EDUCATION
M.F.A. Photography, Emphasis in Video. California State University at Fullerton, CA (Summa cum laude.)
B.F.A. Photography. Buffalo State College, NY (Magna cum laude.)
SUNY Geneseo, NY.
Professional: Associate Professor at Palomar College.
Adobe Certified Associate and Certified Adobe Education Trainer
CCC Online Network of Educators Certifications: Creating Accessible Course Content, Assessment in Digital Learning, Online Teaching & Design, Peer Online Course Review
Artists in residencies are a driving force in Caterina’s image-making. Her first residency and community collaboration were at the Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, followed by a residency and solo exhibition at the Grand Central Art Center, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, and Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, Illinois. She has also participated in winter and summer stays at the Fish Factory, Iceland.
Her awards include a first-place award exhibition Elsewhere & Other Places with her collaborator Beatrice Magalotti, Artaviso, Australia. She was the first visual artist chosen for the Artist in Residence series at Orange County Great Park, Irvine, CA in 2011 and created the second work of public art in their collection. She was nominated and awarded the Lucas Arts Residency at Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, CA in 2008.
Co-curator of Rat Powered Films from 2003-2011. Rat Powered Films received grants from National Alliance for Mental Illness Orange County (NAMI) and Downtown Santa Ana Business Council to create original photographic and film content for screenings and exhibitions. These films include interviews with members of the NAMI, “Art as Anodyne,” and “Consumption” about living with bipolar disorder and the stigma of medication.
Rat Powered Films curated exhibitions with the Cal State Fullerton Grand Central Art Center including 6 Booths in 7 Weeks, an international video art exhibition, and Handmade Puppet Dreams designed with emerging puppeteers including Heather Henson. Amy’s MFA exhibition, A Simple Plan, consisted of 12 short films created from 1999-2002, including an animated “6 Shorts about (non) Motherhood” and “Untitled (I’m sorry it’s just very frustrating.”
Caterina’s work as an independent curator includes working with the Southern California Artists Gallery to exhibit photographs by Brendan Bannon: Refugees, Bob Pece’s “The Color in Nature” paintings and films at Irvine Valley College Gallery, and “6 Degrees,” multi-media presentation at the Space On Spurgeon in Santa Ana.
Caterina’s first book of photographs, French Park was published in Spring 2021. She is also featured in 100 Artists See Satan, in its third printing, and NY Collects Buffalo State, published by the Burchfield Penney Art Center. She is currently in the preparation and design phase of her second book which will feature her polaroid photographs from 1997-2021.
Selected group exhibitions include:
2022
The Garden of Loss and Triumph, Art Aviso, NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam
2021
Elsewhere & Other Places https://www.artaviso.com/elsewhere-other-places/
The Garden of Loss and Triumph, Art Aviso, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne
2020
Covid-19 Global Quilt, an online exhibition, https://www.instagram.com/covid19quilt/
Group Show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
Living and Photographing in the Time of Covid 19, The Photographer’s Eye: A Creative Collaboration, Escondido, CA (Catalogue.)
2019
Photographs in Conversation, online exhibition, curator Aline Smithson.
Forest, For the Trees, Tom Bradley International Terminal (Terminal B), Arrivals.
2018
Northern Lands, Two Person Show with Adriene Hughes, The Photographer’s Eye: A Creative Collaboration, Escondido, CA
2017
Enlightened Lens, Escondido Art Gallery, CA
Size Matters, Medium Festival, San Diego, CA
2016
Enlightened Lens, Escondido Art Gallery, CA
Size Matters, Medium Festival, San Diego, CA
2015
Meet the Makers, OCMA, Logan Studios, Santa Ana CA
Skirball Art Center, Forest for the Trees, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Coastline College, Ribba. Newport Beach, CA
Fullerton College, Faculty, Fullerton, CA
SCA Gallery, By the Foot, Pomona, CA
F+ Gallery, Stone’s Throw, Santa Ana, CA
Irvine Fine Arts Center, By the Foot, Irvine, CA
2013
Laguna Art Museum, Auction 100, Laguna Beach CA
Santa Ana College, Resident Artist, Santa Ana, CA
Laguna Art Museum, Faux Real, Laguna Beach, CA
Orange County Great Park, in case you get lost, Irvine, CA
2012
Coastline Art Gallery, cake / FONDANT, Huntington Beach, CA SCA
Project Gallery, dream a little dream, Pomona, CA
Orange Coast College Arts Pavilion Young Gallery, I’m Afraid Not, Costa Mesa, CA
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Forest for the Trees, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Convention Center, Art in Odd Places, Los Angeles, CA
2011
18th Street Studios Yarn Bombing, Santa Monica, CA Studio 50,
Forest for the Trees, Los Angeles, CA
SCA Project Gallery, god is in the details, Pomona, CA
Huntington Beach Art Center, Pet Project, Huntington Beach, CA
Northern Illinois University Art Museum, in/visible, DeKalb, Illinois
Bunny Gunner, All U Can Eat, Pomona, CA
Laguna Art Museum, Auction 100, Laguna Beach CA
SCA Project Gallery, Wing it, Pomona, CA
2010
Focus Gallery, Soft, Los Angeles, CA
Artist-in-Residence, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, CA
Huntington Beach Art Center, Tenth Art Auction, Huntington Beach, CA
Grand Central Art Center, 100 Artists See Satan: The Fundraiser, Santa Ana, CA
Exit Art Gallery, EcoArtspace Presents What Matters Most” Benefit, NYC, NY
Coastline College, Narrative, Costa Mesa, CA
Irvine Valley College Faculty Show, those who can, teach, Irvine Valley College, CA.
