Bio:
Dominick Porras is a multi-disciplinary & lens-based artist residing in Northern California. For over a decade, Porras has worked in relations with Inter-tribal communities as a collaborative artist in new media storytelling. His work in new media informs cultural recovery and vitality through animation, non-linear timeline 35mm photography essays and sculpture works. Porras has had his works collected by Banff Institute in Canada, CSU Sacramento, American River College, The Roswell Museum and The Institute of American Indian Arts of New Mexico.He was awarded the David Brower Museum Emerging Artist Fellowship in 2022, California Arts Council Emerging Artist Fellowship 2023, Folger-Shakespeare Institution Artist Fellowship 2024-2025. Porras is an active exhibiting artist while currently instructing in New Media and Ethnic Studies courses. He is proud to have also served as a co-founder of Sol Collective, an arts, culture and wellness space in Sacramento, CA.
Notable Achievements
2024-25 Folgers Shakespeare Library Artistic/Alumni Fellowships
2025 Caring for Ancestors Project Participant UC Berkeley
2025 Article: ‘Silvery Synthesis’: photography and mixed media elevate a culture’s beauty
2025 Article: Kaneko Gallery hosts Dominick Porras’s “Silvery Synthesis”
2024 BANFF Visual Artist Residency Alberta, Calgary Canada
2024 Roswell Museum Emerging Artist Fellowship Roswell, New Mexico
2023-24 Youth Speaks Emerging Artist Fellowship California
2024 Article: Hyperallergic Art Exhibition review
2022 David Brower Museum, Fellowship This Land Exhibition Berkeley, CA / BayNature Article
ARTIST EXHIBITIONS:
2026 Jan-Feb Solo Exhibition Nao Tah Yah Folger Library Museum Washington, D.C.
2026 April Solo Exhibition Nao Tah Yah Kaneko Gallery, Sacramento CA
2026 May Tanya Lukin-Linklater Support performance & Exhibition, Frankfurt, Germany2026 June Solo Exhibition Silvery Synthesis SMUD Art Gallery
2025 Aug Faculty Exhibition Kaneko Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2025 July Group Show Behind the Vale SMUD Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2025 April Group Show Heavy , 916Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2025 April Solo Exhibition Kaneko Gallery, Sacramento CA2025 February Solo Exhibition CSU Sacramento, CA University Union Gallery
2024 September - Faculty Exhibition Kaneko Gallery Sacramento, CA
2024 August - Indigenous Borderlands Centro Cultural Gallery San Diego, CA2024 July - MNHRPA BANFF Project Space Banff Center for the Arts2024 July - Roswell Museum Emerging Artist Fellowship Roswell, New Mexico
2024 June - Room To Grow group show The Gallery 916 / Sacramento, CA2024 January - Middleton Art Center LatinX Group Exhibition Clearlake, CA (Lake County)
2024 January - Sol Collective GalleryRedes & Reflexiones Sacramento, CA
2024 December - CSU Sacramento “Metamorphosis” Alumni Art Exhibition Sacramento, CA
2023 November - Sol Collective Gallery Dia de los Muertos Group Exhibition Sacramento, CA
2023 September - Sacramento History Museum Sacramento Lowrider Commission Community Exhibition Sacramento,CA
2023 September - Institute of American Indian Arts - Edge GalleryArt in the Raw Exhibition, Alumni & Student group exhibition Santa Fe, NM
2023 September - Art Medicine for Nightmares Art Gallery Rios, Oceans, Deserts, Respiros y El Fuego group exhibition San Francisco, CA
2023 September - Strata Santa Fe Art Gallery Small Works Group Exhibition Santa Fe, NM
2023 July - La Mecha Contemporary Gallery LINES Group Exhibition El Paso, TX
2023 August - Nepantla Cultural Arts Gallery Chicano/x Group Exhibition Seattle, WA
2023 July - La Mecha Contemporary Gallery SKIES Group Exhibition El Paso, TX
2023 May - COE Center Gallery MFA Thesis Exhibition No Visitors, Simulation Voladores, Augmented mateREALities Santa Fe, NM
2022 November - SOMA Arts Gallery American Indian Film Festival - No Visitors, Simulation Voladores, San Francisco, CA
2022 September - The Hive Gallery Art of Listening Exhibition Interactive Immersive Group Show Sacramento, CA
2022 July - Balzer Gallery Finding the Center Exhibition MFA Student Group Show, Institute of the American Indian for Arts Santa Fe, NM
2022 June - David Brower Museum This Land Exhibition Award Recipient, Berkeley, CA
2022 April - Intercultural Reflections Festival of the Arts ExhibitionInteractive Immersive Group Show Sacramento, CA
2021 January - Arts Visalia - Tribute for Ricardo Favela Featured piece - “Favela and the Pilot” Visalia, CA
2000 University Union Contemporary Art Collections - Photograph Purchase
Community Arts Programming / Curatorial Projects2023 - School of Liberation: Living Archive
Organizing Sol Collective’s culturally-engaged programming and community activism material into an archive project.
