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Currently resides in San Antonio, Texas 

Education

2020     MFA, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

2015     BFA and minor in General Business, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas 

Recognitions & Awards

2022 The American Rescue Plan Grant, San Antonio, TX

Co-Curated Latinx Heritage Month, Palo Alto’s Gallery 100, San Antonio, TX

Curator for Luminaria 2022, San Antonio TX

2021 Luminaria Working Artist Fund Grant, Awarded by Luminaria Artist Foundation, San Antonio TX

SPE Conference presenter award, SPE South Central, University of Dallas, Dallas TX

Changarrito Online Artist Residency, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin TX 

Shift Grant, Awarded by Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, Vancouver WA

2020 Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Grant, Awarded by The Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

Won 2 Contemporary Art Month CAMMIES, Awarded by Blue Star Contemporary and Luminaria Contemporary Cultural Center, San Antonio

Honorable Mention, 35th Annual Juried Student Exhibition, San Antonio 

Artist Residency, Casa Lu, Mexico City, Mexico 

Won 3rd place at the SPE Portfolio Throwdown, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX

2019 Graduate School Travel Stipend, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Dia de los Muertos Stipend, The Historic Pearl Brewery, San Antonio, TX 

Best in Show, 56th Annual Juried Competition Exhibition, Masur Museum, Monroe, LA: Juror Catherine Futter, Director of Curatorial Affairs.

at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO)

Exhibitions

2023 Virgen de Guadalupe, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX, Group Show

Sweet, Sour, Bitter, Savory, 115 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX, Group Show

Dear Frank, I wish… Love Gabi 2/2/23, Moudy Gallery, Fort Worth, TX, Solo Show

The Walter Hopps Zeitgeist Pop-Up, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, Group Show

2022 Yo No Nací Para Aguantar A Nadie, East Lubbock Art House, Lubbock, TX, Solo Show

ELI 26: Histories of Transformation, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX, Group Show

South Texas Life & Visual Culture, UTSA Main Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX, Group Show

Healing Uvalde, Assisted on Maite Rodriguez’s Mural, Uvalde, TX

De La Tierra, Contra Comma, Bee Cave TX, 2 Person Show

Print It!, Aire Place Studio, Leeds United Kingdom. Group Show

Interior Realites, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio TX, Group Show curated by Lauren Cross, PhD

45th Annual Segundo de Febrero Exhibit: Mapping New Narratives, Centro Cultural Aztlan, San Antonio TX. Group Show

Here+Now, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA. Group Show curated by Francine Weiss

2021 Luminaria Contemporary Art Festival, San Antonio TX, Art Festival

The New Texas XXVII, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas TX, (Juror: Christina Rees is Editor-in-Chief at Glasstire)

The New Now: Washington, Forsberg Art Gallery, Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA, Group show

The Love Float: Everybody Cared For, Planned Parenthood partnered with Presa House, San Antonio, TX

La Nueva Cara, Museo De Las Américas, Denver CO. Group Show 

2020 The Right to Herself, Lincoln Center Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado. Group Show

That’s Not Ladylike, Casa Lu Gallery, Mexico City, Solo Show

Creative Distancing, Chapman Gallery inside of The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi TX, Group Show

TAMU-CC Oso Bay Biennial XXI: Tapped Student Invitational Exhibition,

Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, Group Show   

Yo No Nací Para Aguantar A Nadie, Presa House, San Antonio, TX, Solo Show

New Media from San Antonio, Texas, Luis Leu Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany. Group Show

2019 Spatial Relationship, NLC Gallery, Northeast Lakeview College, Universal City, TX. Group Show

Mejor Sola Que Mal Acompañada, The Brick, San Antonio, Tx. Solo Show

New Beginnings: Work by Current/Former Faculty and Alumni, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX. Group Show

Mi Religión, Satellite Gallery, Huntsville, TX. Solo Show

Galeria Guadalupe Photoplay, The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX. Group Show 

35th Annual Juried Student Exhibition, San Antonio, TX (Juror: Artist Bill FitzGibbons former Executive Director of Blue Star Contemporary

Art Museum) 

Intersections, Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, TX. Group Show

Publications

2023 Friend of the Artist Volume 16, Juror Storm Asher, Victor Ehikhamenor, Edoardo Monti,  Alexandra Steinacker-Clark, Serge Tiroche

2022 The Paisano Newspaper, “On display at UTSA” By Riley Carroll Arts & Life Editor South Texas Life & Visual Culture Catalog, University of

Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Aire Palce Studios, Print It 2022 Exhibition Catalogue Part I & II 

Panocha Zine: Sex Issue, Page 5,11,13

2021 Warm Milk Publishing, “Warm Milk Volume 3”, Zine, Page 22

Powers, Juile Rae, “Labor of Love”, Soft Lighting Studio, Zine, Page 4

Gauvin, Sonia,Rumination”, Zine

Art + Type Magazine Winter 2021 Issue 1, Page 76-78

2020 Storied Stitches Volume 10, Zine, Page 11

Fifth Wheel Press, “Moon Soaked” Book, Page 19, Collected By Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Powers, Julie Rae, “Soft Lightning Volume 1” Soft Lighting Studio, Book, Page 68-69, Collected By Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Employment

Present  Assistant Professor Photography, Dine College, Tsaile, AZ

2020 Instructor of Record, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Website Publications

2023 Top Five: October 5, 2023, Glasstire

2022 Healing Uvalde: Maite Yuleana Rodriguez, National Museum of the American Latino, Smithsonian

Lecture

2022 South Texas Life & Visual Culture, Artist Talk, The University of Texas at San Antonio, TX

Es una cruz Bien dura de cargar, Artist TalkSPE South Central Conference, Bossier Parish Community College, Bossier City, LA

Visiting Artist Lunchtime Lecture Series, Baylor University, Waco TX 

Bryan Collegiate High School Career Day, Bryan, TX

2021 They say you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar: re-examining and breaking tradition, Virtual Panel Talk With Jessica Just, SPE

South Central, University of Dallas, Dallas TX

How to take pictures of wo/men: new paradigms in photographic portraiture, Artist Talk, JRB Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK

2020 Right To Herself, Artist Talk, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Zoom Call, Fort Collins, CO

Artist Talk, Staged Environments Photography Class, Zoom Conference Call at The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington TX

“Yo No Nací Para Aguantar A Nadie” Artist Talk, Presa House, San Antonio