Born in Lynwood, California. Lives and works in San Gabriel Valley.
Solo Show
2023 Buckham Gallery, Llamáme Por Mi Nombre, Flint, MI
2023 Oak Room Gallery, ahí les mando saludos, Greeley, CO
2023 LAUNCH LA & Luna Anaïs gallery, Refugio en las Flores, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Acción Latina Juan R. Fuentes Gallery, Diario Entrada 1, SanFrancisco, CA
2018 Arts & Recreation Center, Auto Retrato, Baldwin Park, CA
Group Exhibition History
2023 Munzón Gallery, SA II LA, Long Beach, CA
2023 Open Gallery, Jardin De Rosas, Long Beach,CA
2023 Arts At Blue Roof, Después De La Lluvia/After The Rain, Los Angeles, CA2023 Marks Art Center, RAIZ II, Palm Desert, CA
2023 Usdan Gallery, Connected Diaspora: U.S. Central American Visuality in the Age of Socail Media, Bennington, VT
2023Band of Vices, Mixtape, Los Angeles, CA
2023Hiestand Gallery, Young Painters Competition, Oxford, OH
2023 Centro Cultural de España, CONS-TELAR, San Salvador, El Salvador
2023 Tlaloc Studios & Superchief Gallery, Demasiado, Los Angeles, CA 2022 Motherling, L.A to S.A., San Antonio, TX
2022 Open Gallery, Reflections, Long Beach, CA
2022 Munzón Gallery, Filling The Void, Long Beach, CA
2022 Art Share L.A., L.A. Abstracted, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Avenue 50 Studio, Trees of Life: The Bridge to our Ancestors, LosLos Angeles, CA
2022 Goethe-Institut, Encuentros: Encounters, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Carrousel du Louvre, Focus Art Fair, Paris, France
2022 Kühlaus, Evanescence, Berlin, Germany
2022 Das Institut, In Perspective, Berlin Germany
2022 DSW Headquarters, In The Paint traveling exhibition, Frankfurt, Germany
2022 Irvine Fine Arts Center, All Media 2022, Irvine, CA
2022 Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center, Ahora, Anaheim, CA
2022 Tlaloc Studios, Retrato, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Buckham Gallery, BIPOC is the Theme!, Flint, MI
2022 The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Band Of Vices, In The Paint, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Lakers’ UCLA Health Training Center, In The Paint, El Segundo, CA
2022 San Diego Museum of Art, Artists Guild Spring Exhibition, San Diego, CA
2022 South Gate Museum, Cuídate Take Care of Yourself, South Gate, CA
2022 Art Share LA, Products of Empire, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Irvine Fine Arts Center, MANOS, Irvine, CA
2021 Barker Hangar, The Other Art Fair, Santa Monica, CA
2021 Brand Library & Art Center, BRAND 49-49th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper, Glendale, CA
2021 Dupont Underground, Somewhere Between, Washington, DC
2021 John and Geraldine Lilley Museum, EN MEDIO | Senses of Migration, Reno, NV
2021 Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA), Immi’Art, La Fayette Park Place, Los Angeles, CA
2021 SOMArts, CARAVANA: Mobilizing Central American Art (1984-Present), San Francisco, CA
2021 Virtual show hosted by UNICA from UCLA, Counterspaces: Healing in Resistance, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Stamp Gallery, Connected Diaspora: U.S. Central American Visuality in the Age of Social Media, College Park, MD
2020 Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Bloom & Grow: Brilliant Botanicals, Solomons, MD
2020 Fowler Museum Terrace, UCLA, Central American Counterspaces: Intergenerational Resilience, CA
2019 Frederic Jameson Gallery Duke University, Connected Diaspora: U.S Central American Visuality in the Age of Social Media, Durham, NC
2019 UCF Art Gallery, Coalesce, Orlando, FL
