Education
2020 MFA, CalArts, CA
2016 BFA, University of California Berkeley, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2024 After life, Sargent’s Daughter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Power in Every Thread with Maria Guzman Capron, Craft contemporary museum, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Bread & Chocolate with Peter Stearns, San Diego, CA
2021 La cantidad por calidad, Dabart gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Siempre Mas, Architecture Foundation of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2020 En la fertilidad crecia el tiempo, D301 gallery, Calarts, Valencia, CA
2019 Overload, Mint Gallery, Calarts, Valencia, CA
2018 Woven In, Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, CA
2018 Primal Matter, CAM gallery, Carnegie museum, Oxnard, CA
Selected Exhibitions
2023
An Irregular Regular, Becky Carter, Brooklyn, NY
Red Night, Lauren Powell projects, Los Angeles, CA
Felix Art fair, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA
Think Pinker, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA
Matter and Form, The Bunker Artspace, Palm beach Miami.
Dirty Laundry, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art.
2022
Beta Epoch, Los Angeles, CA
High as the Sky, Na Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Squarepants, Dabarts, Los Angeles
Two person Show, Fit to live in, The Reef, Los Angeles.
Organic, Suvillan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Up-cycling Detritus, Sculpture Alliance.
2020
Time out of joint, MAK Center for Art and Architecture at Mackey Apartments, Los Angeles, CA
2019
White Rabbit, H gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Body/Soul, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito,CA
OUT of Site/MInd/Body, D301 Gallery, Calarts, Valencia, CA
20/20, A402 Gallery, Calarts, Valencia, CA
In-Between States, Acre Projects, Chicago, IL.
2018
26 Days later, Project Space, Banff Center, Alberta, Canada
5’X5’, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito, CA
2017
XII PREMIO MAVI/ MINERA ESCONDIDA ARTE JOVEN CONTEMPORÁNEO, Museum of Visual Art, Santiago, Chile
Biotic, H gallery, Ventura, CA
Out of Place, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito, CA
Im.Press, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Defying Doyen, Atrium Gallery, Ventura, CA
Awards/ Residency
2023
Bemis Art center
2022
MASS MOCA, Residency.
2021
Anderson Ranch Art center, Snowmass, CO
2020
The Reef Residency, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Haystack Mountain School Of Craft, Open Studio residency.
2018
Acre Residency
Banff Center, Canada.
2016
Public Art Commission Grant, City of Ventura, CA
Reviews/Articles/Panels
The possibility of Mushrooms, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art.
2022
Long Beach State University, Visiting Artist Lecture.
Savannah College of Art and Design, Visiting artist lecture
American Scientist Cover, Sculpting science, Robert Louis Chianese.
Textiel Plus, Moniek Spaans
Beyond the Blue Wall, Calarts podcast.
Materials and Applications, Threads: A conversation about textile in art and Architecture.
Craft Contemporary Museum, Deconstructing the garment workshop
Independent Santa Barbara, https://www.independent.com/2021/06/30/organic-at-sullivan-goss/
Lumartzine https://www.lumartzine.com/articles/mingaopazo?rq=minga%20opazo2020
Artforum MFA Spotlight, https://www.artforum.com/spotlight-programs/calarts-83224?idx=14
2019
Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/497629/calarts-graduate-open-studios-2019/ , Lorissa Rinehart, April 2019.
https://www.acreresidency.org/exhibition/between-states, Lucy Stranger, October 3.
2018
Minga Opazo and the materials from earth, Endemico magazine, April 3.
Panelist: "Chilean Artist in Los Angeles", UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Feb 8th.
Create Magazine, Studio Sunday Minga Opazo, Feb 4th.
Private Collections
BETH RUDIN DEWOODY
BRIAN GRAZER