Bio
Jesus Treviño (b. 1995, Brownsville, Texas) received a BA in Studio Art from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in 2018 and his MFA in Painting/Drawing at the University of Texas at Austin. His work is rooted from his experience being raised on the U.S./Mexico border and deals with the erasure of history, displacement of people, and its residual personal, emotional, and social effects. He has had five solo exhibitions in Texas at the International Museum of Art and Science, McAllen (2023), the Presa House Gallery, San Antonio (2023, 2019), La Chicharra Art Studio, Brownsville (2022), and Martha’s Contemporary, Austin (2022) as well as a two-person show at Contra Common, Bee Cave (2021). He has also organized a group exhibition at the Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX (2020) and has been included in group exhibitions at Exhibit/208 in Albuquerque, NM (2022); Las Cruces Museum of Art, NM (2022); the Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2022); The Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX (2021); Field Projects Gallery, New York (2021); Carlsbad Museum and Art Center, NM (2021) and the Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX (2021). Most recently he attended the Desert Door Residency through Big Medium, Austin, TX (2022); Rockland Residency in Belfair, WA (2022) and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME (2022).
Selected CV
Education:
2022 MFA, Painting/Drawing, University of Texas at Austin, TX
2018 BA, Studio Art, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville/Edinburg, TX
2015 AA, General Studies, Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, TX
Work/ Guest Lectures/Volunteer Experience:
2023 Panelist, NACCS Tejas Foco
Visual Art as Testimonios of Resistance against Colonialism
2022 Guest Lecture, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Studio Art Graduates
2020-2022 Teacher’s Assistant, University of Texas at Austin
Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking
2017-2018 Intern/Volunteer, International Museum of Art and Science, McAllen, TX
Art Studio, Art Galleries, and Outreach Events
Residencies:
2023 Studios at MassMoca, North Adams, MA (Forthcoming)
2023 Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY (Forthcoming)
2023 Cultivarte Laredo’s V-AiR Program, Laredo, TX (online)
2022 Rockland Residency, Bremerton, WA
2022 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
2022 Desert Door Residency, Big Medium, Austin, TX
Solo Exhibition:
2023 La Carrera Fading in the Sun, International Museum of Art and Science, McAllen, TX
2023 Phantom in the Headlights, Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2022 Oil Over Troubled Water, ICOSA, Austin, TX
2022 Dark Horse, La Chicharra Studio, Brownsville, TX
2022 No Estas En Tu Rancho, Martha’s Contemporary, Austin, TX
2019 Behind Our Walls, Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Two Person/ Group Exhibitions:
2022 Secondary, Concept Animals, Austin, TX
2022 Desert Door Exhibition, Big Medium, Austin, TX
2022 Icons and Symbols of the Borderland, Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces, NM
Curated by Diana Molina
2022 Son de Allá y Son de Acá, Tortuga Gallery/ El Chante: Casa de Cultura/ South Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM
Curated by Vicente Telles, Ricardo Islas, and Rigoberto Luna
2022 The Big Show, Lawndale Center for the Arts, Houston, TX
2022 Painted Hooves, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX
UT Graduate Thesis Exhibition
2022 Texas National 2022, SFA Art Galleries, Nacogdoches, TX
Curated by Adriana Corral
2022 Mapping New Narratives, Centro Cultural Aztlan, San Antonio, TX
Curated by Hector Garza
2021 A Becoming, ContraCommon Gallery, Bee Cave, TX
Two-Person Exhibition with Kelsey Baker
2021 Across, Urban Arts Center, Dallas, TX
Organized by MariconX and curated by Jose Villalobos
2021 Autumn, Martha’s Contemporary, Austin, TX
2021 0 to 60, Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2021 Haunted Summer, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY
Curator: Jacob Rhodes
2021 Renacimiento, La Chicharra Studio, Brownsville, TX
2021 Icons and Symbols of the Borderland , Carlsbad Museum and Art Center, NM
Curated by Diana Molina
2021 Afterlife-Online, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY
Juried/Curated by Amanda Nedham, Kyle Hittmeier, Jacob Rhodes, Kristen Racaniello, Caroline Kim
2021 Rising Eyes of Texas 2021, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX
Juried by Rigoberto Luna
2020 Shop Texas, Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2020 Our Voices Our Heritage, The Historic Brownsville Museum, Brownsville, TX
2020 Alive in Memory & Spirit, City of San Antonio World Heritage Office
2020 Third Coast Biennial, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX
Juried by Rigoberto Luna
2020 Between Two Worlds, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX, Curator: Jesus Treviño
Collections:
The City of San Antonio, Department of Arts and Culture
The City of San Antonio, World Heritage Office
Collection of Presa House Gallery
Collection of Joe Diaz
Collection of Charles Townley
Collection of Ramon Saldivar
Tucson Museum of Art
Publications:
2022 New American Paintings No. 156 West Issue
Collective:
2021-Present Juntos Art Association, El Paso, TX