C.V.
Gianna Vargas is an artist and educator living in Los Angeles, California. She divides her time between teaching science and painting. Her work is informed by her background in science.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Dance Party, Los Angeles California 2024
Verdant, Los Angeles California 2023
Desiccated, Los Angeles California 2022
Canvas, Paper, Wood, Los Angeles California 2021
Safer at Home, Los Angeles California 2020
Tracks, Los Angeles, California 2014
On the Wall, 932 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, California 2010
Art House, Exhibition at Private Residence, Los Angeles, California 2009
Paintings, Jill Thayer Galleries at the Fox Theatre, Bakersfield, California 2009
Shadowland, East Gallery, Claremont, California 2009
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Bortolami, New York 2020
Touchon & Co Gallery, Los Angeles 2019
Blue Seven Gallery, Santa Monica 2018
Open Studios, Hawthorne Arts Complex, Hawthorne 2018
Open Studios, Hawthorne Arts Complex, Hawthorne 2017
VS, Gallery 825, Los Angeles 2016
Sur Le Mur, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica 2016
Art 4 Youth LA, Bergamot Museum, Santa Monica 2015
Bird-up, Long Beach, California, 2013
Altar, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles 2013
Open Studios, Los Angeles, California 2012
C.W. Howe Partners Inc., Culver City, California 2011
Sacred Memories, Pico House Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2010
The 210 Show, Project 210, Pasadena, California 2009
Buy the Running Foot, OCCCA, Santa Ana, California 2009
2009 Juried All-Media Exhibition at Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, California 2009
The Leak of Contemporary Arts, Pomona, California 2009
City Hall, Claremont, California 2009
Supersonic at the LA Art Show, Los Angeles, California 2009
Post Cards from the Edge, Metro Pictures, New York, New York 2009
Overhung II, Concrete Walls, Los Angeles, California 2008
Don’t Be Shy, Peggy Phelps and East Gallery, Claremont, California 2008
Visual Aids, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York 2007
Overhung, Concrete Walls, Los Angeles, California 2007
That Show 2, Gallery Revisited, Silver Lake, California 2007
The Fourth Leg, Peggy Phelps and East Gallery, Claremont, California 2007
Take, Tighes Hill Gallery, New Castle, New South Wales, Australia 2006
COMMISSIONS & PUBLICATIONS
Private Residence, Beverly Hills, California 2013
Santa Monica-The Art of Summer, Crussell Fine Art, Los Angeles, California 2010
MFA NOW catalog, New York, New York, 2009
Los Angels Art Show Catalog, Los Angeles, California 2009
Claremont Print, Claremont, California 2009
Lucia Lappas, New York, New York 2008
Cal Alive, Claremont, California. Sponsored by Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens 2007
Susan Dickinson, Santa Monica, California 2007
Descanso Gardens, La Canada, California. Sponsored by the Norris Foundation 2006
Project Latitudes, Ventura, California 2006
Curtis School, Los Angeles, California 2006
AWARDS AND HONORS
Red Brush Award, Los Vegas International Juried Art Competition 2016
Helen B. Dooley Art Fellowship, Claremont, California 2008
Fellowship. APLE, Los Angeles, California 2002
Jim Seadan Environmental Science Award, 1998
Scholarship. Winston Wallin Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota 1998
Scholarship. Dayton Hudson Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota 1994
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor, 2019-current Brentwood School, Los Angeles California
Teaching Assistant, 2009 Pomona College, Claremont, California. Course: Senior Seminar.
Teaching Assistant, 2009 University of LaVerne, La Verne, California. Course: Latin American Modernism
Instructor, 2004-2009 and 2010-2016, Curtis School, Los Angeles, California. Courses Taught: Science,
Math, Design, Studio Art
Instructor, 1998-2004, Pomona Unified School District, Pomona, California. Courses Taught: Math,
Earth Science, Biology, Integrated Physical Sciences.
EDUCATION
M.F.A., Claremont Graduate University, Claremont. 2009
M.A., Education, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont 2002
B.A., Biology, Scripps College, Claremont 1998