SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 PRIMAL MATTER, CAM gallery, Carnegie museum, Oxnard, CA
2017 AHORA, Namba Art Space, Ventura, CA
2016 HEALING SYMBOLS, Site specific installation, Ventura Cancer center, Ventura, CA
2016 CULTURAL CRASH, Site Specific Installation, H Gallery, Ventura, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 5’X5’, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito, CA
2017 XII PREMIO MAVI/ MINERA ESCONDIDA ARTE JOVEN CONTEMPORÁNEO, Museum of Visual Art, Santiago, Chile
2017 BIOTIC, H gallery, Ventura, CA
2017 OUT OF PLACE, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito, CA
2017 IM PRESS, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2017 DEFYING DOYEN, Atrium Gallery, Ventura, CA
2016 INKSPOTS ANNUAL EXHIBIT, 643 Project Space, Ventura, CA
2016 DENIZEN, Namba Performing Art Space, Ventura, CA
2016 PRINTMAKER, Santa Barbara JCC, Santa Barbara, CA
2016 INTUATIVE SPACES; An Emerging Artist Exhibit, Vita Art Center, Ventura, CA
2016 Collector’s Choice Fundraiser, Studio Channel Island, Camarillo, CA
2015 SEPTEMBER, H Gallery Ventura,CA
2015 Annual Senior Show, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley,CA
2015 STRUGGLE BUS, Berkeley Art Festival, (selected group exhibition) Berkeley, CA
2015 PRELUDE, 345 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015 SO-SO, Worth Ryder Art Gallery(selected group exhibition) , Berkeley, CA
2015 Art Practice Undergraduate Honors Studio Awardees, Satellite Gallery (solo exhibition), Berkeley, CA
2015 Painting Exhibition, Kroeber Lobby (selected group exhibition), Berkeley, Ca
2014 BRIDGING THE ARTS, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2014 REMEDIES, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2014 EMMA'S BIRDS,Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2013 YOUTH; Student Art, 515 Gallery, Ojai, CA

PRESS/PANELS 

2018 Minga Opazo and the materials from earth, Endemico magazine, April 3. 
2018 Panelist: "Chilean Artist in Los Angeles", UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Feb 8th. 
2018 Create Magazine, Studio Sunday Minga Opazo, Feb 4th. 
2017 Minga Opazo Illustrations, For Example Art magazine, February 25. 
2016 Nicole D'amore, Artistic Touch:Ventura exhibit display artist's Chilean Heritage, Ventura County Start, March 4. 
2016 Yessica Torres, Cultural Crash Installation, Press Release, Dab Art, January 9.
2015 Shi Danielle, Student art spotlighted in Honor's Studio Exhibition, The Daily Californian, May 5.

DOMINGA OPAZO b.1992

Minga Opazo is a fourth-generation textile crafter who explores the relationship between climate change, contemporary textile production, and Chilean textile history and design. Born in Chile, Minga immigrated to Los Angeles at the age of 16. Opazo recent works, questions the textile industry by creating a series of cultural works that explore the idea of solastalgia, a term which describes the mental or existential distress caused by environmental change and living in an era of excess, constantly consuming and throwing away.In her practice, she is dedicated to research the textile industry further and to create work that exposes, reflects and finds a solution to the current situation of the textile waste industry. She completed her BFA at University of California, Berkeley in 2016 and her MFA at California Institute of the Arts, 2020. Opazo exhibited works across the US and Latino America, including the Museum of Visual art of Santiago, Chile,ACRE gallery in Chicago and the Bunker Art Space part of the Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody. In Los Angeles, her work has been shown at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and Gavlak gallery.She has been awarded with various residency including Banff art center, ACRE residency and Haystack mountain school of craft, Anderson Ranch Art center, Mass Moca and Bemis Art center. She recently had her work published at Artforum, Lum art magazine and American Science magazine.

EDUCATION

2020 MFA Candidate, CalArts, CA
2016 BFA, University of California Berkeley, CA

RESIDENCIES

2018 Acre Residency
2018 BAIR Emerging Residency, Banff Center, Canada. 
2018 CAM Gallery Art residency, Carnegie Museum of Art, Oxnard, CA
2015 Drawing Excellence Awardee
2015 UC Berkeley Academic Dean's Honors
2015 UC Berkeley Art Department’s Honors Studio Awardee
2014 UC Berkeley Academic Dean’s Honors
2013 UC Berkeley Academic Dean's Honors
2013 Cabrillo College Art Scholarship

REPRESENTATION

2015 - Present Dab Art Co., Los Angeles, CA