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Irma Yuliana Barbosa MFA ‘23
Email: irma_barbosa@berkeley.edu
website: https://irmayulianabarbosa.squarespace.com/
Irma Yuliana Barbosa is a multimedia artist born and raised in Los Angeles. Yuli makes precarious installations that incorporate projections, photographs, sculpture, and performance. Through their practice they navigate liminal space in relation to identity making, border consciousness, and rasquachismo. Exploring themes of heritage, folklore, yearning, and sexuality they are inspired by the malleability of transgenerational memory and its relationship to the creation of selfhood. They are committed to translating material memory through processes of care, preservation, and transformation. Yuli is currently living and working in the East Bay and an MFA Candidate at UC Berkeley.
AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS:
2022- Murphy and Cadogan Award
2022- Berkeley Center for New Media Summer Research Award
2022- Tres Hornos: Foodways of the Southwest Research Seminar
2020- Chancellor and Deans award for thesis “Pure Potential”
2019- Carrillo Memorial Art Scholarship. University of California Santa Cruz
2019- Irwin Project Grant. University of California Santa Cruz
2018- Carrillo Memorial Art Scholarship. University of California Santa Cruz
2018- Irwin Project Grant. University of California Santa Cruz
2018- Irwin Scholarship. University of California Santa Cruz
2017- Irwin Project Grant. University of California Santa Cruz
2016-Ceramic Scholarship. Moorpark College
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Inside/out Art Mill Hay Barn, Czech Republic, August 2019
Collages (Pop Up) Artshare LA. Los Angeles Ca, February 2019
Room Session Underground Gallery. Santa Cruz, Ca. December 2018
Second Skin Eduardo Carillo Gallery. Santa Cruz, Ca. November 2017
Rust Pink Flamingo Gallery. Moorpark, Ca. April 2015
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Murphy Cadogan Group Show. SomArts. San Francisco, Ca. 2022
Optimal Conditions Worth Ryder Gallery. Berkeley, Ca. 2022
Reading Room: After Archives The Sesnon Underground. Santa Cruz, Ca. 2019
Irwin Show: Identification The Session Gallery. Santa Cruz, Ca. April 2018
In/humanisms Felix Culpa Gallery. Santa Cruz, Ca. April 2018
A Feminist Perspective Muzeumm Gallery. Los Angeles, Ca. May 2017
Smaller Pieces Ventura County Center. Ventura, Ca. 2017
PUBLICATIONS:
The Redline Performance published in “Emergency Index” Ugly Duckling Presse.
2020 “Crying Circle” Self Published. Santa Cruz, Ca. May 2019. inchttps://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/54414/
“Irwin Show” City on a Hill Press. Santa Cruz, Ca. April 2018