RUTH LEONELA BUENTELLO
Chicana, Born in San Antonio, Texas 1984 Lives and works in San Antonio
Education
Maine College of Art And Design, Portland, ME Candidate for Masters in Fine Arts 2019-2021 Pending
Alamo Colleges Teacher Certification Art K-12 2014
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Bachelors of Fine Arts with emphasis in painting 2004-08
Awards
Joan Mitchell Sculptors and Painters Grant Recipient 2017
Awards Artpace Travel Grant, Italy and France 2010
Contemporary Art Month Award Más Rudas Collective 2010
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Grant 2004-2008
Residencies
2010 Mas Rudas Collective: Homegirls, Slanguage, Wilmington ,CA
2012 Serie Print Coronado Studios Residency, Austin, TX
2019 Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA
2020 Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence, University of Michigan Humanities Dept. , Ann Arbor, MI
One Person Exhibitions
2019 Yo Tengo Nombre, University of Michigan Humanities Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2019
2015 Body Image, Casa de Cultura, Del Rio, TX
2009 Retratos Nobles, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX My Neighborhood, 1906 Gallery,
San Antonio, TX
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Kinship, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2021 The Sitter, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio Texas
2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2019 Dia de los Muertos Exhibition, Mexican Museum of Fine Arts, Chicago, IL
2019 5 X 5 Southwest Center for the Arts, San Antonio, Texas
2018 Deep Roots: An Intersection of Borders,, UTSA Gallery San Antonio, Texas
2018 Aún Recordamos Aquel Hogar, Meadows Museum of Art , LA
2017 Domestic Narratives, Guadalupe Cultural Arts, San Antonio. TX,
2017 Don’t Let go, Luminaria Arts Festival,. San Antonio, TX
2016 SATX/MX: un Viaje Lleno de Cultura, Centro de Artes Gallery, San Antonio
2016 Mural Installation Novela: Arte y Drama Guadalupe Cultural Arts SA, TX
2015 Walking Altars,Mas Rudas Luminaria. San Antonio, TX
2014 Latina y Que, Co -Curator Mas Rudas YLA Mexic –Arte, Austin TX.
Casa De Luz, Luminaria, San Antonio, TX.
2013 Mas Rudas Chicana Art Collective: Ruda Phat Institute of Texan Cultures, SA TX
Mas Rudas Chicana Art Collective: Brown Style, ArtPace, San Antonio,
Mexican American Studies, University of Texas Austin, Austin, TX
Serie Print XVI, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX
Windows to Our Community, Centro Aztlan, San Antonio, TX
2011 Mas Rudas Collective: Mas Triste, Unit B Gallery, San Antonio Mas Rudas Collective: Chicanas Only, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin,TX Young Latino Artists: Thought Cloud, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin,TX Manuel Castillo: A Painting of a Community, Museo Alameda, San Antonio, TX Ahora: San Anto En Austin, Mercury Mambo, Austin, TX Huevos Rancheros Gala Silent Art Auction, Plaza Guadalupe, San Antonio, TX
2010 Better to Die on my Feet, Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA Family, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio,TX
Mas Rudas: Operation Canis Familiaris, Guadalupe Cultural Arts, San
2009 Mas Rudas Collective: Our Debut, Danny’s House, San Antonio, TX Showcase Artist Chalk It Up, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2008 UTSA Juried Exhibition, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX Many Faces of Women, Southwest School of Arts, San Antonio, TX Nueva Generacion, Lone Star Studios, San Antonio, TX Yellow Rose, Bihl Haus Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Tierra Indigena, Guadalupe Cultural Arts, San Antonio, TX
2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts Undergraduate Exhibition, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
Little Village Arts Festival, Cafe Catredral, Chicago, IL
Chicano Experience, Mattie Rhodes Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2006 Mujeres de Murales, Gallista Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Little Village Arts Festival, Cafe Catredal, Chicago, IL
2005 Latino Student Arts Organization Exhibition, Crib Collective, Chicago, IL 2004 Dia los Muertos, Mestizarte, Chicago, IL
2003 Feministas Latinas, Centro Cultural Atzlan, San Antonio, TX
Anti-Heroes of the Avant Garde, Casa de la Cultura, Del Rio, TX
Community/Public Art Projects
2021 Entre Fronteras: Memory Maps and Migration, City Hall San Antonio, TX
2011 “Untitled“ Irving Academy Semester Program, Artpace, San Antonio, TX Lead Artist for in-door public art collaboration with class based on violence, pollution, and cruelty to animals. Project educated students on importance of reusing discarded objects and materials.
2009 “Una Mesa Para la Gente”, San Anto Cultural Arts, San Antonio, TX Lead artist on restoration project, implemented stained glass mosaic to original design. Worked with community members to restore project.
2007 “Where We Are Going”, Instituto Del Progresso Latino, Chicago, IL Lead artist on mural project for alternative school, worked with youth on development of design and execution of mural.
“St. Alphonsus Mosaic Benches”, Chicago Public Art Group Chicago ,IL Assistant to lead artist on ceramic mosaics, assisted on workshops for development of design, cut tile, installed mosaics.
“Lawndale Christian Development Ctr. Mosaic Benches”, Chicago Public Art Group Chicago, IL
“Piedad”, San Anto Cultural Arts, San Antonio, TX
Lead Artist for project and developed design for mural and facilitated mural process through completion. Collaborated with community artist to complete design.
2001 “Tradicion y Cultura”, San Anto Cultural Arts, San Antonio, TX
Assisted lead artist in painting mural.