Santora Building, Santa Ana College Faculty Exhibition, Santa Ana, CA.
Laguna Art Museum, Auction 100, Laguna Beach CA
Habitat Cultural Center, New Delhi, India
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, Actions, Conversations, and Intersections, Los Angeles, CA
2009
SCA, Members Exhibit, Pomona CA
da Center for the Arts, Filmmaker Symposium, Pomona, CA
Project Room, SCA, Shelter, Pomona CA
Project Room, Grand Central Art Center, Inside-OUT, Santa Ana, CA
Sales Gallery, Grand Central Art Center, 10th Anniversary Show, Santa Ana, CA
Laguna Art Museum, Auction 100, Laguna Beach CA
Huntington Beach Art Center, departure and Auction, Huntington Beach, CA
SCA Project Gallery, Group Show, Pomona, CA
2008
Orange Coast College Arts Pavilion Young Gallery, We Need to Ask the Trees for Permission, Costa Mesa CA,
@ Space Gallery, Naturally Synthetic, Santa Ana, CA
Irvine Valley College Faculty Show those who can, Teach, Irvine Valley College, CA
West Los Angeles College Art Gallery, Death and Resurrection of the Post-Hysterical Female, Culver City, CA
OCCCA, Animal Magnetism , Santa Ana, CA
Huntington Beach Art Center, Artini Time III Art Auction, Huntington Beach, CA
ArtSeen III: An Exhibit + Charity Auction, Downtown Gallery Row, Los Angeles, CA
Project Room, This used to be real estate, now it’s only fields and trees, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
2007
Project Room, Grand Central Art Center, Birds of Santiago Park, Santa Ana, CA
Rental & Sales Gallery, Grand Central Art Center, Local Motion, Santa Ana, CA
@ Space, Voyage, Santa Ana, CA
Space On Spurgeon, 6 Degrees, Santa Ana, CA
Huntington Beach Art Center, Centered on the Center, Huntington Beach, CA
Sales Gallery, Grand Central Art Center, Photographicalilicious, Santa Ana, CA
2006
Main Gallery, Grand Central Art Center, Family and Friends” Santa Ana, CA
SCA Project Gallery, Reference/Image/Surface, Pomona, CA
Huntington Beach Art Center, Manufacture, Huntington Beach, CA
Irvine Valley College, Faculty Show, Irvine, CA
2005
JartProject, ORAL FIXATION, Santa Ana, CA
Rental & Sales Gallery, Grand Central Art Center, [shudder] release, Santa Ana, CA
Project Room, Grand Central Art Center, The Bird Show, Santa Ana, CA
2004
Laguna Art Museum, OcScene, Laguna Beach, CA
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Weavings, Santa Ana, CA
Square Blue Gallery, The Secondennial, Costa Mesa, CA
Square Blue Gallery, Benefit, Costa Mesa, CA
Memphis Gallery, Scootermania, Santa Ana, CA
The Boardwalk Café, First Annual California Harvest Wine Tasting, and Silent Auction, Santa Ana, CA
Laguna Art Museum. 100 Artists See Satan, 100 Artists See God.
Panel Discussion moderated by Tyler Stallings and Mike McGee. Laguna Beach, CA
Project Room and Main Gallery, Grand Central Art Center, 100 Artists See Satan, Santa Ana, CA (Catalogue.)
“This is Arizona?” Curated by John Spiak. http://collectivegesture.org/look/archives/000063.html
Rooftop Films Southeastern US Tour, Texas and New Orleans. “Home Movies Program.”
Burchfield-Penney Art Center, NY Collects Buffalo State, Buffalo, NY
The Pece Gallery, 4 Person Show, Santa Ana, CA
2003
Main Gallery, Grand Central Art Center, 6 Booths in 7 Weeks, Santa Ana
Rooftop Films Midwest Tour, Rooftop Films, NY, NY CSU Fullerton, Benefit Auction, Fullerton, CA
Rental & Sales Gallery, Grand Central Art Center, The Human Condition, Santa Ana, CA
2002
Darklight Digital Film Festival, Ireland Silverlake Fringe Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Rooftop Films, Summer Series, Brooklyn, NY
Irvine Film & Video Center, Eyeberrations, Irvine, CA
Cal State Fullerton, West Gallery, Graduate Exhibition: A Simple Plan, Fullerton, CA (Solo.)
2001
Grand Central Art Center, Holiday Liquidation, Santa Ana, CA
SCA Gallery, Pomona Arts Colony, collaboration with Michael Maas, Pomona, CA
Titan Center, The Next Stage, Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
The Barbara and Ray Alpert Jewish Community Center, Evva S. Vale Memorial Art Exhibit, Long Beach, CA
Grand Central Art Center, Resume Builder, Santa Ana, CA
Huntington Beach Art Center, Centered on the Center, Huntington Beach, CA