b. 1985, Fresno, CA.
Lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
Education
2008 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
2006 AA, Fresno City College, Fresno, CA.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Continued Comfort, Chefas Projects, Portland, OR.
2021 Hey There Lonely Girl, Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2019 Sola Chola, Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 The Shadow of Your Smile, In My Area Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Loud Voices in Tiny Spaces, Mule Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 On to the Next, Long Weekend Gallery, Oakland, CA
2016 Hard Read, Fayes Cafe, San Francisco, CA
2010 My Love is Another Kind, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions
2023 Impending Doom, Superchief Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Hashimoto Contemporary Inaugural Group Show, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA.
2022 Family Affair, Chefas Projects, Portland, OR.
Copy + Paste, Nucleus House Gallery, Portland, OR.
Nightlove, RVCA, San Francisco, CA.
Neruda 10 x 10, Arion Press, San Francisco, CA.
Bad Timing, RVCA, San Francisco, CA.
Modern Folk, Chefas Projects, Portland, OR.
2021 Ark Exhibit, SFAI Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA.
Ginga, Chandran Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
NSFW, Spoke Art, San Francisco, CA
Nice Guys Live Forever, Hoxton Arches Gallery, London, UK
2020 Friends and Family, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
NSFW, Spoke Art, San Francisco, CA
2019 Secret Santa, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
10 x 10 Group Show, RVCA, San Francisco, CA
Dialogues, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Exotify Elsewhere, SWIM Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Nude Show, RESPEC Gallery, Austin, TX
2018 Reorienting the Imaginaries, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
Sentimental Mood, First Amendment Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Houseplant Show, SWIM Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Summertime, First Amendment Gallery, CA
2017 I Didn’t Ask for This: A Lifetime of Dick Pics, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
SFAI Student Worker Alumni Show, the Anne Bremer Memorial Library, San Francisco, CA
Lewd 2, Joy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 An Art Show to Benefit Hillary Ronen, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Not a Lemon, Scott Ellsworth Gallery, San Francisco, CA
HAWAII SWIM 5.0, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
Lewd, Joy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 Holding on to SF, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Strike Away, Paxton Gate, San Francisco, CA
Incline's 5 Year Anniversary Show, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 Stop Being Poor, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Serial Relations, Museum of the Peninsula, SGC International 2014, Burlingame, CA
5 Year Anniversary Group Show, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Queer Art Show, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Stretch & Expose: A curated survey of silk-screening in the Bay Area, City Hall, San Francisco, CA
25th Annual Solo Mujeres Exhibition: Documenting the Universal Material, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San
Francisco, CA
SOEX Art Auction 2012, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2011 And It Felt Like a Kiss, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Something from Nothing, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Show Me Some Skin, Prints from NYC and Beyond, Sho Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
111 at 111 Minna, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Mission ART, Gallery del Grotto, San Francisco, CA
2009 San Pancho Art Collective Group Show, Pure Beauty, San Francisco, CA
Instructors of Grafica, Galleria Zapatista, San Francisco, CA
Beyond Recognition, Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Newspaper Show, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Mes Latinoamericano, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA
Read Some Art, Albany Library, Albany, CA
2007 SFAI NOW, San Francisco, CA
2006 Fresno City College Student Show, Art Space Gallery, Fresno, CA
Promising New Artist to Watch Group Show, Art Space Gallery, Fresno, CA
Selected Press
2023 In “Continued Comfort” Gina M. Contreras Explores Loss and Acceptance, Juxtapoz Online, April 2023
2021 Gina Contreras’ Paintings Beckon in “Hey There Lonely Girl,” KQED Arts Online, August 2021
2022 Modern Folk in Portland, Juxtapoz Online, February 2022
2019 Gina M. Contreras: painting Her Own Reality @ Park Life Gallery SF, Juxtapoz Online, August 2019
Gina M. Contreras’ self-portraits left bare, SFGate Online, August 2019
2010 Gina M. Contreras: My Love is Another Kind, KQED Arts Online, February 2010
Publications
2023 New American Paintings, Pacific Coast #163
2019 Illetante Vol. 4, Illetante Collective
2018 Personal Freedom Vol. 1, Double Issue Magizine
Public Collections
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Library, San Francisco, CA
Ann Bremer Memorial Library, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Grants and Awards
2022 John S. Knudsen Prize, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA.
2020 Svane Foundation Grant, San Francisco, CA
2008 Schmidt Community Arts Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Bronze Roller Honor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Artist Book Contest, Best in Show, Anne Bremer Memorial Library, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2006 Rudolpho Ortiz Guerra Award, Best in Show, Art Space Gallery, Fresno City College, Fresno, CA
Promising New Artist to Watch, Art Space Gallery, Fresno City College, Fresno, CA