EXHIBITS

GROUP EXHIBITS

  • ACES Artist of Color Exhibit – Organized by Shumpike & 4CULTURE – 2024 
  •  CoCA Members Exhibit Juried Show 2024 
  •  Seattle Center – Day of the Dead Exhibit– Oct to Nov 2023 
  •  Like Mother – Green River College’s Hellen Smith Gallery – Sept to Nov 2023 
  • Annual Kent Juried Summer Art Exhibition June- August – 2023 
  • ACES- Artist of Color Exhibit – Organized by Shunpike & 4Culture – 2023 
  • COCA Gallery – Marathon & Auction – September 2021. 
  • King Street Station – Brighter Future: To be heard. To be seen Nov 2019-Jan 2020 
  • COCA Gallery- Motherland 2019 Juried Exhibit- March-April 2019 • Theater Shmeater Gallery – May-June, 2018. 
  • Mount Baker Neighborhood Center for the Arts – April 2018 
  • City Hall Lobby Gallery & Anne Focke Gallery – Sept-Oct 2017. • Cornish Playhouse Gallery – 2017 
  •  ACES- Artist of Color Exhibit – Organize by 4Culture & Artist Up – 2017 
  •  Columbia Center for the Arts – Hood River, OR – September 2017 
  •  Spaceworks Gallery – Immigration: Hopes Realized, Dreams Derailed – June 30 to August 17, 2017 
  •  Mount Baker Neighborhood Center of the Arts – To Honor The CHILDREN – July-August 2017 
  • •Ethnic Heritage Gallery at Seattle Municipal Tower – Processing: Artists Face Administration Change – April- July 2017 
  • Ethnic Heritage Gallery at Seattle Municipal Tower – Processing: Artists face administration change – April-July 2017 
  • Washington State Convention Center – Avenidas y Generaciones – Jan-March 2017 – Curator of the Exhibit 
  • Concordia University -February – March 2017
  • Society of Arts – January 28 to February 2017
  • Museum of Culture and Environment at WSU Liberty Denied: Immigration, Detention, Deportation Sep-Nov 2016 
  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation group show 10-10-2016 
  • Portland5 Siren Nation 10th Anniversary Art Show Oct-Dec 2016 
  • Washington State and Convention Center – SCBWI Western Washington’s Super Duper Summer Show – Juried Exhibit – July to September 2016 
  • Seattle Central College – Daughters of Immigration – March to April 2016 – Curator of the Exhibit 
  • Centro Latino SER – Tacoma, WA – 2015, 2016, 2017 
  • Moses Lake Museum – Selfie – A Community Conversation of Identity – Juried Exhibit 2015 
  • Portland’5 LAX IdeAL – group show – May 2014, 2015, 2016 September 2017 
  • University of Washington School of Social Work – Viva Art Exhibit – January 6 – April 16, 2014 
  • Washington State and Convention Center – SCBWI Illustrator Exhibit – October 10, 
  • 2013 – January 8, 2014 
  • Washington State and Convention Center – “Visions and Environments” – July – October 2013 – Curator of the Exhibit 
  • Seattle Municipal Tower – Ethnic Heritage Art Gallery – Portraits – Seattle, WA – July – October 2012 – Curator of the Exhibit 
  • Centennial Center Gallery at City Hall, Kent, WA – July 2011 
  • Latino art group show – Seattle City Hall sponsored by City of Seattle Employees – Seattle, Washington – August – October 2009 
  • Best of the Northwest at the Seattle Center – Seattle, Washington. April 2009 
  • Public Art celebrating Day of the Dead – TAPETES at Seattle Art Museum – SAM. Seattle, Washington 2008 
  • C-Art Gallery. A show titled “Small Works”. Seattle, Washington 2008 
  • 6th Annual Juried Local Art Exhibition presented by The Gallery at Tacoma Community College – Tacoma, Washington 2008 
  • Jacobs Gallery – Eugene, Oregon 2008 
  • Edmonds Center for the Arts. Edmonds, Washington 2008 
  • Washington State and Convention Center. An exhibit titled “Latino Art in the Northwest”. Downtown Seattle 2008 
  • Tacoma Community College – The Gallery. Tacoma, Washington 2008 
  • “World Art Fest Exhibit” presented at the Center House Harrison ST Gallery – Seattle Center Washington 2005 
  • Glover Gallery. Kirkland, Washington 2004 – 2005 
  • Kinsey Gallery – Seattle University. An exhibit titled “Reminiscence/Remembranza”. Seattle, Washington 2004 

