Ricky Armendariz

Associate Professor,

Graduate Advisor of Record

UTSA

The Department of Art and Art History

AR 4.01.06

One UTSA Circle

University Phone (210) 458-5154

Fax (210 458-4356

EMPLOYMENT

- 2010 – Present: Associate Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio Department of Art and Art History.San Antonio, Texas.

- 2004 - 2009: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio Department of Art and Art History. San Antonio, Texas.

- 2003-2004: Instructor Painting/Drawing, Front Range Community College Department of Fine Arts. Boulder, Colorado.

- 1996-2003: Instructor, Painting/Drawing, University of Colorado at Boulder Department of Art and Arts History. Boulder, Colorado.

EDUCATION

- 1999: Master of Fine Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder:

o Emphasis in Studio Arts, Painting/Drawing and Sculpture. Additional studies in Relief Printmaking and Chicano Art History.

- 1996: Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Texas at San Antonio.

o Emphasis on Painting/Drawing and additional studies in Sculpture

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

- December 2010: “Yah me voy a Therapy”, REM Gallery, San Antonio, TX.

- July 2010: Arte Nuevo/New Art, Juror Malaquias Montoya and Valerie Cassel Oliver, The University of Texas at San Antonio.

• - April 2010: Texas National 2010, juror Judy Pfaff, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX.

- November 2009: “Investigating Transcendence” (solo exhibition), South Texas College, McAllen, TX.

- March 2009: “International Year of Languages”, UTSA Downtown Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX.

- March 2009: “Tu Amore es un Bumpy Road” (two person exhibition), Sound Art, Laredo, TX.

- November 2008: “Serie Print Project”, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX.

- October 2008: “Serie Print Project”, UTSA Downtown Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX.

- October 2008: “Serie Print Project”, Mexican American Cultural Center, Austin, TX.

- August 2008: “About us!”, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO. Curator: Mark Addison

- July 2008: “Con Honor – a las Artistas del Barrio”, Centro Cultural Aztlan, San Antonio, TX.

- July 2008: “Centers and Borders: From ABC to XYZ – 2008 Sino-American Artists Joint Exhibition Beijing”, XYZ Gallery, Beijing, China.

- July 2008: “Hybrid Vistas: South Texas Painters, Ricky Armendariz and Richard Martinez” (two person exhibition), C-Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX.

- June 2008: “AZAG/GAZA: Mirroring War”, Casa Borda, Taxco, Mexico.

- June 2008: “Signs of Globalization”, Salon de exposiciones de la Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad of San Carlos, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

- May 2008: “AZAG/GAZA: Mirroring War”, Galeria Zapata, Oaxaca, Mexico.

- May 2008: “Signs of Globalization”, Sala de Escuela Superior de Arte el Paranimfo, Universidad of San Carlos, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

- April 2008: “Art and Social Change/Land, Culture and Memory”, Al-Kahf Gallery, International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Palestine.

- February 2008: “The Box Contemporary Museum of Art/La Caja Museo Contemporano de Arte”, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX.

- October 2007: “Centers and Borders” Ningxia Exhibition Center, Yinchuan, China

- September 2007: “Mariachi Scholarship Concert and Exhibition”, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX.

- September 2007: “Centers and Borders,” School of Fine Arts, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, China.

- September 2007: “Contra La Guerra”, Academia de San Carlos, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico D.F.

- August 2007: “New Millennial Guernica”, Myriad Gallery, Boulder, CO.

- July 2007: “Lonesome Highways are the Only Kind I seem to Travel”, (solo exhibition), REM Gallery, San Antonio, TX.

- June 2007: “World View: Diverse Artists’ Approaches”, Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX. Joan Davidow, Director of Dallas Center for Contemporary Art.

- April 2007: “New Millennial Guernica”, A Shenere Velt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curator: Dr. George Rivera.

- April 2007: “Cantos del Pueblo: Tejano Musical Landscapes”, the Alameda Museum in Affiliation with the Smithsonian Institute, San Antonio, TX. Henry Estrada, Exhibitions/Public Programs Director.

- October 2006: “Grand Opening Exhibition”, El Centro Cultural Aztlan, San Antonio, TX. Curator: Richard Arredondo.

- October 2006: “MASA Project II”, Gallista Gallery, San Antonio, TX. Curator: Luis Valderas.

- September 2006: “Serie Project XIII”, University of Texas at Austin Center for Mexican American Studies, Austin, TX. Sam Coronado, Director

- August 2006: “Serie XIII”, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX.

- June 2006: “New Millennial Guernica”, International Center of Bethlehem, Palestine. Curator: Dr. George Rivera.

- June 2006: “Local Loteria”, Southwest School of Arts and Craft, San Antonio, TX. Curator: Kathy Armstrong, Associate Curator at SWSAC.

- February 2006: “Never Leaving Aztlan”, Museo de las Americas, Denver, CO.

- January, 2006: “Confessions of a Singin’ Vaquero” (solo exhibition), Blue Star Art Space Main Gallery, San Antonio, TX.

- November, 2005: “Land, People and Identity”, International Centre of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Palestine, Curator: Dr. George Rivera.

- October 2005: “Spanglish”, ArtPace Hudson Showroom, San Antonio, TX.

- August 2005: “Artists Looking at Art”, The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX.

- August 2005: “Encuentros”, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Mexico City, Mexico.

