Zoe Alameda (b. 2000) is a multidisciplinary artist sitting and scrolling in Los Angeles. Combining painting, collage, and sculpture, her practice explores material identity, image culture, and self-discovery. Alameda examines the challenges of connecting with oneself and others in a world saturated with digital images and commercial messaging, often influenced by the visual and cultural landscape of Los Angeles. Through imperfect layers of texture and flatness, Alameda uses materials like paint, Xerox prints, and found objects to reflect tensions within identity. The tactile qualities of these materials—sometimes raw, sometimes transformed—emphasize the interplay between vulnerability and strength, distraction and focus, authenticity and artificiality. Leaning on the tension between the real and the reproduced, it is often unclear whether the images in her work are painted or printed, whether they are her own or found, and how much she has manipulated them. In the search for the real self, Alameda’s practice embodies a longing for presentness and meaningful connection in today’s fragmented reality.
Alameda received her BFA at the University of Southern California in 2023 and attended the Yale Norfolk School of Art residency in 2022. She has exhibited across the United States, including recent group exhibitions at NADA New York with Swivel Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Guerrero Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), and LVL 3 (Chicago, IL). In addition to her studio practice, Alameda has organized and curated multiple exhibitions with notable highlights at SADE Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) and Lonestar Studios (Los Angeles, CA).
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EDUCATION
2023 BFA, Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2025
Innovative Grant Honorable Mention
2024
Discovery Scholar Distinction, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Yale Norfolk School of Art, Norfolk, CT
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
Ode to an Honest Mirror, A duo-show between Zoe Alameda and Sebastian Loo, curated by Jaustin Tan, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Rest My Head on a Pile of Tacks, USC Gayle and Ed Roski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Re|Dacted Lincoln Heights DTLA, Gallery ThirtySix, Los Angeles, CA
Chair Show, AUTOBODY autobody, Los Angeles, CA
Goodbye Horses, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, NY
Manual Override, Good Mother, Los Angeles, CA
2024
Cave Dwellers, Stone/Age, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond the Veil…, Mystery Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Rules of Engagement, LVL3, Chicago, IL
Horny Island, Curved Wall Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Provócame, curated by Ever Velasquez, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SADECADE, SADE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Weatherproof Anniversarial, Weatherproof, Chicago, IL
The Sum of Our Parts, Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
NADA New York, Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
WIP!, Known Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Adult Contemporary, curated by @problemchild.advisory, Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Material, Wilder, Nashville, TN
2023
POWER, Transport Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022
SENSES, Mile 44, Los Angeles, CA
I like what my phone looks like 4 feet away from me, Solo Show, online
Nü Moon, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
blessed curse ii, Solo Show, online
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2024
Spirit Halloween, organized by Zoe Alameda, Alex Carmen and Alex Emmons, Lonestar Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Me and You and Me and, organized by Zoe Alameda, Alex Carmen, Roma Edwards,
Ashylnn Smith, Kayli Temple and Gabriel Tolson, SADE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Three Point Turn, organized by Alex Carmen and Zoe Alameda, Lonestar Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Five Leaf Clover, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Other, USC Gayle and Ed Roski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Cut My Ankle Open, Just a Little Bit, organized by Zoe Alameda and Alex Carmen, Los Angeles, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2025
Interview: Zoe Alameda’s Fractured Self, Innovative Grant, January 9.
https://innovateartistgrants.org/interview-zoe-alameda-fractured-self
2024
Abelarde, Clarisse, A Studio Visit with Zoe Alameda: Escapism Meets Materiality, Nous-Ance, November 21.
Afli, Elena, I’m connecting, I promise, Issue 1, August 26. https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/68785821/im-connecting-i-promise
Alameda, Zoe & Kirsh, Kati, A Car is a Moving Canvas: A Conversation Between Zoe Alameda and Kati Kirsch, Testudo, May 16.
https://testudomkt.com/editorial/kati-kirsch-interview-zoe-alameda
Testudo, Our Monthly Team Selections: March 2024, March 5.
https://testudomkt.com/editorial/march-2024-monthly-selections
2023
Collé, For Your Viewing Pleasure, Edition 18, November 1.
Decoding the Subconscious, Impermanent Gallery, July 10.
https://imprmnt.wixsite.com/site/post/bd4b66cd
Dybeck, Sam, Artist of the Week, LVL3, January 3.
https://lvl3official.com/zoe-alameda/
2021
Fulmer, Alex, Stumbling Towards Dystopia, Roski Mag Issue 13, May 7.
https://www.roskimag.com/#/issue_13
2020
Zoe Alameda’s ‘unradmotions’, Downtown 500, Jan 20.