MARIA RENDÓN works and lives in Santa Barbara and maintains an active presence in the L.A. art community. She completed a BFA at the Universidad Anáhuac Mexico City and a second at the Art Center College of Design, where she then taught for over ten years. During that time, she worked as an illustrator for an impressive list of international clients. Her work is featured in New American Paintings #123, Graphis #355 and Taschen’s book, Illustration Now! She earned her MFA from U.C.S.B. in 2014.
Light Landing, a painting by Maria Rendón, whose work is on view through April 22 at Sullivan Goss, in Santa Barbara, California.
© The artist. Courtesy Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, California
Through April 24th, Sullivan Goss will show Surreal Women as a companion exhibition to its REAL WOMEN: Realist Art by American Women exhibition of 2021. The exhibition embraces intuition, bypassing the intellectual constructs of Breton’s infamous manifesto to go straight for the heart.
HONORING WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH and paying tribute to women who joined the Surrealist Movement that began in France entered the America in the 1920s, Sullivan Goss curators Susan Bush and Jeremy Tessmer chose fifteen contemporary women artists for Surreal Women, on view through April 24th.
Jeremy Tessmer, the Gallery Director at Sullivan Goss, has curated an exhibit with a provocatively fresh statement for the traditionally inclined gallery. The new show opening April 4 at the Vollmer Gallery titled Just Between Us is a group show of three artists, Wesley Anderegg, Rafael Perea de la Cabada and Maria Rendon, each with different mediums and personal inspirations.
The rule of three is a happening that shows up in our daily lives, and even dictates the conventions of art. Sullivan Goss certainly highlights this magical number, as the gallery welcomes three amazingly talented artists—Wesley Anderegg, Rafael Perea de la Cabada and Maria Rendón—in the exhibit Just Between Us, opening Thursday, April 4 and continuing through Sunday, June 2. All of these artists explore similar thematic and stylistic approaches, yet uniquely distinguish themselves. Luckily for us, they’ve agreed to share a space in which a creative body of work will emerge.
EDUCATION
2021 Advanced Mentorship Program, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snow Mass, CO
2014 MFA University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
1992 BFA Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
1987 BFA Universidad Anahuac, México City
TEACHING
2015 Adjunct, Santa Barbara City College
2012-2014 University of California Santa Barbara
1996-2007 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
PRESS
2019 DOT, Art Center College of Design Alumni Magazine, 4x4 feature
2018 Maake Magazine, Issue Seven, curated by Tiger Strikes Asteroid
2017 Santa Barbara Magazine
2017 Young Space Blog, curated by Kate Mothes
2016 Santa Barbara Sentinel
2015 New American Paintings #123
2015 Santa Barbara Independent
2015 Where People Create by Leela Cyd, Santa Barbara Seasons
2014 Scene Magazine Santa Barbara News Press, Santa Barbara, California
2010 Dpi MagazineTaiwan - Feature Article
2006 Illustration Now/Taschen, Editor, Julius Wiederman - Feature Article
2005 Graphis 355, Writer, Stuart I. Frolick - Feature Article
1994 Revista a! Writer, Tracey Stoll - Feature Article
AWARDS
2013 Israel Levitan Graduate Fellowship in Art Studio, University of California Santa Barbara
2013 Ludington-Parshall Scholarship, Santa Barbara Art Association
2012 American Illustration 31
2003 The Society of Illustrators 47, 48
2000 Communication Arts Illustration Annual
1996 Society of Publication Designers SPD Annual
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 At Daybreak II, Korean Craft and Design Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2023 Elsewhere, Artbug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 At Daybreak, HeyThere Projects, Joshua Tree, CA
2021 MARIA RENDÓN: Rain, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2020 But Only So An Hour, HeyThere Projects, Joshua Tree, CA
2020 TSA Yardwork, Tiger Strikes Asteroid GVL, Ashville, NC
2018 Lightforms, Baer Gallery, Bush Art Center, St Norbert College, Wisconsin
2017 Two by Two, curated by Salomón Huerta, July Kamikaze 2017 at PØST, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Missing Rib, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2014 ALTER / MFA Thesis Show, Art, Design and Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, CA
2013 Rock Paper Candy, Glass Box Gallery, University of California Santa Barbara
2013 Just Between Us, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2012 Crave: Art, Food, & Social Experience, Contemporary Arts Forum (CAF), Santa Barbara, CA
2001 Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Riverside Community College, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Random Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Sublime: Where Words Fail, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2023 Where The Wild Things Grow, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2023 Surreal Women: Surrealist Art by American Women, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2023 Cartographies of Images in Exhile, ScandiLa/Artbug, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 Formalize: Strategies of Abstraction, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2022 Shapeshifter, 515 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Bio/Mass: Contemporary Meditation on Nature, Wildling Museum, Solvang, CA
2020 8x8: March 8 by 8 Women, Glass Box Gallery, University of California Santa Barbara
2020 The Red Book, Women’s Salon LA, Mexican Consulate of Los Angeles, CA
2019 The Box Project, Women’s Salon LA, The Duron Gallery at SPARC, Venice, CA
2019 Mixology: Classic + Contemporary Combinations, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2018 Spring Break, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2017 SUR: biennial, Espacio Entre / Entre Espacio, Rio Hondo College, Los Angeles CA
2017 Disorderly Construct, The Arts Fund, Santa Barbara, CA
2017 Brand 45/Works On Paper, Brand Library Art Center, Glendale, CA
2017 Out of Place, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2016Shift, Stretch, Expand: Everyday Transformations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara
2015Flock, Birds on The Brink, Ganna Walska Lotusland Pavilion, Santa Barbara, CA
2014 Drift & Fixation, The Arts Fund, Santa Barbara, CA
2014 WWBD, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2013 GLAMFA, California State University Long Beach, CA
2013 Unholy Mess, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, at McCormick House, Santa Barbara, CA
2013 Confluence, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2013 Swarm, A Collaboration with Bees, Ganna Walska Lotusland Pavilion, Santa Barbara, CA
2013 Remnants, Gallery 479, UC Santa Barbara
2012 Happy With Either, College of Creative Studies Gallery, UC Santa Barbara
2012 Agitprop, Left Coast Books, Santa Barbara, CA
2012 Figure Fragments, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2012 Lift, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2011 Sabor, ARTS Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA
2010 A Labor of Line, Gallery Nucleus, Alhambra, CA
2009 Small Images, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2006 Drawn to Expression, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
