EDUCATION
2018 Master of Fine Arts Degree, Photography and Media – California Institute of the Arts
2014 Bachelor of Arts Degree, Art – University of California Los Angeles
Minor in Visual and Performing Arts Education
2010 Associate of Arts Degree, Photography – Cerritos College
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Hogar, Foto Forum Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2018 Hogar, D301 Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Why don't you listen?, Lime Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2016 I ain't gonna sit and let this world go by, Avenue 50 Studio's Satellite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 ILLUMINATE LA’S COLLECTIVE MEMORY INSTALLATION, Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA
2022 We Run Things, Things Don’t Run We, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Guadalupe - Queen of the Water, Mother of the Land of the Dead, MOLAA, Long Beach, CA
Tierra Entre Medio, Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA
Use What You Have… Do Your Best…, Harvard-Westlake Gallery, Studio City, CA
For some memory or some land, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Costa Mesa, CA
2021 SHG’s Annual Print Fair & Exhibition, Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
Our year in lockdown, Edouard de Merlier Photo Gallery, Cypress College, CA
Cerritos College Faculty Exhibition, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
Cerritos College Alumni Art Exhibition, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
2020 First Annual Foto Forum Santa Fe Members Show, Foto Forum Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2019 REFILL: Exercise in Decolonial Ekphrasis, The Reef, Los Angeles, CA
Call and Response, When We Say... You Say, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
TRAJECTORIES, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA
2018 Viva Las Fotos: A Day of the Dead Memorial for Laura Aguilar, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Rattlesnake Bells in the Desert, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
View Camera Show, Lime & Mint Galleries, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Unframed Unstretched, Semperdepot EG Nord, Vienna, Austria
SoCal MFA, Millard Sheets Arts Center, Pomona, CA, Juried by Howard N. Fox
Latin Festival, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2017 MFA Group Show, Main Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Chicana Photographers LA , Weingart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ni de aquí, ni de allá, Casa Quinqué, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Las Chingonas, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA
leftovers, FAR Bazaar 2017, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
Post Truth and Deconstruction, FAR Bazaar 2017, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
2016 Lucky You!, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Recuerdos: Self Help Graphics & Art 43rd Annual Dia De Los Muertos Exhibition, Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
Poderosas Para Siempre: A Celebration of Women Past & Present , Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
MOLAA at Twenty: 1996 - 20016. Works from the permanent collection, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
MOLAA at Twenty Gala Art Auction, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Art of All Ages 6: Benefit Art Auction, Howl Event Space, Long Beach, CA
2015 LFestival: Feria Cultural LatinoAmericana. OC Fair & Even Center, Costa Mesa, CA
Quien Toca? Day of the Dead Prints, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA
R.S.V.P. Los Angeles: The Project Series at Pomona, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Art of All Ages 5: Benefit Art Auction, Long Beach Convention Center Theater Terrace, Long Beach, CA
The Freedom of Expression Art Show, Leche Café, Norwalk, CA
Traditions, Nights at Terra Nova Studio, Bell Gardens, CA
2014 Street Art Exhibition, Nights at Terra Nova Studio, Bell Gardens, CA
Sunshine and DUI’s, Johnny’s Saloon, Huntington Beach, CA
Pulling Teeth, UCLA Undergraduate Senior Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
That Which Remains, Three Person Graduate Exhibition with Lizette Olivas and Anabel De Santiago, UCLA Undergraduate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
UCLA Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Juried by Connie Butler, Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum
Art of All Ages 4: Benefit Art Auction, Duncan Anderson Design Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2013 Loading Zone, UCLA Undergraduate Senior Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art of All Ages 3: Benefit Art Auction, Duncan Anderson Design Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2012 UCLA Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Juried by Kimberli Meyer, Director at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture Cerritos College Student Art Exhibition, Norwalk, CA, Juried by Devon Tsuno
2011 Cerritos College Student Art Exhibition, Norwalk, CA, Juried by Joe Biel
2010 Cerritos College Student Art Exhibition, Norwalk, CA, Juried by Tyler Stallings, Artistic Director at Culver Center of the Arts and Director of Sweeney Art Gallery at UC Riverside
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Pomona College Museum of Art. Claremont, CA
Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA). Long Beach, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY | PUBLICATIONS
2021 An emotional catharsis: Aydinaneth Ortiz and her art, Talon Marks
2019 Making sense of the senseless: Aydinaneth Ortiz's starkly honest photography, Santa Fe New Mexican
Fotógrafa hispana exhibe en Santa Fe imágenes de dolor y de fuerza, EFE
California photographer turns her personal experiences into art, Albuquerque Journal
Alumna’s photo series reifies dangers of drugs using everyday household items, The Daily Bruin
IN PICTURES: Slanguage artists tell the stories behind their work in ‘homecoming’ exhibition, Long Beach Post
Aydinaneth Ortiz Has All the Right Ingredients for Powerful Photos, Palacio Magazine Podcast
