Commissions / Public Projects
2024 UC Berkeley Division of Equity & Inclusion Chancellor Fine Art Portrait
2024 UC Berkeley Division of Equity & Inclusion Card Illustration
2024 Pride mural for Marcello’s Restaurant
2024 Artspan / Beija Flor Window Installation
2025 Illustration for Billboard at Block Headquarters, Downtown Oakland
2025 Yerba Buena Gardens Large Scale Illustration
2025 Heart Artist for San Francisco General Hospital
Awards, Grants, And Scholarships
2022 UC Berkeley Certificate of Excellence in the discipline of Video Art
2022 UC Berkeley Humanist at Work Grant
2022 UC Berkeley SPOT award
2022 Gilman Scholarship
2022 UCEAP Global Scholarship
2022 UC Berkeley Honors Studio
2022 MacGyver Foundation Design Competition
2021 Fiat Lux Research Grant, UC Berkeley
2018 Fiat Lux Scholarship UC Berkeley
2018 Kalmanovitz Charitable Foundation Scholarship, California College of the Arts
2018 Mel Hanson Memorial Alumni Award
2018 Ezra Keats Competition, 1st place, Jewish Contemporary Museum
2026 Certificate of Honor from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Exhibitions
2022 Many Big Unusual Things, Berkeley Art Practice Pop-up Exhibition, Berkeley, CA
2022 Embodied Entropy, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2022 UCB Honors Open Studios Exhibition, Platform Art Space Berkeley, CA
2022 Proof, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2022 Mind the Gap, Murio’s Trophy Room, San Francisco, CA
2021 Coalescence, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2018 Rereimagined Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2018 Collection, Jewish Contemporary Museum of San Francisco, CA
2016 Student collective show, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Collaborative Projects
2021 Innovative Design at Berkeley, Blue Team ( design in collaboration for clients )
2018 Disposable Realestate, Berkeley, CA, ( installation in collaboration )
2019 Vandalism, Berkeley, CA (design in collaboration)
Recently, Lawton's career as a public artist has gained traction with large scale projects including an illustrated billboard in Downtown Oakland, a public installation for Yerba Buena Gardens, and a San Francisco Heart for SF General Hospital Foundation. Currently, Rochelle-Lawton works as an arts education non profit Program Manager serving Oakland youth and as a spray paint and street art history instructor for the mural company, First Amendment.
Lawton's work has been exhibited across Bay Area museums and galleries and exists within various private collections. Her series, inspired by her experience with housing instability, “Collection”, won the Ezra Keats award and was exhibited at the Jewish Contemporary Museum and The Worth Ryder Art Gallery.
Lawton received the Mel Hanson Memorial Award and UC Berkeley's Fiat Lux Scholarship for her undergraduate career, the Fiat Lux Research grant for her instillation, “Acclaimed” (exhibited at The Worth Ryder Art Gallery as part of the shared show: Coalescence), and the MacGyver foundation Design Competition award (distributed in two parts; to the artist and her chosen charity: New Story which provides housing to low income communities around the world).
In 2022, Lawton was awarded the UC Berkeley SPOT award, a Certificate in Excellence in Video Art from UC Berkeley Art Practice, UCB’s Humanist at Work grant, and a position within UC Berkeley’s Art Honors studio cohort. Most recently, Lawton received the UCEAP Global scholarship for creative studies at Queen Mary’s University London and the Benjamin Gilman International scholarship for her research project on affordable housing efforts for London low income artists.
