CV
Selected Community Based Public Projects
2019
California Air Resources Board, Selected Artist, Community Engagement Project and Public Art Collection
2018
Kids in Need of Defense, “Voices that Matter Most” Initiative, Documentation of Recent Immigrant Youth Stories
The Lift to Rise Initiative, Coachella Valley, Exhibitions, Workshops, Community Events, Coachella Valley, CA
2017
New American Media, Youth Media Creators Conference, Photography Workshop, Sacramento CA.
2016
Annenberg Space for Photography, Teen Documentary Workshop, Los Angeles, CA
California Community Foundation, Unsung Heroes exhibition, lead artist, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Las Fotos Project, photography workshops, lectures and documentation, various locations, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Youthspeak, photography workshops and lectures for youth, Pacoima, CA
Venice Community Housing, photography workshops and lectures for youth, Venice, CA.
2012
Scholarship Association for English as a Second Language Students, participant documentation, Los Angeles, CA
Previous to 2010
La Entrada Project, public art and cultural programming project, San Diego, CA
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, photography workshops for dialysis patients, Los Angeles, CA
YMCA Summer Youth Program, photography workshop and lectures, Phoenix, AZ
Selected Exhibitions
2019
Cuyama: Photographs by Noé Montes, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
2017
Pop-Up Residency, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Re-Imagine Justice, 25th Anniversary of the L.A. Uprising, Community Coalition, Los Angeles, CA
2016
New Americans, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
Unsung Heroes, La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles, CA
2013
These Friends IV, This Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Fragments, JDC Fine Art, San Diego, CA
These Friends III, This Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Borders, This Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
These Friends II, This Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Border Biennial, El Paso Art Museum, El Paso, TX
Border Biennial, Paso Del Norte Centro Cultural, Ciudad Juarez, MX
Artist Talks and Lectures
2019
Moreno Valley Unified School District Leadership Summit, Keynote Speaker, Riverside, CA
McCallum Theatre Aesthetic Education Program, Keynote Speaker, Palm Desert, CA
California Alliance for Arts Education, “Arts Now Riverside” Conference, Keynote Speaker, Palm Springs, CA
2018
USC Roski School of Art and Design MFA Program, Guest Lecture “Incorporating Empathy into Your Work”
2017
Palm Springs Art Museum, Artist Talk, “Farmworkers in the Coachella Valley”
Blue Sky Center, Panelist and Presenter, “Creative Placemaking in Rural Communities” Pasadena City College, Lecture, “History of the Coachella Valley and the Farmworkers Project”
2016
Big City Forum at the L.A. Design Festival, presentation and panel discussion with Jimenez Lai, Maura Lucking, and Elizabeth Timme
Maxfuncon 2016, Keynote speaker, “Photography as an Agent of Change”
University of California Riverside, visiting artist lecture series, “Photojournalism”
Cal Sate Los Angeles, Media Done Responsibly Festival, “Representation of People of Color in Media”
Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, lecture series, “Farmworkers in the Coachella Valley”
2015
Annenberg Space for Photography, Studio Talk at Skylight Studios
Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, “Farmworkers in the Coachella Valley”
2013
Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, lecture series, “Mr. Brown’s Los Angeles”
Fellowships and Awards
2015
Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, “Farmworkers in the Coachella Valley”
2014
LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, prequalified artist list
2012
Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities Fellow
Selected Publications and Interviews
2016
The Candid Frame, podcast interview,
Boom Magazine, Summer 2016, “Imperial Landscapes”, photo essay
Southern California Public Radio, Los Angeles Unsung Heroes Project, interview
2014
The Los Angeles Review of Books Online, featured artist
Notebook on Cities and Culture, podcast interview
KCET Artbound “Colby Printing: A Rainbow Poster on Every Corner”
Education
2002-2003
Los Angeles Community College, photography program
1996-1998
Mesa Community College, photography program
1993
Arizona Western College, A.A.S. Electronic Technology