SOCIAL ART +
EXHIBITIONS

2024 - Lunar X 2024 - Year of the Dragon - Lunar New Year Art Exhibition + Women’s Showcase, Sacred Heart
2024 - Lunar X 2024 - Year of the Dragon - Lunar New Year Art Exhibition, Tea Lyfe ESSJ
2024 - Lunar X 2024 - Year of the Dragon - Lunar New Year Art Exhibition Kick-Off, SOAC at MHP
2023 - TaikoPeace Energy Altar, The Race for Free Spirit: A 50-year Uprising, PJ Roy Taiko
2023 - The Community Healing Altar, Avenida de Altares, School of Arts and Culture at MHP
2023 - To Wish On A Dandelion, Dream, Rise Organize Conference, SEIU
2023 - Community Healing Altar, Dream, Rise Organize Conference, SEIU
2023 - Why We Rise, Dream, Rise Organize Conference, SEIU
2023 - What Can Public Art Be?, City of Lake Oswego, Oregon Public Art Master Plan, Art Builds Community
2023 - Inaugural Home is Where the Art is, HomeFirst SCC, Lead Artist Rayos Magos
2023 - Lunar X 2023 - Year of the Cat / Rabbit - Lunar New Year Art Exhibition, Tea Lyfe ESSJ & Saratoga
2022 - The Community Healing Altar, Avenida de Altares, School of Arts and Culture at MHP
2022 - South City Tapestry: Community Weaving, South San Francisco Public Art Master Plan, Art Builds Community
2022 - Casita South City, South San Francisco Public Art Master Plan, Art Builds Community
2022 - Name Dictionary, partially funded by the Division of Equity and Social Justice of the County of Santa Clara
2022 - Name Dictionary, Artist Residency, in collaboration with ServiceNow
2022 - Not Your Masi’s Generation, ASHA solo exhibition, consultation & curation, Art Object Gallery
2022 - Lunar X Art Hop: Lunar New Year Art Exhibition [ multiple locations ]
2021 - The Community Healing Altar, Avenida de Altares, School of Arts and Culture at MHP
2021 - Lips Uncurled, Eyes Forward, group show + book release, Art object Gallery
2021 - Lunar X Art Hop: Lunar New Year Art Exhibition [ multiple locations ]
2020 - Lunar X Art Hop: Lunar New Year Art Exhibition [ multiple locations ]
2019  -  Expressing Yourself Beyond Boundaries
2019  -  Lunar X: Lunar New Year Art Exhibition
2018  -  Lips Uncurled, Eyes Forward, Caffe Frascati, SubZERO Festival
2018  -  Lunar X: Lunar New Year Art Exhibition
2017  -  The Oracles, FAME
2017  -  100 Days, SV De-Bug
2016  -  Silicon Valley De-Bug Poetry Mix Tape Project
2016  -  The Oracles, FAME, in collaboration w/ Elba Raquel Martinez
2016  -  Lips Uncurled, Eyes Forward, Lit Lumpia Fest
2016  -  Housing 2.0 Chalk Art Experience, Chalk Team, Lead by ArigaDesigns.com
2016  -  SJ Creamery, in response to Affordable Housing Week
2016  -  Lips Uncurled, Eyes Forward: AAPI Social Art Exhibition
2016  -  SJ Creamery, Screenprint Showdown Competition, Silicon Valley De-Bug
2015  -  The Oracles, FAME - Fashion, Arts, and Music Exhibition
2014  -  Live Community Art Booth, KraftBrew Fest, in collaboration w/ Elba Raquel Martinez and Roberto Romo, commissioned by Kooltura Marketing
2014  -  The Altar, Glowing with the Moon

PRESS +
FEATURES

// INTERVIEWS //
2022 - Climate Change in Art and Literature, Burning Worlds
2021 - Cultural Arts Consultant Continues Outreach, The Independent
2019  -  How Sonido Clash Became a Hub for Forward-Thinking Latinx Sounds, KQED Arts
2019  -  4th Annual Sound Clash Puts Latino Music Genres in the Spotlight, SF Chronicle
2018 - Turn it up: Sonido Clash Fest 2018, EO, El Observador
2018  -  Bay Brilliant, KQED Arts
2017  -  "The X Factor: All-Womxn's Showcase Empowers Female Artists in New Spaces" Metroactive
2017  -  "An East Side Music Fest" EO, El Observador
2017  -  "MALEDUCADOS #013: Quynh & Turbo of Sonido Clash" Desmadre
2017  -  "A Night for Selena, a Night for Good Times" EO, El Observador
2016  -  "ARTS RE:GENERATION, The Fall Arts Issue", Cover, 8.24.16, Metro Silicon Valley
2016  -  "Pretty, Gritty Musicians Are Feeling The Love" Sight & Sound 8.1, Content Magazine

