SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Rye Arts Center, Elegie, Rye, NY
2022 Moira Fitzsimmons Art Gallery, Elegies, Hamden, CT
2016 Edit Gallery, Groundings, Richmond, VA
2014/15 Gallery 263, Clouds Parting, Cambridge, MA
2013 Marie Louise Trichet Art Gallery, Wisdom House, Through the Paramis, Litchfield, CT
2013 Port Washington Public Library, Groundings, Port Washington, NY
2012 Cartus Corporation, Danbury, CT
2012 Moira Fitzsimmons Art Gallery, Groundings, Hamden, CT
2012 Ulla Surland Gallery Eleven - Two, Oil Paintings on Canvas, Fairfield, CT
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
2017 UConn Stamford Art Gallery, Sub.struc.ture, Stamford, CT
2012 Scott & Bowne, Emergence, Kent, CT
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
2023-24 Palmer Art, The Paper Collective, Larchmont, NY
2023 440 Gallery, 19th Annual Small Works Show 2023, Brooklyn, NY (Curated by Grace R.Freedman)
2023 Pinkwater Gallery, Mapping the Abstract, Kingston, NY
2023 MAPSpace, A Complexity of Joys, Port Chester, NY (Curated by Patricia Miranda & Francine Weiss)
2022 Equity Gallery, Among Friends 3, New York, NY
2022 MAPSpace, Intimacies, Port Chester, NY (Curated by Gaby Collins-Fernandez & Patricia Miranda)
2021 Odetta Digital, Refresh, SHIM Art Network
2021 Odetta Digital, Page-Turner, SHIM Art Network
2018 City Lights Gallery, ART that Makes the HeART Sing, Bridgeport, CT
2016 Hygienic Inc. Gallery, Beyond Labels, New London, CT
2016 Gallery RIVAA, Visions of Gaia: Artists’ depictions and metaphors of the ecological world, New York, NY (curated by Johnes Ruta)
2014 Fitchburg Art Museum, One Language is Never Enough, Fitchburg, MA
2013 Bruce S. Kershner Gallery, It’s all in the details, Fairfield, CT
2013 Kirkland Art Center, Fractured Color and Light., Clinton, NY
2012 Bruce S. Kershner Gallery, Journeys, Fairfield, CT (Curated by Thomas Mezzanotte)
2011 Bridgeport Arts & Cultural Council, Trail Mix, Bridgeport, CT
2011 LABA Gallery, Hope Art Show, New York, NY (Curated by Johnes Ruta)
2011 The Gertrude G. White Gallery, SHE, Greenwich, CT
2010 The Bendheim Gallery, Beyond Borders, Greenwich, CT (Curated by Ben Ortiz)
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, Waterbury, CT (Curated by Ben Ortiz)
2008 22 Haviland Street Gallery, Hunting and Gathering: Survival Stories for a Long Year, Norwalk, CT
2007 City Lights Gallery, Translation: English Spoken Here, Bridgeport, CT (Curated by Ben Ortiz)
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, Somerville, MA (Curated by Peter John Marquez) (catalogue)
2006 Arts & Literature Laboratory, Selected Works, New Haven, CT
2006 City Lights Gallery, Identity, Bridgeport, CT (Curated by Ben Ortiz)
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
2019 Open Studios, American Fabric Arts Building, Bridgeport, CT
2015 Open Studios, American Fabric Arts Building, 4-412 (solo), Bridgeport, CT
2014 Open Studios, American Fabric Arts Building, 4-412 (solo), Bridgeport, CT
2013 Open Studios, American Fabric Arts Building, 4-412 (solo), Bridgeport, CT
2013 Spring Open Studios, American Fabric Arts Building, 4-412 (solo), Bridgeport, CT
2012 Open Studios, American Fabric Arts Building, 4-412 (solo), Bridgeport, CT
2011 Open Studios, American Fabric Arts Building, 4-412 (solo), Bridgeport, CT
2010 Open Studios, 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
BIBLIOGRAPHY/PRESS
2014 5 things to do in Boston this weekend, Metro Boston Weekend, Dec 12-14, 2014.
2014 Cover and section dividers, Spectrum, Winter 2014.
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, 2009.
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: Interview 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
2006 Birke, Judy. “Works have singular interest, but link between them is tenuous”, New Haven Register, Sunday March 26, 2006, p. E1-E2.
2006 “Resident's art on display this month”, Trumbull Times, March 9, 2006
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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.
2003 Cover, Spectrum, Winter 2003.
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
1993 MA, New York University, New York, NY
1990-1992 Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
1985 BFA, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI