DELILAH MONTOYA

b. 1955, Ft Worth, Texas

Delilah Montoya was born in Texas to a Latina mother and an Anglo father. Her mother raised her in Nebraska until she relocated to New Mexico to attend college. She studied at the University of New Mexico where she earned her BA, MA, and MFA in Photography. While continuing to practice as a studio artist, she remained in academia where she has taught at the University of New Mexico, California State University, and the Institute of American Indian Arts. Montoya currently was a professor of Photography at the University of Houston in Texas.

New Mexico held ancestral roots that nourished her exploration of her Chicana identity. Montoya’s photography conceptually delves into the experience of the Southwest people that is the mix of Native American, Aztec Mexican, and Spanish lineage. These cultures offer rich historical traditions and folklore imagery based in spiritual and religious practices. Montoya visually explores this iconography to discuss and confront outsider assumptions on stereotypes and the “documentary gaze” towards the Mesoamerican community.

She uses traditional photographic techniques, mixed media, composites, printmaking and sculptural aspects to her work. New and mixed mediums allow her to continue to push boundaries and make conceptually challenging work. Her installations are narratives that involve not only the participation of the viewers cultural, historical, and spiritual knowledge but also their senses.

Montoya’s photographic work is celebrated within the Latino community as well as internationally. She has shown extensively in solo and group exhibitions throughout the world. Her work can be found in private and public collections as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, Mexican Museum, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

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EDUCATION

M.F.A. (Distinction) Studio Art, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1994

M.A. (Honors) Printmaking, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1990

B. A. Studio Art, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1984

A. A. Commercial Photography and Art, Metropolitan Technical College, Omaha, Nebraska, 1978

AWARDS

2021 Latinx Artist Fellowship awarded by the New York Foundation for the Arts

2015 La Valiente Honoree, Voices Breaking Boundaries Fund Raiser

2009 Richard T. Castro Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Denver Colorado

2008 Artadia Awards Houston

2001 Magnifico Honors, Magnifico Arts Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico

2000 Second Place in Photography, New Mexico State Fair, Hispanic Arts Competition, Albuquerque, New Mexico

1996 Close to the Border, Purchase Award, University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico

1994 First Place, Annual Juried Latina /Indigena Women's Art Exhibit, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio

1992 Close to the Border, Purchase Award, University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 “Delilah Montoya: Sed, The Trail of Thirst,” Tucson Desert Art Museum, Tucson A

“Pertenecer: Chicana/o Artists on Belonging. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA: Polly Nordstrand.

2019 “Contemporary Casta Portraiture: ‘Nuestra Calidad,’” Centro de Arte, San Antonio TX

2018 “Contemporary Casta Portraiture: ‘Nuestra Calidad,’” curator Surpik Angelini, Transart, Houston TX

“Contemporary Casta Portraiture: ‘Nuestra Calidad,’” curator Carmen Vendelin, Silver City Museum, NM

“Delilah Montoya: The New Warriors” curator Missy Finger, PDNB Gallery: Dallas, Texas

2014 "Delilah Montoya: Syncretism", curator Kate Ware, New Mexico Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM

"Mi Amor Me Ha dado Recuerdos Para Ti", curator Grace Zuniga, MECA, Houston Texas.

2012 "Borders", Alcove Show, PDNB Gallery, Dallas, Texas.

2011 “Case Studies from the Bureau of Contemporary Art: Selections from the New Mexico Museum of

Art, contemporary collection”, curator Laura Addison Santa Fe, New Mexico

“Her Gaze/ Su Mirada,” curator Maruca Salazar, Museo de las Americas Denver Colorado,

“Crossings,” curators Diane Kahlo, Andres Cruz, and Marta Miranda, Lexington Art League, Lexington Kentucky

“Arte Tejano: De Campos, Barrios y Fronteras,” OSDE Espacio de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

“Pan u Circos,” curators Robert Boyd and Zoya Tommy, PG Contemporary, Houston, Texas

“En Foco/In Focus: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection,” Light Work’s Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery  Schine Student Center, Syracuse, NY

“Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest,” Oakland Museum, Oakland Ca

2010 “Embracing Ambiquity: Faces of the Future,” Jullian Nakornthap and Lynn Stromick Cal State Fullerton Main Art Gallery, Orange County CA

“Albuquerque Now: Winter,” Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, Albuquerque, NM