Art & Life with Aydinaneth Ortiz, VoyageLA
2018 Rattlesnake Bells in the Desert, Exhibition catalog
2017 Chicana Photographers L.A. debuts in Weingart gallery, The Occidental Weekly, October 2017
2016 I ain't gonna sit and let this world go by, LA Art News, May 2016, Section B
Photographer Seeks Healing, Brooklyn & Boyle, May 2016
Interview with Aydinaneth Ortiz, TAP/LA Blog
2015 Howe, Kathleen Stewart. “The Intimacy of Loss: Aydinaneth Ortiz.” R.S.V.P. Los Angeles. Exhibition catalog.
R.S.V.P. Los Angeles: The Project Series at Pomona. Exhibition catalog.
SELECTED AWARDS | RESIDENCIES | FELLOWSHIPS
2022 Slanguage Studio Residency, Wilmington, CA
2021 Maestras V, Professional Printmaking Program Atelier, Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
Slanguage Studio Residency, Wilmington, CA
2020 The Charla Fund, US Latinx ArtForum
Slanguage Studio Residency, Wilmington, CA
2019 Professional Development Microgrant, Long Beach Arts Council
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Artist Community Engagement Grant
Slanguage Studio Residency, Wilmington, CA
2018 Arts in a Changing America Fellowship, Valencia, CA
Helen Levitt Scholarship, Valencia, CA
Provost's Merit Scholarship, Valencia, CA
2017 Arts in a Changing America Fellowship, Valencia, CA
Helen Levitt Scholarship, Valencia, CA
California Institute of the Arts Scholarship, Valencia CA
2016 TAP/LA Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA
California Institute of the Arts Scholarship, Valencia CA
2014 Anderson Ranch Art Center Residency, Snowmass, CO
2011 Scholarship Recognition Award, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Scholarship for Outstanding Women Students, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
Second Place in Printmaking, Annual Student Art Exhibition, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
Excellent Photography Student Award, Annual Student Art Exhibition, Cerritos College Norwalk, CA
2010 Honorable Mention in Photography, Annual Student Art Exhibition, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
ARTIST LECTURES | PANELS | WORKSHOPS
2023 Workshop Series, Getty UnShuttered, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Artist Panel, Tierra Entre Medio, Culver Center of the Arts, UCR Arts, online
Workshop, Getty 25 Celebrates Wilmington, DIY Map Making Workshop & Scavenger Hunt with Slanguage
Studio, Wilmington, CA
2021 ASAP/12 Conference: Reciprocity, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, online
Virtual College Fair Panel, Greetings from South-Central, online
Hispanic Heritage Month Celebrations, Day of Expression, Cypress College, online
Artist Lab: In the Studio with Maestrxs Atelier Panel, online
2020 Workshop Series, Compound x Slanguage, Compound, Long Beach, CA
2019 Artist Lecture, Foto Forum Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Workshop, Making & Understanding / Haciendo & Entendiendo, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Artist Lecture, California State University San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA
2018 Artist Lecture, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Panel Discussion with Yubo Dong, Michelle Nunes, Rebecca Rich and Cintia Segovia, Moderated by David Pagel, Millard Sheets Arts Center, Pomona, CA
Panel Discussion with Ron Garcia and Matias Ponce, Moderated by Tomas Benitez, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Lecture, The Vault Warehouse, Long Beach, CA
Artist Lecture, Cerritos College Norwalk, CA
2017 Panel Discussion with Laura Aguilar, Sandra de la Loza, Christina Fernandez and Star Montana, Weingart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 In Conversation with Christina Fernandez, Avenue 50 Studio's Satellite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Concept to Career Panel, California State University, Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
2015 In Conversation with Nicholas Orozco-Valdivia, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Workshop, Book Release Party, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
2018 Master of Fine Arts Degree, Photography and Media – California Institute of the Arts
2014 Bachelor of Arts Degree, Art – University of California Los Angeles
Minor in Visual and Performing Arts Education
2010 Associate of Arts Degree, Photography – Cerritos College
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Hogar, Foto Forum Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2018 Hogar, D301 Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Why don't you listen?, Lime Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2016 I ain't gonna sit and let this world go by, Avenue 50 Studio's Satellite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 ILLUMINATE LA’S COLLECTIVE MEMORY INSTALLATION, Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA
2022 We Run Things, Things Don’t Run We, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Guadalupe - Queen of the Water, Mother of the Land of the Dead, MOLAA, Long Beach, CA
Tierra Entre Medio, Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA
