Vanessa Coleman began her curatorial career in Oakland California, joining the collective Lobot Gallery until becoming Executive Director of Fort Gallery, a contemporary art space and music venue, from 2007-2016 in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Vanessa has been a professional artist since her inaugural exhibit at Canvas Gallery in 2005 in San Francisco. Beginning her career in analog collage works, she now creates multimedia art while living in Mérida, Mexico, where she currently resides with her husband and son.
Her work has been shown throughout California in Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, & Berkeley as well as Brooklyn NY, Estonia, and the Yucatán.