Selected Solo
& 2-Person Exhibitions
2021 2021 Artist
of the Year: Raul Rene Gonzalez. San Antonio Art League
& Museum. San Antonio, TX
2020 Doing Werk. Fort Worth Community Art Center. Visit Fort Worth Gallery. Fort Worth,
TX
2019 All In A Day’s
Werk. UT Rio Grande Valley Rusteberg Art Gallery.
Brownsville, TX
Front and Back, and Side to Side. Artpace Main
Space Gallery. San Antonio, TX
Watch Me Werk. HCC Northline
Art Gallery. Houston, TX
2018 Raul Gonzalez:
Taco, Texas. Albright College Freedman Gallery - Foyer Gallery. Reading, PA
All About That
Werk.
Forum 6 Contemporary. Houston, TX
Feelin Like A
Champ.
Revenant Gallery. San Antonio, TX
2017 Pure Energy. Presa House Gallery. San Antonio, TX
Can You Feel
That? Miami
University. Oxford, OH
Doing Work. grayDUCK Gallery. Austin, TX
Doing Werk. Freight
Gallery. San Antonio, TX
2016 Werds
& Places.
Carver Branch Library. San Antonio, TX
Artist Looking
At Art: Portraits of a Working Artist. McNay Art Museum. San Antonio, TX
This Is What It
Feels Like.
Radius Center. San Antonio, TX. (2-person, Braydon Gold)
TEXAS. Freight Gallery.
San Antonio, TX
2015 Dulce. Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Theater
Gallery. San Antonio, TX
Life, Death, and
Other Stories.
3rd Space Gallery. San Antonio, TX
2014 Undetermined
Matter.
grayDUCK Gallery. Austin, TX (2-person)
M.F.A. Thesis
Exhibition
| WERK | In the Zone. Terminal 136.
San Antonio, TX
2013 Consider
All Things.
Main Street Projects. Houston, TX (2-Person)
2012 Farewell
Show.
Jack Meier Gallery. Houston, TX
2011 Music
in the City.
Houston Community College Southwest Gallery. Houston, TX
A Collection of
Work: Past to Present. Caroline Collective. Houston, TX
Selected Group
Exhibitions
2021 ACROSS |Urban Arts Center. Dallas, TX (curator: Jose
Villalobos)
AMoA Biennial
600 – Justice-Equality-Race-Identity | Amarillo Museum of Art. Amarillo, TX
(curator: Leslie Moody Castro)
Elements of
Expression | ICOSA Gallery. Austin TX (curator Raasin
McIntosh)
Looking at Leadership | Notre Dame University of Maryland Gormley Gallery. Baltimore, MD
(curator:
Sarah McCann)
Alive In Memory
& Spirit | Mission Marquee Plaza. San Antonio, TX (curator: Rigoberto Luna)
2020 2020 CAM Perennial: Topographies of Truth | McNay Art Museum. San Antonio, TX (curator: Lee Hallman, Associate
Curator of Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth)
Aquí Estamos: New Selections from the Permanent Collection | National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum. Albuquerque,
NM
2019 Some Things To Talk About | Gallery
W at The Whitney Center for the Arts. Pittsfield, MA
Crossing the Line: Drawings from the
Mexic-Arte Museum Permanent Collection. Austin, TX
Ctrl+A. KSpace Contemporary & Presa House Gallery. Corpus Christi, TX
Effort Economy. Blue Star
Contemporary Art Museum. San Antonio, TX
2018 Spectrum: Exploring Gender Identification. MCLA Gallery
51. North Adams, MA
Young Latino
Artists 23: Beyond Walls, Between Gates, Under Bridges. curated by
Gilbert Rocha. Mexic-Arte Museum. Austin, TX
Collect It For
The Culture. curated by Robert Hodge. The
Union. Houston, TX
Landscapes, Portraits,
Still Lifes.
curated by Sara Vanderbeek. DORF. Austin, TX
Common
Currents. 300 Year ~ 300 Artists. Artpace. San Antonio, TX
VOZ: Selections
from the UTSA Art Collection, curated by Arturo Almeida. Centro de
Artes. San Antonio, TX
Images of Power. curated by Alana
Coates & Mark Anthony Martinez. Freight
Gallery. San Antonio, TX
2017 Schist. curated by Nicholas
Frank. Artpace Studio B. San Antonio, TX
Crossing Borders:
An Immigrant Art Project. Living Arts of Tulsa. Tulsa, OK
2016 6th Chicana/o Biennial. MACLA
(Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana). San Jose, CA
SATX |MX: Un Viaje
Lleno De Cultural. Centro De Artes. San Antonio, TX
How To Play
Guitar.
337 Project Space. Grand Rapids, MI
2015 Debt
Fair.
Art League Houston. Houston, TX
CAM Perennial: Move
Me.
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. San Antonio, TX (curator: Amy Mackie, co-Director
of PARSE
2014 Arte
Latino Now.
Queens University of Charlotte. Charlotte, NC
2013 Young Latino Artists 18: Con/Juntos. Curated by
Michael Anthony Garcia. Mexic-Arte Museum. Austin, TX
New Texas Talent
XX.
