Curriculum Vitae
lyra ramirez purugganan
Los Angeles, CA
lyrapurugganan@gmail.com
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2022-2024 MFA Studio Art, University of California, Santa Barbara — Santa Barbara, CA
2016-2021 BFA Printmaking, The Ohio State University — Columbus, OH
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Group Exhibitions
2026
Murmurating Threads – Vulpes Bastille – Kansas City, MO
Last Call for America – Mohelif Studios – Lost Angeles, CA
Porta Potty Art Fair – Four Hundred Gallery x House Show – Los Angeles, CA
Paradise – Stoveworks – Chattanooga, TN
Frog Show – Four Hundred Gallery – Santa Barbara, CA2025
Greater Los Angeles MFA Show – Long Beach, CA
Kababaihan – UCSB Multicultural Center, Santa Barbara, CA
Soft Archives – IA&A Hillyer Gallery, Washington DC
Red 40-Free – Parlour & Ramp, Chicago, IL
House Show 3 – Red Barn Project Space – Santa Barbara, CA2024
En Tu Sueños – Ace Hotel, Palm Springs, CA
House Show Performance Festival – Red Barn Project Space, Santa Barbara, CA
Incandescent – AD&A Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Queering Pilipinx Aesthetics – Bindlestiff Studio, San Francisco, CA
A Handful of Macadamia Nuts — Harvest and Gather, Other Places Arts Fair, San Pedro, CA
House Show 2 — Red Barn Project Space, Santa Barbara, CA2023
Greater Los Angeles MFA Group Show – CSULB Galleries, Long Beach, CA
Brief and Spectacular – SCRANCH, Wonder Valley, CA
Tributaries – Architecture, Design, and Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Flourish and Flow – Betteravia Gallery, Santa Maria, CA
Positive Exposure – Project Arts Space, Los Angeles, CA
Body / Armor / Architecture – Sculpture Atrium, Santa Barbara, CA2022
Columbus Alternative Art Book Fair – Columbus, OH
MFA First Year Group Exhibition – UC Santa Barbara2021
BFA Group Exhibition – The Ohio State University2020
Undergraduate Student Art Scholarship Show – The Ohio State UniversitySolo, Two Person, Three-Person Exhibitions
2025
Fragments We Keep — three person show with Kia Harlan and Zoya Abbas – Maker House, Goleta, CA2024
Sweet Slow Burn — solo show – Glassbox Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
can we hold hands while we walk — three person show with akeylah imani wellington and sara jean ruiz – 934 Gallery, Columbus, OH2023
Tres Leches — three person show with Lela Shahrzad Welch and Diego Melgoza Oceguera – Red Barn Project Space, Santa Barbara, CA
Analogous Roots — three person show with Lela Shahrzad Welch and Diego Melgoza Oceguera – Napa Hall Gallery, CSU Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA2021
Misplaced — two person show with Brendan Murphy – Wild Goose Creative in Columbus, OH
Goodbye Hot Ohioan Summer — Solo Show – Needle Exchange Records, Columbus, OH -
2026
ACRE Residency 2026
TSA LA Open Call Finalist2025
Maker House Emerging Artist in Residence2024
Greater Columbus Arts Council Project Grant
Haystack School of Craft, Fibers
UCSB College of Creative Studies Teaching Fellowship 2024-20252023
Ron Newby Graduate Student Award2022
Artist in Residence with Needle Exchange Records in Columbus, OH2020
Robert and Marion Gattrell Undergraduate Student Award -
2026
October Area Meeting facilitator – SBCAW, Santa Barbara, CA
Queer artist panel organizer and facilitator – SBCAW, Santa Barbara, CA2025
A Conversation with Hung Le and Lyra Purugganan – IA&A Hillyer, Washington DC
Figuring It Out: An Artist Talk – UC Santa Barbara2024
Artist Talk – UC Santa Barbara
MFA Round Table – UC Santa Barbara2023
Placemaking and the Experimental – UC Santa Barbara
On Being the Sweetest Angel Alive – UC Santa Barbara
Centering Desire – UC Santa Barbara2021
Now What? Prints and the Human Condition Panelist | University of Tennessee, Knoxville Virtual EventBFA Round Table – Columbus, OH -
2025
266 Collective Co-Editor2024
From Ground Up: Material Disobedience and Inherited Knowledge. Tba: Journal of Art, Media, and Visual Culture