SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010     Bethwood  Music School, Paintings, Seymour, CT
2010     New Haven Free Public Library, The World of Paradoxes, New Haven, CT
2007-8  Pegasus Gallery, Watching, Middletown, CT
2007     Andrews University Art&Design Gallery, (un)rooting, Berrien Springs, MI
2006     MacDonough Art Gallery, Albertus Magnus College, Paintings,  New Haven, CT
2005     Zeitgeist Gallery, Connecting Points, Cambridge, MA
2005     Edward Williams Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., Connecting Points, Hackensack, NJ
2005     Torrefazione Italia, Boston, MA
2003     Moira Fitzsimmons Arons Art Gallery, Recent Work, Hamden, CT
2003     Center For the Creative Arts, Edges, Yorklyn, DE
2002     The York Square Cinema Gallery, Paths & Walls, New Haven, CT
2000     KCAC Mallin Gallery,  Paintings. Kansas City, MO
2000     The Goddard Center, Ardmore, OK
2000     East Central University Gallery, Ada, OK
1999     IAO Gallery,  Reencounters,  Oklahoma City, OK
1998     McHenry College Gallery, Crystal Lake, IL
1998     Galeria Eleanor Jackson, Montemorelos, Mexico

TWO-ARTISTS EXHIBITIONS
2010     The Galleries at Fraser-Woods School, Inside Outside, Newtown, CT
2006     Arts & Literature Laboratory, Lisie S. Orjuela and Jennifer Van Elswyck, New Haven, CT
2001     Pearl Conrad Gallery, Movement in F Major, Mansfield, OH
2000     Stone by Stone Gallery, Dallas, TX

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011      Bridgeport Arts & Cultural Council, Trail Mix, Bridgeport, CT

2011      LABA Gallery, Hope Art Show, New York, NY

2011      The Gertrude G. White Gallery, SHE, Greenwich, CT

2010     The Bendheim Gallery, Beyond Borders, Curator: Ben Ortiz, Greenwich, CT
2010     The Pen and Brush, Inc, Transitions, New York, NY
2009     Creative Arts Workshop, Cultural Passages, New Haven, CT
2009     SPAG, Art on Vacation, Norwalk, CT
2008     Mattatuck Museum, Merging Cultures, Guest Curator: Ben Ortiz, Waterbury, CT
2008     22 Haviland Street Gallery, Hunting and Gathering: Survival Stories for a Long Year, Norwalk, CT
2007     City Lights Gallery, Translation:English Spoken Here, Curator: Ben Ortiz, Bridgeport, CT
2007     Orange Hall Galleries, Latin American Visuals, Middletown, NY
2007     Creative Arts Workshop, Identity Made Visible, New Haven, CT
2007     Pritzker Gallery, Tango, Highland, NY
2006     Haskins Laboratories, Structure, New Haven, CT
2006     Brickbottom Gallery, The Somatic Mirror, Curator: Peter John Marquez, Somerville, MA
2006     Arts & Literature Laboratory, Selected Works, New Haven, CT
2006     City Lights Gallery, Identity, Curator: Ben Ortiz, Bridgeport, CT
2005     Arts & Literature Laboratory, Members Show, New Haven, CT
2005     Creative Arts Workshop, Cultural Passages, New Haven, CT
2005     Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT
2004     Small Space Gallery, Spirituality in Contemporary Latin American Art, New Haven, CT
2004     Arts & Literature Laboratory, Members Show, New Haven, CT
2004     Carriage Barn Arts Center, Betty Barker Gallery, known/unknown,  New Canaan, CT
2004     Arts & Literature Laboratory,  Body of Work,  New Haven, CT
2004     Gallery 1212, Coming Together: Women Telling Their Stories,  Bridgeport, CT
2003     Arts & Literature Laboratory, Members Show, New Haven, CT
2003     Arts & Literature Laboratory, Perspectives: Drawing and the Printed Word,   New Haven, CT
2003     Arts & Literature Laboratory, Inside  The Box,  New Haven, CT
2003     White Silo Farm & Winery, Obejcts & Images,  Sherman, CT
2002     Lyman Center for the Performing Arts, What She Knew,   New Haven, CT
2002     Art on the Edge/ Arts & Ideas, at Community Foundation, Coming Together, New Haven, CT
2002     Jeffrey  Weiss Gallery, Cycles,  Black Rock, CT
2001     Lyman Center for the Performing Arts, On Her Mind, New Haven, CT
2001     Gallery 214, Dreamscapes Landscapes, Montclair, NJ
2000     East Central University Art  Gallery, The Oklahoma Small Works X, Ada, OK
2000     Sable V Art Gallery, Galveston, TX
2000     The Goddard Center,  31th Annual Art Exhibit,  Ardmore, OK
2000     Murray State Art Gallery, 4th Annual Cross Timbers Small Works, Tishamingo, OK
1999     The Goddard Center,  30th Annual Art Exhibit,  Ardmore, OK
1999     IAO Gallery, Mixed Media ‘99,  Oklahoma City, OK
1998     The Goddard Center,  29th Annual Art Exhibit,  Ardmore, OK
1997     Art Vivant Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1996     Ceres Gallery, Hallelujah '96, New York, NY
1996     Ceres Gallery, Forgiveness...or not, New York, NY
1996     Andrews Art Gallery, 1st Invitational, Berrien Springs, MI
1995     Art Initiatives 148 Gallery, Maximum Capacity, New York, NY
1995     Ceres Gallery, A Moment of Grace, New York, NY

