Education
2012 MFA University of California, Santa Barbara
1997 BA University of California, Los Angeles
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Fugitive Drawings, Salon at the Granada (curated by Lauri Firstenberg)
2018 Fugitive Drawings, JaneHouse, Los Angeles (curated by Cesar García)
2014 Reverie, Randall Scott Projects, Washington D.C.
2011 Ladybird, POST, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Tomorrow Never Knows, La Verne University, CA
2008 Looking Through the Blind, Cherry and Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Upon This Waking Edge, Valmiali Gallery, Athens, Greece
2006 Extreme Unction, Cherry and Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Ruby Osorio: Story of A Girl (Who Awakes Far and Away), Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (catalogue)
Ruby Osorio: Story of A Girl (Who Awakes Far and Away, reconfigured for Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2003 New Work, cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Everything She Touches, cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles, CA
Select Group Exhibitions
2020 When We First Arrived...,The Corner, Washington D.C.
2019 B.A.T. State III, Women Artists in Conversation with El Nopal Press, Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
2018 Radiant, Blue Roof Studios, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Lift Off, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
2016 Unseen, Summercamp Project, El Sereno, CA
2015 Hysterical Friction, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York, NY
2013 Sur Biennial, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
2013 Women and Print: A Contemporary View, Scripps College, Pomona, CA
2013 Show and Tell, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2012 Around the World in 80 Days, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Boom, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Riven Rock Refracted, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Mc Cormick House), Santa Barbara, CA
2010 39 Now, Den Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Not in My Backyard, Den Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Mother of Hedone, JAUS Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Unbound Thoughts, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Stitches, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2009 La Woman, Wake Forest University Art Gallery, Winston Salem, NC
2008 And Now?, Athens State Museum, Athens, Greece (catalog)
Tenderly, LES, New York, NY
Looky See: A Summer Show at Otis Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Weekend Warriors, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
California Community Foundation Retrospective Exhibition, Japanese American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Plush, Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Portrayal/Betrayal, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
2007 Domestic Departures, CSU Fullerton Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA (catalog)
Retas, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico
The Living Room, Randall Scott Gallery, Washington D.C.
2005 Simple Pleasures, Carlos Irrizary Gallery, San Juan, PR
Girls of Summer, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
Drawing and Works on Paper II: Selected Artists in The United States, Patrick Heide Projects, London, UK
2004 summer group show, cherrdelosreyes, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporaries: Five Years of Grantmaking in the Visual Arts - California Community Foundation, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Figure 3x, Brentwood School Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Girl on Girl, Miller Durazo Contemporary Artist Projects, Los Angeles, CA
The Frustrated Landscape, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Necessary Fictions, deChiara Gallery, New York, NY
Supersized, Frumkin Duval Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Petite, Miller Durazo Contemporary Artist Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Sketchy, Acuna Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Somewhere in The Night, POST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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Awards
2012 College of Creative Studies Fellowship, UCSB
2012 Armory Center for the Arts Fellowship
2010 UC Regents Graduate Fellow
2004 Durfee Foundation Artist Resource for Completion Grant
2003 California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Grant