Josie Marlyn Gomez is a San Diego-based artist and holds a BA from California State University, Long Beach. Her practice blends abstraction with occasional figuration, focusing on identity and breaking barriers as a first-generation Mexican American.

Her work features repetitive patterns, bold blocks of color, and talking figures. These symbols create a visual language to explore topics such as breaking cycles of generational trauma and leaning into resilience.

Inspired by a childhood oil pastel drawing she created in the sixth grade, her talking figures seek nostalgia, allowing space for reflection.

JOSIE MARLYN GOMEZ

Lives and works in San Diego, CA

EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Arts: Studio Arts
Cal State University of Long Beach, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2024
Organic Cubism, Oceanside Museum of Art West Gallery at The Seabird, Oceanside, CA

Open Gallery Benefit Show, The Artist Coop, Long Beach, CA

Connecting en la Cocina, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA

2023
The Last Group Show, Bread and Salt, San Diego, CA

Kathleen Kane-Murrell + Minis 2023, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA

2022
The Local Group Show: Installation IV, Stay Gallery, Downey, CA

2020
___________ by women, Stay Gallery, Downey, CA

2019
Millennial Pink, The dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA

FEATURED PRESS:

2022
“52 artists to be featured in group exhibition at Stay Gallery”, The Downey Patriot, June 21

2019
Ustrell, Rebecca, “Millennial Pink” Curious Magazine Vol. 2, Curious Publishing, September 24