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b. 1987 Reynosa, Tamaulipas, México
EDUCATION
2018 MFA Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL
2014 New York Studio School | New York, New York
2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Texas-Pan American | Edinburg, TX
2010 Bachelor of Arts in English and Spanish Minor, University of Texas-Pan American | Edinburg, TX
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2022 Material Transformations | Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Residency | Banff, Alberta, Canada
2021-22 DocX Archive Lab Fellowship | Duke University | Durham, North Carolina
2021 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Residency | Banff, Alberta, Canada
2021 National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Fellowship, NLI
2019 Artist-In-Residence | Lazuli Residency | Corinth, Vermont
2019 New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Program
2016-18 Writing Fellowship | School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2017 Travel Grant | School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2010 Outstanding Student Award for Academic and Leadership Achievement | University of Texas-Pan American
2010 Columbia Scholastic Press Association 2010 Gold Circle Awards
2009 Columbia Scholastic Press Association 2009 Gold Circle Awards Certificate of Merit
2006 University Scholar | University of Texas- Pan American
2006 Gear Up Scholar | University of Texas- Pan American
EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED
2023 Art Faculty Exhibition, South Texas College | McAllen, TX
2022-23 ELA (Emerging Latinx Artist) 26: Histories of Transformation /Historias de Transformación, Mexic-Arte Museum | Austin, TX
2022 Film Screenings, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity | Banff, Alberta, Canada
2022 chthonic spoil, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity | Banff, Alberta, Canada
2022 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Exhibition, Centro de Artes | San Antonio, TX
2020 ART-IN-PLACE, Terrain Exhibitions and CNL Projects, collective exhibition in Chicago neighborhoods and beyond
2019 canta que estoy llorando [sing that I am crying], Carlotta K. Petrina Cultural Arts Center | Brownsville, TX (solo exhibition)
2019 BUILDING BRIDGES OF SOLIDARITY, Encuentro en la Frontera 2019, Carlotta K. Petrina Cultural Arts Center | Brownsville, TX
2018 CHANGING ROOM II, curated by Sam Jaffe and Danielle Rosen, 65GRAND Gallery | Chicago, IL
2018 MFA Thesis Show, Sullivan Galleries | Chicago, IL
2018 CounterCulture, Bucktown Gallery | Chicago, IL
2017 Declarations of Contemporary, Hairpin Arts Center | Chicago, IL
2016 Arcade-Archive, Stolbun Collection | Chicago, IL (solo exhibition)
2016 Vitality in the Mortuary Landscape, South Texas College | Rio Grande, TX (solo exhibition)
2015 UVAL Group Exhibit | McAllen, TX
2014 Gesticulaciones de la Vida, South Texas College | McAllen, TX (solo exhibition)
2013 Jardin del Arte, Edinburg City Hall | Edinburg, TX
2013 Sacred Memories, Pico House Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
2012 Conversations with Death, University of Houston | Houston, TX (solo exhibition)
2012 Museum of South Texas History| Edinburg, TX
2011 Theory of the Flesh, University of Texas San Antonio| San Antonio, TX
2009-10 Mejor que con Dios, University of Texas-Pan American | Edinburg, TX (solo exhibition)
PANELS
2023 "Art, Activism and Protest" Women Artist Panel | Boston University Center on Forced Displacement | UTRGV Edinburg, TX
2022 NYFA Immigrant Artist Round 2 Artists' Panel Talk | Centro de Artes | San Antonio, TX
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Limas, Carlos: Art Faculty Exhibition, Art Department of South Texas College, McAllen, TX 2023.
2022 Servantez, Isabel: And through it all...City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture at Centro de Artes, San Antonio, Texas, 2022
2022 "Visual Arts Thematic Material Transformations Residency", Artists' Presentations, Banff Centre's Paul D. Fleck Library & Archives, June 17, 2022.
2021 "Visual Arts Thematic Plastic Residency", Artists' Presentations, Banff Centre's Paul D. Fleck Library & Archives, July 13, 2021.
2020 "60wrd/min COVID Edition", Lori Waxman, Newcity Art, October 16, 2020.
2020 "COVID-19", Lori Waxman, 60 wrd/min art critic project, October 6th, 2020.
2020 "Art in Place", Tom Burtonwood, Quarantine Times, May 25, 2020.
2020 "Art-In-Place: A Project to Connect, Inspire and Bring Hope While We Are Disconnected", CGN Staff via PR, Chicago Gallery News, May 24, 2020.
2020 "Art-In-Place Initiative Invites Artists to Display Exhibits Outside Homes", Molly Walsh, NBC 5 Chicago, May 24, 2020.
2019 "'We Exist, We Have Voices, We Have Stories.': A New Festival Confronts the Borderland's Complexity," Andres Sanchez, Texas Monthly, August 27, 2019.
2019 "From One Borderland to Another: El Valle Stands with El Paso", UTRGV Center for Mexican American Studies | Edinburg, TX
2018 ArtSlant, Beatriz Guzman Velasquez answers 5 questions, Under the Radar weekly series.
2015 Fresh Paint Magazine, curated by Alicia Puig, Issue 6
2014 RiverSedge Journal
2014 Surface Treatment: Mortuary Landscapes by Nancy Moyer, The Monitor, October 6, 2014.
LECTURES
2022 Material Transformations, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity | Banff, Alberta, Canada
2022 becoming present: an act of migration from the archive, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina
2020 Visiting Artist, Beatriz Guzman Velasquez, Berkeley Community College | Berkeley, California
2020 Visiting Artist, Beatriz Guzman Velasquez, School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL
2018 Coping with Violence: Manifestos and Metamorphosis, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection| Chicago, IL
2018 Graduate Lecture Series, Painting and Drawing Department | Chicago, IL
2016 Vitality in the Mortuary Landscape, South Texas College| Rio Grande, TX
2013 Jardin del Arte, Edinburg City Hall | Edinburg, TX
CURATOR
2022 Film Screenings, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity | Banff, Alberta, Canada
2019 BUILDING BRIDGES OF SOLIDARITY, Encuentro en la Frontera 2019, Carlotta K. Petrina Cultural Arts Center | Brownsville, TX
2017 Delineation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL
2009+ El Retorno: El Valle Celebra a Nuestra Gloria, University of Texas – Pan-American | Edinburg, Texas
WORKSHOPS
2022 "Turning the Page, Finding Our Voices", Centro de Artes, San Antonio, TX
2021 "Sustainable Studio Practices and Artistic Autonomy", National Association of Latinos Arts and Culture, online workshop
2019 "Imagination: Where does it come from?", Texas Arts Education Association, Galveston, TX
2019 "Cadenitas", weaving workshop for the whole family, Carlotta K. Petrina Cultural Center, Brownsville, TX
CONFERENCES
2022 Food and Nature Education Conference, Gardopia Gardens | San Antonio, TX
2012 Art of Death and Dying, University of Houston | Houston, TX
2011 Theory of the Flesh,University of Texas-San Antonio | San Antonio, TX
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2020+ Art Instructor, Art Department of South Texas College | McAllen, TX
2017 Teaching Assistant, Advance Painting, Painting and Drawing Department | SAIC
2017 Teaching Assistant, Materials and Techniques, Painting and Drawing Department | SAIC
2016-18 Special Collections Assistant, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection | SAIC
b. 1987 Reynosa, Tamaulipas, México
EDUCATION
2018 MFA Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL
2014 New York Studio School | New York, New York
2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Texas-Pan American | Edinburg, TX
2010 Bachelor of Arts in English and Spanish Minor, University of Texas-Pan American | Edinburg, TX
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2022 Material Transformations | Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Residency | Banff, Alberta, Canada
2021-22 DocX Archive Lab Fellowship | Duke University | Durham, North Carolina
2021 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Residency | Banff, Alberta, Canada
2021 National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Fellowship, NLI
2019 Artist-In-Residence | Lazuli Residency | Corinth, Vermont
2019 New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Program
2016-18 Writing Fellowship | School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2017 Travel Grant | School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2010 Outstanding Student Award for Academic and Leadership Achievement | University of Texas-Pan American
2010 Columbia Scholastic Press Association 2010 Gold Circle Awards
2009 Columbia Scholastic Press Association 2009 Gold Circle Awards Certificate of Merit
2006 University Scholar | University of Texas- Pan American
2006 Gear Up Scholar | University of Texas- Pan American
EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED
2023 Art Faculty Exhibition, South Texas College | McAllen, TX
2022-23 ELA (Emerging Latinx Artist) 26: Histories of Transformation /Historias de Transformación, Mexic-Arte Museum | Austin, TX
2022 Film Screenings, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity | Banff, Alberta, Canada
2022 chthonic spoil, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity | Banff, Alberta, Canada
2022 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Exhibition, Centro de Artes | San Antonio, TX
2020 ART-IN-PLACE, Terrain Exhibitions and CNL Projects, collective exhibition in Chicago neighborhoods and beyond
2019 canta que estoy llorando [sing that I am crying], Carlotta K. Petrina Cultural Arts Center | Brownsville, TX (solo exhibition)
2019 BUILDING BRIDGES OF SOLIDARITY, Encuentro en la Frontera 2019, Carlotta K. Petrina Cultural Arts Center | Brownsville, TX
2018 CHANGING ROOM II, curated by Sam Jaffe and Danielle Rosen, 65GRAND Gallery | Chicago, IL
2018 MFA Thesis Show, Sullivan Galleries | Chicago, IL
2018 CounterCulture, Bucktown Gallery | Chicago, IL
2017 Declarations of Contemporary, Hairpin Arts Center | Chicago, IL
2016 Arcade-Archive, Stolbun Collection | Chicago, IL (solo exhibition)
2016 Vitality in the Mortuary Landscape, South Texas College | Rio Grande, TX (solo exhibition)
2015 UVAL Group Exhibit | McAllen, TX
2014 Gesticulaciones de la Vida, South Texas College | McAllen, TX (solo exhibition)
2013 Jardin del Arte, Edinburg City Hall | Edinburg, TX
2013 Sacred Memories, Pico House Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
2012 Conversations with Death, University of Houston | Houston, TX (solo exhibition)
2012 Museum of South Texas History| Edinburg, TX
2011 Theory of the Flesh, University of Texas San Antonio| San Antonio, TX
2009-10 Mejor que con Dios, University of Texas-Pan American | Edinburg, TX (solo exhibition)
PANELS
2023 "Art, Activism and Protest" Women Artist Panel | Boston University Center on Forced Displacement | UTRGV Edinburg, TX
2022 NYFA Immigrant Artist Round 2 Artists' Panel Talk | Centro de Artes | San Antonio, TX
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Limas, Carlos: Art Faculty Exhibition, Art Department of South Texas College, McAllen, TX 2023.
2022 Servantez, Isabel: And through it all...City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture at Centro de Artes, San Antonio, Texas, 2022
2022 "Visual Arts Thematic Material Transformations Residency", Artists' Presentations, Banff Centre's Paul D. Fleck Library & Archives, June 17, 2022.
2021 "Visual Arts Thematic Plastic Residency", Artists' Presentations, Banff Centre's Paul D. Fleck Library & Archives, July 13, 2021.
2020 "60wrd/min COVID Edition", Lori Waxman, Newcity Art, October 16, 2020.
2020 "COVID-19", Lori Waxman, 60 wrd/min art critic project, October 6th, 2020.
2020 "Art in Place", Tom Burtonwood, Quarantine Times, May 25, 2020.
2020 "Art-In-Place: A Project to Connect, Inspire and Bring Hope While We Are Disconnected", CGN Staff via PR, Chicago Gallery News, May 24, 2020.
2020 "Art-In-Place Initiative Invites Artists to Display Exhibits Outside Homes", Molly Walsh, NBC 5 Chicago, May 24, 2020.
2019 "'We Exist, We Have Voices, We Have Stories.': A New Festival Confronts the Borderland's Complexity," Andres Sanchez, Texas Monthly, August 27, 2019.
2019 "From One Borderland to Another: El Valle Stands with El Paso", UTRGV Center for Mexican American Studies | Edinburg, TX
2018 ArtSlant, Beatriz Guzman Velasquez answers 5 questions, Under the Radar weekly series.
2015 Fresh Paint Magazine, curated by Alicia Puig, Issue 6
2014 RiverSedge Journal
2014 Surface Treatment: Mortuary Landscapes by Nancy Moyer, The Monitor, October 6, 2014.
LECTURES
2022 Material Transformations, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity | Banff, Alberta, Canada
2022 becoming present: an act of migration from the archive, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina
2020 Visiting Artist, Beatriz Guzman Velasquez, Berkeley Community College | Berkeley, California
2020 Visiting Artist, Beatriz Guzman Velasquez, School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL
2018 Coping with Violence: Manifestos and Metamorphosis, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection| Chicago, IL
2018 Graduate Lecture Series, Painting and Drawing Department | Chicago, IL
2016 Vitality in the Mortuary Landscape, South Texas College| Rio Grande, TX
2013 Jardin del Arte, Edinburg City Hall | Edinburg, TX
CURATOR
2022 Film Screenings, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity | Banff, Alberta, Canada
2019 BUILDING BRIDGES OF SOLIDARITY, Encuentro en la Frontera 2019, Carlotta K. Petrina Cultural Arts Center | Brownsville, TX
2017 Delineation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL
2009+ El Retorno: El Valle Celebra a Nuestra Gloria, University of Texas – Pan-American | Edinburg, Texas
WORKSHOPS
2022 "Turning the Page, Finding Our Voices", Centro de Artes, San Antonio, TX
2021 "Sustainable Studio Practices and Artistic Autonomy", National Association of Latinos Arts and Culture, online workshop
2019 "Imagination: Where does it come from?", Texas Arts Education Association, Galveston, TX
2019 "Cadenitas", weaving workshop for the whole family, Carlotta K. Petrina Cultural Center, Brownsville, TX
CONFERENCES
2022 Food and Nature Education Conference, Gardopia Gardens | San Antonio, TX
2012 Art of Death and Dying, University of Houston | Houston, TX
2011 Theory of the Flesh,University of Texas-San Antonio | San Antonio, TX
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2020+ Art Instructor, Art Department of South Texas College | McAllen, TX
2017 Teaching Assistant, Advance Painting, Painting and Drawing Department | SAIC
2017 Teaching Assistant, Materials and Techniques, Painting and Drawing Department | SAIC
2016-18 Special Collections Assistant, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection | SAIC
