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CV



Peloloca is a multidisciplinary artist based in NYC. After a two-decade career spanning independent film, interdisciplinary design & new media, they returned to a studio practice in clay. The CV below outlines their experience relevant to this transition.

SELECT SHOWS 2026

An Unwritten Future
Group show, Crown Gallery, Metro Arts Studios, Bridgeport, CT
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Concurrent  
Group show, AnkhLave Arts Alliance, Governor’s Island, NYC
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Holy Teeth
Two-person show, Stephen Street Gallery, NYC
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Handala in Ireland
Drop Everything Biennale, Inis Oírr, Ireland
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International Juried Show
Group show, Center for Contemporary Art, NJ
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Member Show
Group show, Powerhouse Arts, NYC
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Crazy!
Group show, Bau Gallery, Beacon NY
2025

In the Belly of The Whale
Group show, Whale Building Collective, NYC

2024
One Day This Will Be Then
Group show, Beverly's, NYC
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Hind’s House Bushwick
Group show, Hind’s Hall Collective, NYC 
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Hind’s House Columbia
Group show, Hind’s Hall Collective, NYC
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Form of Light
Group show, Keepsake Gallery, NYC
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Fallow Frames Biennial
Public Art Festival, NYC 

RESIDENCIES2026
 Ceramic Resident, Drop Everything, Inis Oírr, Ireland

2025 Watershed Ceramics, Artist Resident, Maine

2023ATEA, Artist Resident, Mexico City

2019 Casa Lu, Artist Resident, Mexico City

2014 New Inc, New Museum, Resident Fellow,  NYC 
AWARDS / PRESS2026
Chronogram, “CRAZY”: A Collective Choir of Creative Rage at BAU Gallery

2025 Angus Graham Memorial Award, Watershed Ceramics

2024 Hyperallergic, Exhibition Looks Back at Columbia’s Encampments
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The Art Newspaper, Exhibition at Columbia Univ. seeks to bring attention to Gaza
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Bushwick Daily, Among the Artists In Ridgewood
ARTIST TALKS2022NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Guest Lecture, NYC

2019School of Visual Arts, Guest Lecture, NYC

2014U.N General Assembly, Keynote, UNIS conference, NYC
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Wharton School, UPenn, Artist Talk, PA 

2012Harvard University, Artist Talk, MA
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Body & Soul festival, Artist Talk, Ireland
EDUCATIONMFA Design & Technology, Parsons School of Design, NYC
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BFA Fine Art, Stella Maris College, Chennai, India







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