Craighead Green Gallery. Dallas, TX
The Menil/Fiesta
Project.
Inman Gallery. Houston, TX
New Art/Art
Nuevo:
San Antonio 2012. University of Texas at San Antonio Main Art Gallery. San
Antonio, TX
2012 The
LA Art Show | Modern & Contemporary. Los Angeles, CA
Gambol - Juried
Group Member Exhibition. Art League Houston. Houston, TX
2011 Hispanic
Heritage Art Exhibition. Houston Community College NE Northline Art Gallery.
Houston, TX
Emerging Artist
Exhibition.
Jack Meier Gallery. Houston, TX
2010 The
Big Show.
Lawndale Art Center. Houston, TX (curator: Paul Middendorf)
School of Art
Annual Student Exhibition. Blaffer Gallery. Houston, TX
2009 Annual
Juried Exhibition.
Live Oak Art Center. Columbus, TX (curator: Gus Kopriva)
2008 The Big Show. Lawndale Art Center. Houston,
TX. (curator: Aram Moshayedi)
1999 Houston Independent
School District Art Competition Exhibition
Congressional Art Competition
Performances
2019 Artpace. San
Antonio, TX
2018 Mexic-Arte Museum. Austin, TX
The Studios at MASS MoCA. North
Adams, MA
2017 Plaza de Armes.
San Antonio, TX
grayDUCK Gallery. Austin, TX
Freight Gallery. San Antonio, TX
2016 McNay Art Museum. San Antonio, TX
(11 performances throughout 2-month
exhibition, including a 4.3 mile dance trek, Grand Marshall Parade Leader, and several
dance performances in museum’s galleries)
2014 Guadalupe
Cultural Arts Center. San Antonio, TX
Blue Star
Contemporary Art Museum. San Antonio, TX
Residencies
2021 San
Antonio Museum of Art Inaugural Artist-in-Residence. San Antonio, TX
2018 The Studios at MASS MoCA. North Adams, MA
2016 Artist Lab Fellowship Program. Guadalupe Cultural
Arts Center. San Antonio, TX
2013 "Changarrito" Artist-in-Residence.
Mexic-Arte Museum. Austin, TX
2012 Modern Multiples - printmaking with Richard
Duardo. Los Angeles, CA
Collections
The
McNay Art Museum. San Antonio, TX, National Museum of Mexican Art. Chicago, IL
National Hispanic
Cultural Center Art Museum. Albuquerque, NM, Mexic-Arte Museum. Austin,
TX
The University
of Texas at San Antonio, Capital One Financial Services. Plano, TX
University
Health System Del Rio Tower. San Antonio, TX, Queens University of Charlotte.
Charlotte, NC,
Benson Latin
American Collection. Austin TX, The San Antonio Art League & Museum,
The Woodlands
High School Art Trust. The Woodlands, TX, Artes de la Rosa. Fort Worth,TX,
Whataburger
Museum of Art, and the City of San Antonio
Private Collections
Texas, Arizona,
Colorado, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Washington, Kentucky,
California,
Virginia, California, Michigan
Honors | Awards
| Achievements
2021 San Antonio Art League & Museum 2021 Artist
of the Year
2020 Luminaria Artist Foundation Open Category Grant
2018
Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant
2016 NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA): San Antonio
Artist/Ensemble 2016 Grant
Surdna
Foundation Grant Recipient, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Artist Lab Fellowship
2015 Dave
Bown Projects - 10th Semiannual Competition (Curators: Claire C. Carter, Carmen
Hermo, Anna Stothart) Award of Excellence (Unrestricted monetary award).
2014 Hunting Art Prize Finalist
2013 Hunting Art Prize Finalist
2005 Houston Marathon Finisher
1999 1st Place Black/White Drawing
-Houston Independent School District Art Competition. Houston, TX
Congressional Art Competition Winner, 18th District, Texas. Hall of Congress.
Washington, D.C.
Lectures – Artist
Talks
2019 Artist Talk, Texas State University School
of Art & Design. San Marcos, TX
Artist Talk, Summer Teacher Institute:
Building STEAM. McNay Art Museum. San Antonio, TX
2018 Artist Talk: Southwest School of Art. San
Antonio, TX
Art Tank: Business Training for
Creatives: Round 8, Invited Artist Roundtable Discussion. San Antonio, TX
Marketing for Artists, New York
Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Program. San Antonio, TX
Doing Work Catalogue Panel Discussion.
Freight Gallery. San Antonio, TX
2017 Artist Talk, Miami University. Oxford, OH
Artist Talk, grayDUCK Gallery. Austin,
TX
2016 Artist Talk, Artists Looking at Art: Raul
Gonzalez. McNay Art Museum. San Antonio, TX
2012 Artist Talk. Inside A City. Artes de la
Rosa. Fort Worth, TX
Education
2012
- 2014. The University of Texas at San Antonio. M.F.A. Art (Painting)
2007
- 2010. The University of Houston. B.F.A. Painting (Magna Cum Laude)
2004
– 2007. North Harris College | General Studies
1999
– 2001. Washington University in St. Louis | Studio Art
Publications
Create!
Magazine | Issue 12 | 2019
Oxford
American | Summer 2018