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University of California, Berkeley

March 19 - March 19, 2012

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Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Mario Ybarra Jr. and Karla Diaz
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Mario Ybarra Jr. is an artist whose work operates as examinations of conflated and excluded social norms, often examining complete environments, histories and narratives. Ybarra’s visual dialogues expose an autobiographical context that is unique to southern California but universal in concept. He received an MFA from University of California Irvine and a BFA from Otis. Karla Diaz is a writer, performer, artist and educator, also born and raised in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts. A former Plaza/CAP (Community Arts Partnership) student, she uses collaborative and pedagogical approaches to working with artists and communities. Both Ybarra and Diaz have exhibited internationally in major museums and galleries from California to Cairo, including MOCA, LACMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Tate, the Getty, and many more. In 2002, Ybarra and Diaz were co-founders of the artist-collective Slanguage, where Diaz now oversees exhibitions and programming. Location: 160 Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley