BRENDA BARRIOS Week (Angelica Becerra)

  Angelica Becerra, born in birth is July 5th, 1990 I was born in San Juan de Los Lagos, Jalisco MX

She is a visual artist and has worked with watercolor and digital mediums more recently. 

EDUCATION

2021 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Ph.D. Chicana/o and Central American Studies

2016 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

Graduate Certificate in Urban Humanities, Department of Architecture and Design

2014 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES MA, Chicana, and Chicano Studies

2012 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH BA, Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, Film and Electronic Media Emphasis in Latin American Cinema

EXHIBITIONS

Group Exhibitions

2020 Los Angeles Design Festival, Object Permanence Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA.

2019 Annual Print Fair, Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA

2018 See, Be Seen: Community Portraits, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA 2018 When She Rises, The Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), Venice, CA

2018 Eres Poderosa, Espacio 1839, Los Angeles, CA

2017 Ni Solo Mujeres: Intersecting Chicana Identities, Southwestern College Gallery, San Diego, CA Solo Exhibitions

2016 Revolutionary Love Notes, Espacio 1839, Los Angeles, CA

2015 Angelica Becerra, UCLA Perloff Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

MEDIA COVERAGE

Recinos, Eva. “Portrait Series Memorializes Maya Angelou and Other Female Activists.” VICE: The Creators Project, VICE, 13 Feb. 2016, https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8qvek3/queer-poc-activist-watercolors-angelica-becerra

Cruz, Araceli. “Angélica Becerra, the Artist Behind Those Amazing Paintings on Instagram.” Vivala.com, 26 Jan. 2016, www.vivala.com/arts-culture/artist-angelica-becerra-chicana-feminists/2418.

Miller, Tara. “Angélica Becerra: Queer Chicana Artivist.” Art for Ourselves, 1 Apr. 2016,www.artforourselves.org/interviews/angelica-becerra-queer-chicana-artivist

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journal Articles

Angélica Becerra, Jonathan Banfill & Jeannette Mundy “Learning the City: Developing new networks of

understanding”, Boom: A Journal of California, 6 (3), 100-109, 2016.

Manuscripts in Preparation

“Queerida: Self Help Graphics’ First Queer Chicana Printmaking Atelier.” To be submitted for publication

in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, in Spring 2021.

“The Art is the Movement: The Chicanx Political Poster and its Digital Turn.” To be submitted for

publication to Latino Studies in Winter 2020.

Edited Volumes

Urban Humanities in the Borderlands: Engaged Scholarship from Mexico City to Los Angeles, Assistant

Editor, Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative, 2016.

Book Reviews

“Jose Vasconcelos: The Prophet of Race by Illan Stavans”, Book Review, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano

Studies, 38 (1), 293-296, 2013.

Web-Based Publications

"Journalistic Portrayals of Latinos and their Effects on Public Policy." Dr. Otto Santa Ana and

Angelica Becerra, The American Mosaic: The Latino American Experience. ABC-CLIO, Web, 2013.

Web-Based Writing

 “Give Us Our Flowers: Latinx Artivist Portraits.” UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Blog, 15

Oct. 2019, https://thecsrcpost.com/2019/10/15/give-us-our-flowers-latinx-artivist-portraits/ 

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