Mercedes Dorame | |
Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California |
Nationality: | American |
Education: | BA: University of California, Los Angeles |
Alma Mater: | MFA: San Francisco Art Institute |
Mercedes Dorame (born 1980) is an American photographer based in Malibu, California.
Mercedes Dorame was born in 1980 in Los Angeles, California, and identifies as having Tongva ancestry.[1]
Dorame earned her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2003. She earned her master of fine arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2010.[1]
Dorame's work is in the permanent collections of Hammer Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[2] and has been shown at the Catalina Museum for Art and History.[3] [4] The Los Angeles Times has covered her work.[5] [6] [7]
She works in structural installation, with her works Orion’s Belt—Paahe’ Sheshiiyot—a map for moving between worlds (2018) and Our Land and Sky Waking Up - ‘Eyoo’ooxon koy Tokuupar Chorii’aa (2021) incorporating cog stones found on a site being commercially developed in the north Orange County, California area that are approximately 75,000 years old.[8] [9] Her piece "Portal for Tovaangar" was virtually installed on the LACMA campus.[10]
Dorame was named a Harpo Foundation fellow in 2011 and En Foco's New Works Photography fellow in 2012.[2] The San Francisco Foundation presented Dorame with its James D. Phelan Award in the Visual Arts in 2017.[1] She received a Creative Capital Grant in 2020.[11]