Artist Bios

Paola de la Calle is a Colombian-American multidisciplinary artist whose work examines home, identity, borders, and nostalgia through the use of textiles, printmaking, and sculpture. In her practice, De la Calle combines photographs sourced from family albums and found images which she prints on textiles, as well as poetic texts, paintings made with coffee instead of paint, and found objects, to mine the aesthetics of nostalgia and examine the socio-political relationship between the United States and Colombia. 

She is a graduate of the New York Foundation of the Arts Immigrant Artist Program in 2019 and the lead artist for the Caravan for the Children Campaign as part of her residency with Galeria de la Raza in 2020. She was awarded fellowships at KALA (2022) and The Studios at MassMOCA (2025). She has attended residencies at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY and Casa Lu in Mexico City, MX. She’s been featured on Hyperallergic’s “A View from the Easel”, “Through My Eyes” on Hulu, NPR, Refinery29, The Boston Art Review, Latina Magazine, Glasstire, and VOGUE among others. @paoladelacalle

Fred Dewitt was born in Oakland, CA. He lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, CA. He has a BA in Cinema Production from San Francisco State University and a MFA from University of California Berkeley. Dewitt is a research-based artist who sees materials as a cornerstone of cultural liberation and renewal. His art practice incorporates filmmaking, painting, sculpture, performance, and social practice. His most recent paintings fuse Asian woodblock printing techniques with Western oil painting. He uses ink, oil and natural pigments on paper, wood, silk, and canvas to create hybrid motifs. He is a narrative history painter who explores parallels between 19th century artistic expressions and present-day realities. Also, He designs large scale sculptures and multiples that combine representational clues with camouflage aesthetics of patterns, plant life, symbols of healing and resistance. His artwork reflects the life he has lived. His work is about the fears and trials of being an African American man with a disability, yet it is also about the joy and beauty of our collective human conquest. @brotherdewitt

Matt Goldberg is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA 2015) and the University of Colorado, Boulder (BA 2012). He received the Recology Artist Residency (2014-15) and the Palo Alto Art Center’s “45 Days of Clay” Residency (2016). His ceramic and assemblage sculptures remix American pop cultural icons through a comic, cut-and-paste aesthetic. @goldmatt

Dana Hemenway is an artist based in San Francisco. Her work is rooted in the excavation and elevation of utilitarian objects to make visible what has become habituated in our built environments. Hemenway uses these functional items as materials to form traditionally fiber-based crafts–– lights and cords are woven through ceramics or the gallery wall, extension cords are transformed into macramé chains. Hemenway has had residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE), ACRE (Stueben, WI), SÍM (Reykjavik, Iceland), Joya: arte + ecología (Spain), The Wassaic Project (Upstate New York) and at Recology Waste Management (San Francisco). Dana is a 2024 Eureka Fellow, Fleishhacker Foundation and the recipient of The San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant and a Southern Exposure Alternative Exposure Grant. She has a public art commission at SFO’s Terminal 1. Dana has exhibited her artwork locally, nationally, and internationally. From 2015 – 2017, Dana served as a co-director of Royal Nonesuch Gallery, an artist-run project space in Oakland, CA. She received her MFA from Mills College and her BA from University of California Santa Cruz. She is represented by Eleanor Harwood Gallery. @dana_t_h

Sahar Khoury is an artist based in Oakland, California.  Khoury makes sculptures that integrate abstraction, personal and political symbols, and an intuitive sensitivity to site. Found or rejected objects that are immediate, abundant, and recurring serve as a script for constructions made of metal, clay, cement, and papier-mâché. Trained as a cultural anthropologist and having never taken any fundamental art classes, Khoury continues to develop an idiosyncratic approach to merging diverse materials, with a primary commitment to spontaneity and interdependence. She received her BA in Anthropology from UC Santa Cruz in 1996 and her MFA From UC Berkeley in 2013. She received the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Art Award in 2019. Her work has been exhibited at Oakland Museum of California; the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, in Bay Area Now 8 (2018), and CCA Wattis Institute for the Arts, San Francisco. Khoury is represented by Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco; CANADA, New York; and Parker Gallery, Los Angeles. @saharkhoury2010

Cathy Lu’s work manipulates traditional Chinese art objects and symbols as a way to deconstruct the assumptions we have about Asian American identity and cultural authenticity. By creating ceramic based sculptures and large scale installations, she explores what it means to be both Asian and American, while not being entirely accepted as either. Unpacking how experiences of immigration, cultural hybridity, and cultural assimilation become part of the larger American identity is central to her work. @cathyclu

Bella Marinos is a visual artist based in Southern California. Their work incorporates cultural imagery and ritualistic elements inspired by their Mexican heritage. Through these works, they express a longing to connect, while exploring generational trauma, grief, gender identity conflicts, religion, and colonialism. Bella received their BA from Chapman University. Their work has been exhibited in galleries and museums like, La Mama Galleria, Melrose Botanical Garden Gallery, the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art,Guggenheim Gallery, the Museum at the California Center for the Arts, Brea Gallery, and Craft Contemporary. @bellamarinos

Patrick Martinez (b. 1980, Pasadena, CA) earned his BFA with honors from Art Center College of Design in 2005. His work has been exhibited domestically and internationally in Los Angeles, Mexico City, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Miami, New York, Seoul, and the Netherlands, at venues including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian NMAAHC, the Tucson Museum of Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Vincent Price Art Museum, the Museum of Latin American Art, the Crocker Art Museum, the Rollins Art Museum, the California African American Museum, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and El Museo del Barrio, among others.

Patrick’s work resides in the permanent collections of The Broad, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA), Buffalo AKG Art Museum, the Rubell Museum, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the California African American Museum, the Autry Museum of the American West, the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Tucson Museum of Art, the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, the University of North Dakota Permanent Collection, the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, the Crocker Art Museum, the Escalette Permanent Collection of Art at Chapman University, the Manetti-Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis, the Rollins Museum of Art, and the Museum of Latin American Art, among others.

Patrick was awarded a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island, FL and in 2022, he was awarded a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. In the fall of 2021 Patrick was the subject of a solo museum exhibition at the Tucson Museum of Art entitled Look What You Created. Patrick’s suite of ten neon pieces purchased by the Whitney Museum of American Art was a yearlong exhibition installed on the Kenneth C. Griffin Hall in the entrance of the Museum. Patrick Martinez’s “Ghost Land” exhibition was on view at the ICA San Francisco through January 2024. Through April 2024, Patrick’s work was shown at The Broad in Los Angeles as part of the exhibition “Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog)”. Patrick’s solo exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary Museum “Histories” was view through January 2025. His work was featured in the 2025 Made in LA Biennial at the Hammer Museum. Patrick lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and is represented by Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles. @patrick_martinez_studio

Lee Materazzi is a contemporary artist from Miami, FL now living in San Francisco, CA. Materazzi uses her body as a medium alongside color and texture, at times responding to remnants of material or work left by her children in the studio. Her compositions are off-kilter and investigate autonomy- rejecting acceptable social norms that regulate the human body. Materazzi’s works are considered sculpturally, but exist only temporarily. She documents what she creates with medium format photography to preserve it. Her work has been shown internationally and is a part of numerous public art collections including The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, The Sagamore Collection, the Scholl Collection at World Class Boxing and The Perez Art Museum. @leematerazzi