Photograph by Star Montana

BIO:

Jaklin Romine was born in Burbank, California, and currently lives in Pasadena. She lived in East LA [El Sereno] for 15 years, before that she lived in Echo Park, and grew up in Alhambra/San Gabriel. She studied Studio Arts at Cal State LA, and got her Masters of Fine Art at CalArts . Romine has been working professionally since 2015 and has been exhibiting in multiple group exhibitions across Los Angeles at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, NAVEL, Noysky Projects, Superstition Gallery, One Archives, Night Gallery, Dominique Gallery, Avenue 50 Studio, Gallery 825, Eastside Cafe, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery and in New York at Flux Factory, Gibney Studios, New Women Space. She has lectured on her work at UCLA, NY Film Academy, Chapman University, SCRIPTS College, Torrance Art Museum, Cal Arts, as part of the ArtChangeUS: Arts in a Changing America five year initiative. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Hyperallergic, Curate LA, KCET, on the cover, centerfold, and contributor of Full Blede and X-TRA. In 2019 she won the Rema Hort Foundation Emerging Artist Grant which assisted her in creating her first solo show, Why Bring Me Flowers When I’m Dead ? When You Had The Time To Do It When I Was Alive/Living With SCI, PSLA, Los Angeles, CA. Then the work from her solo show was curated into group shows at The Wignall Museum, Consulado General de Mexico, SUR Biennial at Rio Hondo College. Simultaneously, Jaklin created a zine from her photographic work and traveled to the Shanghai Art Book Fair, Independent Art Book Fair in LA & NY, Long Beach Zine Fest, San Diego Zine Fest, San Francisco Zine Fest, and Los Angeles Zine Fest. Currently she is working on new photographic and installation work with artist Ginger Quintanilla. (Ginger Q)

 

Artist Statement:

There are three cohesive areas to my practice: idea creation, working in collaboration with art production assistants, and performance. Within this dual role as artist and director, I found that the ability to formulate ideas and execute them is not limited to socially-constructed ideas of disability. I am in physical transition, and thus, wanted to create art that hovers within multiple art practices. I ambiguate the idea of the image, by turning prints into 3D sculptural objects. Using digital sublimation on chiffon, iridescent fabric, and vinyl creating a pliable image that hangs, droops, sags, and folds in unconventional ways. Breaking the language between image, object hood that circumvents the architecture it creates and inhabits as an installation. To complicate the situation I create fabric sculptures that are mounted behind or lay beneath the image that creates an abstraction of the content and the context of the image that breaks reality and the expected. Which allows the space I’ve created to float between installation, sculpture, and photography on top of a fabric scape that pushes photography into the third dimension. I take over spaces to confront my reality. While also confronting the intersection of feminist ideals that are formed by my identity as a disabled, queer, latinx, poc, living in the Southern California landscape. Where I use performance art to confront inaccessible art spaces in Los Angeles by documenting my body sitting outside for an entire art opening or closing. With zine/art book making as the last area of practice that I’ve picked backup this past year after a 15 year hiatus.

Education

2017 Masters of Fine Arts, Photo/Media, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia

2013 Bachelor of Arts, Studio Arts, California State University of Los Angeles

Solo Exhibitions

2022               She Breathes in Dirt and Exhales Flowers/Mejor Sola Que Mal Acompañada, RIO HONDO Art Gallery, Whittier, CA

2019 Living With SCI/Why Bring Me Flowers When I’m Dead? When You Had The Time To Do It When I Was Alive. PSLA, Los Angeles, CA

2017                 I Am Here, Thesis Exhibition, D301, Cal Arts, CA

2016 Messages of…, Main Gallery, Cal Arts

2013 Lost In Art, COMA Gallery, CSULA , Los Angeles

2012 Saturday 4;37AM, COMA Gallery, CSULA, Los Angeles

Group Exhibition

2024 Crip’d Ecologies: Unfurling Expanded Environments, a group exhibition co-curated by moira williams and Jeremiah Barber, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

Los Angeles Art Fair, Zine Swap, Curated by Presented by, Valerie J. Bowers & Shadow Box Gallery, Los Angeles,CA

2023 TRADITIONS: Honoring Heritage, Ritual, and Family' Curated by Thinkspace Projects and Tlaloc Studios, MUZEO Museum and Cultural Center, Anaheim, CA

Printed Matter Los Angeles, MOCA @ Geffin Contemporary, CA

ACID FREE, Los Angeles Art Book Market & Bazaar , Blum & Poe, CA

2022 WANTED: A World For One Billion, In partnership with UNFPA AND Photoville, United Nations, New York City, NY

Side Street Projects Zine Fest, Altadena, CA

𝘼𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙣 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙚 - 𝙀𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨, LA ARTCORE, Los Angeles , CA

"If We Never Get Better”, TILT Institute of Chicago,Curator Sydney Ellison, Chicago, Illinois