2023 Community Photo Darkroom Analog photography workshop focused on technical understandings of wet lab processes and image development.
2021 - The California Endowment Youth Activism Awards Media Theme Developer
2019- 20 (Covid) - Digital Camera & Video Editing Distance Learning Silkscreen Demonstration - Amador County, CA
2019- 20 (Covid) - Sacramento Activist School presents Rodrigo Reyes Book Discussion Facilitator - Remote
2020 Silkscreen Demonstration Jackson Rancheria - Land Acquisition - Amador County, CA
2014/19 Sol Life Media Silkscreen Demonstration Sol Collective community engagements & activism pop ups - Sacramento CA
2012 - 2023 American Indian Film Institute Tribal Touring Programming
Youth media mentor in professional filmmaking in California, Washington, Texas Arizona, New Mexico
Sacramento 2007 Galeria Posada - Cheech Marin Collection Curator, Sacramento, CA
Film Production
- Rooted in Resiliency - Feature film
American Indian Film Institute, Tolowa Dee-ni, CADocumentary Editor, Camera, Drone Operation2023
- Memory Deposits - Collaboration with Reina Lam Video, voice and percussion 2022
- July - Gift of Fear Feature Film Sound Engineer Sacramento, CA2022/23
- Documentary - Equity Youth California: Cannabis Tax Funded Initiative
Editing, camerawork, several remote rancherias and reservations within Northern California2022
- Documentary - Alcatraz with Winona Laduke Editing, camerawork, San Francisco, CA2021
- Living Quilt for Sojourner Truth by Jane Ingram Allen Sacramento Arts Council
Editing, camerawork, Sacramento, CA2020
-Global Local Covid Music Video Series- Sol Collective
Editing, camerawork, set design Sacramento, CA2019
- Childrens Crocker Art Museum Animation Production Camerawork, animation, sound engineer Sacramento, CA2016
- Within This Box - Dr. Melissa Leal Editing, camerawork, animation Sacramento, CA2016
- Kuikatl - Indigenous Music Editing, camerawork, Sacramento, CA2015
- Sacramuertos - LA Skins Film Festival - Camerawork, editing, animation, script Sacramento2011
- Indigenous 8O8 - World Hood Music Video Camerawork, editing, Northern California2011
- Superficial - World Hood Music Video Camerawork, editing, Northern California2011
- La Verde - World Hood Music Video Camerawork, editing, Northern California
Panels / Reviews
2024 Roswell Museum Exhibition PressLivestream
2023 - Beyond Mastery - Hyperallergic
MFA Exhibition Review2023 - Artist Panel & Discussion - American Indian Film Institute
Artist Panel 2022 - This Land - David Brower Museum
Artist Panel 2015 - S.A.Y.S Youth Poetry Panel - UC DavisCommunity Artist Panel