Yoab Vera (b. 1985, Mexico) He holds an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of California, Los Angeles (2021), and a BA in art and art history with a concentration in modern and contemporary Latin American art from Hunter College, New York (2013). His selected solo and duo exhibitions include Circadian Memories: Amar Pacifico, Make Room, Los Angeles (2023); Robert Janitz & Yoab Vera, Saenger Galería, Mexico City (2023); and the everyday in memory, with Hea-Mi Kim, The Alice and Nahum Lainer Family Gallery, UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios, Los Angeles (2022). His work has been shown in international group shows, including at Art SG, with Make Room LA, Singapore (2023); Way Home, China – Latin American Art Consortium, Shanghai (2022); and Light Touch, LA Dreams, CFHILL, Stockholm (2022). Vera’s works are included in private collections in Asia, Europe and the USA as well as in the permanent collection of institutions AMOCA, Wales; and X Museum, Beijing. Recently, he exhibited a solo exhibition at Luis Barragán’s Casa Gilardi in February 2024.
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Circadian Memories #Amar Pacífico (Bolero), 2023 -
Circadian Memories: It's Impossible (Bolero), 2023
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Circadian Memories: La Isla Bonita, 2023
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Recuerditos Cotidianos #Postal al Sol (Para Etel), 2023
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Recuerditos Cotidianos: Because The Night, 2023
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Recuerditos Cotidianos: Here Comes The Sun, 2023
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Recuerditos Cotidianos: Over The Rainbow, 2023
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Circadian Memories #Contigo_Aprendí (Bolero), 2022
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Recuerditos Cotidianos #Amanecer_Mediterráneo, 2022
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Recuerditos Cotidianos #Enamorarse del Mar, 2022
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Recuerditos Cotidianos #Último Atardecer Barcelonés, 2022
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I Go to Seek a Great Perhaps
Alice Ningci Jiang, Analia Saban, Christian Quin Newell, Dabin Ahn, Daniel Um, Franz Kline, Joaquin Stacey-Calle, Kate Casanova, Naomi Nakazato, Shana Hoehn, Soumya Netrabile, Taylor Prendergast, Terence Koh, Yassi Mazandi, Yoab Vera, Yongqi Tang, Yves 27 July - 31 August 2024I Go to Seek a Great Perhaps is a group exhibition on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from July 27 through August 31, 2024. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices share a spirit of inquiry and imaginative risk-taking, presenting new and recent work in dialogue around themes of desire, possibility, and the search for meaning.Read more -
Yoab Vera
Circadian Memories: Amar Pacifico 17 February - 15 April 2023Circadian Memories: Amar Pacifico is a solo exhibition by artist Yoab Vera, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from February 17 through April 15, 2023. Vera's ongoing Recuerditos Cotidianos series transforms everyday objects and cultural touchstones through paint into tender acts of memory and cultural affirmation, drawing on Latinx visual culture and personal narrative.Read more -
Things Seen
David Abbott, Taylor Ervin, Will Gabaldón, Rema Ghuloum, Errol Sawyer, Peter Shear, Yoab Vera 4 February - 18 March 2023Things Seen is a group exhibition on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from February 4 through March 18, 2023. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices share an attentiveness to the visible world — to objects, places, and the charged details of everyday experience — presenting new and recent work in dialogue.Read more -
Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days Of Summer
Astra Huimeng Wang, Carrie Cook, Jessica Taylor Bellamy, Luz Carabaño, Roksana Pirouzmand, and Yoab Vera 28 June - 23 July 2022Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer is a group exhibition on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from June 28 through July 23, 2022. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices share a sense of ease, pleasure, and the charged atmosphere of summer, presenting new and recent work in dialogue.Read more
