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Cal Tabuena-Frolli

1991

  • Born in San Jose, California
  • Lives and works in Los Angeles

Education

2013

  • University of Southern California
  • Print and Digital Journalism
  • Annenberg School
  • Communication Design
  • Roski School

Solo Exhibition and Performance

2024

  • Oil Map Hangout — A Presentation
  • Stern Grove, San Francisco
  • Cal Tabuena-Frolli

Group Exhibitions

2025

  • Fragile Earth: A Call to Action
  • Bankhead Theater, Livermore
  • Livermore Valley Arts
  • Open Call: All Media 2025
  • Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo
  • Taylor Bythewood-Porter, Peter Carlson, Michael Todd
  • Expanding the Field; New ideas in and beyond print
  • Triton Museum, Santa Clara
  • California Society of Printmakers
  • 2025 Left Coast Annual Exhibition
  • Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica
  • Carin Adams — Oakland Museum of California
  • Afters in LA
  • Birdhouse Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Paulette Hartman and Emma Aronoff-Aspaturian

2019

  • 12th Annual Art About Agriculture
  • Santa Paula Art Museum, Santa Paula
  • John Nichols and Gail Pidduck

Collaborative Work, Commissions, Practice

2023

  • 10 Years in Reading — a portrait of Ninna Gaensler-Debs
  • San Francisco
  • assemblage and research collaboration

2022

  • Pamela Halpern Photo Archive
  • El Segundo
  • assembling private archive

2021

  • Shara Kay Organizing
  • Greater L.A. region
  • organizing practice

2020

  • Go Junk Free America!
  • Greater L.A. region
  • deaccessioning practice
  • California Oil Museum
  • Santa Paula
  • intern and researcher

2019

  • Tabuena-Frolli Home — Archive and Storage
  • San Jose
  • organizing practice
  • Backstage Library Works — USC Libraries
  • Los Angeles
  • deaccessioning practice

2017

  • Ear Hustle
  • San Quintin
  • graphic identity

2016

  • The Sights and Sounds of Bayview
  • San Francisco
  • graphic identity
  • Third Coast Conference & Awards
  • Chicago
  • graphic identity and conference illustrator

2015

  • Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
  • Los Angeles
  • publishing

2014

  • The Litography Project
  • San Francisco
  • online arts publication — identity, illustration
  • California Foodways
  • San Francsico
  • identity
  • Love+Radio
  • Los Angeles
  • illustration
  • KALW 91.7
  • San Francsico
  • graphics and illustration

Selected Publications

2024

  • Yield 02 — Oil Map of the Los Angeles Basin
  • edition of 33
  • research publication

2023

  • Only the Gold 01 — Indexes, Digests and Transcriptions
  • edition of 02
  • artist’s book

2019

  • Yield 01 — An Agricultural Portrait of California in the Late 2010s
  • edition of 03
  • research publication

2018

  • How & Why Who Knows What When & Where
  • edition of 27
  • research publication in 8 parts
  • 823 Magazine
  • edition of 50
  • kids’ newsmagazine published with Alexis Wong

2017

  • An Archeological Survey of Cell Phones in the 21st Century Pop Music Video
  • edition of 50
  • artist’s book
  • Election Shapes
  • edition of 100
  • artist’s book

2016

  • The Facebook
  • edition of 60
  • artist’s book
  • PANE collaborative zine
  • edition of 200
  • artist’s book published with 10 other artists

2015

  • God and Man in Crenshaw
  • published online
  • artist’s book
  • Constellation
  • edition of 20
  • artist’s book
  • FanFare
  • edition of 20
  • artist’s book

2014

  • Oh My Eff
  • published online
  • artist’s book

Workshops Attended

2025

  • Demystifying Digitization
  • California Revealed, Fresno

2024

  • DIY Archives
  • California Revealed, Autry Museum
  • Organizing Summit
  • SK Organizing, Los Angeles

2022

  • History in Community
  • Stanford University