Awards
• Winner, Southwest Book Design and Production Award
• Who’s Who among American Teachers
• Honorable Mention. Seven State Biennial. USAO. OK
• Artist Residency. Mishkan Omanim. Herzliya, Israel.
• Artist Residency. Self Help Graphics. Los Angeles, CA
• First Prize. Leslie Powel Foundation. National Juried Biennial, Lawton, OK
• Pan American Artist’s Portfolio Award. Smurfit International, Bogota, Colombia.
• Artist Fellowship Award of Excellence. Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition.
• National Artist Fellowship Award. Ministry of Culture. Bogota, Colombia.
• International Artist Visiting Fellowship Award. British Council. London
• Award of Excellence. V Biennial of Latin American Graphic Arts. San Juan, PR
• UNESCO Award of Excellence in painting. San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Award of Excellence. Women's Creativity in the Spanish Speaking World. Art Museum, University of Puerto Rico.
• National Endowment for the Arts. Fellowship Award.
Bio
Gloria Abella Ballen has an M.A. from SUNY-Buffalo and has taught art and art history in the U.S. and abroad. She is of a Sephardic family, born in South America. She has exhibited in the U.S., Israel, Japan, Latin America, and Europe, and received awards from the Latin American Graphics Biennial and the National Endowment for the Arts among others. Her art has been shown from Christie’s in London to Louis Stern in Los Angeles, from the Carrillo Gil Museum in Mexico City to the Bellevue Art Museum in Seattle. Her art is in museums, corporations and private collections, such as the National Museum of Colombia to Occidental Petroleum and the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art in the U.S. She has been a visiting lecturer in the U.K. (University of Essex and the Camberwell School of Art), in China (University of Xinjiang) and in Israel (Mishkan Omanim, Herzliya).