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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 Love Letters, Galeria Jose Maria Velasco, Mexico City, CDMX
2025 Love Letters, Vincent Price Museum- East LA College, Monterey Park, CA
2024 Love Letters, Creative Corps. CAC at Homeboy Industries, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Cara De Vago, Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale, CA
2009 The Salvation, Homegirl Café, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Somos, ART SHARE L.A., Los Angeles, CA
2023 Immi’ Art, Studio MLA by CHIRLA, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Street School, ART SHARE L.A., Los Angeles, CA.
2022 Immi Art, Consulado General de Los Angeles CA by CHIRLA, Los Angeles, CA
2017 The Runt, The High Art of Riding Low, The Petersen Museum, Los Angeles CA,
2016 SKIN, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 ROLLCALL LA Louver Gallery, Venice Beach, CA
2015 Spiritual Language, TAG Gallery Guest Curator/Artist, Santa Monica, CA
2015 Marvin’s Room mural, Marvin’s Room Studio, Hollywood, CA
2014 Bridging Homeboy Industries, Cal State University of San Bernardino, Inland
Empire CA.
2014 INTERSECTION Breed Street Shul, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Light from Darkness mural, Xelas Bar, Boyle Heights, CA
2013 Fragments of Los Angeles Series, Homegirl Café, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Bridging Homeboy Industries, Ben Maltz Gallery Otis college of Art and
Design, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Duality of Woman, Homeboy Café, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Two Generations, Freemont Gallery, South Pasadena, CA
2011 Childhood Memories, Homegirl Café, Los Angeles, CA
2011 La Loteria Exhibition, Borderline Project, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Bridging through the Arts, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara, CA
Murals
2026 Street Signs Mural, Accenture Company LA Office, Culver City CA
2025 The Young and the Wise, DECRO Brine Apartments, Lincoln Heights, CA
2024 A Silver Lining of Boyle Heights, Boyle Heights, CA
2023 To my New Generations, we are Boyle Heights, Kipp Elementary Charter
School, Boyle Heights, CA
2023 Diversity is the Vibrancy of the City, The Conrad Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
2021 In Lak Ech, “I see you, You, see me” Los Angeles, CA (commissioned by
residential developers)
2021 Frida en Loma Alta, NATIVO Bar and Grille, Highland Park, CA
2020 Arts District Street Signs, Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles, CA
(commissioned by Accenture Company)
2019 Rhythm of Los Angeles, SAG-AFTRA Credit Union Bank, Burbank, CA
2019 FOX Mayans TV Series, (mural style commissioned artwork for their
marketing purposes)
2018 La Virgen De Guadalupe, Commissioned Mural on Yoly’s Market Store on 6th
and Bonnie Beach, East Los Angeles, CA
2018 La Virgen de Guadalupe, Commissioned Mural for St. Anne Catholic School,
Orange County CA
2017 Our Voice-One Voice, Commissioned Mural at Sacred Heart of Jesus,
Richmond VA
2016 El Poder de La Mujer, Commissioned Mural, Whittier Blvd and Bonnie Beach
Pl., East Los Angeles CA
2016 She’s here, The Virgin Mary, she is finally here, Painted Virgen Mary Mural for
Sacred Heart of Jesus, Los Palos, CA
2012 Inner Self-Inner Voice, Commissioned mural for Homeboy Industries bakery
and Café, LAX Airport – Terminal 5
2009 The Love of Our Community, on 8th and Soto Streets (contracted by the City of
Los Angeles and in collaboration with youth from Project Amiga)
2009 The Nativity, (contracted by the Nativity Elementary School), South Central
Los Angeles, CA
2009 It’s Yours, (contracted by the Coca-Cola Company), on Central and 8th Streets,
Los Angeles, CA
2003 The Founding of Tenochtitlan, Yolys Market on 6th and Bonnie Beach Streets
(mural creation and later restoration, contracted by property owner)
2006 The Gift of Life, Salvation Army Pasadena Adult Rehabilitation Center,
Pasadena, CA
1997 Medicine Woman, on 1st and Utah Streets, East Los Angeles, CA
1997 The Remnants of Tribal Descendants, (contracted by the City of Los
Angeles) on Pleasant and Enchandia Streets in Boyle Heights, CA
Awards
2024 National Endowment of The Arts Heritage Fellow
2023 California Creative Corp Fellowship
2019 Homeboy hero by Homeboy Industries
2017 Winner & Award recipient of Through the eyes of the Artist By MTA-
Poster Design Titled “Celebrate El Pueblo de Los Angeles.”
2012 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists
2011 Debora was honored by the Belle Foundation for Cultural Development,
Grantee, San Jose, Calif.
2007 Edward James Olmos awarded a scholarship and featured Debora in a 2007
documentary called Voces de Cambio
1994 First place award -33rd District Art Competition with a pencil drawing titled
What now? Went to Washington DC to meet Lucille Roybal Allard, congresswoman for the 33rd District in Los Angeles.
The work was displayed at the US Capitol for a year.
Private & Corporate Collections
2023 California endowment-“Bea strong” 8’x8’ mixed media
2020 GETTY Museum of art- Remembering the heavens 12”x18” Graphite Drawing
Liber Amicorum - LA Graffiti Black Book.
2016 KENTUCKY museum of art- Innocence over destruciton 5’x 7’ Acrylic on
canvas. Complexity of Los Angeles 48”’x72
2012 LACMA – “Distinctions” a set of (8) Graphite Drawings 10 x 12 for their print and drawing collection.
Bibliography
2025 La Jornada CDMX- Fabián Debora, activista chicano que usa el arte como herramienta de resistencia
2024 Los Angeles Times - From Homeboy Industries to the Italian Renaissance
2022 FORGIVE -Published book- Collaboration with Father Greg Boyle published
by Layola Press of Chicago
2016 LA Times, ROLLCALL
2015 There's a DTLA Art Studio with a Backstory Worthy of an HBO Series
2014 Bridging Homeboy Industries at RAFFMA Street Art and culture.
2013 Fabian Debora, a Life for Art (Short film)
USC graduate documentary Director Jess Kaye
Los Angeles Magazine A stroke of Love
LA Weekly One Day Boyle Heights Artist:
From Gangs to Art: The Salvation of Fabian Debora
2011 Dwell Magazine,
2010 “Los Angeles Times”, Pasadena Chalk Fest Art
“The Northeast News/Pinnacle Communications”
“New Letters Literary Magazine”, Vol. 70, Nos. 3 & 4 Los Angeles Times, “Pasadena
2008 “LA Magazine of Essential Arts and Lifestyle Entity”, article on the Citizen
2008 Citizen Magazine: