Sirena Pearl
Richmond, VA
EXPERIENCE
ICA VCU Advisory Board Student Representative: September 2024 to Present
Workshop Student Assistant: James Cabell Library, Richmond / January 2023 to Present
EDUCATION
- Virginia Commonwealth University School of Arts, Richmond VA / 2022 – Current
AWARDS
2024 ISEE Poster Presentation Winner, 1st Prize, Policy, Social Sciences, and Arts, VCU, Richmond, VA
2024-2025 UROP Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Summer Fellowship, VCU, Richmond, VA
2024 PAPR Most Outstanding Sophomore Student Award, VCUARTS, Richmond, VA
2023-2024 UROP Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Summer Fellowship, VCU, Richmond, VA
2023 The Science Coalition: Fund It Forward Studio Video Challenge, Undergraduate 1st Place Winner
2023 Growing Pains, VCUarts Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Distinction in Painting and Printmaking Award, At the Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
2023 Toast Exhibit, Most Outstanding Art Foundation Student Award, and Toast Award, at VCUQatar House, Richmond, VA
2022 NextGen 9.0, 3rd Award Winner, VisArts Center, Rockville, MD
2022 Changing Perspectives, National Juried Exhibition, Best in Show Winner, Gallery Underground, Arlington, VA
2019 Scholastics Art and Writing Awards, Four Gold Key Awards, and a Gold Key Portfolio, Arlington, VA
2018 Scholastics Art and Writing Awards National / American Vision Medal and Gold Medal and a Regional Gold Key Award, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
EXHIBITIONS (*solo exhibitions)
2025 *Heat Island (forthcoming), The Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
2024 AISLE ISLE, at the Cave, Richmond, VA
2024 Vibrations, at the Black Iris Gallery, Richmond, VA
2024 Abundance, at Gallery 405, Richmond, VA
2024 Strange Oasis at The Material Room, Richmond, VA
2023 Draw Four, VCUarts, Qatar
2023 Growing Pains, at the Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
2023 Environmental Justice Workshop Art Exhibition, UR, Richmond, VA
2023 Ground at Shockoe Valley Mfg. Richmond, VA
2023 Toast at the VCUQatar House, Richmond, VA
2023 Climate Teach-In at The James Cabell Library, Richmond, VA
2023 Desert Euphony, at The Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
2022 Courage in Colors, National Juried Exhibition, Gallery Underground, Arlington, VA
2022, Spukhaus, at the Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
2022-2023 On the Cabell Screen, James Cabell Library, Richmond, VA
2022 The Art League September Exhibit, Alexandria, VA
2022 Changing Perspectives, National Juried Exhibition, Arlington, VA
2022 The Art League July Exhibit, Alexandria, VA
2022 Climate Justice Teach-In, GreenUR, Richmond, VA
2022 VisArts: NextGen 9.0, Rockville, MD
2022 The Art League May Exhibit, Alexandria, VA
2022 March150, at Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
2022 Woman in the Arts, at Northside Social, Arlington, VA
2022 The Art League March Exhibit, Alexandria, VA
2022 Flora and Fauna, at Del Ray Artisans, Alexandria, VA
2022 Dada 2.0, at Del Ray Artisans, Alexandria, VA
2022 Little Monsters, at Del Ray Artisans, Alexandria, VA
2021-2022 Palette 22, Arlington, VA
2021 Groovy Movies, at Del Ray Artisans, Alexandria, VA
2018-2020 Scholastics National Traveling Exhibit
2018 Student Exhibit, at Arlington Artists Alliance in Clarendon, Arlington, VA
MEDIA
2024 VCUarts Studio Magazine: Fall Revealing an Invisible Danger (pg 40)
2024 If Walls Could Talk
2024 AUCTUS: The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
2024 VCUarts sophomore Sirena Pearl wins student video challenge from The Science Coalition
2023 VCU Research and Innovation annual report
2023 Mural by VCUarts student reveals the invisible danger of heat island effect
2023 VCU student’s mural educates and illustrates
2022 Sirena Pearl explores contemporary topics with painting and printmaking
Presentations, Conferences, and Artist Talks
2024 ISEE Symposium Poster Session, Richmond, VA
2024 Blender 101: The Basics of 3D Modeling Workshop, at VCU’s James Cabell Library, Richmond, VA
2024 NURVa 2024 Undergraduate Research Conference, at Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA
2024 Painting with Blender Workshop at VCU’s James Cabell Library, Richmond, VA
2024 VCU Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium, VCU, Richmond, VA
2024 Visiting Artist Talk: Urban Heat Island Effect Mural, at Newport News, VA
2023 NURVa Undergraduate Research Conference, at Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden Sydney, VA
2023 Artist Talk at Opening Reception: Mural on Urban Heat Island Effect, at VCUarts, Richmond, VA