“Shrew'd: The Smart & Sassy Survey of American Women Artists” Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska

2009 "Chicana Badgirls: Las Hociconas", 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM

"$timuls:Artadia Awardees 2008 Houston," Diverseworks, Houston, TX

"New Prints 2009/Summer/Portraits", IPCNY, New York, NY

“Status Report: An Exhibition about the Border, Immigration, and Work”, BRIC Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY Sept. r 3 – October 10, 2009

“La Llorona in Lilliths’s Garden”, The Institute for Women’s Studies and Services, Denver, Denver, Colorado

2008 "Death +Memory in Contemporary Art," The Landmark Arts Gallery (TTU) Lubbock, TX

"Photography: New Mexico," University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM.

"New Prints 2008/Spring – Selected by Jane Hammond," New York School of Interior, NY NY.

"A Declaration of Immigration," National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago Ill.

"Fuerzas Naturales: Against Type," Magnan Emrich Contemporary,New York, NY

"Sed:The Trail of Thirst: Delilah Montoya," Patricia Corriea Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

"Restrospective Photographs by Delilah Montoya," La Llorona Art Gallery, Chicago, Ill

"We the People: Work by Delilah Montoya, and Soody Sharifi," Art League Houston, Houston, TX.

2007 "Aqui No Hay Virgenes: Queer Latina Visibility, " The Village, Los Angeles California

"Lifting the Veil: New Mexico Women and the Tricultural Myth, " Institute of American Indian Arts

Museum. Santa Fe NM.

2006 "Women Boxers: The New Warriors," MacKinney Avenue Contemporary Arts Center,

Dallas, Texas

"Women Boxers: The New Warriors," Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, California

"Women Boxers: The New Warriors," Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas

"At the Center of Napantla," Redbud Gallery, Houston, Texas

2005 "Encounters, Incidents, and Crossings," Patricia Correia Galley, Santa Monica, California

2004 "The Trail of Thirst" (Two Person Installation), Talento Bilingüe de Houston, FotoFest,

Houston, Texas

2003 "The Legend of Doña Sebastiana, Spanish Colonial Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2002 "Guadalupe En Piel: Works by Montoya, Instituto Cultural Mexicano", Los Angeles,

California

2001 "El Sagrado Corazón," Frances McCray Gallery, Silver City, New Mexico

"San Sebastiana," Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

"Veiled Interiors," Center for Southwest Research, Albuquerque, New Mexico

2000 "Guadalupe En Piel," Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1999 "Works by Delilah Montoya," John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, New York

1997 "El Sagrado Corazón/The Sacred Heart," MARS Artspace, Phoenix, Arizona

"For a Good Time Call 1-900-Llorona," Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1996 "El Sagrado Corazón/The Sacred Heart," Daniel Saxon Gallery, West Hollywood, California

1995 "El Sagrado Corazón/The Sacred Heart," Intersection for the Arts," San Francisco, California

1994 "El Sagrado Corazón," University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

"Sagrado Corazón/Sacred Heart," Cafe Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 “Bringing Together: Recent Acquisitions” - Los Dos Corazones. New Mexico Museum of Art, SF NM

“Women We Have Know: Photographs by Women artist”, Missy Finger, PDNB, Dallas TX

2019 “Que Chola,” curator Jardira Gurule, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Alb. NM

"Tattoo. Stories on Skin," curator Anna Chiara Ferrero, M9 Museum; Venice, Italy “Compound Visions: Multiple Exposures.” Axel Contemporary, Santa Fe NM

“In Our Own Backyard,” Suzanne Sbarge, 516 Arts, Albuquerque NM

2018 “Viva Las Fotos: A Day of the Dead Memorial for Laura Aguilar,” curator Sybil Venegas, Studio 50, Los Angeles CA

“Body Amour”, curator Jocelyn Miller, PS1 MOMA; Brooklyn, New York

“Mujeres de Sur,” curator Theresa Escobedo, Union Gallery, Houston Texas

“Dangerous Professors,” curator Ruslana Lichtzier, Flatland Gallery, Houston Texas

“Because It’s Time: Unraveling Race and Place In NM,” National Hispanic Cultural Center, Alb. NM

“The US/Mexico Border,” curator Andrew Connor, Albuquerque NM Albuquerque Museum, Alb. NM

“Ink: Stories on Skin” curator Carlos Ortega, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach CA

