2026
︎Luisa Martínez and Joshua Tonies join Taller California as artist-editors!
Book launch gathering for Insurgent Archives From the Secret City at All Power Books in LA on May 16, 5-7pm! Check our social media for more info.
We have NEW books! Insurgent Archives From the Secret City by Evan Apodaca and Covers 2 by Melinda Guillén!
Read Matt Stromberg’s dispatch for Hyperallergic about the PMABF LA. Our books are included!
2025
This year you can find us at Printer Matter Art Book Fair in LA, Compressed in San Diego and the San Diego Zine Fest!2024
We’re presenting Río de Agua Viva at Printed Matter NY in April!!2023
︎Ana Andrade’s Río de Agua Viva is coming out! We will announce the publication date at the end of September 2023. This is our first photo book printed in offset. We’re working with Rebosán in Mexico City.︎We have a new title,
Rioscópico/Riverscopic
by Ana Andrade and printed in four-color Riso! We only made 50 copies. Soon you’ll be able to buy it on our website.
︎Now you can buy Ahí viene la plaga on our website!
This is a co-edition with DXIX Projects.
︎ We have a new website and a new checkout provider.
There’s no need to use paypal anymore!
︎ FAIRS ︎
MAY 7-10, ‘26
PMABF LA
OCTOBER 19, ‘25
SD ZINE FEST
AUG 23, ‘25
COMPRESSED (SD) & ︎︎︎ROUNDTABLE
MAY ‘25
PMABF LA
APRIL ‘24
PRINTED MATTER ART BOOK FAIR NY
AUGUST ‘23
LOS ANGELES ART BOOK FAIR ORGANIZED
BY PRINTED MATTER
MARCH ‘23
TODOS MUNDOS/MATERIAL (MEXICO CITY)
JANUARY ‘23
INDEX ART BOOK FAIR (MEXICO CITY)
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Taller California es una editorial y un taller de impresión de la región Tijuana-San Diego. Publicamos libros de artistas que entienden la frontera como un lugar sociopolítico y como un espacio liminal y creativo. Nos interesan las formas híbridas y la pluralidad de lenguas. El espíritu colaborativo y experimental de Taller California genera nuevos modos de producción y distribución de libros y materiales impresos.
Taller California is a small press & printing workshop located in the San Diego-Tijuana region. It publishes vibrant artist books that engage with the border as a sociopolitical place and as a liminal and creative space. It is committed to hybrid forms and multilingualism. Taller California’s collaborative and experimental ethos creates new modes of production and distribution of printed matter and books.
'Taller' in Spanish means 'workshop'.
info@tallercalifornia.org
founder
lorena mostajo
artist-editors
luisa martínez
joshua tonies
lorena mostajo
collaborat(d)or(e)s past & present
dan-tran cong-huyen
jason araújo
felix mostajo
philip salata
matthew vitz
melinda guillén
ana villalpando
william darling