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2024
El Engaño, Mexico City
2021
Cobertizo, Jilotepec, México.
2018
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Session II: Ceramics in a Transdisciplinary
Studio, Newcastle, ME
2025
“Anillos y Ondas,” Astronomia y Vasijas, El Engaño Showroom, México City, México
“Riverbank,” presented by Personal Space, JFK Library with the McCune Collection, Vallejo, California.
2024
“Troubled Kinships,” SCOTTY, Berlin, Germany
“Sculptors Painting,” Human Resources, Los Angeles, California.
2023
“Fatal Frame,” solo show, The Garage on The Grove, Sacramento, California.
“Moments in Time and Space,” Pence Gallery, Davis, California.
“EME[ART]SPACE,” Manifesto, Guadalajara, México.
“Nadie Ateriza,” The Vault, México City, México.
“Material Vol. 9,” Art Fair, México City, México.
2022
“Belonging,” Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California.
2021
“Aquí, Allá y Acullá,” Cobertizo, Jilotepec, México
“Gather Together in Our Name,” Faith J. McKinnie, Sacramento, California.
“The Object Lounge,” Collar Works, Troy, New York.
“School’s Out,” Friend of a Friend, Denver, Colorado.
“A Joy Unexpected,” Root Division, San Francisco, California.
“Speaking with Precision,” Virtual
“Possibility Made Real: Drawing and Clay,” Gallery 12.26, Dallas, Texas.
“Works on Paper,” Sabroso Projects, Virtual
2020
“Looking Forward // Queer Futures,” SaveArtSpace, Los Angeles, California.
2019
“Capital Clay Invitational,” E Street Gallery, Sacramento, California.
2018
“Sac Open Studios: Preview Exhibition,” Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, California.
“Heat of the Moment,” ESXLA (Eastside International), Los Angeles, California.
“Not Just a Drawing: A Line with Intent,” ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
“First Come, First Serve,” Fort Works Art, Fort Worth, Texas.
2017
"Maker Fusion," Ridley Gallery, Sierra College, Rocklin, California.
"Visions in Clay," L.H. Horton Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, California.
“BiblioTecha Vol. III,” ATM Gallery, Austin, Texas.
“SJDC Alumni Show – Emerging Artists,” L.H. Horton Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
2016
“Panama Artist’s Collective,” Alpha Fired Arts, Sacramento, California.
2023
“Fatal Frame,” solo show, The Garage on The Grove, Sacramento, California.
2021
“Gravity Don’t Pull Me,” solo show, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California.
“Doubt the Edges,” two-person show, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, California.
2019
“A Dangerous Place to Be,” solo show, Holland Project, Reno, Nevada.
2017
"Slowly Doing the Splits," solo show, Alpha Fired Arts, Sacramento, California.
2016
“Tell Me I Can’t,” solo show, Panama Art Factory, Sacramento, California.
2026
CLAVO, 8, presented with Problem Child, México City, México.
2023
Material, Vol. 9, presented with Save the Artist, México City, México
2020
QiPO, curated section: Unibrow Collective, México City, México
2024
“Too Late to Turn Back Now,” Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, California.
2022
“Motion Picture,” Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, California.
“No End In Sight,” Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, California.
2021
“Roof on Fire” Holland Project, Reno, Nevada.
2018
The Howard R. Kottler Testamentary Trust Scholarship
2013
Completion of Undergraduate Art History Honors Thesis, Faculty Sponsors: Katharine P.
Burnett, Ph.D, and Lynn Roller, Ph.D.
Research and Scholar Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in the Presentation
of Scholarly Research, URC Conference, Davis, California.
2012
First Year Scholar Award, University of California, Davis, California.
2009 James R. Hoffa Memorial Scholarship
2009
Stockton Teacher's Association Scholarship, Stockton, California.
2023
Visiting Artist, Sierra Community College, Rocklin, California
Visiting Lecturer, CSU Stanislaus, Turlock, California
Visiting Artist, CSU Sacramento, Sacramento, California.
Visiting Lecturer, Sacramento City Community College, Sacramento, California
2021
“Close Encounters,” NCECA Conference -- River, Reflections and Reinventions. Virtual.
PANEL PRESENTER. Moderator: Allison Moore
“Sacramento Artist Roster,” Office of Art and Culture, Sacramento, CA. SELECTION
PANEL
2020
“The Color Network,” The Color Network, Virtual. ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
2019
“Ali Youssefi Project,” Artist in Residence, Sacramento, CA. SELECTION PANEL
“Sacramento Zine Symposium,” Sacramento Public Library, Sacramento, CA
PRESENTER. Moderator: Natalye Valentina
2018
“Slide Nights,” Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME. PRESENTER
2025
Daniel Alejandro Trejo, “Replay,” Precog Magazine, Volume #9 Ourobourous.
2024
Srishti Prabha, “Verge evictions highlight need for more inclusive practices in Sacramento arts scene, artists of color say,”
Insight with Vicki Gonzalez, https://www.capradio.org/articles/2024/04/30/verge-evictions-highlight-need-for-more-inclusive-practices-
in-sacramento-arts-scene-artists-of-color-say/,
access date April 25, 2024.
2022
Tom Betthauser and Erin Kaczowski, “Review: No End in Sight,” Ceramics Monthly,
December 2022 Issue.
2021
Daniel Alejandro Trejo, “Thoughts at 70 MPH,” You Are Here, Issue 17, Bean Gilsdorf
(Ed.), Open Space (SFMOMA), https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2021/10/thoughts-at-70-
mph/, access date October 25, 2021.
Jeffrey Day, “Two at Axis,” Jeffreyaday.com, access date May 19, 2021.
2020
Mason Hershenow and Sean Ang, “Daniel Alejandro Trejo on Redifining Grad School,”
Meaning What, Episode 006, Libsyn.com, access date: October 29, 2020.
Massiel Bobadilla and Justina Martino, “Accessible Art Collecting,” Converge, Episode
001, Vergeart.com, access date: October 22, 2020.
Desanne Lopez Cassell, “Queer Art Workers Reflect: Daniel Alejandro Trejo Wants
More Queer POC Voices in Ceramics,” Hyperallergic.com, access date: June 18, 2020.
2019
Summer Ester Orr, “A Dangerous Place to Be / An Interview With Ceramicist Daniel
Trejo,” 97.7 KWNK Radio, kwnkradio.org, access date: October 28, 2019.
Jeffrey Day, “Artist Incubator: Major takes students from studio to practice,” UC Davis
College of Letters and Science Magazine, lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu, access date: October 25, 2019.
2017
Alex Coba, “Molding the Future for Ceramic Artists,” deltacollegian.net, access date:
September 8, 2017
2018
Claire Brassil, “Reflections on the 2018 Summer Residency,” Watershedceramics.org,
access date: August 29, 2018
2017
Aida Lizalde, "Rings & Jockstraps, A Studio Visit with Daniel Trejo,"
Placeholdermag.com, access date: April 29, 2017
Cynthia Edith Gurrola, "Artist Interviews from Bibliotecha," Latinxspaces.com, access
date: March 23, 2017
2024 Resident Instructor, El Engaño, Mexico City
2016–2020 Ceramics Instructor, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA
2013 Teaching Assistant to Visiting Lecturer Cai Thorman, Department of Classics and Art
History, University of California, Davis, CA Course: Roman Art and Architecture
(Summer Session II: 2013)
B.A Art Studio, University of California, Davis, CA
B.A Art History, University of California, Davis, CA