Bio
WHEW that were a rocky couple of years there! Here’s to the future and the past ♥️
Exhibitions
2021 https://www.chemersgallery.com/artists-available-for-purchase-at-chemers-gallery-oc-artists/?at=LISAMERTINS
http://studiocclaremont.com/
Chemers Gallery 2020
Cactus Group Show Division 9 Gallery, Riverside, CA (Covid Cancelled)
2018
"Functionless Forms" Studio C, Claremont, CA
"Fly Away" Two Artists (Denise Kraemer, Printmaker) T Elliot Gallery, Riverside, CA
2016
"Heads and Bodies" Solo show Division 9 Gallery, Riverside, CA
2015
"Somnambulists" Solo exhibition Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2014
"2014 Members' Exhibition: Still Life: Remixed" Group show award winner Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Student Honors Show, Quad Gallery, Riverside Community College, Riverside, CA
"Kilnopening.edu 2014" Group show, AMOCA, Pomona, CA
2013
"Jimmy Finds His Voice," Selected works, Chemers Gallery, Tustin, CA (solo)
Student Honors Show, Quad Gallery, Riverside Community College, Riverside, CA
2012
Eye Candy Artisan Faire, Chemers Gallery, Tustin, CA
Compulsory Collaboration, Group Show, SCA Gallery, Pomona, CA
Orange Aid Benefit, Pop-Up Shop, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2011
Just Wing It/The Bird Show, Group Show, SCA project gallery, Pomona, CA
Normally on Paper, Group Show, SCA project gallery, Pomona, CA
Corvids and Grace, Solo exhibition, Division 9 Gallery, Riverside, CA
50 @ the 9, Division 9 Gallery, Riverside, CA
Patron Collective, Division 9 Gallery, Riverside, CA
2010
Spring Artscape, Riverside County Administrative Center, Riverside CA
Student Honors Show, </em>Quad Gallery, Riverside Community College, Riverside, CA
50 @ the 9, </em>Division 9 Gallery, Riverside, CA
Music Box Mixer Up</em>, New works, The Alley Restaurant, Newport Beach, CA (solo)
“ A Christmas Adventure in Little Italy,” Selected works, Chemers Gallery, Tustin, CA (solo)
Off the Wall, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2009
When Swine Flu, Division 9 Gallery, Riverside, CA
Member Show, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Off the Wall, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Galleries
Division 9, Riverside, CA
Chemers Gallery, Tustin, CA
SCA Project Gallery, Pomona, CA
Red Raven Art Company, Lancaster, PA
Professional Experience
Children's Books
Jimmy Finds His Voice, by James Doti, Illustrated by Lisa Mertins, Jabberwocky Books 2012
A Christmas Adventure in Little Italy, by James Doti, Illustrated by Lisa Mertins, Jabberwocky Books 2010
Ginkgo and Moon, by Lisa Mertins, Houghton Mifflin 1996
The SillyOZbul trilogy by Roger Baum, Illustrated by Lisa Mertins, Yellowbrick Road Publications 1991/1992
Newspaper staff positions
Orange County Register, News Graphics staff 1986-1989
St Paul Pioneer Press, News Graphics staff 1989-1991
Orange County Register, News Graphics staff 1991-1995, Staff Illustrator 1997-2008
Workshops and demonstrations
2016
Daily Bruin Staff Training University of California, Los Angeles
2015
Daily Bruin Staff Training University of California, Los Angeles
2014
Daily Bruin Staff Training University of California, Los Angeles
2013
Daily Bruin Staff Training University of California, Los Angeles
Ceramic Tiles Division 9 Gallery, Riverside, CA
Printmaking Demonstration Millard Sheets Center for the Arts - Fairplex
2012
Career Panel University of California, Irvine
Daily Bruin Staff Training University of California, Los Angeles
Printmaking Demonstration Millard Sheets Center for the Arts - Fairplex
Ceramic Buttons Division 9 Gallery, Riverside, CA
2011
Daily Bruin Staff Training University of California, Los Angeles
Printmaking Demonstration Millard Sheets Center for the Arts - Fairplex
2010
Daily Bruin Staff Training University of California, Los Angeles
Printmaking Demonstration Millard Sheets Center for the Arts - Fairplex