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Cory Bilicko
Born in 1969 in Biloxi, Mississippi
Resides and works in Long Beach, California
Awards and Grants
2025 Professional Artist Fellowship recipient, Arts Council for Long Beach
2024 Creative Economy Recovery Act mural program winner, City of Long Beach
2023-24 Creative Corps Fellowship recipient, California Arts Council
2018 Stipend recipient, Dia de los Muertos ofrenda project for community event, Arts Council for Long Beach
2016 Microgrant recipient for documentary on local artist, Arts Council for Long Beach
2014 Fellowship Award recipient, Greenly Art Space, Signal Hill
Professional Contributions
2025 Board chair, Creative Art Events nonprofit, Long Beach
2024 Guest teacher, Living Arts program for teens, United Cambodian Community
2024 Curator, The Un-Invisible Project traveling art exhibit for the Cambodian community, Long Beach
2023-2024 Mural restorer, Alvarado Elementary School, Signal Hill
2023 Juror, Inspired By... group exhibit, Rod Briggs Gallery, Long Beach
2022 Muralist, Made by Millworks, Long Beach
2019 Curator, Common Ground: Only in Long Beach group exhibit, Expo Arts Center, Long Beach
2018 Muralist, Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association utility-box project, Long Beach
2014 Curator, Relative Aperture group exhibit, Greenly Art Space, Signal Hill
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Ebony and Irony: Black Pioneers of Punk, micro-gallery installation, Long Beach
2022 Photo-Synthesis (two-person show), Ephemeral Gallery, Long Beach
2019 California, My Muse, DreamKreator Studio, Long Beach
2018 Untitled exhibit benefiting WomenShelter, Hudavi Wellness, Long Beach
2016 Nightmare Stuff, Expo Arts Center, Long Beach
2013 Uneasy Jubilation, Long Beach Playhouse, Long Beach
2012 Pets and their People, Long Beach Vegan Eatery, Long Beach
2011 Aflutter, FreeSpirit Yoga, Long Beach
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Painted for the Pictures, The Frida Cinema, Santa Ana
2024 Into the Dark show, Metropolitan Design, Long Beach
2024 Childless Cat Ladies Art Works Show, Page Against the Machine, Long Beach
2023 Memento Mori and the Macabre, Rod Briggs Gallery, Long Beach
2023 Pop Surrealism, Rod Briggs Gallery, Long Beach
2022 Here, Kitschy-Kitschy pet-portrait show, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach
2022 Painting Long Beach, Rod Briggs Gallery, Long Beach
2022 22nd Annual Frida Kahlo Exhibit, Picture This Gallery, Lakewood
2021 Ocean, Rod Briggs Gallery, Long Beach
2021 21st Annual Frida Kahlo Exhibit, Picture This Gallery, Lakewood
2021 Coming Together, Rod Briggs Gallery, Long Beach
2020 The George Floyd Portrait Project (online)
2019 De Generación a Generación: A Subconscious Lineage, Museum of Latin-American Art, Long Beach
2018 Art Casserole, Made by Millworks, Long Beach
2018 Forgotten Images traveling exhibit of Black history, greater Los Angeles area
2017 Holiday Salon exhibit, Art Exchange, Long Beach
2017 Heath Gallery, Palm Springs
2017 Menduina-Schneider Gallery, Los Angeles
2016 Lucky You!, Museum of Latin-American Art, Long Beach
2016 Artists Assemble!, Museum of Latin-American Art, Long Beach
2013 Long Beach Open-Studio Tour, Long Beach
2012 Afterlife, Greenly Art Space, Signal Hill
2012 Supernatural, Gallery Expo, Long Beach
Donations
2017 WomenShelter, donated painting for 40th-anniversary auction, Long Beach
2017 The LGBTQ Center, donated painting for gala auction, Long Beach
2017 Long Beach Memorial Project HeArt: Heels for Hearts, donated painting for auction, Long Beach
2013 AIDS Assistance Thrift Store, donated painting for group art-show fundraiser, Long Beach
Selected Press
Addison, Brian, “Discarded Vintage Photos Reinterpreted by Children, Adult Artists in New Gallery Exhibit,” Long Beach Post (2014)
Diaz, Samantha, “In Photo-Synthesis, Artist Imitates Artist,” Signal Tribune (2022)
Merino, Christina, "Local artists make strides in completing Long Beach public mural program," Press-Telegram (2024)
Peterson, Tyler, “Long Beach Playhouse to Feature Cory Bilicko in New Exhibit,” broadwayworld.com (2013)
Rowden, Joy, “MOLAA’s Annual Dia do los Muertos Altar Display and Exhibition is Back,” (interview) Daily 49er (2019)
Staff reports, “Rising Stars: Meet Cory Bilicko,” VoyageLA (2022)
