Bio
Harmony is an oil painter and emerging artist based in Northridge, CA. Currently pursuing a Master of Arts at Cal State Northridge, they hold a Bachelor of Arts degree from the same institution. Harmony has worked as an assistant for the CSUN Galleries for the past two years and has worked as an art installer and handler for over a decade. Their artistic journey has been marked by several notable accomplishments, including receiving the Bob and Lynn Bassler Painting Scholarship, the Orndorff Scholarship, and the Dean’s Purchase Award. They also served as a mural assistant for CSUN’s Tataviam Mural and curated the Seeing and Being Seen group exhibition in CSUN’s West Gallery.
Their work has been featured in several exhibitions, such as The Power of Visibility: Boldness in LGBTQ+ Art at the Rod Briggs Gallery in Long Beach, CA, The Body Revolts/The Body Aligns online publication by The Starving Artist, and the CSUN Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition at the CSUN Main Gallery in Northridge, CA. Harmony’s paintings are deeply inspired by the vulnerabilities of transgender and nonbinary individuals, exploring themes of fantasy and the queer gaze.