Cynthia Gonzalez
Curriculum Vitae
CYNTHIA YADIRA GONZALEZ
San Jose, California
Born El Paso, Texas, 1986
EDUCATION
Masters in Fine Arts - San Jose State University- Spatial Art, August 2021 - May 2024
Bachelors in Fine Arts -San Jose State University - Spatial Art, August 2018 - May 2020
Associates in Arts Liberal Arts, Associates in Art, Associates in Arts Transfer Studio Art San Jose City College -August 2009 - May 2018
TEACHING
Lecturer on Record Beginning Ceramics, San Jose State University, San Jose California 2022- Present. In this beginning ceramics course we learn multiple hand building skills including coil and slab built ceramics and a short introduction to the wheel.
Lecturer on Record Ceramics, Gavilan Community College, Gilroy California
2024 - Present. In this ceramics course we continue to learn and develop work in ceramics. This course is a stacked class where all levels of experience are in the same classroom and are working in tandem.
Saturday Ceramics Instructor, Seven Trees Community Center, City of San Jose, CA
2018 - Present. In this class we learn a variety of hand building skills
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Jo Farb Hernandez Gallery, “Clusterfuked: Everything Must Go”, San Jose, CA
2023 - Jo Farb Hernandez Gallery, “SOFT”, San Jose, CA
2023 - Jo Farb Hernandez Gallery, “Play Things”, San Jose, CA
2023 - Jo Farb Hernandez Gallery, “Sana Sana”, San Jose, CA
2023 - Theta Belcher Gallery, “Tell Me Your Secrets”, San Jose, CA
2022 - Gallery 5, “Everything is Meaningless And We Are All Going To Die” San Jose, CA
2022 - Theta Belcher Gallery “ Ciclo” San Jose, CA
2020 - Redwood City Art Kiosk, “Origin- Life Through Death, Redwood City, CA
2020 - Viktory Point Cafe, “MUSA”, Berkeley, CA
2020 - Gallery 3, “Perdida”, San Jose, CA
2020 - Belcher Gallery, “Uncomfortable Growth”, San Jose, CA
2019 - Gallery 5, “Transcendence” San Jose, CA
2019 - Black Gallery, “Rejected” San Jose, CA
2019 - Gallery 3 “Parts” San Jose, CA
2019 - Belcher Gallery, “Altered” San Jose, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 - The No Nada Gallery, Ready or Not, East Los Angeles, CA
2024 - SNAG Permutations, San Diego, CA
2024 - Works San Jose, Lift Off, San Jose, CA
2024 - MACLA, Latino Art Auction Now, San Jose, CA
2024 - Shockboxx Gallery, Intergalactic, Hermosa Beach, CA
2024 - Soft Times Gallery, Big Softie, San Francisco, CA
2023 - Shockboxx Gallery,Kitsch & Kanoodle, Hermosa Beach, CA
2023 - Root Division, Introductions, San Francisco, CA
2023 - SOMA Arts Center, Murphy Cadigan Awards, San Francisco, CA
2023 - MACLA, “A Story of Armor”, San Jose, CA
2023 - Bass & Reiner “Pyramid Scheme”, San Francisco, CA
2023 - WORKS San Jose, “Death, Destruction, and Whimsy”, San Jose, CA
2023 - ShockBoxx Gallery, “Literally Anything Figurative Show”, Hermosa Beach, CA
2023 - Joe Farb, “Dialogos”, San Jose, CA
2023 - Brea Art Gallery, “Made In California”, Brea, CA
2023 - Jo Farb Hernandez, “This, That, and the Other”, San Jose, CA
2022 - MACLA, “Deconstruct to Rebuild” San Jose, CA
2022 - Gallery 2727, “Group Show”, Berkeley, CA
2022 - Gale Antokan Gallery, “Salon de Emergent”, San Jose, CA
2022 - Gallery 5, “Elements of Growth”, San Jose, CA
2021 - Berkeley Arts Center, “Uplift/ Heavy Lift”, Berkeley, CA
2020 - Kaleid Gallery “Hark” San Jose, CA
2019 - California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art Davis,CA
2019 - Herbert Sanders Gallery “Art 68 Group Show” San Jose, CA
2018 - Kaleid Gallery “Local Talent” San Jose, CA
2018 - SJCC Art Gallery “Student Show” San Jose, CA
2017 - SJCC Art Gallery “Student Show” San Jose, CA
2012 - Miami NightClub “RAW: Natural Born Artist” San Jose CA
2012 - SJCC Art Gallery “Student Show” San Jose, CA
2010 - SJCC Art Gallery “Student Show” San Jose, CA
2009 - WORKS Gallery “Anti-Valentine” San Jose, CA
2002 - San Jose Museum of Art, “Who Are You?”, San Jose, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Queer-enniel art shows Latin-x Resilience October 2023
2023 A Dose of Authenticity: conversation with Cynthia Gonzalez
https://www.icasanjose.org/library/a-dose-of-authenticity-a-conversation-with-cynthia-gonzalez/
2023 Introductions Catalog
https://rootdivision.org/exhibition/introductions-2023/
2023 Brea Gallery Made In California
https://www.breaartgallery.com/cynthia-gonzalez
2022 Spartan Artist Cynthia Gonzalez Earns International Sculpture Award
2022 International Sculpture Center 2022 Student Award Recipients
https://sculpture.org/page/student-awards-past
2021 Berkeley Art Center
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2024-2025 - Curatorial Fellow for the visual arts at MACLA- Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino
Americana. Generally assist the visual arts curator with any of their workload. I assist with the selection of the artist and themes in one upcoming gallery installation. Paint walls of the gallery and prepare art to be hung. Assist in the press release.
2021- 2024- Graduate Assistant for the Jewelry and Small Metals department at San Jose
State University. I keep the lab open when the instructor is ill assisting the professor with students that need help and guidance. Also help keep the lab in clean workable conditions, make sure that the equipment is running correctly. Make kits for projects and class, inventory and arrange backstock.
2016- Present- Instructor of art courses for the Parks and Recreation Department for the City
of San Jose. Teach an array of introductory classes to a variety of age groups that range from watercolor, art making exploration, and ceramics.
2021-2023 Art Preparater for the Natally Thompson Gallery on San Jose State Campus.
Prepare walls and artwork to be displayed. Pack and unpack artwork, also prepare work to be moved or shipped.
2022- Artist’s Research Assistant for Sofia Cordova- make and reproduce objects the artist
Found, make slip casting molds of objects.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2023 - Murphy Cadigan Award
2023 - Belle Foundation Grant
2022 - NCECA Multicultural Fellowship
2022 - International Sculpture Center Student Achievement Award
2020 - Anderson Ranch Residency Scholarship
WORKSHOPS
2021 - Pinata workshop for SV Creates at Camino Brewery, San Jose, CA
2023 - Ring making for the Jewelry and Small metals Guild SJSU, San Jose, CA
CONFERENCES
2024 - SNAG
2022 - Yuma Art Symposium
2022 - NCECA Sacramento
2022 - CCACA Davis CA
2021 - CCACA Davis CA
2019 - CCACA Davis CA
2018 - CCACA Davis CA