‘Radical Dawn’, D2/ Luna ANAIS Gallery, Guest Curator's, Alicia Piller, Ingelwood, CA

Print Pomona Art Book Fair, Pomona College, Edmunds Ballroom, East Los Angeles County, CA

2021 "Pride Publics: Words and Actions," organized by ONE Archives Foundation, curated by Rubén Esparza, West Hollywood, CA

Platonic Intimacy , CURINA.CO, Curated by HaleyCranberry 

La Frontera: A New Latinx Lexicon, Humble Arts Foundation,

2020 Daniela Lieja Quintanar’s curatorial series,“Tracking Movement to Reinvent

Narratives: Contemporary Context of Migration, Protests, and Mobilizations Effects In Change”.

https://www.instagram.com/galleryplatform.la/

QUEER iennial, Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, (postponed)

We Are Here / Here We Are, Durden & Ray, Los Angeles , CA

ESSE, The Colab Space, Whittier, CA

Duality/Inversion, Ex Corpse Winery, Pasadena, CA

2019 My Body Is The House That We Live In, Gibney Dance Studio Gallery, Manhattan, NY

Independent Art Book Fair, Industria Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

SUR:biennial - Cuentista, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA

Shanghai Art Book Fair,Tank Shanghai, China

35x35: Self & Identity, Mexican Center for Cinematic Arts and Culture, Los Angeles CA

These Creatures, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art,Rancho Cucamonga, CA

Long Beach Zine Fest, Expo Arts Center, Long Beach,CA

BOILING POINT, Superposition Gallery, Los Angeles,CA

Independent Art Book Fair, Other Places Art Fair Installation, South Los Angeles, CA

ACCESS DENIED, Art in the Park, Highland Park,CA

Los Angeles Zine Fest, Helms Bakery, Culver City, CA

TALK BACK, Flux Factory, Queens, NY

Experimental Night, EX corpse winery, Pasadena, CA

SIN FRONTERAS: Artists Against Violence at the Border, Eastside Cafe, CA

How We Heal: National Day of Racial Healing, Ariva & Dominique Gallery, Echo Park, CA

CONTINUANT, Noysky Projects, Hollywood, CA

2018 Sentades En Silencio/Sit In Silence, New Women Space, Brooklyn, NY

MAKING KIN, Navel , Los Angeles, CA

Emerging Artist 2018, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Hollywood ,CA

Hear Our Voices, Avenue 50 Studio, Highland Park ,CA

2017        Clothing Optional, Night Gallery, Los Angeles,CA

Cal Arts Open Studios, Cal Arts, CA

The Clique, Lime Gallery, CalArts CA

                 Leftovers, FAR Bazaar 2017 Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA

2016       The Group Show, MFA 2, L-Shaped Gallery Cal Arts, CA

Cal Arts Open Studios, Cal Arts, CA

Digital Art Expo, D300, CalArts,CA

2015         Written on the Body, Group Exhibition curated by Ron Athey, CalArts, CA

                  Photo LA, The Reef, Los Angeles, CA

                  Q.U.A.C Group Show, Valencia, CA

2014 Home Makers? An Exhibition/ Cypress Village Tunnel, Los Angeles,CA

C-Note: An Exhibition & Fund for Syrian Children, JAUS Art Gallery, CulverCity, CA

2013 Equity for All Artists, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA

2012 Luckman Project, Luckman Gallery, CSULA , Los Angeles,CA

Back 2 Basix, Art and Craft Collective, Los Angeles,CA

Undergraduate Art Exhibition / Fine Art Gallery, CSULA, Los Angeles,CA

2011 What is Beauty? Exploring the eye of the beholder / Market Gallery, Los Angeles,CA

Undergraduate Art Exhibition / Fine Arts Gallery, CSULA, Los Angeles,CA

Visiting Artists Lectures/ Readings/ Conversations

2024 Artist Talk: Jaklin M. Romine & William Camargo; Moderated by Joseph Daniel Valencia⁠, Pieter Performance Space, Lincoln Heights, CA

2023 Navigating The Other, K Kittle , John Burtle, Jorge Mujica, Jaklin Romine, ACID FREE Art Book Fair & Bazaar, Los Angeles, Blum & Poe, CA

Radical Experiments: Disability Pride Panel, Eyebeam, Youtube, A prerecorded panel discussion with Zeina Baltagi, Rain Matheke, Jaklin Romine, and Kemi Sijuwade-Ukadike, exploring what it means to be disabled and support other

disabled artists in art and tech.

Visiting Artist for Art Senior Studio Class Spring 2023, The Episcopal School of Los Angeles, CA, Visual and Performing Arts Dept.Chair, Erin Bagley and Professor Salvador de Latore.

2022 Guest Speaker: Politics and Protest Lecture, UCLA Art Class Professor Felix Quintana, FALL 2022, Brentwood,CA

Guest Speaker: DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY, Sculptural Lecture, Cypress College, Professor Aydinaneth Ortiz, FALL 2022, Cypress, CA

Visiting Artist for Art Senior Studio Class FALL 2022, The Episcopal School of Los Angeles, CA, Visual and Performing Arts Dept.Chair, Erin Bagley and Professor Salvador de Latore.

