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Multimedia artist, cultural worker, cofounder Crenshaw Dairy Mart

BIOGRAPHY

noé olivas (b. 1987, San Diego, California—occupied Kumeyaay land) lives and works in South Central Los Angeles. He received his MFA from the University of Southern California in 2019, and his BFA from the University of San Diego in 2013. olivas' makes sculptures, prints, and performances that investigate the poetics of labor, specifically labor's relationship to leisure as well as its access to liberation. His work has been exhibited at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, Claremont (2024); Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles (2023, 2019); Mandeville Gallery at the University of California, San Diego (2023); Candlewood Festival, Borrego Springs (2022); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2022); The Front Arte Y Cultura Gallery, San Ysidro (2021); Napa Hall Gallery at the California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo (2020); Open Mind Art Space, Los Angeles (2019); Residency Art Gallery, Inglewood (2019); La Jolla Historical Society, San Diego (2018 San Diego Art Institute, California (2017); The New Children’s Museum, San Diego (2017); and the San Diego Museum of Art. (2017). As part of the 2018 Mexicali Biennial, his work was also included in the traveling exhibition Calafia: Manifesting the Terrestrial Paradise at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Art Museum at the California State University, San Bernardino (2018), and Armory Center of the Arts, Pasadena, California (2019- 2020).

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