Mercedes Dorame

Mercedes Dorame (born 1980[1]) is an American photographer based in Malibu, California.[1]

Mercedes Dorame
Born1980 (age 42–43)[1]
Los Angeles, California[1]
NationalityAmerican
EducationBA: University of California, Los Angeles
Alma materMFA: San Francisco Art Institute
Websitemercedesdorame.com

Background and education

Mercedes Dorame was born in 1980 in Los Angeles, California, and identifies as having Tongva ancestry.[2][1]

Dorame earned her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2003. She earned her master of fine arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2010.[1]

Art career

Dorame's work is in the permanent collections of Hammer Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[2] and has been shown at the Catalina Museum for Art and History.[3][4] The Los Angeles Times has covered her work.[5][6][7]

Works

She works in structural installation, with her works Orion’s Belt—Paahe’ Sheshiiyot—a map for moving between worlds (2018) and Our Land and Sky Waking Up - ‘Eyoo’ooxon koy Tokuupar Chorii’aa (2021) incorporating cog stones found on a site being commercially developed in the north Orange County, California area that are approximately 75,000 years old.[8][9] Her piece "Portal for Tovaangar" was virtually installed on the LACMA campus.[10]

Awards and honors

Dorame was named a Harpo Foundation fellow in 2011 and En Foco's New Works Photography fellow in 2012.[2] The San Francisco Foundation presented Dorame with its James D. Phelan Award in the Visual Arts in 2017.[1] She received a Creative Capital Grant in 2020.[11]

References
  1. "Mercedes Dorame". Hammer Museum. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  2. Scott, Chadd (2022-09-03). "Tongva artists at Catalina Museum for Art & History". See Great Art. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
  3. "What's Happening | Catalina Museum for Art & History". www.catalinamuseum.org. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
  4. "Crossing Waters: Contemporary Tongva Artists Carrying Pimugna | The Catalina Islander". thecatalinaislander.com. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
  5. "How artist Mercedes Dorame shares pieces of her Tongva heritage across L.A.'s public landscapes". Los Angeles Times. 2022-07-06. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
  6. "Artist shares Tongva culture through her work". spectrumnews1.com. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
  7. "'We, as a people, still exist': Artist illuminates Native American history with family photos". PBS NewsHour. 2017-01-07. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
  8. "Mercedes Dorame | Hammer Museum". hammer.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
  9. "Indigenous artist Mercedes Dorame shines at the Fowler Museum". UCLA. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
  10. "L.A.'s Multi-Layered History Comes to Life in These AR/VR Projects". KCET. 2022-08-04. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
  11. "Mercedes Dorame | Light Work". Lightwork. 2022-07-30. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
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