2019 Irvine Fine Arts Center, All Media 2019, Irvine, CA
2019 Flatline, In The Now Figurative II, Long Beach, CA
2019 Mexican Consulate, Immi’Art, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Angel Gates Cultural Center, Ganas de Existir!, San Pedro, CA
2019 The Montalban, A Feminist Perspective, Hollywood, CA
2019 Art Share L.A., Art Share All Stars, Los Angeles
2018 72 and Sunny, PIALLI, Playa Vista, CA
2018 Art Share L.A., Protest, Los Angeles, CA
2018 The Chancellor’s Gallery, CSU Summer Arts 2019, Long Beach, CA
2018 Via G. Leopardi 12, Art Without Borders, Florence, Italy
2018 Ave 50 Studio, Wounds of War, Highland Park, CA
2018 University Art Museum, Insights, Long Beach, CA
2018 Max L. Gatov, Everything Must Go, Long Beach, CA
2018 Dutzi Gallery, Quiubo Maje, Long Beach, CA
2018 Werby Gallery, Mi Gente, Long Beach, CA
2018 Max L. Gatov Gallery West, Displacement, Long Beach, CA
2018 Dutzi Gallery, Punctuated Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Curated Exhibitions2022 Goethe-Institut, Encuentros: Encounters, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Arts & Recreation Center, Identity, Baldwin Park, CA
2017 Arts & Recreation Center, Life and Death, Baldwin Park, CA
Commissions
2023 Mural with Red Comal in Siguatepeque, Honduras
2023 “Come Walk With Me” mural with LAvsHate & Mural Colors, El Monte,CA
2022 Cover artwork for LANDSMODER by Elena Salamanca
2021 Historical Figures Mural Camino Nuevo, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Say Their Names Mural at Camino Nuevo, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Cover Artwork for NACLA Winter Issue
2020 Cover Artwork for Lineage of Rain by Janel Pineda (Haymarket Books, 2020)
2020 Mural at Camino Nuevo, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Mural at Lynwood Middle School, Lynwood, CA
Publications and Interviews
2023 Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House, “Part II: Carpool Community Engagement-How Civil Society Shapes LA’s Neighborhoods,” YouTube
2023 Tony Morales, “How Visual Artist Kiara Aileen Machado has Grown Into Art,” There Radio podcast
2022 Lakers Meet the Artists interview
2021 Angel City FC, Community Voices: Heritage, Culture, Identity- Episode 2:Kiara Aileen Machado, Angel City FC Street
2021 Marvella Muro, September Artist Lab, Self Help Graphics
2021 Sandy Saravia, “The Artistic Expression of Central American Resistance & Resilience,” BESE
2021 Monti Rossetti and Fátima Ramírez, “CARAVANA-Meet The Artists,” Radio Teco
2020 Wanda Hernández, "Artist Panel Talk: Beatriz Cortez, Muriel Hasbun and Kiara Machado," Casa De La Cultura El Salvador
2020 Scott "Sourdough" Power, "Kiara Machado: Artist + 2020 Not Real Art Grant," Not Real Art Podcast
2020 Elissa Jimenéz, “Central American resilience, identity explored in latest exhibit,” El Tecolote
2020 Daniel Roma, “The Birds and the Border,” East Bay Express
2019 Víctor Interiano, “Centro Ambulando: Interview with Guatemalan- Salvadoran Artist Kiara Machado,” Dichos de un Bicho
2019 Erika Hirugami, “Coalesce,” Curator Love
2019 Erika Hirugami, “Year Three,” Curator Love
2019 Veronica Melendez and Kimberly Benavides, “Primavera 2019,” La Horchata
2018 Sarah Duenas, “Artistic Identity,” Dig Mag
Affiliations
2022 SOA Watch Artist collective
2019 Member of Quetzal Migrante collective
Residency & Delegation
2024 Gracia artist residency in Antigua, Guatemala
2023 Healing our land, healing ourselves delegation in Cuba
2023 Summer of Solidarity, LAvsHATE mural with Mural Colors 2023 Cuerpo Territorio Delegation in Honduras
2022 CSU Summer Arts- Berlin
2018 CSU Summer Arts-Florence