Desiderata Mosaic LLC

4810 SW Fairhaven Drive

Portland, OR 97221

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Aja Ngo, mosaic artist

www.desideratamosaic.org

 

EXHIBITIONS

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2024

Indigo

Coastal Community Art Exhibit - 1/24

Hoffman Center for the Art, Manzanita, OR

University Club of Portland - 9/24

Past artist in residence group exhibit​

2023

Art Walk in Tango Shoes

A group exhibit of artists who dance Argentine tango - 9/23

Shabu Studios, Portland, OR

2020

American Embassy Palau, Art in Embassies program, cycles “Planets” 11 pieces curated for the Embassy

2019 

The City of Seattle purchased "The Sun" and placed it in a permanent public art collection in Washington State. The collection is located at King Street Station.

RACC purchased mosaic pieces into a portable public art collection in Oregon.

2018

The solo exhibit at the University Club of Portland will be from 9/6/18 to 11/30/19. It includes 26 pieces.

2017

Art Scientifique, juried show, University of California Fresno, Department of Science and Mathematics group exhibition

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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2026

Speaker and Lecturer

Contemporary Mosaic Art Summit in Albuquerque, NM - 3/26

2024

Awarded Career Opportunity grant from RACC.Apprenticeship program in Buenos Aires, Argentina - 3/24

Teaching mosaic classes at the Hoffman Center for the Arts in Manzanita, OR - 9/24

2023

Teaching mosaic classes at the Hoffman Center for the Arts - 2/23

Featured in Oregon Arts Watch

Public lecture, "Best of the World Contemporary Mosaic" at the Hoffman Center for the Arts - 4/23

Public lecture and slide show, "Studying Mosaic Art in Italy" at the Multnomah County Library, Hillsdale - 3/23

2022

Awarded Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Foundation and Ford Foundation

Studied Roman Mosaic making in Ravenna, Italy - 9/22

2021

Feature artist for the Art in Embassy Program - available on YouTube

2020

Led, designed and fabricated a 9' x 7' mosaic with VETS at Heart 2 Heart Farm in Sherwood, OR with 36 community participants with project installation - 1/20

Studied in Ravenna, Italy at the Premier Mosaic Art School at KOKO Mosaico -

2/20 & 9/22

2019

Led, designed and fabricated a 7' x 7' community-building project in cooperation with the Czech minority in Portland and the Czech School of Portland with 64 community participants.

Installation at Brentwood-Darlington Community Center in SE Portland, OR - 4/19

2018

Finalist in the Artist of Residency program at the University Club of Portland, OR

Taught mosaic classes bi-weekly on different topics of mosaic art at the University Club of Portland for members as well as the public - 9/18 to 11/19

2017

Led, designed, fabricated and installed a 6' x 9' community building project, a glass mosaic tree with 74 participants for the Rosewood Initiative in Portland, OR -

EPNO provided the grant

Led, designed, and fabricated a 3 ’x 5’ mosaic mural,"The Lupinus" for St. Aidan

Episcopal Church in Portland, OR

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OTHER DEGREES

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MA in Acupuncture, 2001 Tai Sophia, Columbia, MD

MA in Russian Language and Literature,1989, Palacky University, Czech Republic

MA in History,1989, Palacky University, Czech Republic