EDUCATION
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, California
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Performing Arts Center Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2005 "Refletions" Costume Design, California Institute of the Arts,
Los Angeles, California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 "Interstates" Traveling Exhibit, The Art Institute of Hollywood, California
2010 "Interstates", TempoRoyale, Los Angeles, California
2010 "StillnessMotion", TempoRoyale, Los Angeles, California
2009 "Satallite Sinai Film", Brewery Art Complex, Los Angeles, California
2009 "Satalite Sinai", Disney Studios, Los Angeles, CAlifornia
2009 "Hunchback of Notredam", Guest Artist, California Institute of
the arts, Los Angeles, California
2008 "Satalite Sinai" California Institute of the Arts LShape Gallery,
Los Angeles, California
2004 "A Night Out" Boulder Museum for Contempary Art, Boulder, Colorado
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2009 Bill Cogins Award
2007 PAC Scholarship
2004 World Studio Award
2003 World Studio Award
EXHIBITION REVIEW/ARTICLES
"Chosen Images," Vision Magazine (July 2010)
Ziemba, Christine Z., 24700 (February 2010)
Current (February 2010), Illustration
Calderon, Trina, Juxtapoz Magazine, (January 2010), Illustration
COMMERCIAL ILLUSTRATION
2002 Hot Topic, Product Illustration, Denver, Colorado
2003 Vespa Groovy Scooters, Illustration, Boulder, Colorado
SELECTED PRIVATE/PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Mr. and Mrs Wade Calderon, Los Angeles, California
Dr. Samantha Fox, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Mr. Steph Sebbage, Los Angeles, California
Ayuna Collins was born in Boulder, Colorado. At a young age she, her younger brother, and her mother moved to a spiritual community on the outskirts of Prescott, Arizona where Ayuna was home-schooled and isolated from all forms of media- newspapers, tv, films, etc. Ayuna showed extreme, almost obsessive interest in art making and performance. After much debate and hesitation, Ayuna was allowed to move back to Boulder to attend middle and high school.
Ayuna immersed herself in art. Just after high school, Ayuna was in a near-fatal car. She had to relearning the basics: movement, reading, writing, art. After a long recovery, she attended Caifornia Institute of the Arts where she was a double major in Dance and Animation. While at CalArts Ayuna began studying with E. Michael Mitchell.
Ayuna currently lives and works in Los Angeles, investigating the interplay between her performing and visual arts.
