SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2019

Make hay while the sun shines, Palm Loft Gallery, Carpinteria, CA, group show

Pop Up Art Gallery, Ojai, CA, group show

13 Hours, Festival der Kulturen, Bremen, Germany, group show

13 Hours, , Kunstevent, Wilstedt, Germany, group show

Kontraste - contrast, Galerie im Turm, Verden, Germany, group show

Ventura College East Campus, Rootless - I am What I am, group show

2018

Rootless, group show, Ventura College East Campus, Santa Paula, CA, solo exhibit

Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, CA, Women and Their Art, group show

Lichthaus Galerie, Bremen, Germany, Kontraste - contrast, Rootless group show

Camarillo Art Center, Rootless - Power Through Art group show

Dab Art Co. | In a World, Artsy Online Exclusive show

Hillcrest Center for the Arts, Thousand Oaks, CA, group show

Contemporary Art Gallery Online, All Women Show, group show

Art City Studios Gallery, Ventura, CA, Bodies of Proof, group show

The Artist Table's 2018 All Women Exhibition, online group show

Kavli Theater Gallery, SHE, Thousand Oaks, CA, group show

Bank of America, Ojai, CA, solo exhibit

Lichthof Kunstfabrik, Bremen, Germany, Rootless, group show

Ventura College East Campus, Santa Paula, CA, solo exhibit

Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, CA, Women and Their Art, group show

2017

Comstock & Calhoun Real Estate Co., Ventura, CA, Rootless, group show

Colors of Humanity Art Gallery, Wet Paint Online Exhibit

Arts Council of Conejo Valley, Rootless, UBS Westlake Village, CA, group show

Comstock & Calhoun Real Estate Co., Ventura, CA, solo show

2016 

Wümmestube, Bremen, Germany, Rootless group sho

Studio Channel Islands Blackboard Gallery, In The Dark, Camarillo, CA, Pop-up art exhibit

Namba Arts Center, Denizen, Survey of Portraits, Ventura, CA, curated by Dabarts

Super Wonder Gallery, Reversion, Toronto, ON,  juried by Daniel Anaka

7th Annual ISAP International Open Online Show, juried by Stephen Quiller

Contemporary Art Gallery Online, All Women Show

Downey Civic Theater, Tempest, Downey, CA

2015

Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Harmony and Mirth, Camarillo, CA

Colors of Humanity, Blue 2015, online group show

The Artist Table online art gallery, Ladies First, juried by Yael, Tamar, Shira Van der Wouden

Las Laguna Gallery, Talent Plus, Laguna Beach, CA

Arts for Earth Foundation, Earth Spirit Exhibit, Ventura, CA

NCA Inc., Bold Expressions, Sacramento, CA, Juried by Margot Schulzke 

TAG Gallery, California Open Exhibition, Santa Monica, CA, Juried by Jim Morphesis

Ventura Arts Council, Portraits, Ventura, CA

Buenaventura Art Association, Ventura, CA, Solo show, April 7-May 2

The HUD Gallery, Ventura, CA, group exhibit

2014

Buenaventura Art Association, Ventura, CA, Member show 2014

REPRESENTATION

2017 - Present Dab Art Co., Los Angeles, CA

MARIANA PEIRANO

Mariana is an an award winning figurative artist living in Ojai, California. Born and raised in Argentina, she has spent most of her life in Southern California. Although mainly self taught, she received her basic atelier instruction at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art.

Her work reflects a passion for beauty in all it's forms and a deep concern for the human condition. Preserving the realness of emotions and expressions in the people she paints, she captures humanity in its true form.

When she is not painting, Mariana is teaching art at our local elementary schools. She also has private students and offers a variety of art workshops and classes at her studio in Ojai.

EDUCATION

Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, CA 

Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, Van Nuys, CA

La Verne University, La Verne, CA - Master of Arts in Educational Management

Chapman University, Orange, CA - Bachelor of Arts in Social Science

AWARDS

2018

Contemporary Art Gallery Online, All Women Show, 6th place, Self Observer

The Artist Table's 2018 All Women Exhibition, Staff Pick Award: Self Observer

2017

Circle Quarterly Magazine Contest, Circle Quarterly Art Review, Fall

Second place in the 22nd Online Contest: Back cover of the book "Important World Artists" Volume 2, Self Observer

2016

Finalist in the Portraits/Figures category of The Artist's Magazine 33rd Annual Art Competition, Art Peace 

Second placeISAP, 7th International Open On Line Show

First PlaceArt Gallery Online, All Women

2015

First PlaceColors of Humanity, Blue

Bronze winnerArt Forward Contests, Past and Present

Second placeArts for Earth, Ventura, Earth Spirit Exhibit

Evelyn Michell Memorial AwardNCA Inc., Sacramento Fine Arts

First placeBuenaventura Art Association, Ventura, BAA 29th Annual Open Competition

Honorable mentionArtist Compete-Art Preferred

2014

Merit awardBuenaventura Art Association, Ventura, HV Member Show

ORGANIZATIONS

Ojai Studio Artists, 1129 Maricopa Hwy, BOX 243B
OJAI, CALIFORNIA 93023Ventura Artist Union, 415 Howard St., Ventura, CA 93003-4532

Circle Foundation of the Arts,  https://circle-arts.com/mariana-peirano/

TreeSisters - Women Seeding Change, www.treesisters.org, Bristol BS1 5UH UK

Los Angeles Art Association, 825 N. La Cienega Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90069

Buenaventura Art Association,700 E Santa Clara St. Ventura, CA 93001

Portrait Society of America, P.O. Box 11272, Tallahassee, FL 32302

Studio Channel Islands Art Center, 2222 E Ventura Blvd.Camarillo, CA 93010