MARIAH QUINTANILLA
ART & ILLUSTRATION
Mariah is an interdisciplinary artist and illustrator living in Northern California.
Selected Clients
High Country News, Comstock's Magazine, Sacramento Magazine, Sacramento News & Review, L'Atelier Insights, Longreads.com
Abbreviated CV
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Mountain View Art & Wine Festival, Mountain View, California, (curated by Lisa Jones)
Chalk Full of Fun, Redwood City Parks & Arts Foundation, Redwood City, California, (curated by Lisa Jones)
Chalk Art Festival, City Center Bishop Ranch, San Ramon, California, (curated by Lisa Jones)
I Madonarri Street Painting Festival, Children’s Creative Project, Santa Barbara, California, (sponsored by Pulverman & Pulverman)
Lodi Italian Festival, professional street painter, Lodi, California, (curated by Clifton Gold)
2023 Chalk Full of Fun, Redwood City Parks & Arts Foundation, Redwood City, California (curated by Lisa Jones)
Reno Chalk Art & Music Festival, Reno, Nevada (juried)
Chalk It Up, Sacramento, California, (sponsored by MK Library)
Lodi Italian Festival, professional street painter, Lodi, California, (curated by Clifton Gold)
2022 Chalk Full of Fun, Redwood City Parks & Arts Foundation, Redwood City, California (curated by Lisa Jones)
Chalk It Up, Sacramento, California, (sponsored by MK Library)
Lodi Italian Festival, professional street painter, Lodi, California, (curated by Clifton Gold)
2021 Rocklin Fine Arts Juried Art Show, juried by Gayle Rappaport Weiland, Rocklin, California
Chalk It Up, Sacramento, California, (sponsored by MK Library)
2019 Foresthill Community Art Show, Foresthill, California
2018 Ridley Gallery Student Art Exhibition, Rocklin, California, (juried)
2013 UC Davis Undergraduate Research and Activities Conference, UC Davis, Davis, California
2012 Foresthill Community Art Show, Foresthill, California
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2024 Full-page magazine illustration, “Remembering Colleen McElroy, the ‘literary North Star’ of the Pacific
Northwest”, High Country News, October,
Private commission, Ghost Horse, 2’ x 2’ painting, acrylic and resin on glass panel, Auburn, California
Full-page magazine illustration, “Fly Like an Eagle”, Comstock’s Magazine, April, 62-63.
2023 Multi-page magazine illustration package, “In the Neighborhood: Where to Live, Work and Play”, Explore
Sacramento: Guest and Relocation Guide, January, 38-43.
Full-page magazine illustration, “Yosemite in the Spring”, Sacramento Magazine, May, 36.
Magazine cover typography & illustration, “12 Ways to Go Green”, Sacramento Magazine, June, 1.
Full-spread magazine illustration, “Summer Reading with High Country News”, High Country News, June
2022 Magazine spot illustrations, “Monthly Memberships for Wellness”, Sacramento Magazine, September, 20-21.
2021 Full-spread magazine illustration, “Rise and Shine”, Comstock’s Magazine, March, 62-63.
Suspension shop logo design, Full Flow Suspension, Auburn, CA
2020 Magazine cover illustration, “Natural Wine: The Next Big Thing”, Sacramento Magazine, September, 1.
Grocery store logo design, Worton’s Market, Foresthill, CA
Chapbook cover illustration, “Black Under”, Ashanti Anderson, 1.
2019 Documentary poster illustration, “Last Wild Bison”, The Redford Center
2018 Six-page magazine illustration spread, “Fall Arts and Entertainment ”, Sacramento Magazine, October, 17-22.
2017 Private portrait commission, 24” x 32” painting, oil on canvas, Washington D.C.
Artist Statement
Mariah Quintanilla is an interdisciplinary artist based in Auburn, California. She is largely recognized for her editorial illustrations and detailed, energetic street chalk paintings. While Mariah's chalk drawings and illustrations often lean toward hyperrealism, her recent glass paintings are more symbolic and free-flowing.
At her family's residential glass shop in Auburn, she developed a multi-layered approach to painting that involves using various glass paints on thick back-painted glass panels, followed by a coating of epoxy resin, dye, and mica powder. Flowing lines and complex swirling patterns are often present in Mariah’s glass works. The resulting pieces are unique among most painted-glass, stained-glass, or fused-glass artwork.
With degrees in entomology and scientific journalism, Mariah has found herself on multiple career paths throughout her life. She has interned in operating rooms, run medical clinics in Guatemala, sorted beetles in forestry labs, and written for a science magazine in Washington D.C. Her unquenchable curiosity and experimental attitude fuel her artistic endeavors today.