2021 SAI: Visiting Artist, UCLA Lecture Hall, Professor JANE ORR, Professor Blake Jacobsen Brentwood,CA

Visiting Artist for Art Senior Seminar FALL 2021, Chapman University, Irvine, CA, Professor Cindy Rehm.

Stitch n Bitch (Crip) Arpillera workshop for Disability Rights this Sat Mar 27, 2021 3-5pm,  Perez Art Museum Miami, Artist Coralina Rodriguez Meyer hosts Featuring: Victoria Dugger, Jaklin Romine Oaklee, Thiele, Ace Ratcliff,

Matthew Dietz ,disabilityindependencegroup Elia Khalaf, Kevin Kedroe

PhotoWorks Program the Arts Council for Long Beach in partnership with the Port of Long Beach presents the last workshop: Career Panel - Knowing Your Profession.A panel discussion that dives into the work trajectories of

photographers and artists Jaklin Romine, Jasmine Clark, Jose Cordon, Martin Alexander Spratlen Etem, and William Camargo.

2020 Visiting Artist for Art Senior Studio Class FALL 2020, The Episcopal School of Los Angeles, CA, Visual and Performing Arts Dept. Chair ,Erin Bagley and Professor Salvador de Latore.

` Visiting Artist for Art Senior Thesis Seminar FALL 2020, Scripps College,Claremont, CA, funded by the Harper Lecture Fund. Professor Kasper Kovitz.

“EPISODE 7: BECOMING VISIBLE, BEING A THORN, AND SEEKING JUSTICE” with

  Ahree Lee, Zackary Drucker, Jaklin Romine, and Sandra de la Loza Moderated by Mario Ontiveros,

XTRA’s Artists and Rights,Session Recorded on 2/10/2020, Published 08.19.20

https://www.x-traonline.org/online/episode-7-becoming-visible

2019 “Why Bring Me Flowers When I’m Dead? When You Had The Time To Do It When I Was Alive: lecture talk for 2019 Independent Art Book Fair NY (IABF)”, Industria

Williamsburg, Brooklyn New York, Sep, 21, 2019 (Canceled due to inaccessibility)

“Why Bring Me Flowers When I’m Dead? When You Had The Time To Do It When I Was Alive: lecture talk for 2019 SHABF TANK EDITION” SHANGHAI ART BOOK FAIR, TANK 

SHANGHI, Shanghai, China, September 13, 2019 (Canceled due to inaccessibility)

“TALK BACk: Centering lives of disabled artists and organizers, asserting that deep-rooted cultural changes must be made within the art world to become more inclusive 

and accessible". Ezra Benus, Lizzy De Vita, Kevin Quilles Bonilla, Yo-Yo Lin, Jaklin Romine, Flux Factory, Queens,NY, May 9, 2019

“ArtChangeUS REMAP: LA. DIF/ ABILITY” Antoine Hunter, Jaklin Romine and Danielle  Perez, moderated by Diana Elizabeth Jordan, Langley Hall, CalArts, Valencia, CA, 

March 7, 2019

“RIP & ROAR : A Pechakucha Event For 11Artists Books & Zines That Rip & Roar” Akina Edxi Betts, Yasmine Diaz, Sarita Doughery, Melanie Griffin, Kimi Hanauser, Carolina Hicks, Paradise Khanmalek, Sarana Mehra, Chinwe

Okona, Jaklin Romine, Moderated by Gloria Galves, Other Books, Boyle Heights, CA Feb 17, 2019

2018 “Equal and Meaningful Art Access For All: A Panel and Conversation for Actionable Strategies and Pathways towards Art World Equity”, Irina Contreras, Veronique d'Entremont, Jasmine Nyende, Jaklin

Romine, moderated by Joshu

Oduga, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, Dec 1, 2018

"All Artists, All Publics: Representing Disability in Cultural Institutions” Gary Cannone, Alison O’Daniel, Antwan Jones, and Francesca Lalanne, moderated by Olga Koumoundouros.

Main Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Nov 10, 2018

Awards

2023 LIGHTNING FUND, LACE [Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions] Andy Warhol Foundation

2020 #ILYSM4Artists COMMISSION EMERGING ARTIST GRANT

2019 Rema Hort Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, Los Angeles

2017                 Diversity Student Project Grant, California Institute of the Arts

2016                 Bartman Grant for Photo & Media, California Institute of the Arts

2013 Luckman Project/ Exhibition Award, CSULA

2011–2013 Dean List CSULA

Residencies

2024 LACE [Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition] Artist Unresidencies Program

2023-2024 Pieter Performance Space Residency, Lincoln Heights, CA

2019-2021 Navel [Kin] Residency, Downtown Los Angeles, CA

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