Contact email : moepen88@gmail.com
Education
UCSD MFA Student -Current-
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Digital Media from the University of Houston
Grants
2023
EDI Grant UCSD
2019
Houston Arts Alliance grant recipient - Support for Artist and Creative Individuals January - December 2019
Experience
Teaching Assistant at UCSD 2022-Present
FotoFest outreach education program : Literacy Through Photography Teaching Artist May 2016 - 2022
Art League Houston education program: Artbound Teaching Artist January 2020 - 2022
Art Installation business - Self Employed 2019 - Present
Volunteer & Special Projects Coordinator for FotoFest 2016 Biennial, FotoFest 2018 Biennial, FotoFest International
FotoFest outreach education program : Literacy Through Photography Teaching Artist May 2016 - January 2019
Volunteer & Special Projects Coordinator for FotoFest 2016 Biennial, FotoFest International December 2015 - May 2016
Darkroom Lab Monitor, Photography and Digital Media Department, University of Houston, August 2012 to May 2015
SOLO Exhibitions
2022
CUIR, Art League Houston, Houston TX Dec 2022 - Feb2023
2019
Volver, Space HL, Houston TX
2018
Cultura, Alabama Song, Houston TX
2016
La Cuadrícula, The Tank Space - Spring Street Studios, Houston, TX
GROUP Exhibitions
2023
Book Arts of Houston, Houston, TX April 22, 2023 - June 17, 2023
Find me in the White Room, VAF Main Gallery UCSD, La Jolla CA March
2019
Aqui, Ahora, Art League, Houston, TX
CTRL + A, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christy, TX
2018
Presa House Gallery, San Antonio TX
Ephemeral Instant, Mid Main Gallery, Houston TX
Tiny Topography, Flight Gallery, San Antonio TX
Ratio Redux Hardy & Nance Studios, Houston Tx
MECA Mujeres Malas on Sor Juana Inés
Curatorial Projects
2019
El Chow: mango verde, Sabine Street Studios, Houston TX - Latinx queer people Opening April 3rd
2018
El Chow: fruto en vaina, El Rincón Social, Houston, TX - 20 Houston-based artists that share an affinity for Latinx cultural traditions and examine their hybrid mentalities as women and queer people.
2016
Ratio, El Rincón Social, Houston, TX
Publications
2018
Paratext Zine on Cultura, text by Reyes Ramirez Houston TX, November 2018
Glasstire Top 5: September 13, 2018
Deep Red Press On Houston, Cultura and the work of Maureen Penders by Reyes Ramirez
Glasstire on Notes From Alabama Song: Reyes Ramirez on Maureen Penders
La Horchata Zine Winter Issue
2017
Daughters of Violence- the zine Issue II: Food, POC Online classroom
Seities Portraiture Issue
2017
Mujeres Malas performance
Un Lugar Nuevo The Tipping Point Gallery, Houston, TX
Lecture/Art: Elysia Crampton x Paraspace Books, Private Eye Gallery, Houston, TX
2016
Fotos y Artefactos, Flight Gallery, San Antonio TX
2015
Conditions, Blue Orange Gallery Houston, TX
Dionysia, Artist Talk for University of Houston Honors College Houston, TX
2014
HIUSA Rich Morty Hostal, Houston, TX
EXPOSED; UHPSA Exhibition, Alabama Song Houston, TX
One of Us; Barbee Manshun Houston, TX
Ratio El Rincón Social Houston, TX
ZINE UHPSA
2013
Ratio El Rincón Social Houston, TX
2012
MD Anderson Library Juried Exhibition by Christine Jelson West Houston, TX
Collectors
Michael Alaniz
Tania Albin - Collector
Raisa Andrews
Sarah Ansel - Collector
Bennie Ansel - Artists
Emily Areta - Musician
Hellen Ascoli
Molly Blanchard - Collector
Diedrick Brackens - Sculpture artist
Daniela Castillo
Ashlyn Davis - HCP Director
Annick Dekiouk, Exhibitions Assistant at FotoFest International
Amy Evans - Artists
Theresa Escobedo - Artist
Brenda Franco - Artist
Michael Golden - Artist
Gen Granados - Health Educator
Yeiry Guevara - Artist and Writer
Carol Kazmer Liffman - Houston Center for Photography Board Member
Michelle Kiang
J Mares - Poet and Collector
Adán Medrano - Chef
Delilah Montoya - Artist
Amelia Nusbaum
Allison Pappas - Art Historian
Reyes Ramirez - Poet & Writer
Isaac Reyes - Artist
Ignacio Sanchez - Artist
Mark Schindler - Collector
Jose Soegaard
Crysbel Tejada - Poet
Alonzo Gallery