EDUCATION
2011 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2009 (MFA) Rhode Island School of Design
2003 (BA) Yale University
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EXHIBITION RECORD
(solo)
2012 Site Set, Luchsinger Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2012 For Closure (Outdoors, the Bronx), DOT UrbanArts Program, the Bronx, NY
2010 Robert Moses, He Knows Us, flatbreadaffair, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Process to Present: Recent Work, Anne Reid Gallery, Princeton, NJ
(group)
2012
Building Material, Control Room, Los Angeles, CA
Exhibit A, Calico, Brooklyn, NY
Coherence and Cohesion: Let's Keep It Together, Coworkers Projects, New York, NY
2011
The Build Up, The Fowler Collective, Brooklyn, NY
Reformation 2011, former Skowhegan Jail, Skowhegan, ME
Year Zero, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
Tompkins Projects West: Works on Paper, Dan Graham, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Keep the Home Fires Burning, The Fowler Collective, Brooklyn, NY
Blitz, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Like Death, New Mexico Will Catch Up with You in the End, The Fisher Press,
Santa Fe, NM
The Drawing Show, Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2009
East|West Artist Exchange, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Geography of Imagination, Adam House Gallery, New York, NY
(Curator: Phong Bui, Publisher, The Brooklyn Rail)
Interactive, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design,
Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
Lather, Rinse, Repeat (as Desired), Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
Dialogue: Bauhaus, Chace Center, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2008
A Varied Terrain, Chace Center, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Graduate Painting Departmental Exhibition, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
Boston Young Contemporaries, Gallery 808, Boston, MA
(Jurors: Jackie Gendel, Tom McGrath, and Roger White)
2006
Greenwich Academy Visual Arts Faculty Show, Luchsinger Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Creative Works Open Studios, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2005 – 2011
Artspace Flatfiles, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2003
Undergraduate Thesis Work, Green Hall Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2002
Still Wet: Recent work by Molly Christian, Anne Weber, and Gabriela Salazar;
Maya’s Room, New Haven, CT
Photographs by Gabriela Salazar, Molly Christian, and Elina Fessi; Maya’s Room,
New Haven, CT
Norfolk School of Art End-of-Summer Show, Yale Norfolk School of Art Gallery,
Norfolk, CT
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GRANTS | FELLOWSHIPS | AWARDS
2013 Smack Mellon "Hot Picks"
2012 Yaddo Residency
2010 Studio LLC Participant, Jamaica Center for Learning and the Arts
2009
MacDowell Colony Fellowship
Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency (Alternate), New York, NY
Award of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design
2008
Award of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design
(Juror: Ian Berry, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College.)
RISD Fellowship
2007 RISD Fellowship
2006 Vermont Studio Center Residency
2005 Keegan Art Fellowship, Greenwich Academy
2003 Berkeley College Arts Prize, Yale University
2002
Ellen Batell Stoekel Fellowship, Yale Summer School of Art
Richter Fellowship for Summer Travel and Research, Yale University
Paul Mellon Grant for Senior Research, Yale University
2000 – 2003 Sudler Fund for the Creative and Performing Arts, Yale University
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CURATORIAL WORK
2013
CAROUSEL
Organized with Mary Choueiter.
2012
Optotype | 92YTribeca Skowhegan Alumni Series, 92YTribeca, New York, NY
Organized with Lucas Blalock. Proposals curated by Carrie Springer, Senior Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of Art.
2009
Lather, Rinse, Repeat (as Desired), Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
Organized with Elizabeth Ferrill.
2008
A Varied Terrain, Chace Center, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Organized the first student show in the new addition to the RISD Museum, with fellow students Martin Smick and Mayen Alcantara. Proposals juried by Judith Tannenbaum, Curator of Contemporary Art, RISD Museum.
2007 – 2009
Arthur Loeb Design Science Collection : Assistant Curator
Organized, maintained, and promoted collection and teaching materials of the late Dr. Arthur Loeb, pioneer of Design Science and Harvard Professor.
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PUBLISHED WORK | WRITING
2010
Journal of Contemporary Aesthetics www.contempaesthetics.org
"Another One Bites the Dust!"
Urban decay and demolition as a compressed and heightened experience of the sublime ruin, and some ways in which this modern ruin has affected the use of the vernacular of the ruin in contemporary art.” Volume 8 (2010).
Color&Color Magazine: Invited Contributor, Black & White Issue, October.
The Report, by Jessica Francis Kane: Endpaper artwork; Published by Graywolf
Press, August.
The Last Works: Christopher K. Ho and Kevin Zucker, The Fisher Press, Santa Fe,
NM: Invited Contributor
2006
Lostwriters.net: Art Critic
"Aerosol and Glass: Graffiti and Dale Chihuly, Together at Last," September 19.
"Spanish Art is Sexy, Part 3: Felix Gonzalez-Torres Makes a Cameo in El Barrio,” June 5.
"Spanish Art is Sexy, Part 2: Sorolla and The Hispanic Society," May 18.
"Spanish Art is Sexy, Part 1: An aged Goya keeps it up at the Frick," April 30.
"The Art of Existing from A-Z," April 10.
2002
Yale Literary Magazine: Cover Art Contributor, Contributor
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012
Wagley, Catherine. "Five Artsy Things to Do in This Week, Including Photos in a Red Line," LA Weekly, November 7.
2011
Volner, Ian. "At Home With Moses: Robert Moses, He Knows Us," The Architect's Newspaper, February 15.
2010
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. 2010 Studio LLC: Year Zero (catalog), Jamaica, NY.
Pristoop, Rebecca. “Robert Moses, He Knows Us” (supplementary brochure), Flatbreadaffair, Brooklyn, NY.
Trudeau, Prescott. Art Within Reach: From the WPA to the Present, Children’s Museum for the Arts, New York, NY.
2009
Van Siclen, Bill. “RISD graduate show embraces the new austerity,” The Providence Journal, May 21.
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TEACHING
[for full teaching CV, contact belasalazar[at]gmail.com]
2010 – Present Riverdale Country School, Faculty
2010 Children's Museum for the Arts, Artist-in-Residence
2007 – 2009 Rhode Island School of Design; Teaching Assistant, Instructor of Record (Mixed Media), Visiting Critic
2005 – 2007 Greenwich Academy; Faculty, Costume Department Technician
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