Lives and works in the East Bay (Berkeley & Oakland), CA
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EDUCATION

2009 Master of Fine Art, Studio Art, Mills College, CA
2005 Bachelor of Fine Art, Photography, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1984-86/89-91 Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, CA

EXHIBITIONS

2012
Indexical Makers, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA

2011
One Thing Leads To Another: Seriality in Works on Paper, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

2010
All Over the Map, The Poor Farm, Manawa (Little Wolf), WI
Modesto Covarrubias: Liminal, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Winter Group Show, Branch Gallery, Oakland, CA

2009
Modesto Covarrubias: Home Body, Bay Area Visual Arts Network Gallery (Branch Gallery), Oakland, CA
Modesto Covarrubias & Benicia Gantner, Oakland Museum of California at City Center, Gallery 555, Oakland, CA
Young Americans: Mills College MFA Exhibition 2009, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
The Home Show, FiveTen Studio, Oakland, CA

2008
You Know How I Feel, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Immediate Future: The 2008 Murphy & Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bake Sale, Blankspace Gallery, Oakland, CA

2007
Buy Me While I’m Cheap, Blankspace Gallery, Oakland, CA
Artists Go Lightly, The Temporary Autonomous Museum, San Francisco, CA

2005
Photo New York, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York City, NY
Photo San Francisco, Fort Mason – Festival Pavilion, San Francisco, CA
Senior Show 2005, McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Spring Show 2005, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Modesto Covarrubias: Enlargergrams, StillLights Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
Fragments of Contemporary Urban Life, San Francisco Arts Commission, City Hall, San Francisco, CA

2004
Spring Show 2004, StillLights Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
Time Will Tell, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fragments of Contemporary Urban Life, Galleria Civica, Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena, Italy
Three Part Works, curated by Tom Marioni, Anex Gallery, San Francisco, CA
In the Himalayas, Philippe Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003
Modesto Covarrubias: Delhi is on Fire, StillLights Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA

AWARDS

2009 Herringer Family MFA Award
2008 The Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship in the Fine Arts
2008 Nell Sinton Scholarship
2002 - 2005 The San Francisco Art Institute Merit Scholarship