LUCY BELL
Santa Barbara, CA
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L U C i L L E L B E L L AT G M A i L DOT C O M
instagram: @notlucybelll
EDUCATION
2025 Master’s of Fine Arts, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2020 BA Visual Arts, cum laude, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 DIVE, Glass Box Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
GROUP SHOWS
2025 (it’s about time): MFA Thesis Show, Art, Design, and Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
2025 Night Salon, Glass Box Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2024 Spirit Guide, Demo Spot, Sacramento, CA
2024 The New Salon: Arte Del Pueblo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2024 Media Arts and Technology End of Year Showcase, Santa Barbara, CA
2023 MFA First Year Show, Glass Box Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2022 Crimson Tide, Soft Times Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022 Ferment, Uncle Credit Union Gallery, Bankhead Theater, Livermore, CA
2020 450 Pieces, r.blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
2018 Full-On, Kamil Gallery, San Diego, CA
2016 Drawing Circus, Burns Fine Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
TEACHING
2024-25 Lead Teaching Assistant, Department of Art, University of California, Santa Barbara
2025 Teaching Assistant, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (Image Studies, Arts Colloquium, GlassBox Gallery Manager)
2024 MFA Assistant Curator, Deviate, ADA Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
2024 Teaching Assistant, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (Image Studies, Spatial Studies, Life and Art, Painting)
2023 Watercolor Workshop, Bothwell Arts Center, Livermore, CA
CERTIFICATIONS
2025 Leadership Certificate, University of California, Santa Barbara
2022 Pillars of Teaching Assistantship Certificate, University of California, Santa Barbara
2024 Center for Innovative Teaching, Research, and Learning: Course Design for Equity Certificate, University of California, Santa Barbara
LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, PRESENTATION
2025 “Night Salon: The Night Panel”, Night Salon, Devon Frost, Sam Bourgelaugt, Emma
Brown, Lucy Bell, Lyra Purugganan, Moxie Bright, Kate Saubestre, Glass Box Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
2025 “Queering Sacred Objects,” Material Disobedience: Queering the Object, Lyra Purugganan, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
2025 “Relational Aesthetics (to others) (to self) (to site),” Public Practice Art Intermediate Spatial Studies, Hương Ngo, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
2024 Guest Critic, Food as Material, Lyra Purugganan, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
2024 Artist Talk, Spatial Studies, Kim Garcia, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
2023 Artist Talk, Grünewald Guild, Plain, WA
2022 Artist Talk, Grünewald Guild, Plain, WA
RESIDENCIES
2025 Salmon Creek Farm, Albion, CA
2021 Grünewald Guild, Plain, WA
AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS
2025-2026 College of Creative Studies Teaching Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
2025 Helen Award
2024 Ron Newby Graduate Art Fellowship
2024 Levitan Grant
2024 Graduate Student Association Grant
2023 Levitan Grant
2021 LGBT+ Artist Scholarship, Grünewald Guild
2020 Provost Honors, UC San Diego
2016 Excellence Award, Loyola Marymount Visual Arts Faculty
CURATORIAL
2024 HOUSE SHOW 2, Red Barn, Santa Barbara, CA
2024 Deviate, Undergrad Show, Architecture, Design and Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
2024 HOUSE SHOW, Red Barn, Santa Barbara, CA
PROJECTS
2024- House Show, Santa Barbara County, CA
2025 Idea Exchange, Santa Barbara, CA
2024 Be With Me, MFA Studios, Santa Barbara, CA
2024 Coffee at the House, Red Barn, Santa Barbara, CA
2024 Slant Gallery, MFA Studios, Santa Barbara, CA
BOOTH EVENTS
2024 UCSB MFA Open Studios, Harder Stadium, Santa Barbara, CA
2024 Off Register: Art Book Fair, Community Arts Workshop, Santa Barbara, CA
2024 Tchotchke Art Fair, Community Arts Workshop, Santa Barbara, CA
2023 UCSB MFA Open Studios, Harder Stadium, Santa Barbara, CA
2023 Tri-Valley Open Studios, Alliance for the Visual Arts, Pleasanton, CA
2022 Earlier Than the Bird, Livermore, CA
2022 ArtWalk Livermore, Livermore, CA
2021 Hearts for Arts Fundraiser, Artisans & Agency, Santa Cruz, CA
2020 Open Studios, Santa Cruz Arts Council, Santa Cruz, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025 Vita Poetica, Anniversary Edition, Seattle, WA
2023 Art Maze Magazine Double Issue #32-33, Editorial Curation, London, UK
2023 Vita Poetica, Online Magazine, Seattle, WA
2022 Magic, Soft Times Gallery Publication, San Francisco, CA
2022 Pigeon Pages, New York City, NY
2021 SOFT Quarterly Fall ‘21, San Diego, CA
2021 Art Maze Magazine Issue #23, Editorial Curation, London, UK
2020 Anti-Green Sheen Earth Day Zine, Hecha, New York City, NY
PRESS
2025 “Art About Spaces and Times”, The Santa Barbara Independent
2023 “Bound for Books: Book Bench Public Art Project”, Danville Arts
2022 Crimson Tide Press Release, Soft Times Gallery
2022 Ferment Press Release, The Independent
2021 “Mother Goose Mural” by Dolores Fox Ciardelli, Pleasanton Weekly
2021 New Dawn press release by Vanessa Thomas on Patch
SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION AT UC SANTA BARBARA
2023-2024 CITRAL Cooperative Participant in Course Design for Equity
Spring 2024 MFA Assistant Curator, Undergraduate Art, Design, and Architecture Museum Exhibition
2024-2024 Lead Teaching Assistant
SKILLS
Adobe Suites: InDesign, Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator
Printmaking: Screen print, risograph
Zine Construction
Woodshop fabrication
Ceramics: handbuilding, large and small sculptural
Audio recording, editing
Painting: gouache, watercolor, oil, acrylic, water based oils
Drawing: charcoal, graphite, pastels, etc; digital illustration, Procreate