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Education
California State University, Northridge- MA Art- 2025
California State University, Northridge- BFA Art- 2023
Los Angeles Pierce College – AA Art History, Arts and Humanities - 2020
Experience
Computer Lab Assistant, CSUN Art Department- 2024
Teaching Assistant, CSUN Art Department- 2024
Painting Studio Lab Assistant , CSUN Art Department- 2025
Solo Shows
Did you Hear? The Nunnets are gathering tonight…, CSUN Shed Gallery, 2024
Select Group Exhibitions
Boys with their Toys, CSUN Open Studios, CSUN MFA Lounge, 2025
CSUN Student Juried Show, CSUN Main Gallery, 2025
Amanera, CSUN Manzanita Hall, 2025
We’ll be meeting in the Purple Crit Room, CSUN Shed Gallery, 2025
Lit Group Show, CSUN Shed Gallery, 2025
Fresh Honey, Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, 2024
Water and Wood, Resin Gallery, Hermosa Beach, 2024
CMND Z, Resin Gallery, Hermosa Beach, 2024
CSUN Open Studios, 2024
Intergalactic Open, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, 2022
For the love of making, CSUN Manzanita Hall, 2024
Bienvenidos, Incoming MA show, CSUN Shes Gallery, 2024
CSUN Salon de Refuses, 2023
Bio
David Alejandro Mesquita is a multi-media artist born in East Hollywood and currently residing in the San Fernando Valley. Mesquita holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Mesquita has shown in various Los Angeles-based galleries such as The Wolford House Cupped (2025), Resin Gallery’s CMND Z (2024), Hive Gallery’s Fresh Honey (2024), and CSUN’s Annual Juried Student Show (2025). He has also done editorial illustrations for online and print editions of The Daily Sundial and helped curate Spectrum of Being group exhibition for CSUN’s Open Studios (2025). Mesquita uses paintings, sculpture, and ceramics in order to create his own mythos, which is inspired by art history, video game concept art and religious mythology.