“ Beyond Border,” curator Gutfreund Cornett, Edward M. Dowd Art Gallery, Santa Clara, CA

“Art of the US/Mexico Border,” curator Andrew Connor, Albuqueque NM

“A Universal History of Infamy: Those of This America”, LACMA's satellite gallery, LA CA

2017 “Entre Irse y Quedarse/ Between Coming and Going” curator Malinda Galindo, Galaria Merida, Mexico

“Future Now // Futura Ahora “, curator Malinda Galindo, Loisaida Center, New York City, NY

“LatinX: Artistas de Tejas, curator Linda Cullum, LHUCA, Lubbock TX

"History / Her Story" curator David Eichholts, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

“Échame Aguas,” curator Gilda Posada, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

“At First Sight”, curator Carla Ellard, Wittliff Collection, San Marcos, TX

“Aqui Estamos y No Nos Vamos” curator, Rebel Mariposa, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, San Antonio TX

“Entre Tinta y Lucha” curated Sybil Venegas, Self Help Graphics, Los Angels CA

“History/ Her Story” curator Catherine DeMaria, Magdalena NM

2016 "Detention Nation", curator Sin Huellas, El Museo de Las Americas, Denver Co

"At Home in the World", curator Suzanne Sbarge, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque NM

"The San Juanita Project: Re-examining Borders", curator Jesus Macarena-Avila (INC), Haitian American Museum, Chicago Ill.

2015 "Detention Nation", curator James Harithas, Station Museum, Houston, TX

"Voices in Concert", curators Mark Cervenka and Grace Zuniga, MECA/ O'Kane Gallery, Houston TX

"Chicano", curator Maruca Salazar, El Museo Cultural, Denver CO

"Selection from the Contemporary Art Collection, curator Rebecca Gomez, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin TX

"Visualizing Albuquerque: The Art of Central New Mexico", curator Dr. Joseph Traugott, Albuquerque Museum, NM

2014 "Sinful Saints and Saintly Sinners", curator Patrick Polk, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles CA

"Painting the Divine," curator Josef Diaz, New Mexico Museum of History, Santa Fe NM

"Work from the Permanent Collection," Lissa Cramer, Tuffs University Art Gallery, Medford MA

"Encounter: Mexican Contemporary Photography and Video," Curator Alexis Mendoza, The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, NYC

"Women In the Serie Project," curator Paloma Mayorga, Mexi-Arte Museum, Austin TX

2013 "In/Visible Borders: New Mexico Photographers", curated by Mary Anne Reddiing,

Community Gallery, Santa Fe New Mexico

“Autophotography,” Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe New Mexico

“Group Show,” Photos Do Not Bend, Dallas Texas

2012 "Domestic Disobedience: Female Artists Redefine the Feminine Space,"curated by Nuvia Crisol

Ruland, San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, California.

"Espacios Ocupados: Defining 99%," curated by Jesus Macarena-Avila, Calles y Sueños,

Chicago, Illinois.

"The Fine Folk of New Mexico: People, Places and Culture Through Art," Santa Fe Community

Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

2011 “Case Studies from the Bureau of Contemporary Art: Selections from the New Mexico Museum of Art

contemporary collection”, curator Laura Addison Santa Fe, New Mexico.

“Her Gaze/ Su Mirada,” curator Maruca Salazar, Museo de las Americas Denver Colorado,

“Crossings,” curators Diane Kahlo, Andres Cruz, and Marta Miranda, Lexington Art League,

Lexington Kentucky

“Arte Tejano: De Campos, Barrios y Fronteras,” OSDE Espacio de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

“Pan u Circos,” curators Robert Boyd and Zoya Tommy, PG Contemporary, Houston, Texas

“En Foco/In Focus: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection,” Light Work's Robert B. Menschel

Photography Gallery Schine Student Center, Syyracuse   “Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest,” Oakland Museum, Oakland Ca

2010 “Embracing Ambiquity: Faces of the Future,” Cal State Fullerton Main Art Gallery, Orange County, California

“Albuquerque Now: Winter”, Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, Albuquerque, New Mexico

“Shrew'd: The Smart & Sassy Survey of American Women Artists”, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE

“El Grito,” Brad Cushman, UALR Gallery, Little Rock, Arkansas

2009 "Chicana Badgirls: Las Hociconas", 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM

"$timuls:Artadia Awardees 2008 Houston," Diverseworks, Houston, TX

"New Prints 2009/Summer Prints: In Pursuit of Likeness", IPCNY, New York, NY

“Chicana Art and Experience: AFL-CIO,” Washington DC,

“Topiary Text Lead. Individual Artist Grantees”, 125gallery, Houston TX

“Status Report: An Exhibition about the Border, Immigration, and Work,” BRIC Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY

2008 "Death +Memory in Contemporary Art," The Landmark Arts Gallery (TTU) Lubbock, TX

"Photography: New Mexico," University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM.

