Museum Collections

Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries

Museo Constantino Barrero Guerra, Perico, Matanzas, Cuba

Museo de los Orishas, Asociación Cultural Yoruba de Cuba, Havana, Cuba

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 Sanchez Art Center, Annual 50/50 Show

Sanchez Art Center, Left Coast Annual, Juror, Christine Koppes

2020 De Young Museum, “De Young Open”, San Francisco, CA

ASG Gallery, Los Angeles, “360 Degrees of Healing”

2019 ASG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, “Shine Alike” Sanchez Art Center, “50/50”

Art Guild of Pacifica, “Unconscious”

Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica 50/50

150 Frank Ogawa Plaza, “Connect, Create, Contribute”

2018                           Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, “Generation”

                                   Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica: 50/50

                                   SomArts Cultural Center, SF, Honoring Our Ancestors by fighting for the Future

                                   Smithsonian Center for Folk Life &Cultural Heritage,

“Dancing at the Edge of the Sacred”

                                   Dak’Art Biennale, Galerie Yassine, Dakar Senegal

2017                           Casa de Cultura, Pedro Betancourt, Cuba, “Africa en Nosotors Ayer y Hoy”

                                   Coastal Arts League, Half Moon Bay, CA, “Memory and identity”

                                   City of Oakland, 150 Frank Ogawa Plaza, “Voice Out Loud”

Halca Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, “Resonstruct – Construct - Pre-Construct”

SOMARTS, SF: “Remembrance and Resistance”

Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica: “50/50, Maps to Aps”

2016                            DAK’ART Biennale, Yassine Art Gallery, Dakar Senegal

                                    Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, FIGURE

Mission Cultural Center, SF, CA: Ofrendas para las Animas

SOMARTS, SF, CA: A Promise Not to Forget

                                    Milton Marks Conference Center Galleries: “Present Tense”

                                    Society for Applied Anthropology 76thAnnual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada

2015                            The Hannah Gallery, Marin City, CA, Black Lives Matter

                                    Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA: 50/50

SOMARTS, SF, CA: Today is the Shadow of Tomorrow

2014                            Mission Cultural Center, SF, CA: Recreate, Renew, Recycle, an Infinite Cycle

                                    SOMARTS Cultural Center, SF, CA: Visions at Twilight

                                    Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Dia de los Muertos 

2013                            SOMARTS Cultural Center, SF, CA: Imagining Time, Gathering Memory 

                                    Malonga Center for the Arts, Oakland, Paths of Seasons                                     

                                    Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA: Rebirth Through Time

2012                            Berkeley Art Center, “Shine”

                                    Expressions Gallery, Berkeley, “This Land is My Land”

                                    SOMARTS, SF, “Calling on the Spirits to Face the Future”

                                    Jazz Heritage Center, SF, “Cuba a Haiti”

                                    Galeria Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, CA, “Images of the Virgin”

2011                             SOMARTS SF, “Iluminaciones”

                                    Malonga Cascquelourd Center for the Arts, “A Desire to Express”

                                    La Fiesta Cubana, Richmond-Regla Sister City Project 

2010                            SOMARTS, SF, CA  “Honoring Revolution with Visions of Healing”

                                    San Mateo City Hall, CSM Faculty Exhibit

                                    Expressions Gallery Featured Artist, “The Beat of the Drum”

                                    Gallery 28, S.F.,  “First Anniversary Competition and Group Show”

                                    Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA  “For Colored Girls Only”

                                    Expressions Gallery at Citibank, Berkeley, CA

2009                           Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, “50/50 Show”

                                    Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, “Ashe, Blessings, Energy, Power” 

                                    GTU Library, Berkeley, “Distilled Spirits, Cherie Raciti and Susan Matthews”

                                    Addison Street Windows Gallery, Berkeley, “Portraits From Far and Near”

                                    Counterpulse, SF, “Burning of the Ancient Library of Alexandria“  

2008                           Mission Cultural Center, SF, “ Ilusión 8”

                                    SOMARTS, SF, “Day of the Dead in a Time of Change”

Gallery Concord, Concord, CA, “Explosion of Color”

                                    Mission Cultural Center, SF, “Women on War”

Selected Solo Exebitions


2020 UCSF Memory and Aging Center, Dancers, Farmers & Nomads


2020 Milton Marks Conference Center Galleries (SF): “the Afro-Cuba Connection”.

2019 Peninsula Ballet Theatre, San Mateo, CA, “Afro-Cuban Folklore and Dance”

2017                 Lindsay Dirks Brown Gallery, San Ramon, CA, “Celebration and Silence”

                        Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, “African Icons”

                        Joyce Gordon Gallery, “Mygration”

2016                Milton Marks Conference Center Galleries: “Artist Walking in Cuba and Niger”

                        Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA: “Passport from Ewe to Arará”

2015                Radio Habana, SF, CA: “De Aquí y de Allá Nace la Bahía”

   The Hannah Gallery, Marin City, CA: “Portraits of the Diaspora”

2014                Windows 224, SF, CA: “The Trees of Life and Afterlife” 

                        Mission Cultural Center, SF, CA: “Secrets Under the Skin” Collaborative Installation

                        Studio Grand, Oakland, CA: “Rhythm and Spirit”

2013                Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana, “Secrets Under the Skin” Installation

                        University of Cape Coast, Ghana, “Secrets Under the Skin” Installation     

2012                Arc Gallery, Univ. of AK Anchorage,“Secrets Under the Skin, The Manuscripts”

                        Bonnafont Gallery, SF, “Connecting”,  Selections from Secrets Under the Skin

                        Int’l Center of SF Public Library, “Afro-Cuba and Secrets Under the Skin”

2011                 Kimura Gallery, University of Alaska, Anchorage, “Secrets Under the Skin” 

                        Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer, Alaska, “Secrets Under the Skin” 

2010                Ludwig Foundation, Havana, Cuba “Secretos Bajo la Piel”

Museo Constantino Barrero Guerra, Perico, Matanzas, Cuba, “Secretos Bajo la Piel”

                        City of Berkeley, 1947 Center Street, Berkeley, CA  “Dancer and Deities of Afro-Cuba”

                        Downtown Berkeley Association, “Afro-Cuba, Alive and Well”

2008               Asociación Cultural Yoruba de Cuba, Havana, “Lo Que Yo He Visto”

2007               Merced Multicultural Art Center,” Rhythm and Style, Africa and Afro-Cuba”

2006               EBMUD Gallery, Oakland, “Cuban Traditions: Rhythm and Dance”

                        Pacifica Center for the Arts, “Susan Matthews, Paintings”

2005               Merced College Art Gallery, Merced, CA,  “The Cuban Confection”

2004               Latham Square, Oakland, CA, "The Quarterly"

Artship Foundation, Oakland, CA “Windows at the Waterfront”

2000 Left of Center Gallery, Las Vegas, NV, "Cut Time-The Essence ofCuba"