Mercedes Dorame | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1980 (age 45–46) [1] |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | BA: University of California, Los Angeles |
| Alma mater | MFA: San Francisco Art Institute |
| Website | mercedesdorame |
Mercedes Dorame (born 1980 [1] ) is an American photographer based in Malibu, California. [1]
Mercedes Dorame was born in 1980 in Los Angeles, California, and identifies as having Tongva ancestry. [2] [1]
Dorame earned her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2003. She earned her master of fine arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2010. [1]
Dorame's work is in the permanent collections of Hammer Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, [2] and has been shown at the Catalina Museum for Art and History. [3] [4] The Los Angeles Times has covered her work. [5] [6] [7]
She works in structural installation, with her works Orion’s Belt—Paahe’ Sheshiiyot—a map for moving between worlds (2018) and Our Land and Sky Waking Up - ‘Eyoo’ooxon koy Tokuupar Chorii’aa (2021) incorporating cog stones found on a site being commercially developed in the north Orange County, California area that are approximately 75,000 years old. [8] [9] Her piece "Portal for Tovaangar" was virtually installed on the LACMA campus. [10] Between June 20, 2023 through June 16, 2024, Dorame's work Woshaa’axre Yaang’aro (Looking Back) was featured in the main hall of the Getty Center. [11]
Dorame was named a Harpo Foundation fellow in 2011 and En Foco's New Works Photography fellow in 2012. [2] The San Francisco Foundation presented Dorame with its James D. Phelan Award in the Visual Arts in 2017. [1] She received a Creative Capital Grant in 2020. [12] In 2026, she was named a United States Artists (USA) Fellow. [13]