SOLO EXHIBITS

  • Testimonios, Digital Exhibit, YouTube – 2020
  • Hood River, Oregon – Columbia Center of the Arts – July to August 2019
  • Mayor’s Gallery, Seattle Municipal Tower – February to May 2016
  • Seattle Central College – October-November 2014
  • Centennial Center Gallery at City Hall, Kent, WA. November 2012
  • Columbia Tower, December 2011 – February 2012
  • Peruvian Embassy at Washington DC 2012
  • Mercer Island Community Center – August 2010
  • La Onda Gallery. Portland, Oregon – March 2010
  • Albuquerque, New Mexico – November 2009
  • C-Art Gallery. Seattle, Washington – May 2009
  • Blanca Santander exhibited at La Llorona Gallery – Chicago, Illinois 2005
  • Blanca Santander presented at Ballard Works. Seattle, Washington 2005
  • Blanca Santander exhibited at La Llorona Gallery – Chicago, Illinois 2005

AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS

  • Kent Summer Art Exhibit Purchase Award – City of Kent Art Portable Collection – 2023
  • National Women’s Caucus of Arts – Art Publication Awarded for “Testimonios” – 2021
  • Seattle Office of Arts & Culture Public Art Portable Works Collection – 2020
  • Speaker and Presenter for Hispanic Heritage Event at Cleveland State University – 2020
  • City of Seattle Parks and Recreation COVID-19 Community Healing Grant – “Kids Can Make It Project” – 2020
  • Featured calendar artist, selected by King County’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee & 4Culture – 2018
  • Start-Sound Transit Artist Pool 2018
  • 4Culture Muralist Roster 2017
  • SCBWI Scholarship Winner 2017
  • Office of Arts & Culture – Put Art in The Parks Grant – “Park in the Heart” – 2016 – 2019
  • Office of Arts & Culture – Put Art in The Parks Grant – “Park Your Thoughts” – 2016 & 2019
  • 4CULTURE Grant Award – Daughters of Immigration Exhibit – 2015-2016
  • 1st Place Award – Centro Latino SER – Tacoma, WA – 2015
  • Moses Lake Museum – Photography Award – 2015
  • City of Seattle Roster of Ethnic Artists-2014
  • Women of Courage Award – Northwest Women of Color Empowered – Sponsored by Northwest Asian Weekly – 2012
  • BARNES & NOBLE – Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month 2011, with “Floral Offerings” painting on merchandise in their 800 stores nationwide – September 2011
  • First Place – Award Winner at Juried Exhibit in City Hall Centennial Gallery in Kent, Washington – August 2011
  • BARNES & NOBLE – Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by featuring “Mother Earth and the New World” painting on merchandise in their 800 stores nationwide – September 2010
  • Nordstrom Latina Summit Featured Artist – 2009 – 2019
  • ONANGELS MAGAZINE – Honorable 2nd Mention – November 2009
  • First place awarded for the “2009 Mujer Awards Poster Artwork Contest” NATIONAL HISPANA LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE – July 2009
  • BARNES & NOBLE – Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month 2009, with a “Mother Earth and the Moon” painting on merchandise in their 800 stores nationwide – September 2009
  • 2007 – Honors for Excellence, Contribution and Achievements in the Advancements of Fine Arts and Education, Centro Cultural Hispano Americano and the Spanish & Portuguese Studies of the University Of Washington, (Seattle, WA)
  • 2006 – Sea Mar Community Health Centers – Public Collection
  • 1991 – Honorable Mention at the Images of Peru – Photographic Competition sponsored by Union Latina
  • 1990 – Second place award in the Kodak Professional School
  • 1987 – First place in a national contest to illustrate textbooks for rural school children, sponsored by FAO Holland
  • 1989 – First place awarded by the Peruvian Central Reserve Bank – Engraving Competition. Selected to create a New Peruvian Currency

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE & COMMISSIONS

  • SeaTac Airport Mural – Commissioned by the Bezos Family Foundation – 2023
  • FLOW – Public Art Project – Office of Art & Culture 2023
  • City of Kirkland Art Commission – Utility Box Art Project – 2023
  • City of Kent Art Commission – Utility Box Art Project – 2023
  • Mount Vernon Arts Commission – City of Mount Vernon Skagit Commission Banner – 2022
  • Seattle Uptown Utility Box Art Project – 2022
  • Des Moines Utility Box Art Project – 2022
  • Odessa Brown Children’s Hospital – 15 Commissioned Murals – 2021 to 2022
  • University Prep – Artist in Residence – 2008, 2009, 2021
  • Seattle Amistad School – 2013 to present
  • City Arts Washington Hall Workshop – 2018
  • Whitman Middle School – Artist in Residence – 2015
  • Vincent de Paul Mural Summer Program – 2014
  • Official Photographer for De Cajon Project 2009 to 2014
  • Hazel Valley Elementary – Para los Niños – Summer 2014
  • Broadview Thompson School – Artist in Residence – January to April 2014
  • The Little School – Artist in Residence – 2006-2007
  • Seattle University – Department of Modern Languages – 2004 & 2005

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