Artist & Educator

Alma Landeta (they/them) is a trans and mixed-race visual artist and educator who centers queer joy as liberation through drawings, paintings, site-specific installations, and public programming. Their work reflects their lived experiences while celebrating the communities that have held space for them to live authentically. Their background as an educator has taught them how to incorporate culturally responsive and developmentally appropriate frameworks for facilitating social practice art.

Landeta received a Masters of Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. They have exhibited nationally and internationally. Landeta was the recipient of the King Artist Residency (2024), the Artists’ Adaptability Grant (2021-2022), the Homebody Fellowship at Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio (2022), and the Latinx Teaching Artist Fellowship (LTAF) at Root Division (2020-2022).

Exhibitions

  • We Both Laughed in Pleasure, Jonathan Carver Moore, Two Person Exhibition—SF, CA; August 2024

  • Resonantly Me, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Group Exhibition—SF, CA; June 2024

  • Just Another June, Root Division, Group Exhibition—SF, CA; June 2024

  • Trans Artist, Rosebud Gallery, Group Exhibition—SF, CA; April 2024

  • San Francisco Art Fair, Jonathan Carver Moore, Group Exhibition—SF, CA; April 2024

  • Intersecting Visions, Upper Market Gallery, Group Exhibition—SF, CA; March 2024

  • Metamorphosis, Mercury20 Gallery, Juried Exhibition—Oakland, CA; January 2024

  • Queer-ennial: A Story of Armor, MACLA, Group Exhibition—San Jose, CA; September 2023

  • What Remains, Schlomer Haus Gallery, Group Exhibition—SF, CA; August 2023

  • Joy is the Fuel, SF LGBT Center, Mural—SF, CA; July 2023

  • Breaking Bread, MACLA, Group Exhibition—San Jose, CA; June 2023

  • About Face, Bedford Gallery, Juried Exhibition—Walnut Creek, CA; April 2023

  • Holding / Ceremony, Berkeley Art Center, Group Exhibition—Berkeley, CA; November 2022

  • Ma’s House Alumni, Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Group Exhibition—Southampton, NY; July 2022

  • Vernissage des Artistes en Résidence, La Maison Verte, Group Exhibition—France; July 2022

  • Figure Studies, Salesforce Tower, Solo Exhibition—SF, CA; May 2022

  • Queer Rain Art Party, Institute of Contemporary Art, Group Exhibition—SF, CA; April 2022

  • Women Rising, The Drawing Room, Group Exhibition—SF, CA; March 2022

  • RD Makes, Root Division, Group Exhibition—SF, CA; December 2021

  • Similarities & Differences, San Francisco Proper, Group Exhibition—SaF, CA; November 2021

  • Grace for All, Grace Cathedral, Public Art Installation—SF, CA; February 2021

  • Black Queer Leaders Veneration, Root Division, Mural—SF, CA; November 2020

  • SOMArts Día de los Muertos Exhibition, SOMArts, Group Exhibition—SF, CA; October 2019

Lectures, Panels, Presentations

  • Holding / Ceremony, Berkeley Art Center, Artist Talk; November 2022—Berkeley, CA

  • Ma’s House Artist-in-Residency, Podcast; August 2022—Virtual

  • Foot Hill College, Artist Talk; June 2022—Virtual

  • Artists’ Adaptability Circles Program Panel and Discussion, Panelist; November 2021—Virtual

  • Emergence 2021: Practical is Radical, Emerging Arts Professionals, SFBA, Panelist; June 2021—Virtual

  • Careers in the Arts, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Panelist; February 2020—San Francisco, CA

  • The Power of Storytelling, Diversity and Equity Workshop (LHNS), Lecture; November 2019—San Francisco, CA

  • Emptying Out Our Pockets: Mapping Our Interconnected Journeys, Inventing Our Future, Presenter; June 2019—Oakland, CA

  • Visual Journals: A Multifaceted Practice, National Art Education Association Conference, Presenter; March 2019—Boston, MA

  • Arts-Based Research in Middle and High School Art, National Art Education Association Pre-Conference, Presenter; March 2018—Seattle, WA

Residencies

  • King Artist-in-Residence—Palo Alto, CA; May 2024

  • Ma’s House Artist-in-Residency Homebody Fellowship—Southampton, NY; July 2022

  • La Maison Verte Artist-in-Residency—Marnay-sur-Seine, France; July 2022

  • Social Studies Residency—Colusa, CA; July 2019

  • University of Hawaii Mural Residency—Waikiki, HI; July 2018

  • SKOPART Residency—Skopelos, Greece; July 2015

Education

Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Masters of Arts in Art Education—2017

Thesis—Visual Research Journals: A Space for Doing

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Bachelor of Arts in Photography; Studio Art Major, Art History Minor—2010

Art History Program: Paris, France, 2009