"Screened Expressions: A Serie Print Project Retrospective, Mexican American Cultural Center,

Austin TX

"New Prints 2008/Spring – Selected by Jane Hammond," New York School of Interior, NY NY.

"A Declaration of Immigration," National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago Ill.

"Serie Quincinera," Mexi-Arte Museum, Austin, TX.

2007 "Aqui No Hay Virgenes: Queer Latina Visibility, " The Village, Los Angeles California

"Lifting the Veil: New Mexico Women and the Tricultural Myth, " Institute of American Indian Arts

Museum. Santa Fe NM.

"Common Threads," Robert Hughes Gallery, San Antonio Texas

"Lost & Found 2: Missing in Plain Sight," Patina Gallery, curated by Kathryn Davis, Santa Fe NM

"Mirada de Mujer," Photos Do Not Bend, Dallas TX

2006 "Contemporary Art Houston," Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

"Caras Vemos, Corazones No Sabemos: The Human Landscape of Mexican Migration to the

United States," The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana

2005 "La Madre Poderosa," The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico

"Los Nueve - The Nine, Fine Art Exhibition, Hispanic Heritage Conference, Corpus Christi,

Texas"

"Ojo Caliente,"Joe Dias Collection, National Hispanic Cultural Center Museum, Albuquerque,

New Mexico

2004 "Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art," Corcoran Museum of Art,

Washington, D.C.

"Atravesando Fronteras: Lines that Unite\Lines that Divide," El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe,

New Mexico

"Artística De La Raza Cómica," Larson Gallery, Yakima, Washington

"La Familia: Returning to Aztlán '04," The dA Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, California

"Art, Culture, Place: Visual Traditions of the Southwest," University of New Mexico Art

Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico

"Cross Currents," Redbud Projects, FotoFest 2004, Gallery 101, Houston, Texas

"Contested Narratives: Chicana Art from the Permanent Collection," The Mexican Museum,

San Francisco, California

2003 "El Corazón," Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico

"Altered States: Digital Art," Gallery at University of Texas-Arlington, Arlington, Texas

"!PicARTE! Photography Beyond Representation," Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona

2002 "Ahora: New Mexican Hispanic Art," Art Museum of the National Hispanic Culture Center,

Albuquerque, New Mexico

"El Arte No Tiene Patria Pero El Artista Sí," Lehigh Art Galleries, Museum of Fine Arts

Houston Film Screening, FotoFest, Houston, Texas

"El Espejo, Arte Latino from Texas," ArtScan Gallery, Houston, Texas

"Arte Y Cultura," Carnegie Art Museum, Port Hueneme, California

2001-02 "Who's the Virgin of Guadalupe?" Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center, New

York, New York

2001 "Tufts University Collections Selection," Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Massachusetts

"Lifting the Veil," Karen Stambaugh Gallery, Miami, Florida

"Discontent," College of Santa Fe Art Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

"Evolutions in Narrative Photography," Santa Fe Community College Gallery,

Santa Fe, New Mexico

"La Luz: Contemporary Latino Art in the U. S.," Art Museum of the National Hispanic Culture

Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico

"Las Malcriadas: Coloring Out of the Lines," Emanations Studio, Santa Fe, New Mexico

"Roots and Routes, Magnifico Honors," Magnifico Arts Space, Albuquerque, New Mexico

2000 "Arte X Diex," New Mexico State Capitol Building, Santa Fe, New Mexico

"Nuevo Me-Xicanos: Contemporary Chicano Art of New Mexico," Magnifico Gallery,

Albuquerque, New Mexico

"Revealing and Concealing: Portraits and Identity," Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles,

California

Selected Traveling Exhibitions

2019 “New Monuments for New Cities [A]Part,” High Line initiative, NYC, Houston, Austin, Chicago, NYC, Toronto

2015 - 2018 "Detention Nation", curated by Sin Huellas, Station Museum, Houston, TX; El Museo de Las Americas, Denver Co; Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas, TTULandmark Gallery, Lubbock TX

2015- 2018 “Icons and Symbols of the Borderland,” Juntos, curator Diana Molina, Centennial Museum El Paso, Centro de Artes, San Antonio, Brownsville Museum of Art, and The Amarillo Museum of Art.

