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Private: ALFREDO MERCADO

Alfredo Mercado Biography

The Los Angeles based illustator and painter Alfredo Mercado received a Bacherlor of Fine Arts from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His color intense works depict geometric prints as well as landscape paintings painted with oil and watercolors.

 

Pasadena, California

Born in Mexico

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Education

Art Center College of Design

Pasadena, California BFA

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2005 Gallery 825/LAAA Bergamont Annex, Los Angeles, CA

2001 Delirium Tremens Gallery, Echo Park, CA

2000 Delirium Tremens Gallery, Echo Park, CA

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013 Punch Gallery, 2013 Punch Invitational, Seattle, WA

2007 California Open Exhibition, TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA – Curated by Peter Frank

2006 Mayday, Market Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Sex Sells, Red House Gallery, Venice, CA Jewish Xmas, Harvey Levine Gallery, Culver City, CA

2005 Speakeasy, Upspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Natural progression, Gallery 825/LAAA’ Bergamont Annex, Los Angeles, CA

Next, GOCA (Gallery of Contemporary Art), Wilmington, CA

In The Abstract, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2004 Fragile, YOO Projects, -scope, Miami, FL

the F stops here, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Tim Wride, LACMA Photography

Sexy Beasty, RAID Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Private Acts, YOO Projects, -scope, Los Angeles, CA

Ordinary World, YOO Projects, -scope, New York, NY

2003 50/50, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

From 1 to 10, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

And now a word from our sponsors, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA curated by Mat Gleason

L.A. Metro, Clarion University, Pennsylvania

Fresh stART, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2002 50/50, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Art, Work, Life, LAtch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Make yourself at home, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2001 Something Else, LAtch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Autumn, AZ Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

One piece at a time, Delirium Tremens Gallery, Echo Park, CA

 

Publications

GRAFUCK Vol. 3, 2007

GRAFUCK Vol. 2, 2006

Beautiful Decal Magazine, Issue L, 2005

Spectrum 6, 1999

Spectrum 5, 2000

Society of Illustrators – Illustration West, 1997

Society of Illustrators – Illustration West, 1995

 

Awards

Taki Fuji Foundation – Scholarship

The Society of Illustrators – Scholarship

Art Center College of Design  – Scholarship