Shizu Saldamando
Homegirls, 2011
Serigraph, Ed. 90
11”x10”

Shizu Saldamando grew up in San Francisco and relocated to Southern California to complete her BFA at the University of California, Los Angeles, and her MFA at the California Institute for the Arts. The artist is as well known for her meticulously rendered artwork as she is for the inspiration she finds in Los Angeles and in its diverse subcultures. “Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use friends as her subjects, capture the energy of youthful experimentation and the freedom of malleable categories for identity.”