Use What You Have… Do Your Best…, Harvard-Westlake Gallery, Studio City, CA
For some memory or some land, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Costa Mesa, CA
2021 SHG’s Annual Print Fair & Exhibition, Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
Our year in lockdown, Edouard de Merlier Photo Gallery, Cypress College, CA
Cerritos College Faculty Exhibition, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
Cerritos College Alumni Art Exhibition, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
2020 First Annual Foto Forum Santa Fe Members Show, Foto Forum Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2019 REFILL: Exercise in Decolonial Ekphrasis, The Reef, Los Angeles, CA
Call and Response, When We Say... You Say, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
TRAJECTORIES, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA
2018 Viva Las Fotos: A Day of the Dead Memorial for Laura Aguilar, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Rattlesnake Bells in the Desert, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
View Camera Show, Lime & Mint Galleries, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Unframed Unstretched, Semperdepot EG Nord, Vienna, Austria
SoCal MFA, Millard Sheets Arts Center, Pomona, CA, Juried by Howard N. Fox
Latin Festival, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2017 MFA Group Show, Main Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Chicana Photographers LA , Weingart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ni de aquí, ni de allá, Casa Quinqué, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Las Chingonas, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA
leftovers, FAR Bazaar 2017, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
Post Truth and Deconstruction, FAR Bazaar 2017, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
2016 Lucky You!, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Recuerdos: Self Help Graphics & Art 43rd Annual Dia De Los Muertos Exhibition, Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
Poderosas Para Siempre: A Celebration of Women Past & Present , Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
MOLAA at Twenty: 1996 - 20016. Works from the permanent collection, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
MOLAA at Twenty Gala Art Auction, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Art of All Ages 6: Benefit Art Auction, Howl Event Space, Long Beach, CA
2015 LFestival: Feria Cultural LatinoAmericana. OC Fair & Even Center, Costa Mesa, CA
Quien Toca? Day of the Dead Prints, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA
R.S.V.P. Los Angeles: The Project Series at Pomona, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Art of All Ages 5: Benefit Art Auction, Long Beach Convention Center Theater Terrace, Long Beach, CA
The Freedom of Expression Art Show, Leche Café, Norwalk, CA
Traditions, Nights at Terra Nova Studio, Bell Gardens, CA
2014 Street Art Exhibition, Nights at Terra Nova Studio, Bell Gardens, CA
Sunshine and DUI’s, Johnny’s Saloon, Huntington Beach, CA
Pulling Teeth, UCLA Undergraduate Senior Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
That Which Remains, Three Person Graduate Exhibition with Lizette Olivas and Anabel De Santiago, UCLA Undergraduate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
UCLA Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Juried by Connie Butler, Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum
Art of All Ages 4: Benefit Art Auction, Duncan Anderson Design Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2013 Loading Zone, UCLA Undergraduate Senior Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art of All Ages 3: Benefit Art Auction, Duncan Anderson Design Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2012 UCLA Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Juried by Kimberli Meyer, Director at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture Cerritos College Student Art Exhibition, Norwalk, CA, Juried by Devon Tsuno
2011 Cerritos College Student Art Exhibition, Norwalk, CA, Juried by Joe Biel
2010 Cerritos College Student Art Exhibition, Norwalk, CA, Juried by Tyler Stallings, Artistic Director at Culver Center of the Arts and Director of Sweeney Art Gallery at UC Riverside
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Pomona College Museum of Art. Claremont, CA
Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA). Long Beach, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY | PUBLICATIONS
2021 An emotional catharsis: Aydinaneth Ortiz and her art, Talon Marks
2019 Making sense of the senseless: Aydinaneth Ortiz's starkly honest photography, Santa Fe New Mexican
Fotógrafa hispana exhibe en Santa Fe imágenes de dolor y de fuerza, EFE
California photographer turns her personal experiences into art, Albuquerque Journal
Alumna’s photo series reifies dangers of drugs using everyday household items, The Daily Bruin
IN PICTURES: Slanguage artists tell the stories behind their work in ‘homecoming’ exhibition, Long Beach Post
Aydinaneth Ortiz Has All the Right Ingredients for Powerful Photos, Palacio Magazine Podcast
