Deanna Barahona

Deanna Barahona (1997) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Southern California, working in printmaking, sculpture, photography, and textile. Her work explores the aesthetics of adornment and the exchange of ephemera while investigating the intersection of her family’s geographic origins with the diaspora experience in Southern California.

Barahona has participated in exhibitions at Charlie James Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Island 83 Gallery in New York City, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Museo Raúl Anguiano in Guadalajara, Mexico, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Mandeville Gallery, the Bakersfield Museum of Art and the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art. Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, as well as the AltaMed Art Collection and the Cerritos Art Gallery Collection. She has been featured in the San Diego Union-Tribune, The Runner, The Santa Barbara Independent and El Informador MX. Barahona holds a BA in Studio Art from California State University, Bakersfield and an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego.

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Web: deannabarahona.com