Aaron Douglas Estrada (b. 1994)

Lives and works in Los Angeles.

Education

2020    Virginia Commonwealth University, MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media

2016    University of California, Los Angeles, BA in Fine Arts

Solo Exhibitions

2024

  • NALLTHAT, Guererro Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2023    

  • Belly, Best Practice, San Diego, CA

  • Se Habla Mierda, Coaxial Arts Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

2019

  • The Program, Richmond, Virginia

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024   

  • Rasquachismo, Fullerton College, Curated by Jasmine McNeal, Fullerton, CA

  • Spirit Halloween, Lonestar Projects, Los Angeles, CA

  • Highway Hypnosis, 3B Collective, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA 

  • Contigo, Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2023   

  • Arte Activista: Día de los Muertos, organized by 3B Collective, California Museum, Sacramento, CA

  • OBJECT INSIDE/ OBJECT OUTSIDE, INSIDE OBJECT / OUTSIDE OBJECT, organized by Guerrero Gallery, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA

  • Mirror, curated by Mia Scarpa, Spy Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2022   

  • L.A. Currents, curated by Shelley Holcomb Bolanos, TBN Project, Vernon, CA

  • Helter Swelter, curated by John Wolf, Quality Coins, Yucca Valley, CA

  • Ahora, curated by Tlaloc Studios/Thinkspace Projects, Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center

  • Felix Art Fair, Residency Art Gallery, Hollywood, CA

2021   

  • By Ways & Highways, 3B collective, Residency Art Gallery, Inglewood, CA

  • Visions and Nightmares, curated by Baseera Khan, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY

  • Lxs Angelinxs, Galeria Javier Lopez & Fer Frances, Madrid, Spain

  • By Way Of, 3B collective, Best Practice, San Diego, CA  

2020   

  • Felix Art Fair, Residency Art Gallery, Hollywood, CA 

2019   

  • Spectral Slurp, VCU MFA Candidacy Exhibition, Richmond, VA 

2018   

  • No Longer Yours, The Mistake Room/Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, MX

  • The New Contemporaries, Residency Art Gallery, Inglewood, CA 

2017   

  • Barrio Logos (Getty Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA) curated by Oscar Magallanes, Residency Art Gallery, Inglewood, CA

  • 6th Chicanx Biennial, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), San Jose, CA

Public Works

2023   

  • 3B mural for Hilda Solis Care First Village, Los Angeles, CA

2022   

  • 3B collaboration with Sonia Romero at the University of California, San Diego, CA

2021   

  • Lakeside Stories: MacArthur Park light pole medallions collaboration with LA Commons and Nuria (Ms. Yellow) Ortiz

  • Salt of the Earth, 3B mural for California State University Stanislaus, Turlock, CA

2020   

  • 50th Chicano Moratorium Mural, 3B collective, East Los Angeles, CA

  • 3B mural for CPO office, University of California, Los Angeles

2019   

  • Cause Waves, public mural, Richmond, VA

2018   

  • Valor, 3B collaboration with Lapiztola at Museo Infantil de Oaxaca (MIO), Mexico

Publications 

2022    Los Angeles Times Image, 3B collective, What LA could look like?

2021    Los Angeles Times Image, 3B collective, Free The Freeways by Julissa James

2020    Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics by Arlene Davila

2017    New American Paintings Catalog, Issue: 133 Pacific Coast, Juror: Rita González

Awards

2020    School of the Arts Graduate Travel Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

2019    P. F Miller Graduate Scholarship for Sculpture + Extended Media, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

2013    Blue and Gold Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles