Georgina Reskala
(Mexican-Lebanese)
Reskala was born and raised in Mexico City.
She received her BFA and MFA from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco.
Reskala is an artist dealing with ideas of memory, history and the power of narrative. Through
repetition, her works question the distortion of history through time and tie into ideas of collective memory and our shared past.
In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Hariban Award in Kyoto Japan. Her work has been shown
nationally and internationally. She has had several solo exhibitions at PDX CONTEMPORARY
ART, Portland OR., K.OSS Contemporary Detroit MI, The Meyer Simpson Library, Oakland CA,
Contornos, Mexico City, Quotidian, San Francisco, CA. Her work has been shown at Zona Maco
Foto, Mexico City, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle WA., Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA., and Pulse Miami,
Miami FL.
Reskala’s work is held in the public collections of the Portland Art Museum, the Frye Art Museum
(Seattle, WA), the Jordan Schnizter Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Cassilhaus Collection,
Chapel Hill, NC and Museo Comunitario de Arte, Zacatecas, Mexico.
Represented by PDX CONTEMPORARY ART
EDUCATION
2015 MFA, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1995 BFA, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Inventing the Truth, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR
2019 Past Imperfect, K.OSS CONTEMPORARY ART, Detroit, MI
2017 Residue of a Vision, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR
2015 Time covers all, The Meyer Simpson Library, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2011 Segundos, Contornos Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2009 Roomscapes, Luxxe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Roomscapes and Memory, Edgewise Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005 Tenth Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Ni de aqui ni de alla, La Cueva, Mexico City, Mexico
2001 Quotidian, San Francisco, CA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Walking, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR
Fragments: Artists Exploring Photo-Materiality, Marshall Contemporary, Venice, CA
2020
The Altered Image: Women Telling Stories by Combining Photography with Mixed Media, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami, FL
Reimagined Landscapes, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
River, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR
2019
Put this in your window and think of me, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK
A stitch in time, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
IT’S SUMMER, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR
2018
Along the Edge, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR
2017
Tracks and Echoes, DZINE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Women in Photography, Yixian International Photo Festival, Yixian, China
Photography as Response, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Art in a New Place, Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, Venice, CA
Dislocation, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR
2016
The Von Restorff Effect, Trunk Gallery, Venice, CA
2015
Weaves, Trunk Gallery, Venice, CA
Hábitat, Slate Art, San Ramon Valley, CA
2012
Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
2011
Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
Contemporary Landscapes, Harvey Milk Institute, San Francisco, CA
Venice Art walk and Silent Auction, Venice, CA
2010
Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
2009
Venice Art walk and Silent Auction, Venice, CA
2008
Venice Art walk and Silent Auction, Venice, CA
2007
Venice Art walk and Silent Auction, Venice, CA
2003
What remains, Tenth Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
COLLECTIONS
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
GRANTS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND RESIDENCIES
2021 Artist in Residence, Iris Project, Venice, CA
2020 JRNL 7, Winner, Winter 2021 Issue, Fotofilmic
2017 Arts Territory Exchange, with Gudrun Filipska, Skeidarárhlaup, Iceland
2017 Shortlisted for the Hariban Award, Kyoto, Japan
2017 Director’s Choice Award, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2016 Honorary Judge for National Children’s’ Art Competition Bergamot Station, Santa Monica CA
2016 Artist in Residence, Artist Residency in Motherhood with Lenka Clayton
2014 Youth Art Exchange, Fellowship at College of the Arts, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Through a dark window, Honorable Mention, International Photography
Awards
It’s summer, Honorable Mention, Santa Fe Workshops
Honorable Mention, HeyHot Shots Competition
2010 Honorable Mention, Photowork Place “Uncommon Portrait” Competition
COMMISSIONS
2011 Oaxaca Mural, Sala de Cabildo del Ayuntamiento, Ocotlán Oaxaca,
Mexico
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
2017 Ver Para Correr, Mexico City, Mexico
2014 Artist Talk: USF University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2009 Contornos, Ad Agency, documentation of Oaxaca families
RELATED WORK
2003 Assistant to Todd Hido
2001 Mentorship with Todd Hido
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021
Miller, Brianna. “Ansel Adams, Johnnie Chatman, Emily Counts headline
Portland’s spring art shows.” Oregonlive, March 24, 2021.
Flores Medina, Yvonne, “Detective de la conciencia.” Revista de la Universidad, February 2021.
2020
“Labor: Motherhood and Art in 2020.” New Mexico State University, New Mexico, February 2020.
2019
Suarez Porras, Tamara. “This Land Is Not Neutral: Georgina Reskala and Dionne Lee,” Art Practical, April 17, 2019.
2010
Fundación. “Parafernalia e Independencia.” Editorial Ink, 2010.
2009
Museo de Arte Popular, Commemoration of the Centenary and Bicentenary of the Mexican Revolution and Independence in 2010