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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       "Eco-printing", Hub of Prosperity/UTRGV Agroecology Department | Edinburg, TX
2025       "Art Seed Swap Workshop", Hub of Prosperity/UTRGV Agroecology Department | 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




                      


                     




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