EDUCATION
MFA, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
BA, Point Loma Nazarene University, Point Loma, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Camber, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
2017 The Four Forces, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA
2017 Thrust, Weight, Drag, Lift, Bread & Salt Barrio Logan, Ca
2015 Nest, Not an Exit Gallery, San Diego, CA
2013 Query (w/ May-Ling Martinez), James Alan Rose Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
2012 Art Boxed San Diego - Mobile Installation at Various Sites around San Diego August 2012 - May 2013
2011 8 x 8, Space 4 Art, San Diego, CA
2010 Bird, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
2010 Greetings From Earth, Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles CA
2009 Peculiar Velocity, Biola University, La Mirada, CA
2008 Remodel, Luis De Jesus Seminal Projects, San Diego, CA
2007 Research (w/ Roman DeSalvo), L Street Fine Art, San Diego, CA
2007 Latitude, Flor Y Canto Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
2006 Latitude, Keller Gallery, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Low VOC, City Gallery, San Diego, CA
2023 Under the Influence, City Gallery, San Diego, CA
2022 “The last Group Show”, Bread and Salt Gallery, San Diego, CA
2022 Friends of the Museum School, Museum School, San Diego CA
2021 Postmodern Portraiture, SIP Art Space, San Marcos, CA
2021Campus Creatives, California Center for the Arts, Escondido CA
2021 Marking Time, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, San Diego CA
2020 Ready Lane, City College, San Diego, Ca
2019 CEART, State Center for the Art Ensenada, Baja CA
2018 Campus Creatives, California Center for the Arts, Escondido CA
2018 Ready Lane, State Center for the Art Tijuana, Baja CA
2015 Convergence, Ship in the Woods at Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego, Ca
2015 Works on Paper, Quint Contemporary Art. La Jolla, CA
2014 Biennial Art Auction 2014 - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
2013 The Very Large Array, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
2012 Sculpture - Keller Gallery, Point Loma Nazarene University
2012 Biennial Art Auction 2012 - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
2010 Biennial Art Auction 2010 - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
2009 Social Climbing, Luis De Jesus Seminal Projects, San Diego, CA
2009 Homing In, Quint Contemporary Art. La Jolla, CA
2009 Objects of Grace Biola University, La Mirada, CA
2008 Weighing and Wanting, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
2008 COCKED! The Possessed Male, Luis De Jesus Seminal Projects, San Diego, CA
2007 OMA Regional 5, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
2007 Select Mode, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2007 San Diego Art Prize: New Contemporaries, Simayspace, San Diego, CA
2005 Faculty Exhibition, Keller Gallery, Point Loma Nazarene University
2005 UCSDSU: Chatter, Graduate Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
2004 Scale, Diversity, Ambition, Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA
AWARDS / HONORS
2023 INSITE San Diego (Artist Commission)
2009 Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s Cerca Award
2007-2008 San Diego Art Prize (Emerging Artist category; selected by Roman DeSalvo)
SELECTED REVIEWS / PUBLICATIONS
2024 “100 Works & 100 Books”, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla CA, Library Association
2023 “The Sedementary Effect”, INSITE.ORG, Andrea Torreblanca
2022 “COMMONPLACES”, INSITE.ORG, Andrea Torreblanca
2020 “Lael Corbin with HereIn”, Elizabeth Rooklidge, HereIN Journal
2018 “Thrust, Weigh, Drag. Lift” PLNU Art+Design Press
2010 “Mara de Luca, Laerka Louta, Lael Corbin, Ruben Ochoa”, Judith Christiansen, Visual Art Source
2010 “Art review: Lael Corbin at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles”, Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times
2010 “Echoes of Duchamp at the MCASD, ROBERT L. PINCUS, The San Diego Union-Tribune
2010 “Mad Scientist”, Anna Marie Stephens, San Diego City Beat
2010 “Lael Corbin’s Remodel”, Robert Pincus, The San Diego Union-Tribune
2010 “SDSU’s Downtown Gallery Debuts” Medideth Hattam, KPBS
2010 “REMODEL“Revealed”, seminal live blog, seminalprojects/blogspot.com
2010 “Remodeling Season”,Essentials, The San Diego Union-Tribune
2010 “Scene & herd: a few afterthoughts on REMODEL”, seminalprojects/blogspot.com
2010 “REMODEL packs ‘em in”, seminal live blog, seminalprojects/blogspot.com
2008 “Lael Corbin’s ‘Research’ Project”, Robert Pincus, The San Diego Union-Tribune
2007 “Art Prize Winners Set”, Robert Pincus, signonsandiego.com
2007 “The ‘New Contemporaries’ @ Simayspace – Part III”, Kevin Freitas, artasauthority.com
2007 “SD Art prize gets Simayspace”, Katrin Merkel, San Diego Downtown News
INVITED ART TALKS
2024 Walking in the Dust, INSITE at Mission Trails Regional Park, San Diego Ca
2023 A Timeless Way of Building, INSITE at El Sitio, Mexicali, Baja CA
2022 “COMMONPLACES”, INSITE, at Terra Penisular, Baja CA
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
2020 Closures, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library
2010 Dragonfly, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library
2010 Peculiar Velocity, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
TEACHING
2005–Present Professor of Art and Design, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA