EXHIBITIONS

2021

“Measurements of Time,” Palo Alto Public Art, Art Lift Program, Palo Alto, CA. July - August 2021.

2020

“Race in America” at Drury University Pool Art Center, Springfield, MO. Juror: Charvis Harrell. Nov 6 – 25, 2020.

“Crisis Mode” at The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA. Juror: Lucia Olubunmi Momoh, assistant curator of the UC Berkeley Art Museum. Nov 1 – Nov 30, 2020.

“We the People” at ArtistAlliance.Space, affiliated with Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. Juror: Tamera Avery. Oct – Nov 2020.

“Welcome/Unwelcome” at ArtemisSF, San Francisco, CA, Apr – May. (online + live event)

• Postponed, TBD: “Upon waking, it has no name” at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Berkeley, CA

2017

“Progress: To Move Forward in Space or Time” at The Studio Mind, Martinez, CA 

2016

“And Still There is Art” at The Studio Mind, Martinez, CA

“Sensorium” at The Compound Artists Gallery, Oakland, CA 

2015 

“Time Capsule” at The Compound Artists Gallery, Oakland, CA

“Survival Instinct” at The Compound Artists Gallery, Oakland, CA

“Radical Medicine: Walking Meditation” at Krowswork, Oakland, CA

2014 

“IRL: Internet Real Life” at Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, MO 

“Persona2” at The Compound Artists Gallery, curated by Toni Gentilli, Oakland, CA

“Compoundaganza” at The Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA

“Spectrum” at ‘A’ Gallery, Provincetown, MA

“You are not here.” with Laura Isaac, at Luminary Arts Center Residency, St. Louis, MO 

2013 

“Internet Real Life” at Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY

“Rises Zora: You are not here.” at Charlotte Street Foundation, curated by Jamilee Polson Lacy, Kansas City, MO, 

“I Will Find” at Kianga Ellis Projects, Beacon, NY

2012 

“The Cloud Hotel” at ‘A’ Gallery, Provincetown, MA

“Stars” at ‘A’ Gallery, Provincetown, MA

“Good Vibrations” at Gallery Ehva, curated by Laura Moriarty, Provincetown, MA

“Hotel Fair” at the 6th Int’l Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, MA

2011 

“I am the Judge, I am the Jury: Rebellion & Empowerment in Contemporary Art” at Kianga Ellis Projects, New York, NY 

“Tweet/Cry/Connect/Drink/Soar” at UC Berkeley Ex, San Francisco, CA 

“While You Wait...” at Extra Gallery, curated by Brian Dupont, New York, NY

“Kianga Ellis Projects” at Kianga Ellis Projects, Santa Fe, NM 

“The Abstract” at Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

“No Dialogue” at ArtPadSF, curated by Dorka Keehn & Jasmine Moorhead, San Francisco, CA

“An Exchange with Sol Lewitt” at Cabinet, Brooklyn, NY 

2010 

“#Rank” (organized by Jen Dalton & William Powhida) at Winkleman Gallery / SEVEN Art Fair, Miami, FL 

“Better than a Lump of Coal” at The Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA 

2009 

“Portraits” at Sebastopol Center for the Arts, juried by Lucinda Barnes ([now former] Senior Curator, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives), Sebastopol, CA

2008 

“Local Voice” at Bedford Gallery, juried by Phil Linhares ([now former] Chief Curator, Oakland Museum of Art), Walnut Creek, CA

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

2022

Me vs Them vs Us vs Me,” Raising Mothers, March 2022. (reprint) Graphic Essay

2021

Me vs Them vs Us vs Me,” MUTHA Magazine, April 2021. Graphic Essay

2020

“Sunset Distance,” Bluing the Blade, Tempered Runes Press, December 2020.

“Can You Hear Me?" MUTHA Magazine, December 2020. Comic Panel.

“MUTHA Love in the Time of Contagion",” MUTHA Magazine, October 2020. Comic Panel.

SELECTED PRESS 

Burger, Mary. “Maritza Ruiz-Kim.” Articiple. July 12, 2017.

Moriarty, Laura. “R&F Handmade Paints, Interview.” R&F Handmade Paints Featured Artist blog. March-April, 2013 

Basha, Regine. An Exchange with Sol Lewitt. (New York: Cabinet Books and MASS MoCA, 2011), 90. 

Vartanian, Hrag. “And the Envelope Please... ‘Presents’ Mail Art Opening.” Hyperallergic. Jun 18, 2011. New York, NY. 

Vartanian, Hrag. “What Others Are Saying About #Rank.” Hyperallergic. Dec 30, 2010. New York, NY