BIO

Josie Marlyn Gomez is a San Diego-based painter and graphic designer with a degree from California State University, Long Beach. Her practice blends abstraction and figuration, focusing on themes of identity and transformation. Known for her vibrant pieces, Josie’s work features recurring motifs of talking figures and repetitive patterns, which symbolize generational trauma and her journey of breaking free from these cycles.

Inspired by a childhood drawing, her figures serve as a visual bridge between past and present, representing both memory and healing. Her work has been showcased in spaces, such as, Oceanside Museum of Art and Sparks Gallery.

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JOSIE MARLYN GOMEZ

Born 1993, Duarte, California
Lives and works in San Diego, CA

EDUCATION:

2022 Bachelor of Arts, Cal State University of Long Beach, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2024
Organic Cubism, Oceanside Museum of Art West Gallery at The Seabird, Oceanside, CA
Open Gallery Benefit Show, The Artist Coop, Long Beach, CA
Connecting en la Cocina, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA

2023
The Last Group Show, Bread and Salt, San Diego, CA
Kathleen Kane-Murrell + Minis 2023, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA

2022
The Local Group Show: Installation IV, Stay Gallery, Downey, CA

2020
___________ by women, Stay Gallery, Downey, CA

2019
Millennial Pink, The dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA

PUBLICATIONS:

2022
“52 artists to be featured in group exhibition at Stay Gallery”, The Downey Patriot (online), June 21

2019
Ustrell, Rebecca, “Millennial Pink” Curious Magazine Vol. 2, Curious Publishing, September 24