Christal Pérez is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Los Angeles, California.  Her work interrogates the meta-narratives of history and exposes its fissures, through sculpture, performance and video.  She recieved a B.A. in Art from UCLA in 2019, and recently attained an M.A. in Art History at Williams College in 2022.  She has shown at Vincent Price Art Museum, The Box, New Wight Gallery, Cal Arts, USC MFA Roski Studios, Human Resources, Last Projects, The Reef and Palos Verdes Art Center, to name a few.

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education
2022  M.A. in History of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
2019  B.A. in Art, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2017  A.A. in Art, Studio Art, Art History, Humanities, Los Angeles City College, CA

solo exhibition
2019  Christal Perez: If Food Could Talk, Current: LA Public Art Triennial, Art in the Park Gallery

select group exhibitions
2023  elixir, Tlaloc studios, Los Angeles, CA
2022  location remote, Los Angeles, CA 
2019  100, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
           Graphite Juried Exhibition: Transit, Little Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018   UCLA Juried Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
            Skrrt, Cal Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2017    Notes on Trauma, Da Vinci Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
            Delegates, Los Angeles Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA
2014   Juried Exhibition: Now Trending, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA
2011    The Getty: Engaged Student Observer, Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA

select performances
2022   funeral for a cactus, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
2019   red sunset bleach sky The Box Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
            Cuts/Amends, Last Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
            (Re)animation, The Reef, Los Angeles, CA
            Lucha Libre, Human Resources, Los Angeles
2018    Snowball, USC Graduate Studios, Los Angeles, CA
            Migracion Walk: Boyle Heights to Rosemead, East Los Angeles to Rosemead, CA
2017    jesus was a martyr like my mother, Pasadena, CA

artist residencies
2022   Ecology Artist in Residence, Williams College Theater Department, Williamstown, MA
2020   Performance Artist in Residence with Karla Ekatherine Canseco at Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA