PUBLIC ART
2024
WHEN SMOKE RISES - Tampa Convention Center - Tampa, FL
THE PERSISTENCE OF NATURE - Huntington Health Medical Office Building Pasadena, CA
2023
THE DREAMS WE CARRY - Minneapolis St. Paul Airport, MN
THE PATHS WE TAKE - Ellen M Bozman Government Center, Arlington, VA
THE COSMOLOGY OF FLIGHT - Concourse B West Denver - International Airport, Denver, CO
2022
STORYBANK - UPMC Mercy Pavillion Pittsburgh, PA
EMERGENCE - Central Washington University Health Sciences Building, ArtsWA, Ellensberg, WA.
MODEL COLONY - Utah Department of Alcohol Beverage Control, Salt Lake City, U
2021
ON GROWTH AND FORM - Wells Ave Underpass, City of Reno, Reno, NV
REFORESTATION - Mountlake Terrace Station, Sound Transit, Seattle, WA.
2020
BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY - Eugene Airport, City of Eugene, Eugene, OR.
2019
OF HOUSE AND HOME - Lake Merritt Station, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Oakland, CA.
2018
BETWEEN WIND AND WATER - North Coast Health and Human Services Facility, County of San Diego, Oceanside, CA.
COLLECTIVE BEHAVIORS - The Hudson Apartments, Greystar, Pasadena, CA.
2017
COLLECTIVE TRANSITIONS - Meacham Airport Terminal Building, Fort Worth Public Art, Fort Worth, TX. 2020 CODA awards Top 100 Projects
CONNECTING FLIGHTS– The Hudson Apartments, Greystar, Pasadena, CA. 2021 CODA awards Top 100
Projects
2016
METRO GOLD LINE PHASE 2B - Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension, Metro Gold Line Authority, Monrovia,
CA.
STORY LINES – Fire Station 143 - Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Santa Clarita, CA.
2015
NATURAL FLOW - Artwork to be incorporated into crosswalks for historic downtown core.
2014
BUILDING BLOCKS - Harlem Park Station, Baltimore Red Line Authority, Baltimore, MD
FLIGHT TIME - Lambert-St Louis Terminal 1 Atrium, City of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
2013
RE•BERTH- Southeast Community Facility, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
UNDERSTORY – Crenshaw Retail Center, Community Redevelopment Agency, Los Angeles, CA
NATURALIZED GROWTH–Migrant Agricultural Memorial, Orange County Fairgrounds, Costa Mesa, CA
2012
FLUID DYNAMICS – Alondra Park, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Alondra Park, CA
SKY DANCES– Athens Classic Center Expansion, City of Athens, Athens, GA
COMMUNITY FABRIC– Rowland Heights Community Center, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Rowland
Heights, CA
2011
STAGES OF GROWTH - Hacienda Heights Community Center, Los Angeles County Arts Commission,
Hacienda Heights, CA
EYES ON THE STREET - Little Tokyo, City of Los Angeles Redevelopment Agency, Los Angeles, CA.
BRANCHING NARRATIVES –Main Library and Art Center, Palo Alto Public Art, Palo Alto, CA.
2010
GUARDIANS OF THE GARDEN CITY– Fire Station 19, City of San Jose Public Art, San Jose,, CA.
FAIRYTAIL MESA –Serra Mesa-Kearney Mesa Branch Public Library, City of San Diego Commission for Arts
and Culture, San Diego, California.
2009
STEP IN TIME - Omnitrans sbX E Street Corridor, Omnitrans, San Bernardino, CA.
MULTI-VERSE –Pomona Valley Health Center, City of Claremont, Claremont, CA
2008
OVERGROWTH - Kenneth Hahn State Park, Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative, Los Angeles, CA.
CAT’S CRADLE - Lafayette Library and Learning Center, City of Lafayette, Lafayette. CA.
2007
FLORESCENT –New Mexico School for the Deaf, New Mexico Arts, Santa Fe, CA.
2006
EARTHSHINE – Acton-Agua Dulce Branch Los Angeles County Library, Los Angeles Arts Commission, Agua
Dulce, CA.
TRIPPING THE LIGHT FANTASTIC – Central Los Angeles Learning Center, Los Angeles Unified School
District, Los Angeles, CA.
2005
THE BIRDS - Live Oak Branch Library, County of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
THE GROVE - Historic Citrus Packing House, Arteco, Claremont, CA
2002
PLANTINGS – 7th Street Metro Center Station, Metro Arts, Los Angeles, CA. 2004 Portland Cement
Association – Concrete in Transit National Award
CONTRAPPOSTO- 15th Street and Maple Ave., City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA
FOUNDERS GARDEN – Inland Empire Blvd., City of Ontario Redevelopment Agency, Ontario, CA Winning
Entry, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Inaugural Liquid Art Exhibition
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/MEDIA
2023
CODAworx Magazine, Creative Revolutionaries, February 2023
2021
CODAworx Magazine, Healing Art VI, February 2021
2020
Boxed Lunch Interview Series, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
CODAworx Magazine, Suspended in Space VI, May 2020
2017
“Artist Talk with Kipp Kobayashi”, Art7 Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
360 West, It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, October 2017
2016
“From the Ludicrous to the Sublime”, 26th International Sculpture Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
2010
San Diego Union Tribune, “Library’s FairyTale Mesa is a Wonderland”, March 11, 2010
2009
Daily Bulletin, Environmental Artists, August 1, 2009
2006
Lighting – Art and Science for International Designers, The Birds…, Vol. 26, No. 2, April 2006
POL Oxygen Magazine website, News, February 2006
2005
Inland Empire Magazine, Creative, April 2005
2003
“Water in a New Way”, SomArts Gallery, SF, CA.
L.A. Architect, “Learning Cubed”, September/October 2003
The Press Enterprise, “Founder’s Garden is Ontario’s Secret”, June 15, 2003
2002
Artweek, “LA’s Metro stations showcase new works”, November 2002
L.A. Downtown News, Calendar, “Art In Train-ing”, September 23, 2002
Los Angeles Times, Calendar Weekend, Best Bets, September 12, 2002
Westways Magazine, Perpetual Thirst, September/October 2002
El Pais (National Paper of Uruguay) Tercera Seccion, “Equipo formado por Arquitecta uruguaya y su esposo/
artista diseña un gran parquet urbano en los Estados Unidos”, August 29, 2002
LA Downtown News, Around Town, August 5, 2002
The Press Enterprise, This Art Makes a Splash, June 18, 2002
“Straight from the Tap- Liquid Art”, cable television news magazine, March 2002
The Press Enterprise, “Unusual Setting Off I-10”, February 15, 2002
2001
Daily Bulletin, “Ontario Oasis”, December 20, 2001
2000
L.A. Architect, “Exposure”, March/April 2000
ACADEMIA
2021-present Public Art Exchange, Founding Member
2018-21 Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Advisory Council
2007-17 Cal Poly Pomona, School of Environmental Design, Lecturer
1996-8 SOFA.net, USC School of Fine Arts Alumni Committee
1995-7 Woodbury University, Design Studio Juror
1985 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Assistant Lecturer
1985-6 University of Southern California, Assistant Lecturer
EDUCATION
University of Southern California, Master of Fine Arts
University of California at Berkeley, Bachelor of Fine Art