• Sheng Lor - Curriculum Vitae

    EDUCATION

    2025 University of California, Los Angeles, M.F.A., Painting & Drawing 

    2011 University of California, Davis, B.A., Art Studio

    SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

    2026 

    Interstitial, Gallery Sonder, Corona del Mar, CA

    2025 

    MFA Thesis Exhibition: Twice Upon A Time, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    GROUP EXHIBITIONS

    2026 

    The Loom, the Womb, and They Remember, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)

    The Thing in Itself, Gallery Sonder, Corona del Mar, CA

    2025 

    Between Calmness and Passion, Alt Projects x The Green, Los Angeles, CA

    Welcome to My Den, Unveil Gallery, Irvine, CA

    Saturation Points, Chan Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA

    Alt Projects x Tryst Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA

    Nuwa’s Garden, a poco art collective x Charles Arnoldi Studio, Los Angeles, CA

    Yoking, FOYER-LA, Los Angeles, CA

    Now Trending: 9th Annual Alpay Scholarship Exhibition, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

    Mudroom, FOYER-LA, Los Angeles, CA

    Staring Contest, Alt Projects, Arcadia, CA

    MFAs of LA, Good Mother Gallery x The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA

    2024 

    MFA Preview Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    All Things Equal, Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    Sweaty Armpits, 120710 Gallery, Berkeley, CA 

    2023 

    MFAs of LA, Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    The de Young Open 2023, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

    Slant Rhyme, Kniznick Gallery, Boston, MA

    2022 

    Patterns of Transformation, Right Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA

    Radical Regeneration, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA

    Grow Our Souls, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

    2021 

    Harvest, Chalk Hill Gallery, Healdsburg, CA

    SF Open Studios Showcase, ArtSpan + SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

    No Word for Art: Contemporary Hmong American Art, Museum of Northern California, Chico, CA

    Art-in-Neighborhoods, ArtSpan + Ritual Coffee, San Francisco, CA

    GRANTS & AWARDS

    2025 

    Beverly G. Alpay Scholarship 

    2024 

    Helen Frankenthaler Fellowship

    2022 

    UCLA Graduate Opportunity Program Fellowship

    2021 

    Sankofa Fund for Cultural Preservation Grant

    Surface Design Association Personal Development Grant

    ArtSpan San Francisco Open Studios Equity Grant

    2020 

    Chalk Hill Artist Residency Scholarship

    PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

    2021 

    SoFA Pocket Park Murals public art commission, “Crossroads with Coins, Cucumber Seeds, Me Too,” 12x13’ mural,

    San Jose, CA