Lora Mathis
Pronouns: she/they
Oakland, CA
loramathis@gmail.com
www.loramathis.com
Instagram: @lora__mathis
Education
2023 BA Art Practice and English, University of California, Berkeley CA
2020 AA in English, San Diego City College, San Diego, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Five poems, Lucky Duck, Oakland CA
2021 It’s A Movie (In My Mind), Swish Projects, San Diego, CA
2016 Collected works, Junior High Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Here But Not Here, dual show with Cecilia Mignon, MRKT Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023 Textured Overflow: Senior Thesis Exhibition, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2022 Forgiving the Forgotten, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2019 DITHER, Ship in the Woods, Escondido, CA (curated by Marina Grize)
2017 More Delicate Things, Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA
2016 Nowhere Now, Los Angeles CA. Traveled to San Francisco, CA, New York, NY (curated by Grace Miceli)
Bow Town, Monastiraki, Montréal, Québec, Canada (curated by Stela Starchild and
Zuzu Knew)
Books and Zines as Author
2023 Here I Am In It, Burn All Books
2021 The Women Widowed to Themselves, second edition, Party Trick Press
2016 Instinct to Ruin, The Keep Pile Press
2015 The Women Widowed to Themselves, first edition, Where Are You Press
2014 I’ll Be Your Mirror, co-written with Leah Levinson, ink/paper press
2013 Bigger Bolder Less Pathetic, ink/paper press
Articles, Essays, and Poems as Author
2023 “The Snakes Came Back,” “The Thing Is,” Spectra Poets 2
2018 “What Change Gives and Takes,” Hooligan Magazine, #21
“What Continues to Stick,” OMEGA
“Anger is an Energy,” Recenter Press blog
2017 “The Body is a Blade: Interview with Japanese Breakfast,” Hooligan Magazine, #20
2016 “Fear of a Queer Planet: On Mental Health,” New Noise Magazine
“Vulnerability as a Healing Force,” Hooligan Magazine online
Spoken Word Contributions
2023 Sediment, with sound by Matty Terrones, Hello America Records
“You Are Not Alone,” with The Body, We’re Still Here, HIRS, Get Better Records
“Memories End,” The Egg Factory, BOXER, Egg Records
2022 “Backdrop of Green Light,” Winter Collection 2022, Hello America Records
Film and Video Screenings
2022 “Forgiveness,” digital video, (TRT ), directed and co-produced with Isaiah Acosta, WAVE Collective, San Francisco, CA (juried by Rainbow Tunnel Films)
2021 “1-800-WORK!,” TRT directed, Unpop Fest, San Diego, CA
Readings and Performances
2023 Poetry reading with sound by Matty Terrones, for Adam Gnade’s The Internet Newspaper Book Release, Verbatim Books, San Diego, CA
with sound by Matty Terrones, The Brown Building, San Diego, CA
2022 with sound by Matty Terrones, Swish Projects, San Diego, CA (as a part of It’s A Movie
(In My Mind)
with Confetti Arts Collective, Lucky Duck, Oakland, CA
2020 Revolutionary Letters: A Diane Di Prima Marathon Reading, online
Hooligan Hangouts, online
2019 The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA (as a part of The Center: New Works by Chad
Kouri)
Celebration, San Diego Trolley Dances, San Diego, CA (curated by Angel Acuña)
Poetry reading, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2018 Portland Poetry Slam, double feature with Terra Oliveira, Portland, OR
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, PA
2016 Get Better Fest, Philadelphia, PA
Penn State University, State College, PA
Hooligan Magazine Birthday, Chicago, IL (curated by Morgan Martinez and Rivka
Yeker)
Creative Workshops
2019 “Zine workshop,” High Tech High: Point Loma, San Diego, CA
“Zine workshop,” High Tech High: Chula Vista, Chula Vista, CA
Festivals and Public Events
2019 Chula Vista Zine Festival, table presenter, Chula Vista, CA
2018 San Francisco Zine Festival, table presenter, San Francisco, CA
2017 Hooligan Magazine Birthday, table presenter, Chicago, IL
2016 Los Angeles Zine Festival, table presenter, Los Angeles, CA
Hooligan Magazine Birthday, table presenter, Chicago, IL
2015 Portland Zine Festival, table presenter, Portland, OR
2014 Los Angeles Zine Festival, table presenter, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Press
2021 “How San Diego poet Lora Mathis struck a chord without even trying,” San Diego Union Tribune, Karla Peterson, July 1, 2021
“Lora Mathis and Amy Berkowitz,” Full Stop, December 1, 2021
2019 “1 Frage, 3 Antworten: Ist Schwäche die größte Stärke?,” Blonde Magazine, Laura Binder, August 7, 2019
2016 “Embracing your emotional self without judgment has never been so beautiful.,” Upworthy, Lori White, February 1, 2016
“No one’s softness has to look the same way,” Lithium Mag, December 28, 2016
Awards and Honors
2023 Art of Environmental Science Writing Fellow, Townshend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2022 Art Practice Honors, Fall 2022, Art Practice Department, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Materials Quik-Grant, Fall 2022, Art Practice Department, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2021 Runner up, Matthew Lyon Award in Photography, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA