally including Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Pasadena Museum of California Art; Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA); Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Breeder Project, Athens, and Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil. Her work belongs to private and public collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; UCLA’s Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts; Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo; Caltech, Pasadena, among others.
She was the recipient of several awards such as the City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A) Fellowship, Investing in Artists Grant from Center for Cultural Innovation, and Individual Artist Grant from the Pasadena Cultural Affairs. Since 2008 she was an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre, Canada; “Threewalls” in Chicago; AIR Taipei, Taiwan; Lucas Artist Fellow at Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga and the Sacatar Institute, Bahia, Brazil.
To further her investigations Gayotto curated several projects, including exhibitions at the Luckman Art Gallery at the California State University, Los Angeles; Nan Rae Gallery at Woodbury University, Glendale; Kellogg University Art Gallery at Cal Poly Pomona; Los Angeles International Airport(LAX) and“Bahia Reverb: Artists & Place” co-organized by the California African American Museum and Art +Practice in Los Angeles. Gayotto’s art teaching experience includes California State University, Los Angeles, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, and University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
