VALS: Sydney Acosta

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Sydney Acosta (b. 1987, San Antonio, Texas) received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from UCLA in 2021 and her BA from Sacramento State University in 2015. She has exhibited her work at the CASTLE gallery (2022), Onsen Confidential with Kristina Kite gallery hosted by Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo (2022), Root Division in San Francisco (2021) and Axis gallery, Sacramento (2019). She has been supported by the MacDowell Fellowship and residency, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the LA Lakers emerging artist grant and the American Austrian Foundation. She has upcoming exhibitions at Human Resources Los Angeles, Michael Benevento gallery and Kristina Kite gallery. She lives and works in Los Angeles.