2013- 2016 Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, curator by Carmen Ramos, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University in Miami, Florida; Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California; Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City, Utah; Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, Arkansas; Delaware Museum of Art in Wilmington, Delaware

2013-2017 Estamos Aqui (We Are Here), Exhibits USA, curator Brad Cushman, Lake County Forest Preserves, Greenbelt Cultural Center North Chicago, IL; El Museo Latino, Omaha, NE; Museum of the Southwest Midland, TX; Kenosha Public Museums Kenosha, WI; Shafer Memorial Gallery, Great Bend, KS; Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO

2011 – 2013 Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity, Airtrain, curator Blake Bradford, co-curators Benito Huerta, Robert Lee, Syracuse University of Art Galleries, NY,Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College, NH, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Lowe Art museum, Coral Gables, FL.

2008-2010 Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement, LA County Museum, Los Angeles CA Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City, Museo de Arte Zapopan, Guadalajara Mexico, Museo Alameda, San Antonio, Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix and El Museo del Barrio, New York

2003 "Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self." International Center for Photography, New York, New York; Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, Washington; San Diego of Art and Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California.

2000-2003 "Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum." El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California; The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida.

1999-2001 "El Papel del Papel/ The Role of Paper," La Sala Central del Antiguo Arsenalde, La Marina Español en la Puntilla, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Taller Puertorriqueño and Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Caribbean Cultural Center and Hostos University, New York, New York; Mexican Museum and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California; Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, California; New Mexico Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas.

1999-2000 "Imágenes e Historias: Chicana Altar-inspired Art." Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts; Museum of El Paso, El Paso, Texas; The de Saisait Museum at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California.

1990-1993 "Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985." Wight Art Gallery, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona; National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; The Bronx Museum, New York, New York; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas.

1992-1994 "The Chicano Codices: Encountering Art of the Americas." The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California; Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado; California State University Art Gallery, Northridge, California; Plaza del Raza, Los Angeles, California; Centro Cultura de la Raza, San Diego, California; El Centro del la Raza, Seattle, Washington.

Selected Publications

2007 Chicana Art:The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities; Laura E. Pérez; Duke University Press

2006 Women Boxers: The New Warrior: Delilah Montoya; Arte Publico Press

2005 100 Artists of the Southwest: Douglas Bullis; Schiffer Books;

2004 Art of Colonial Latin America; Gauvin Bailey; Phaidon Press; England

2004 Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States; Oxford University Press; Suzanne Oboler and

Deena J. Gonzalez ed.; Holly Barnet~Sanchez

2003 “Secrets of Survival,” Pictorial Shifts. Ed. Sandra Matthews. Staffordshire, England IRIS.

2001 “Using a Cultural Icon to Explore a People’s Heart,” Nieman Reports 55/2 (Summer 2001).

2001 Arte y Minorias el los Estados Unidos: El Ejemplo Chicano; Santana; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Selected Collections

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas

Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California

The Bronx Museum, New York, New York

Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C.

WighEducation

M.F.A. (Distinction) Studio Art, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1994

M.A. (Honors) Printmaking, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1990

B. A. Studio Art, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1984

A. A. Commercial Photography and Art, Metropolitan Technical College, Omaha, Nebraska, 1978

Awards

2015 La Valiente Honoree, Voices Breaking Boundaries Fund Raiser

2009 Richard T. Castro Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Denver Colorado

2008 Artadia Awards Houston

2001 Magnifico Honors, Magnifico Arts Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico

2000 Second Place in Photography, New Mexico State Fair, Hispanic Arts Competition,

Albuquerque, New Mexico

1996 Close to the Border, Purchase Award, University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico

1994 First Place, Annual Juried Latina /Indigena Women's Art Exhibit, Guadalupe Cultural Arts

Center, San Antonio, Texas

1992 Close to the Border, Purchase Award, University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico

Selected Solo Exhibitions