Liliana Jeanine Epps 

Born 1998, Northridge, California

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA


Education
2020 BA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Awards
2024 People’s Response Fellowship, Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) - $85,000
2024 General Operating Support, Metabolic Studio - $50,000
2024 Circa: Queer Histories Festival, ONE Institute - $500
2024 Creative Recovery LA Supplemental Funds, LA County Department of Arts & Culture -  $10,304
2024 LGBTQIA2S+ Community Health Needs Assessment Development & Outreach, City of Long Beach - $12,500
2024 ClimateLB, City of Long Beach - $5,000
2025 Community Project Grant, Arts Council for Long Beach - $3,000
2024 California Workplace Outreach Project Supplemental Funds, State of California DIR Office of External Affairs - $75,000
2024 General Operating Support, Weingart Foundation - $100,000
2024 Community Benefit Grant Program, MemorialCare - $12,500
2024 Organizational Health Grant, The James Irvine Foundation - $100,000
2024 Systems Change Fellowship, Social Justice Partners LA - $500
2025 Security Grants, Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism - $8,000
2025 Wildfire Relief Fund, Kataly Foundation - $15,000
2025 California Workplace Outreach Project (CWOP) 5.0/6.0, State of California DIR Office of External Affairs  - $300,000
2025 Circa: Queer Histories Festival, ONE Institute - $400
2025 Fellowship, Echoing Green - $80,000
2025 CoFUND, CoFED - $10,000
2025 General Operating Support, The California Endowment - $40,000


Group Exhibitions
2022  Polarity: The Tension of an Emerging World, Level Ground, Los Angeles, CA

Publications
2019 Tethered Thoughts In Traffic, On The Move (Online) 
2020 Mindfully Fucking, KCSB Zine: Love and  Light, KCSB-FM, Santa Barbara, CA
2020 blackness is not monolithic, Pandemic Post: Issue 4, US
2021 Light Worker, Spring Up: Resilience & Revitalization, US
2021 What Is Love?, Padina Publishing House, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Words Without Context: Book of Poems and Illustrations, Padina Publishing House, Los Angeles, CA

Performances 
2022 Polarity: The Tension of an Emerging World, Level Ground, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Ori Whispers, The House Was Too Small: Yoruba Sacred Arts from Africa and Beyond, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA 
2023 Loosely Attached, Dior Man Mike, Dublab Radio, Los Angeles, CA 
2024 A God of Her Own Making, Jojo Abott, LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA 
2024 Your Favorite Late Night Mix (YFLNM), For People Who Love People, Oliver Lastname + Friends, Los Angeles, CA 
2024 Black Radiance: Poetry and Mini Arts Fest, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, CA 
2024 Unagi Angels, Angel Waves Connection & Unagi Soul, Long Beach, CA 
2025 OFFKEY, Exposure Therapy, Whittier, CA
2025 Live from 317, Redondo Beach, CA