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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
2025-26 Causability Grant Recipient
2024-25 UTRGV Beginners Farmer Fellowship | UTRGV Agroecology Department | Edinburg, TX
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
2025 Mujer-Eres: Raices, San Benito Cultural Center | San Benito, TX
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
2025 "Art Seed Swap Workshop", Hub of Prosperity/UTRGV Agroecology | Edinburg, TX
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
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
2025-26 Causability Grant Recipient
2024-25 UTRGV Beginners Farmer Fellowship | UTRGV Agroecology Department | Edinburg, TX
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
2025 Mujer-Eres: Raices, San Benito Cultural Center | San Benito, TX
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
2025 "Art Seed Swap Workshop", Hub of Prosperity/UTRGV Agroecology | Edinburg, TX
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
