Oscar Corona

Oscar Corona was born in Oceanside, California in 1993. They earned a BFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2017, and their MFA degree from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA in 2024. Corona is interested in artists’ pedagogy and experimenting with plural mediums that inform their interdisciplinary art practice: video installation, performance, painting, and sculpture. At the macro level, their art practice IS an ongoing anthropologic research project, mostly concerned with the construction and representation of sexual, ethnic, and spiritual identity. Corona’s work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at institutional venues including: Blister, ArtCenter, Pasadena, CA (2024); Ssserendipity, ArtCenter, Pasadena, CA (2023); Open Channel, ArtCenter, Pasadena, CA (2023); Friend of Judy, ArtCenter, Pasadena, CA (2023); Plaster of Paris, ArtCenter, Pasadena, CA (2022); ?donde jugaran los ninos?, CalArts, Valencia, CA (2017); wanna come over my parents aren’t home, CalArts, Valencia, CA (2015). Their work has been included in thematic group exhibitions such as 35x35, CCCM Mexican Center for Culture and Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Ooze, The Happy Lion, DTLA, CA (2023); Eden, La Tierra de la Culebra, Highland Park, CA (2023); Stadium Feedback, Thymele Arts, Hollywood, CA (2022); Art Queens Collective, Altadena Library, Altadena, CA (2022); This Video Requires a Password Vol 2, Echo Park Film Center, Echo Park, CA (2019); Naleza, Leiminspace, Chinatown, CA (2018); The Mix Show, Leiminspace, Los Angeles, CA (2018); Febuevery, CalArts, Valencia, CA (2015). Notable performances include h / e / li / os (Hannah O'Brien, Ei Arakawa-Nash, Liz Berger, Oscar Corona), Rosemary Mayer: Connections, The Wallis, Beverly Hills, CA (2023); Kissing The Canvas: Performance Show, The Box, DTLA, CA (2023). Their work is held in the permanent collections of institutions such as Art Center Archive, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (2023); The College of the Canyons Art Gallery, College of the Canyons, Valencia, CA (2012), CSULA Art Gallery, Cal State LA, East LA, CA (2013). Corona has taught art classes through CAP (Community Arts Partnership) via CalArts, and plans to continue an arts educator role. They Live in Fillmore, CA.