- July 2005: “YLA10”, Mexicarte Museum, Austin, TX.,Curator: Ben Fyffe

- May 2005: “Ulterior Motifs #9”, Wheeler Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, TX.

- May 2005: “Encuentros”, Facultad de Bellas Artes, San Carlos, Mexico.

- April 2005: “Latino Expressions II: Artistas de San Antonio”, The San Antonio Public Library Foundation, San Antonio, TX.

- February 2005: “Home in San Antone”, New Braunfels Museum of Art and Music. New Braunfels, TX.

- January 2005: “San Antonio Painting 2005”, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center. San Antonio, TX.

- January 2005: “Common Wounds”, traveling toRamallah, Hebron and Gaza.

REPRESENTATION

- REM Gallery, San Antonio, TX.

PERIODICALS

- Periodical: December 2006: “Interview with Ricky Armendariz”, Arturo Almeida, DART International, Winter/Spring 2006, Vol. 9, Issue 1, San Antonio, TX.

- Periodical: March 2006: “Spanglish: They Hybrid Nature of the South Texas Experience at Artpace”, Patrick Putz, VOA, V14.1/22. San Antonio, TX.

- Periodical: March 2006: “Ricky Armendariz: ‘Confessions of a Singin’ Vaquero’”, Patrick Putz, VOA, V14.1/22. San Antonio, TX.

REVIEWS

- October 12, 2009: “Rhonda Kuhlman create recycled public are for South Texas Blood and Tissue Center”,Houston Examiner.com, Houston, TX.

- November 4, 2009: “STC Pecan Campus Library exhibit ‘Investigating Transcendence’”, STC News, McAllen, TX.

- March 27, 2009: “Sound to show a ‘tilted Texas’”, Kirsten Crow, Laredo Morning Times, Laredo, TX.

- October 17, 2008: “Exhibit explores Latino culture, artwork”, Elda Silva, San Antonio Express News, San Antonio, TX.

- October 8, 2008: “Artbeat – Brief sketches of what’s happening in the Denver art scene”, Michael Paglia,Denver Westword, Denver, CO.

- July 6, 2008: “July heat brings risk taking to local art”, Eva Ruth Moravec, San Antonio Express News, San Antonio, TX.

- July 3, 2008: “A different ‘Vista’”, Jennifer Herrera, San Antonio Current, San Antonio, TX.

- May 21, 2008: “Definitive San Anto – Local artists and writer contribute to pivotal tome”, Jennifer Herrera,San Antonio Current, San Antonio, TX.

- August 2007: “Artist likes sunsets, no apologies”, Jessica Belasco, 210SA, Volume 1, Issue 26, San Antonio, TX

- January 2007: “Confessions of a Singin’ Vaguero: Inside the Artwork of Ricky Armendariz”, Lisa Chontos,Ovations, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX.

- December 2006: “An Interview with Ricky Armendariz”, Arturo Almeida, DARTInternational, Winter/Spring 2006, Vol. 9, Issue 1, San Antonio, TX.

- October 2006: “UTSA Thanks Chicano Art Magazine for Supporting the Arts”, Chicano Art Magazine, San Antonio, TX.

- July 2006: “Chicano Art in Colorado: An Overview”, Dr. George Rivera, Latinoartcommunity.org, Denver, CO.

- April 2006: “Interview with Ricky Armendariz”, Arturo Almeida, IUNGO, Vol.1, Issue 2. San Antonio, TX.

- April 2006: “Best of 2006 Arts, Part I, Best Up and Coming Artist, Richard Armendariz”, Catherine Walworth and Elaine Wolfe, San Antonio Current, San Antonio, TX.

- March 2006: “Turf Wars: Old-School Chicano Art Gets it on with Post Chicano New-School at the Museo”, Michael Paglia, Denver Westword, Arts and Entertainment, Denver, CO.

- February 2006: “’Singin’ Vaquero’ tuneful, in a kitschy, mournful way”, Dan R. Goddard, SA Life Section, San Antonio Express News, San Antonio, TX.

- February 2006: “The Face in the Mirror is Mestizo”, Elaine Wolff, San Antonio Current, San Antonio, TX.

- January 2006: “UTSA Will host Painting Exhibit by Ricky Armendariz”, Browlee, Tim, UTSA Today, San Antonio, TX.

- November 2005: “Spanglish: Ricky Armendariz, Rae Culbert, Beto Gozales, Daniel Guerrero, Ann-Michele Morales, Cruz Ortiz, Luz Maria Sanchez, Gary Sweeny”, Artpace: About the Exhibition, Kate Green, San Antonio, TX.

- November 10, 2005: “The visual force of ‘spanglish’”, Rumbo, Arming Garcia, San Antonio, TX.

- August 11, 2005: “An exhibition of Latino art- whatever that might be”, Austin 360, Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Austin, TX.

- July 22, 2005: “Year 1- of Mexic-Arte’s Young Latino Artists”, Fluent-Collaborative, Austin, TX.

- July 8, 2005: “The Next Diegos”, Austin Chronicle, Patti Hadid, Austin, TX.

- February 2, 2005 “It’s Potluck Time Again- Blue Star Hosts Another ‘everything but the kitchen sink’ Retrospective”, San Antonio Current, Elaine Wolfe, San Antonio, TX.

- January 30, 2005 “Fine and Figurative Art” San Antonio Express News, Dan R. Goddard, San Antonio, TX.