Mercedes Dorame
American photographer from California (born 1980)
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Mercedes Dorame (born 1980[1]) is an American photographer based in Malibu, California.[1]
Mercedes Dorame | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1980 (age 45–46)[1] |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | BA: University of California, Los Angeles |
| Alma mater | MFA: San Francisco Art Institute |
| Website | mercedesdorame |
Background and education
Mercedes Dorame was born in 1980 in Los Angeles, California, and identifies as having Tongva ancestry.[2][1]
Dorame earned her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2003. She earned her master of fine arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2010.[1]
Art career
Dorame's work is in the permanent collections of Hammer Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[2] and has been shown at the Catalina Museum for Art and History.[3][4] The Los Angeles Times has covered her work.[5][6][7]
Works
She works in structural installation, with her works Orion’s Belt—Paahe’ Sheshiiyot—a map for moving between worlds (2018) and Our Land and Sky Waking Up - ‘Eyoo’ooxon koy Tokuupar Chorii’aa (2021) incorporating cog stones found on a site being commercially developed in the north Orange County, California area that are approximately 75,000 years old.[8][9] Her piece "Portal for Tovaangar" was virtually installed on the LACMA campus.[10] Between June 20, 2023 through June 16, 2024, Dorame's work Woshaa’axre Yaang’aro (Looking Back) was featured in the main hall of the Getty Center.[11]
Awards and honors
Dorame was named a Harpo Foundation fellow in 2011 and En Foco's New Works Photography fellow in 2012.[2] The San Francisco Foundation presented Dorame with its James D. Phelan Award in the Visual Arts in 2017.[1] She received a Creative Capital Grant in 2020.[12] In 2026, she was named a United States Artists (USA) Fellow.[13]