Luis Valderas
Luis Valderas
e-mail: macuiltochtli005@gmail.com
Education: BFA Art Education, University of Texas-Pan American—Edinburg, Texas. 1995.
Visual Arts Program, Art Institute of Dallas —Dallas, Texas 89/90.
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center— Black Dream Place —San Antonio, TX
2014 Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center— The Sky is Brown —San Antonio, TX
2013 Gallista Gallery— Mariachi Nation —San Antonio, Texas
3rd Space Art Gallery — 12 Mariachis —San Antonio, Texas
2008 Institute of Texan Culture — Mariachi Nation —San Antonio, Texas.
2005 Southwest School of Arts & Crafts — Selected Prints —San Antonio, Texas.
Gallista Gallery— MesoMorphine 2.0 —San Antonio, Texas.
2002 1906-Gallery —San Antonio, Texas.
University of Texas—Pan American —Edinburg, Texas.
Gallista Gallery — Pax Americana —San Antonio, Texas.
1996 to 2003 Public Sculptures on Loan
University of Texas-Pan American —Edinburg, Texas.
1995 University of Texas-Pan American —Edinburg, Texas.
1993 National Gang Peace Conference, McAllen Civic Center —McAllen, Texas.
Selected Group Exhibits
2019 Centro de Artes — "The NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program: Admitted USA" — SATX
Blue Star Contemporary — "Red Dot 2019" — SATX
The Queens Museum — "Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in The Americas” —NYC, NY
The Leslie-Lomahn Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art — "Mundos Alternos: Alien Skins” —NYC, NY
2018 Centro De Artes —“VOZ: Selections from the UTSA Art Collection” — San Antonio, TX
Carver Community Cultural Center —”Common Currents-300 Years of San Antonio” — San Antonio, TX
The Elisabet Ney Museum —“Texas Size Breach Border Promise” — Austin, TX
2017 URC ArtsBlock —“Pacific Standard Time LA/LA:Mundos Alternos” —Riverside, CA
2015 Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center—“Artist Lab 1.0:Black Dream Place” —San Antonio, TX
2015 Texas A & M Educational Cultural Arts Center—“Texas Size Breach” —San Antonio, TX
2014 Downtown City of El Paso-Chalk the Block Festival”—“Texas-Size Breach” —El Paso, TX
UT Brownsville “Texas Size Print” – Brownsville, TX
San Anto Cultural Arts – “Chupachanga” – San Antonio, TX
Institute of Texan Culture —Texas Contemporary Artist Series —San Antonio, Texas.
Frost Tower Club—Texas Contemporary Artists Series—San Antonio, Texas
El Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos – “Texas Size Print” —San Marcos, Texas.
2013 UTSA Downtown Gallery—Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldua El Mundo Zurdo Conference.
Gallista Gallery—Mariachi Nation —San Antonio, Texas
2012 Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center —San Antonio, Texas.
Alamo Stadium Public Installation —San Antonio, Texas.
2011 Tempe Center for the Arts —Tempe, Arizona.
Gallery M Squared —Houston, Texas.
Print Matters — Houston, Texas.
OSDE Espacio de Arte/U.S. Embassy —Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2009 Hemis-Fair Park Arch Public Installation —San Antonio, Texas.
2008 Alamo Plaza—San Antonio Museum of Art—Centro Cultural Aztlan —San Antonio, Texas.
Centro Cultural Aztlan —San Antonio, Texas.
2007 Center for Mexican American Studies-UT Austin —Austin, Texas.
San Antonio Public Library —San Antonio, Texas.
Phoenix International Sky Port —Phoenix, Arizona
ASU Kerr Cultural Center —Phoenix, Arizona
UTSA-Durango Gallery —San Antonio, Texas.
2006 Gallista Gallery —San Antonio, Texas.
Medellin Museum of Contemporary Art — Medellin, Columbia.
University of Texas-Brownsville-Richardson Gallery — Brownsville, Texas.
2005 Arizona State University-Gammage Auditorium —Phoenix, Arizona.
Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center —San Antonio,
Texas.St. Edwards University Ragsdale Center —Austin, Texas.
UT- Austin, Center for Mexican American Studies —Austin, Texas.
Mesa Southwest Museum —Phoenix, Arizona.
Honors or Awards
2019 New York Foundation for the Art Mentor
2018 New York Foundation for the Art Mentor
2014 Artist Lab-1 SURDNA Foundation—Grant Recipient
2011 Peter S. Reed Foundation, Inc. NYC—Grant Recipient
2008 Creative Capitol/San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs—Workshop Grant Recipient
2008 National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Leadership Conference—Selectee
2007 National Association of Latino Arts and Culture—Individual Artist Grant Recipient
Public Collections
University of Texas-San Antonio —San Antonio, Texas
Arizona State University —Tempe, Arizona
International Museum of Art and Science — McAllen, Texas
Mexic-Arte Museum —Austin, Texas
Art Museum of South Texas —Corpus Christi,Texas
Insituto For Latino Studies/Notre Dame —Notre Dame, Indiana
San Antonio Museum of Art—San Antonio, Texas
Publications
Chicano Art for Our Millennium: Collected Works from the Arizona State University Community—Bilingual Review Press
Triumph of Our Communities: Four Decades of Mexican American Art—Bilingual Review Press
Latin Cultural Center 2003 Inaugural Juried Exhibition of Dallas-Fort Worth Latino Artists Catalogue—City of Dallas Publication
Chicano Art Magazine vol. 1, Issue 1 — Project: M.A.S.A. #1
Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies vol. 33, Number 1, Spring 2008 —UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press
Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies vol. 40, Number 2, Fall 2015 —UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press
Altermundos: Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film and Popular Culture —UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press