My artist CV
Lesly Esparza
Education
2017- 2021 - New Mexico School For the Arts (Visual arts)
2019 - CU Denver - Lynx camp (Animation)
2021 - 2025 - University of New Mexico (Bachelors in Film and Digital Arts)
Employment
2016 - Warehouse 21, Coding Apprenticeship - NM, Santa Fe
2017 - Emerging New Media Alliance, Journalist, photographer - NM, Santa Fe
2018 - 2021 - Coe Arts Center, Art Curator Internship - NM, Santa Fe
2022 - 2025 - Maxwell Museum, Graphics assistant - NM, Albuquerque
2025 - Current - Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Visitor services - NM, Santa Fe
2026 - Current - Katharsis Media, Camera operator - NM, Albuquerque
Exhibitions & Performances
2017 - All for One - New Mexico School for the Arts - Sante Fe, NM
2018 - BIRCH (All for one) - New Mexico School for the Arts Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
2018 - Whereabouts - Santa Fe Art Institute - Santa Fe, NM
2018 - Juried exhibition - Axle Contemporary - Santa Fe, NM
2018 - Perspective - New Mexico School for the Arts (Juried) - Santa Fe, NM
2018 - NMSA Juried Exhibition, Zalma Loften Gallery, (Juror: Alberto Zalma) - Santa Fe, NM
2019 - All for one - New Mexico School for the Arts - Santa Fe, NM
2019 - Recollective Echo - Coe Arts Center (juror and artist) - Santa Fe, NM
2019 - Luted Crucible - New Mexico School for the Arts (Guest collaborator Piers Watson) - Santa Fe, NM
2020 - All for one - New Mexico School for the Arts - Santa Fe, NM
2020 - Envision- New Mexico School for the Arts, (Juror: Arista Slater-Sandoval) - Santa Fe, NM
2020 - KABOOM - Site Santa Fe (juried show, juror) - Santa Fe, NM
2020 - (I’m nostalgic for) Memories I've never lived before - Coe Arts Center - Santa Fe, NM
2021 - Capeesh? Kaposh. - New Mexico School for the Arts - Santa Fe, NM
2023 - Experiments in Cinema - The Guild Cinema - Albuquerque, NM
2024 - 48 Hour Film Project - Albuquerque, NM
2024 - Currents New Media Festival - El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe - Santa Fe, NM
2025 - Between Miracles - Alas de Aguas Cultural Center - Santa Fe, NM
2026 - Experiments in Cinema - The Guild Cinema - Albuquerque, NM
Press and Publication
2020 - (I’m nostalgic for) Memories I've never lived before - Santa Fe, NM
2021 - Goodbye, I loved you. Goodbye, you sucked. - Santa Fe, NM
2021 - “Gizmo” Zine - Santa Fe, NM
2021 - Everything Seems Recent When You're Far Away - Santa Fe, NM
2026 - Experiments in Cinema - Albuquerque, NM
Internships/Collaborations
2018 - Currents New Media Festival
2019 - CU Denver Lynx Camp
2020 - SITE Santa Fe
2019 - 2021 Internship at Coe Arts Center