Dave Ortega lives and works in Somerville, MA. He is a member of the elusive art group theMiracle5.

For complete CV, please email dave(at)vivaortegacy(dot)com

2009
Illustration: "The Tilley That Dare Not Speak Its Name", Winner of the 2009 Eustice Tilley Contest, The New Yorker, Conde Nast Publications.

2006
Honorarium. Somerville Arts Council. Somerville, MA.

1999
Arlene Smith-McKinnon Endowment for the Arts, University of Texas at El Paso

2009
Manpurse IV: Assembly Line The New York Art Book Fair 2009. P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
Renegade Craft Fair McCarren Park Pool, Brooklyn, MA
TheMiracle5 presents Holy GJYDHAD! Space 242, Boston, MA
Beyond the Fluff and Fold: Contemporary Artists and the T-Shirt Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
The Boston Drawing Project (Work on File) Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston, MA

2008
Boston Tee Party Grand, Somerville, MA
Cloth, Paper, Scissors Pinkcomma Gallery, Boston, MA
Twist, Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA
Renegade Craft Fair McCarren Park Pool, Brooklyn, MA
Art Star Penn's Great Landing Plaza, Philadelphia, PA
Chingasos: El C.V. Cuento Historico, Gallery NEGLAA, East Boston, MA
Mezcla Gallery NEGLAA, East Boston, MA
Canvasations Gallery XIV, Boston, MA
Inappropriate Touching Washington Street Art Center, Somerville, MA

2007
The 20th Drawing Show: Drawing the Line Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
Bazaar Bizarre Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Printed Matter Pinkcomma Gallery, Boston, MA
Stitch Austin Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX
The Miracle 5 presents Collect Them All! Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
Size Matters, Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA
Renegade Craft Fair McCarren Park Pool, Brooklyn, NY
The Miracle 5 presents !ATTACK! Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA

2006
The Miracle 5 presents 666 Nom D'Artiste, Boston, MA.
The Miracle 5 presents Doublevision Diesel Café and Magpie, Somerville, MA.
The Miracle 5 presents Halloween Nom D'Artiste, Boston, MA.
Young Turks Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA.
The Flaming Robot Frame 301 Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
The Somerville Open Union Square/The Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA

2005
The World's Greatest Someday Café, Somerville, MA.
The Miracle 5 Zuzu, Cambridge, MA.
Works on Paper, Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA

2004
Identity: Unity and Persistence of Individuality, Lynn Center for the Arts, Lynn, MA
Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA

2003
Soft, Border Art Residency, La Union, NM

2009
REVOLT2DIE + GJYD, Meme Gallery, Cambridge, MA

2007
SWEAT2DIE, Arlington Theater, Arlington, MA

2005
The Weekly Dig Live Art Show, The Roxy, Boston, MA

2003
VS. (Verses), Border Art Residency, La Union, NM

2008
Panel Review Member for Individual Artists Grants, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Providence, RI

2006
Commissioned to create design that was painted onto 2 electrical switchboxes. Somerville Arts Council, Somerville, MA.

2009
"Crystal Friends": 300 self-published magazines, 24pp, color. Magcloud.com.

2008
"Tales From the Gay Future": 3 comics featured in "Boy Trouble" anthology, 112pp, color. Green Candy Press, San Francisco, CA.

2007
"Fish Story": Featured in "Young Bottoms in Love" Collection of comics, 368pp, color. Poison Press, Cambridge, MA.

2006
"Future Robot Magazine 2": 100 unique collaborative hand-made, hand drawn books, 44pp, b&w. Somerville, MA.

"Future Robot Magazine": 100 unique collaborative hand-made, hand drawn books, 44pp, b&w. Somerville, MA.

"Bloody Horror Magazine": 100 unique collaborative hand-made, hand drawn books, 44pp, b&w. Somerville, MA.

"At Least One Other Person 3": 75 unique hand-made, hand drawn books, 44pp, b&w. Somerville, MA.

2005
"At Least One Other Person 2": 75 unique hand-made, hand drawn books,
24pp, b&w. Somerville, MA.

"At Least One Other Person ": 75 unique hand-made, hand drawn books, 24pp, b&w. Somerville, MA.

Cotter, Holland. "All the Books You'll Never Catch on a Kindle", The New York Times. 10-02-09

Maxwell, Nisha, "Graphic T-Shirts at the Art Institute of Boston", The Weekly Dig, 02-14-09

Muther, Christopher, "For these artists, T-shirts are their canvas", The Boston Globe, 01-29-09

Walters, Helen, "The Boston T Party", Essay accompanying "Beyond the Fluff and Fold" Exhibition, 01-31-09

Cook, Greg, "Sketch Artists", The Boston Phoenix, 12-09-07

Reischel, Julia, "Leave the Light On: Young Artists Gang Up on the Nave", Weekly Dig, 06-18-07

Holland, Christian, "TheMiracle5:ATTACK!", Big, Red and Shiny, 02-11-07

Jacobi, Sara, "Art 'Attack!': TheMiracle5 Toon Out", Boston Metro, 02-04-07

McQuaid, Cate, "Art Group's Collaboration Shows Superhero Tendencies", The Boston Globe, 02-03-07

Muther, Christopher, "Crafting Gets Attitude", The Boston Globe, 12-07-05