Education
MA Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 1999
BFA University of Texas at Austin, 1987
Solo Exhibitions
2009
Solo Project, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2006
A Can for All Seasons, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2005
A Can for All Seasons, Public Art Fund, New York, NY
2003
Back in 5 minutes, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX
2001
Souvenirs, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2000
Solo Project, The Fuller Art Museum, Brockton, MA
1996
Artpace, San Antonio, TX
1995
Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Introductions '95, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
1994
Karen Rhymer Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Bemis Center for the Arts, Omaha, NE
1988
Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX
Group Exhibitions
2009
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ
2008
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
A Declaration of Immigration, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
A New Cosmopolitanism: Preeminence of Place in Contemporary Art, California State Univ. Fullerton
2007
Ceci n'est pas..., Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Surge - 798 Dashanzi Art Festival, Beijing, China
2006
Body Double Forum + Elzbieta Koscielak Gallery Cultural Center Zamek, Lesnica Castle, Wroclaw, Poland
Light /Art: Mystic, Crystal, Revelation, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA
Works on Paper Biennial, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Tres Años, Tres Amigos, Trés Chic, New World Museum, Houston, TX
Four Freedoms, Marin Art Gallery, Muhlenburg College, Allenstown, PA
Apropiaciones, KBK Galleria Contemporanea, Mexico City, DF
Never Leaving Atzlan, Museo de Las Americas, Denver, CO
2005
Gift: Wrap and Set Boutique, Julia Friedman Gallery, NY
Cheap and Chic, Galeria O-Itatti, Mexico City, Mexico
The Superfly Effect, Jersey City Museum, NJ
2004
Fall Selections '04, The Drawing Center, NY
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Pequeñas Escenas, Galeria Animal, Santiago, Chile
Neo-Queer, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Postcards from Cuba: Selections from the 8th Havana Biennial,
Heine Onstad Kuntsenter, Oslo, Norway
2003
I (Heart) CUBA, Eighth Havana Biennial
2002
Grotto, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Queer Visualities, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
2001
Cartoon-like, Rudolph Projects, Houston, TX
2000
S-Files, El Museo del Barrio, NY
Latino Redux, University of North Texas State, Denton
1997
Simply Beautiful, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
1996
Synthesis and Subversion: A Latino Direction in San Antonio Art, Art Gallery,
University of Texas at San Antonio and UTSA Satellite Space
1991
Material as Message, Glassel School of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Art, TX
Las Manos del Artista, Casona - Centro Cultural de la Secretaria, Mexico City
Marcas Registrada, Galleria Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Extranjeros en Mexico: Francis Alys, Alex Vaness, Alejandro Diaz, Eugenia
Vargas, Silvia Grunner, Taller Diaz, Mexico City
1989
Blue Star IV, Curated by Lucy Lippard, Blue Star ArtSpace, San Antonio, TX
Other Activities
Lecturer, I.P.O. Artist - Curator dialogues, Whitney Museum of American Art. Nov. 11, 2003
Panelist, Latino Redux: A Collections of Stories, Lies, and Embellishments, Southwest Texas State University, Denton, TX, February, 2000
Panelist, American Canvas: A Roundtable on the 1997 NEA Report, Art Journal Vol. 57 No. 3 (Fall 1998), p. 69-76
Founder, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX, December, 1996
Lecturer, The influence of Mexican Folk Art on the Contemporary,
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, February, 1996
Residencies
1996
Artpace International Artist-in-Residence Program, San Antonio, TX
1994
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Grants, Fellowships, Commissions
2007
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
2004
Public Art Fund, In the Public Realm, New York, NY
2003
Linda Pace and Artpace - supplemental grant for the Havana Biennial Project
Frances T. and Stephen P. Magee - supplemental grant for the Havana Biennial Project
1998-1999
Bard College, Curatorial Studies Fellowship, NY
1994
Margaret Pace - Robert Wilson Foundation Grant
1993
River Pierce Foundation Grant
1992
Umlauf Award in Sculpture, University of Texas at Austin
Internships
Downtown Arts Projects, New York, NY (Summer, 1999)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (Summer, 1998)
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