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Sirena Pearl
EXPERIENCE
ICA VCU Advisory Board Student Representative: September 2024 to Present
Workshop Student Assistant: James Cabell Library, Richmond / January 2023 to Present
Artist in Residence: Palette 22, Arlington, VA / April 2021 to September 2022
Freelance Artist: Self-Employed, Arlington, VA / March 2020 to Present
EDUCATION
- Virginia Commonwealth University School of Arts, Richmond VA / 2022 – Current
AWARDS
UROP Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Summer Fellowship (2024-2025)
UROP Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Summer Fellowship (2023-2024)
VCUarts Painting and Printmaking
Most Outstanding Sophomore Student Award (2024)
Undergraduate 1st Place Winner (2023)
Distinction in Painting and Printmaking Award (2023)
AFO Toast Exhibit at VCUQatar House
Most Outstanding Art Foundation Student Award (2023)
Toast Award (2023)
- 3rd Award Winner (2022)
- Best in Show Winner (2022)
- Four Gold Key Awards and a Gold Key Portfolio 2019 (Drawings)
- National / American Vision Medal and Gold Medal 2018 and a Regional Gold Key Award (Drawing) Awards Ceremony, Carnegie Hall, New York
- Silver Key 2017 (Drawing)
- Gold Key 2016 (Drawing)
- Gold Key 2015 (Drawing)
EXHIBITIONS
- Vibrations at Black Iris Gallery (2024)
- Abundance at Gallery 405 (2024)
- Strange Oasis at The Material Room (2024)
- Draw Four at VCUarts Qatar (2023)
- Growing Pains at the Anderson Gallery (2023)
- Environmental Justice Workshop Art Exhibition (2023)
- Ground Exhibit at Shockoe Valley Mfg. (2023)
- AFO Toast Exhibit at the VCUQatar House (2023)
- Climate Teach-In at The James Cabell Library (2023)
- Desert Euphony at The Anderson Gallery (2023)
- Courage in Colors National Juried Exhibition (2022)
- Spukhaus at the Anderson Gallery (2022)
- On the Cabell Screen James Cabell Library (2022-2023)
- The Art League September 2022 Exhibit
- Changing Perspectives National Juried Exhibition (2022)
- The Art League July 2022 Exhibit
- Climate Justice Teach-In GreenUR (2022)
- National Arts Program Featured Artist (2022)
- VisArts: NextGen 9.0 (2022)
- The Art League May 2022
- Exhibit 2022 March150, Target Gallery
- Woman in the Arts, Northside Social (2022)
- The Art League March 2022 Exhibit
- Flora and Fauna, Del Ray Artisans (2022)
- Dada 2.0, Del Ray Artisans (2022)
- Little Monsters, Del Ray Artisans (2022)
- Palette 22 (2021-2022)
- Groovy Movies, Del Ray Artisans (2021)
- Arlington Public Library Quaranzine: Issue 7 (2020)
- Scholastics National Traveling Exhibit (2018-2020)
- Student Exhibit at Arlington Artists Alliance in Clarendon (2018)
MEDIA
- 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 (2024)
- 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 (2023)
- Sirena Pearl explores contemporary topics with painting and printmaking (2022)
VENUES
- Sterling Picture Framing (2023)
- Venture X Arlington (2022-2023)
- Arlington County Board Offices (2022)
- Northwest Federal Credit Union (2022)
- Northside Social (2021)
- VCA Alexandria Animal Hospital (2021-2022) 8
POPUP MARKETS
- The Pancakes & Booze Art Show Washington DC (2022)
- Spring Fling Block Party (2022)
- Palette 22 Holiday Art Market (2021)
Presentations and Artist Talks
- Painting with Blender Workshop: At VCUs James Cabell Library Workshop (2024)
- Visiting Artist Talk: Urban Heat Island Effect Mural at Christopher Newport University (2024)
- NURVa 2023 Undergraduate Research Conference, Hampden-Sydney College (2023)
- Artist Talk at Opening Reception: Mural on Urban Heat Island Effect, VCUarts (2023)
Murals
- Urban Heat Island Effect Mural, Exterior, 609 Bowe St # 502, Richmond, VA 23284 (2023)
- Interior Wall Mural (2021)