// SPEAKER + GUEST //
2023 - Panelist, Creative Careers Mixer, UC Berkeley
2022 - Storyteller, HUEmanity Salon Series - Day of Drumming, Townehall Los Gatos, AWO
2022 - Guest Speaker, The Name Dictionary, AAPI Heritage Month Kick-Off, ServiceNow
2022 - Guest Speaker, Lips Uncurled, Eyes Forward, San Jose City College AAPI Heritage Month
2022 - Storyteller, Scraping Wind, San Jose City College Women’s Herstory
2021  -  Presenter, Interactive Mapping, International Association for Public Participation
2021  -  Panelist, MALI Art / Life Forum, School of Arts and Culture at MHP
2021  - Panelist, Community Conversations: Recognizing Women through Public Art & Policy, NUMU, New Museum Los Gatos
2021  -  Workshop Facilitator, On Deck! Curating, Producing, & Programming Arts and Cultural Events, Each One, Teach One Series
2021  -  Judge, Santa Clara County Youth Poet Laureate Program
2021  -  Co-Presenter, On Deck!, Each One Teach One
2020  -  Presenter, Connecting People Through Collective Action, Annual Integrated Learning Conference: Arts In Your Classroom 2020, Montalvo Arts Center
2018  -  Guest Judge, Go Go Gone Show: Champion of Champions Championship!
2018  -  Panelist, Sounds of Change: Music, Organizing, and Activism in the Bay, MUSIC EXPO
2018  -  Honoree, Bay Brilliant Live! Meet the Makers Shaping Bay Area Culture, KQED Arts
2017  -  Guest Judge, Go Go Gone Show
2016  -  Guest Speaker, Visiting Artist Series, California State University Monterey Bay
2016  -  Guest Speaker, Stanford Artist Talk, Stanford University
2016  -  Panel Moderator, ImagineSJ Book Showcase
2016  -  Guest Judge, Go Go Gong Show
2014  -  Pecha Kucha, Kooltura Marketing, MALI Art/Life Forum

// POETRY //
2023 - Poet, Quiet Lightning Better Ancestors Series, Quiet Lightning Better Ancestors Series
2023 - Poet, I Am My Body Celebration, School of Arts and Culture at MHP
2022 - Poet, 2022 Marcus Festival, Montalvo Arts Center
2022 - Poet, Not Your Masi’s Generation, Art Object Gallery
2022 - Storyteller & Featured Poet, Scraping Wind, San Jose City College Women’s Herstory
2021 - Special Guest, Francis Experience Quartet, Veggielution
2021  -  Featured Poet, Quiet Lightning Better Ancestors Series
2019 - Featured Poet, LitLumpia Fest
2018  -  Featured Poet, Xochitl Circle Reception
2018  -  Featured Poet, International Womyn's Day - South Bay
2018  -  Featured Poet, Art Rage: Live Like a Girl!, Mosaic Silicon Valley, SJMA
2017  -  Featured Poet, LitLumpia Fest
2017 - Featured Poet, Spring Mother Tongue Anthology Release, Works
2017  -  Featured Poet, Legacy of Poetry Day
2016  -  Featured Poet, LitLumpia Fest

// PROJECTS + MISC //
2022 - “Santa Clara Awards 40 Mini Grants to Promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,” California County News
2022 - “Art Installations Celebrate Accomplishments of Santa Clara County Women,” ABC7 Bay Area News
2022 - “Womanhood Project Celebrates Leaders in Santa Clara County,” Mercury News
2020 - “Meet the Champion,” Emerging City Champions
2020 - “Meet the 2020 Emerging City Champions,” Next City
2018  -  “South Bay Summer: Sights and Sounds in San Jose and Beyond,” KQED Arts
2018  -  "ArtwalkSJ + 11th Annual SubZERO Festival 
2018  -  Metro Summer Guide 2018, Metroactive
2018  -  "Best of Silicon Valley 2018" Metroactive
2016 - “Fall Arts 2016: A Changing of a Guard” 8.25.16, Metroactive