OPEN STUDIO EXHIBITIONS

2011      American Fabric Arts Building, 4-412  (solo), Bridgeport, CT

2010      American Fabric Arts Building, 4-412  (solo), Bridgeport, CT

2004     Brickbottom Open Studios, B151 (solo), Somerville, MA
2004     Seventh Annual City-Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT
2003     Sixth Annual City-Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT
2003     Nest Open Studios, Bridgeport, CT
2002     Fifth Annual City-Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT
2001     Fourth Annual City-Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT
2000     Roz Liebowitz Studio, Four Views II, New York, NY
1999     Brickbottom Open Studios, B151 (solo), Somerville, MA
1999     Roz Liebowitz Studio, Paintings (solo), New York, NY
1998     Brickbottom Open Studios, B151 (solo), Somerville, MA
1998     Roz Liebowitz Studio, Four Views, New York, NY
1996     222 Studio (solo), New York, NY

COLLECTIONS
Arts Student League of New York, NY
Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT
McHenry College, Crystal Lake, IL
Museo Carmelo Fernandez, San Felipe, Venezuela
Work in many private collections throughout the USA 

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010     Joyce, Donna Marie, “Comments on the Orjuela exhibit, blog.azothgallery.com, May 4, 2010.
2009     Mandel, Brynn, “ Latin heritage artfully examined at Mattatuck” Republic American, July 18, 2008.
2009     “Mattatuck Hosts ‘Merging Cultures’”, Voices, April 9, 2009.
2008     “22 Haviland St Gallery  Offers ‘Artist Talk’ about ‘Hunting and Gathering’”,  Norwalk E-A-S-E, March 14, 2008.
2008     Luby, Abby, “Visual Stories for Surviving Winter”, The Advocate & Greenwich Time, Mar. 2, 2008.
2008     Ross, Carolee, “ ‘Hunting and Gathering’ at 22 Haviland Street Gallery, March 2, 2008.
2007     Arsenault, Kara, “Identity made art”, The Arts Paper, May 2007.
2007     “Tango! Art, Music and Dance at Pritzker Gallery”, Highland, March 2007
2007     Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson, “Art: Interviews with Lisie S. Orjuela”, The Spectrum Blog, January 15, 2007
2006     Boros, Phyllis A. S. “Latin 'Identity' Inspires local artists in City Lights show” Connecticut Post, October 20, 2006
2006     “Curling up with a canvas”, Boston Globe Side Kick, October 12, 2006
2006     “ The Somatic Mirror: Reflecting Self and Other”,  absolutearts.com,  Indepth Arts News, September 14, 2006.
2006     Marquez, Peter J., “The Somatic Mirror”, Catalogue, October 2006
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2006     “Resident's art on display this month”, Trumbull Times, March 9, 2006
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2005     “Art Exhibit”, Wayne Today, October 13, 2005.
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2004     McHugh, Nicky.  “City-Wide Open Studios: Artists Transplanted, Sustained and Exposed”, Arts!  October 2004, p.  10-11.
2004     Bauman, Nick, “Audubon hosts Latin art, culture”, Yale Daily News, September 24. 2004, p. 5.
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2002     Stance, Christopher.  “Happen Stance”, New Haven Advocate, November 7 2002.
2001     “Two  artists share show”, Mansfield News Journal. January 5, 2001.
1999     Brandenburg, John.  “ ‘Reencounters’  Worth Encountering” ,The Daily Oklahoman,  January 14, 1999.
1998     Sophrin, Diane. “ Reconstructing a Feminist Figuration”, in Representational Painting Today, Addressing Social, Political, Psychological & Cultural Issues.  CAA Conference, Toronto,  Canada

EDUCATION
1991-1993          MA, New York University,  NY
1990-1992          Art Students League of New York, NY
1982-1985          BFA, Andrews University, MI