Mercedes Dorame

Image: Courtesy of the artist. Copyright: Mercedes Dorame, 2021.

Mercedes Dorame, born in Los Angeles, California, received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her undergraduate degree from UCLA. She calls on her Tongva ancestry to engage problematics of visibility and ideas of cultural construction. Dorame recently received a Creative Capital Award grant and was honored by UCLA as an outstanding alum of the last 100 years as part of their centennial initiative “UCLA: Our Stories Our Impact”. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum, SFMOMA, Triton Museum, Allen Memorial Art Museum, among others. Her writing is featured in News from Native California and her artwork is highlighted in PBS Newshour, Artforum, KCET Artbound, the New York Times, Art in America, Hyperallergic, KQED, Artsy, ARTnews, the Los Angeles Times, among others. She is currently visiting faculty at CalArts and has shown her work internationally, including the Hammer Museum’s Made in LA 2018.