Residencies

2023 - Dream, Rise Organize Conference, SEIU
2022 - AAPI Month, ServiceNow

AWARDS
+ HONORS

2022 - Anti Hate Mini-Grant, Division of Equity and Social Justice of the County of Santa Clara
2020 - Emerging City Champions Fellowship Grant
2019  -  Creative Industries Incentive Fund, Round 8, Cultural Center of Innovation
2019  -  Creative Industries Incentive Fund, Round 7, Cultural Center of Innovation
2018  -  Bay Brilliant, KQED Arts
2018 - Creative Industries Incentive Fund, Round 6, Cultural Center of Innovation
2018  -  Small Arts Grant, Fleishhacker Foundation
2016  -  California Presenters' All California Leadership Program Scholarship
2014  -  Multicultural Arts Leadership Institute Mini Grant
2013  -  Willie Mac Coaches Award

SELECTED
ART+WRITING
PUBLICATIONS

// POETRY + ANTHOLOGIES //
”When My Tambor Speaks." sPARKLE & bLINK 114 - Better Ancestors Series, Quiet Lightening, 2021.
"A Letter to My Family." sPARKLE & bLINK 114 - Better Ancestors Series, Quiet Lightening, 2021.
"Mai." spring mother tongue, edited by Arlene Biala, SCCPL 2016-17, 2017.
“War Paint.” Poetry Mix Tape, edited and produced by Quynh-Mai Nguyen, Silicon Valley De-Bug, 2016.

// ILLUSTRATION //
“Turn it up: Sonido Clash Fest 2018,” Cover, EO, El Observador, Aug. 2018
“The Hella L.I.T. Book Reviews,” Illustration for Silicon Valley De-Bug, Sep. 2017.
"An East Side Music Fest" Cover, EO, El Observador, Aug. 2017
“Displacing the Unprofitable and Undesirable in San Jose’s Fountain Alley,” illustration for Silicon Valley De-Bug, Apr. 2017.
“She Been Puttin' in Work - De-Bug’s National Coverage of the Womyn Led Resistance,” Silicon Valley De-Bug, Jan. 2017.
“Womyn of Resistance,” Illustration featured on Silicon Valley De-Bug, Jan. 2017.
“The People’s 100 Days,” Illustration for Silicon Valley De-Bug, Jan. 2017.
“White People: To be Silent is Consent,” Illustration for Silicon Valley De-Bug, Nov. 2016.
“Mujer, ¡Nosotras Tambien!" Illustration for Silicon Valley De-Bug, Nov. 2016.
“Filipino American History,” Illustration for Silicon Valley De-Bug, Oct. 2016.
“Brock Turner,” Illustration for Silicon Valley De-Bug, Jul. 2016.
“Who Created This Monster? A Comic Review of Trump’s Campaign,” Illustration collaboration w/ Marco Jimenez, Silicon Valley De-Bug, Jul. 2016.
“Cycle of Violence,” Illustration for Silicon Valley-De-Bug, Jul. 2016.

// ARTICLES //
“Writing as a Mirror: Janice Sapigao on her Upcoming Book, microchips for millions,” Silicon Valley De-Bug, Nov. 2016
“SJ Creamery: Taste the Culture and Eat Your Problems Away,” Silicon Valley De-Bug, May 2016.
“SJ Creamery Screenprint Showdown Design,” Silicon Valley De-Bug, Jan. 2016.

AFFILIATIONS
+ COLLECTIVES

2022 - pres. Cultural Work of Poetry: A Reading, Writing, and Community Discussion Series
2021 - pres. Womanhood
2020 - pres. ALF AAPI Caucus
2020 - 2021 Emerging City Champions Fellowship
2020 - pres. Het Say!
2020 - pres. Art Builds Community
2018 - 2018  KQED Arts’ Bay Brilliant
2017 - 2018 Urban Innovation Class XL, American Leadership Forum [ senior fellow ]
2016 - 2017 All Womxn’s Showcase
2016 - 2017  California Presenters' All California Leadership Program
2015 - 2017 Silicon Valley De-Bug
2014 - 2019 Sonido Clash
2014 - 2015 Multicultural Arts Leadership Institute, MALI Class 7 [ alumni ]
2014 Q&A
2012 - 2018  Bloco Do Sol San José