Art & Life with Aydinaneth Ortiz, VoyageLA
2018 Rattlesnake Bells in the Desert, Exhibition catalog
2017 Chicana Photographers L.A. debuts in Weingart gallery, The Occidental Weekly, October 2017
2016 I ain't gonna sit and let this world go by, LA Art News, May 2016, Section B
Photographer Seeks Healing, Brooklyn & Boyle, May 2016
Interview with Aydinaneth Ortiz, TAP/LA Blog
2015 Howe, Kathleen Stewart. “The Intimacy of Loss: Aydinaneth Ortiz.” R.S.V.P. Los Angeles. Exhibition catalog.
R.S.V.P. Los Angeles: The Project Series at Pomona. Exhibition catalog.
SELECTED AWARDS | RESIDENCIES | FELLOWSHIPS
2022 Slanguage Studio Residency, Wilmington, CA
2021 Maestras V, Professional Printmaking Program Atelier, Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
Slanguage Studio Residency, Wilmington, CA
2020 The Charla Fund, US Latinx ArtForum
Slanguage Studio Residency, Wilmington, CA
2019 Professional Development Microgrant, Long Beach Arts Council
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Artist Community Engagement Grant
Slanguage Studio Residency, Wilmington, CA
2018 Arts in a Changing America Fellowship, Valencia, CA
Helen Levitt Scholarship, Valencia, CA
Provost's Merit Scholarship, Valencia, CA
2017 Arts in a Changing America Fellowship, Valencia, CA
Helen Levitt Scholarship, Valencia, CA
California Institute of the Arts Scholarship, Valencia CA
2016 TAP/LA Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA
California Institute of the Arts Scholarship, Valencia CA
2014 Anderson Ranch Art Center Residency, Snowmass, CO
2011 Scholarship Recognition Award, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Scholarship for Outstanding Women Students, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
Second Place in Printmaking, Annual Student Art Exhibition, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
Excellent Photography Student Award, Annual Student Art Exhibition, Cerritos College Norwalk, CA
2010 Honorable Mention in Photography, Annual Student Art Exhibition, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
ARTIST LECTURES | PANELS | WORKSHOPS
2023 Workshop Series, Getty UnShuttered, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Artist Panel, Tierra Entre Medio, Culver Center of the Arts, UCR Arts, online
Workshop, Getty 25 Celebrates Wilmington, DIY Map Making Workshop & Scavenger Hunt with Slanguage
Studio, Wilmington, CA
2021 ASAP/12 Conference: Reciprocity, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, online
Virtual College Fair Panel, Greetings from South-Central, online
Hispanic Heritage Month Celebrations, Day of Expression, Cypress College, online
Artist Lab: In the Studio with Maestrxs Atelier Panel, online
2020 Workshop Series, Compound x Slanguage, Compound, Long Beach, CA
2019 Artist Lecture, Foto Forum Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Workshop, Making & Understanding / Haciendo & Entendiendo, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Artist Lecture, California State University San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA
2018 Artist Lecture, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Panel Discussion with Yubo Dong, Michelle Nunes, Rebecca Rich and Cintia Segovia, Moderated by David Pagel, Millard Sheets Arts Center, Pomona, CA
Panel Discussion with Ron Garcia and Matias Ponce, Moderated by Tomas Benitez, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Lecture, The Vault Warehouse, Long Beach, CA
Artist Lecture, Cerritos College Norwalk, CA
2017 Panel Discussion with Laura Aguilar, Sandra de la Loza, Christina Fernandez and Star Montana, Weingart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 In Conversation with Christina Fernandez, Avenue 50 Studio's Satellite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Concept to Career Panel, California State University, Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
2015 In Conversation with Nicholas Orozco-Valdivia, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Workshop, Book Release Party, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA