Work History
Public
March 2025- Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (Helen DeVitt Jones Studio Gallery/Lubbock, TX), Playground/Battleground solo exhibition
March 2025-La Zona Cultural, The Nature of Us group exhibition for International Women’s Day
November 2024-January 2025- The Contemporary at Blue Star, Red Dot group exhibition
September-November 2024 Texas State University Round Rock, The Big Show exhibition
June 2024-University of Texas at San Antonio SW-Pace Russell Hill Roger’s Gallery, Professional Development Student Juried Exhibition
April-June 2024 San Antonio Art League & Museum 94th Juried Artists Exhibition
January 2024-March 2024 The Museum of the Red River, Idabel, Oklahoma and the Goddard Center for the Arts Seven States Biennial (2nd phase)
January 2024-311 Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina, Juried group show ‘Your Place at the Table’, 3 paintings invited
December 2023-January 2024 Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, Texas Invited to National Contemporary Portrait Exhibition, a juried show—two portraits invited
October 2023-Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino, Washington DC. Collaborative artwork with Public Artist Karla Kopalli, I contributed to the piece which was entered into permanent collection
September 2023-December 2023 University of Science and Arts Oklahoma, Chickasha, Oklahoma, Seven States Biennial (1st phase), at Nesbitt Gallery
September-November 2023 Downtowner Gallery, Round Rock, Texas, Adornment juried group exhibition-earned Honorable Mention
April 2008 Created exterior mural for The National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica for Dia de los Niños, official Fiesta event
March-May 2007 Created large exterior mural for the I Have A Dream Foundation, San Antonio, Texas
July-August 2007 Pearl Stable, Frida Kahlo’s 100th Birthday Celebration presented by The City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs—My painting was selected as the main image for this event, used on various print media and merchandise
April 2006 Blue Star Arts Complex Group show for the I Have a Dream Foundation—My painting earned “Official Selection” honors
March 2005 Gallista Gallery Group show at Joe Lopez’s gallery on South Flores
August 2004 Zinc, Charles Court Group show fundraiser for Congressman Henry Cuellar (D)
August 2003 Twin Sisters Solo exhibition
April 2003-February 2004 Anarte Gallery displayed various pieces at gallery
September 2002-March 2003 LS Designs, LLC Group exhibition .
May-June 2002 Jai Art Gallery, Solo exhibition ‘La Primavera’
March 1999 Created exterior mural for Darden Concepts, Inc.
Publications
Summer 2016 St. Sucia, Issue VII: Lonjas, Legs, y Labios published my painting, ‘Ode to Hip Hop’. This issue has been archived in many institutional libraries including at Duke University, Sarah Lawrence College, UNC-Chapel Hill, Texas State University, University of Texas
June 2008 MySanAntonio, ‘Celebrating Frida’, press conference unveiling of my painting for Frida Kahlo event
February 2008 Conexión, ‘Finding Our Artistic Side’ written by Marissa Villa
June 2007 San Antonio Express-News, S.A. Life, ‘Painting Memories’ written by Rosemary Budge
May 2002 Laredo Morning-Times piece highlighting my solo exhibit ‘La Primavera’ at Jai Art Space
Private
I am honored to have earned many private commission projects over the years, ranging from large format to small scale paintings. Each experience was equally as meaningful..
Related
August 2006-May 2007 Art instructor at La Escuela de las Americas Charter Elementary School. Established curriculum, lesson planning, instruction and organized student art exhibition at year-end
February-July 2007 Art instructor at The Laurels, Alzheimer’s treatment center. I taught weekly art classes for Alzheimer’s patients as a form of therapy and organized an art exhibition at the end of the project
March 2007-September 2008 Art instructor at Mexican American Unity Council, various locations on the West side of San Antonio