Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
2023 Group Show
Tom of Finland, NY (TBA)
To Be Seen, Queer Lives 1900-1950, Nsdoku, Munich, Germany
2019-ongoing Curator/Performer Training Camp, Los Angeles, CA
WET: Performing utopiaZ, NCECA 2019, Minneapolis MN
Recent Exhibitions
2022 Solo Show, Marval A Rex Presents..., O Projects Space, Los Angeles, CA
Curator of Performance, Queer Biennial, NAVEL, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show
Memories of Tomorrow’s Sunrise, Cal State LA, Los Angeles, CA
Ron Athey Presents: The Queer Biennial, Lisa Derrick Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
LGBTQ+ Heritage Show, ACCA Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2021 Solo Performance, MARILYN MON REX, One Archives, West Hollywood, CA
Group Performance, Human Measure by Cassils, Banff Centre, Canada & Los Angeles, CA
Group Show
Queering the Cream City, The Alice Wilds Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Pride Publics, One Archives, West Hollywood, CA
2020 Solo Show, MARVAL A FUCK, LAST Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Solo performance, MARVAL A FUCK, DFBRL8R Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group Show, It’s Still Political: Gender, Sexuality..., Northern Clay Center, MN
2019 Curator/Performer
DIRTY THIRTY, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
En Deux, LAST Projects, Los Angeles, CA
TOFF: Piss+Blood&Spunk, Tom of Finland House, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show
Queeramics, LSU School of Art + Design, Baton Rouge, LA
Double Sided Sticky Tape, Turner Contemporary Museum, Margate, UK
LGBT HERITAGE Past, Present, Future, Los Angeles, CA
CalArts Expo, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Little Death #5, The Mortuary, Los Angeles, CA
Queerspace, Rec Center, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Solo Performance, Marval A Bruixas, Can Serrat Residency, El Bruc, Catalonia 2018
Group Show
fagpussystool at USC Roski Open Studios, IFT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Unspeakables, Pfizer Building via RE:Art Show, Brooklyn, NY
Office Hours, Main Museum, Los Angeles, CA
In Response: Zoe Leonard’s ‘I want a president’, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, CA
The Queer Biennial, Los Angeles, CA
Round Hole Square Peg, Long Hall Gallery, LA, CA
Round Hole Square Peg, LA Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA Bloom and Decay, Salt Lake City, UT
Cups for Y'all, Asher Gallery, Houston, TX
Side | Show, SAIC in Chicago, IL
2017 Solo Show, Glass Performance, The Yards, Rochester, NY
Two Person Show
Just Kids: Tender Forever, alongside Lorenzo Tribugo, First Street Gallery, Eureka CA
Artists in Residence, Flower City Arts Center, Rochester NY
Group Show
HE at LAST Projects in Los Angeles, CA
He She Zed, Glory Hole Galleries, Toronto, Canada
We Are Family, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
2015 Group Show
Humboldt State at CCACA, Davis CA
HSU First Street Gallery’s Young Alumni-2015,Eureka CA
HSU First Street Gallery’s LABELED: Uprooting Social Identities, Eureka CA
Honorable Mentions, Karshner Lounge, Arcata CA
Know Thyself: The Inscape of Identity, Brenda Tuxford Gallery, Eureka CA
2014 Solo Show, Baby Face: Vice Chancellor Visits HSU’s Foyer Gallery Arcata CA
Two-person show, 11:11 at the Beachcomber Café, Trinidad CA
Group Show
Redwood Raks Pop-up Gallery, Humboldt Arts Festival, Arcata CA
The Graduate Show at Reese Bullen Gallery, Arcata CA
The Arcata Artist’s Society at the Karshner Lounge at HSU, Arcata CA
Publications/Happenings
CAA’s Art Journal Winter Edition ’21, Quarantine Devotion, 2021
One Archive, “Pride Publics: Words and Actions”, June 2021
Queer Quarterly ,Volume 1, 2021, https://queerquarterly.com/featured-artists ShoutoutLA and VoyageLA Interviews, 2019, 2021
Interview and Essay in the “The Invisible Archive, Vol. LA, #4 Marval A Rex”
Panel at Tom of Finland Foundation, Media and Censorship, 2019 TOFF Art Festival
Los Angeles Magazine, Pride Issue, “Art Stars”, 2019
Panel speaker at New Queers Eve: LGBT Clay at NCECA, Pittsburgh, PA March 2018
Exhibition Review and Artist Interview, Rochester CITY Newspaper, August 2017
Feature in Article for HE Exhibition, Dazed and Confused Magazine, 2018
“Queering Abstraction, Queer as an Abstraction" X-TRA: Contemporary Art Quarterly, Spring
2018 Panel-Artist for upcoming NCECA 2018 Pittsburg, ”New Queers Eve: LGBT Clay"
Man, and Me. 2016 screening at Image Out Film Festival, Rochester, NY
Man, and Me. 2016 screening at HE, Last Projects Gallery in Los Angeles, CA.
Man, and Me. 2016 awards from Los Angeles CineFest and Hollywood Film Screening.
Poetry, Defining Myself: Transmasculine Experience in Poetry, Editor Michael Brown, 2016
Cover Image and Quotation. A Herstory of Transmasculine Identities: An Anthology, 2016
Poetry, Special Issue of Chelsea Station Magazine, 2016.
Recognitions and Awards
2022 Transgender Arts Initiative Grant Awardee, WeHo Arts Program
2021 California Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
2019 USC Roski Macomber Travel Grant
2017 Queer Art Network Artist
Transnational Queer Underground Artist
Balaclava.Q Artist
2016-2017 Resident Artist at Flower City Arts Center, Rochester NY
2015-2016 Ceramic Instructor at Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah
2015 Elected Student Assistant for Curatorial, Museum and Gallery Practices for Reese Bullen Gallery/Goudini Gallery
2014-2015 Member of Honors Ceramics presenting at CCACA
2013-2015 Member of Honors Painting and Honors Ceramics at HSU 2014 Phoenix Ceramic Award
2014 Martin Wong Scholarship for Ceramics
Redwood Decorative Artist’s Scholarship
Education
2018 Class of 2020 MFA at University of Southern California, Roski, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Post Baccalaureate Honors Program in Ceramics and Painting, Arcata CA
2014 Humboldt State University Bachelor in Fine Arts, Arcata CA
2010 Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Salt Lake City, UT
Work Experience
2023 Artist in Residence, Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Guest Lecturer at RIT (Rochester institute of Technology) for Queer Voices in Art
2016-2017 Ceramic Artist in Residence and Instructor at Flower City Arts Center
2015-2016 Ceramic Sculpture Instructor, Kimball Arts Center, Park City
2014-2015 Teacher’s Assistant, Beginning Ceramics at HSU, Arcata CA
Gallery Teacher Assistant for Reese Mullen Gallery, HSU, Arcata CA
2012 HSU Campus Teacher for Education on Preventing Sexualized Violence