Contact email : moepen88@gmail.com
Education
Master in Fine Arts from the University of California San Diego
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Digital Media from the University of Houston
Grants
2025
David Antin Prize UCSD
2024
Russel Grant UCSD
2023
EDI Grant UCSD
2019
Houston Arts Alliance grant recipient - Support for Artist and Creative Individuals January - December 2019
Experience
Temporary Lecturer at UCSD 2025
Associate in Position at UCSD 2025
Teaching Assistant at UCSD 2022-2025
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
2025
Nelwat, thesis show at SME Gallery UCSD April 4th to April 20th 2025
2024
Etched on a Score, SME gallery UCSD February 12th to February 23rd 2024
2023
Coterminous, Commons Gallery UCSD May 2023
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
2026
TOPOGRAPHIX - Cypress College Art Galery, Cypress, CA
Mud + Corn + Stone + Blue Lawndale Art Center - Travelling show 2024-2027
2025
Concrete Hope | Esperanza Concreta - Santa Monica College, Los Angeles, CA
Mud + Corn + Stone + Blue College of Wooster Art Museum - Travelling show 2024-2027
Time Trafficking. Recurrences and Conjurations, Persons Unknown Gallery, Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA
of Skin and Soil, VAF Main Gallery, UCSD La Jolla CA
I am sending you love from the future, Mandeville Art Gallery La Jolla CA
2024
Mud + Corn + Stone + Blue, El Rubin Center, August 29th 2024 to April 12th 2025
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
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
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