Franco Mondini – Ruiz - Deborah Colton Gallery



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Franco Mondini – Ruiz

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010 Parties and Parfum, Colton & Farb Gallery – Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States

2009 Festive Art Happening with Featured Artist Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Colton & Farb Gallery – Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States

2008 Feast without Famine, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York City, New York, United

States

2007 Solo project in conjunction with Mexicana: Discovering Mexican Popular Arts, 1919-

1950, Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey, United States

2006 Hollywood Squares, Light Box Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States

2005 Quattrocento: 400 Paintings, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York City, New York,

United States

Postcards from Rome, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy

Small Treasures, Projetto Biagiotti, Florence, Italy

¡Que Purdy! New World Museum, Houston, Texas, United Stated

2004 Botanica Los Angeles , UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, California, United

States

Giant, Marfa Ballroom, Marfa, Texas, United States

99 Paintings, McColl Center for the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

2003 Pan in the Park, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, Missouri, United States

2002 Nacho de Paz (and Other TexMex Miracles), Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York

City, New York, United States

Dolci, Max Mara, The Galleria, Dallas, Texas, United States

Market Squared, Galeria Ortiz, San Antonio, Texas, United States

Dust in the Wind, NY Public Art Fund, New York City, New York, United States

2001 SHOP, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States

Infinito Botanica: St Louis, Des Lee Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Untitled Grid No. 7, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, New York,

United States

2000 Mexique, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York, United States

1999 Infinito Botanica, San Antonio, Texas, United States

Infinito Botanica: New York, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-

on-Hudson, New York, United States

New Paintings Y Mas, Galeria Ortiz, San Antonio, Texas, United States

1998 Tableau Vivant, The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas, United Stated

1996 Infinito Botanica @ ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas, United States

Diesen ist Kein Kitsch, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas, United States

Ofrenda for Marion Koogler McNay, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, United States

1995 Naturaleza Muerta, Plaza Santa Catarina, Mexico City, Mexico

1994 Untitled Grid No. 1, San Antonio, Texas, United States

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 A Time For Change, Deborah Colton Gallery, curated by Catherine Anspon, Houston, Texas

Re-Mix, The Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, New York City, New York, United States

2007 Re-Mix, The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Ulterior Motifs: A Celebratory Art Extravaganza, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington,

Texas, United States

The Mexican Museum’s Nuevo Arte: Colección Tequila Don Julio, White Box, New York, New World Museum, Houston, Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, Los Angeles

Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, United States

2006 Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, curated by Dede Young, Neuberger

Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, New York, United States

2005 Infinito Botanica: Bologna, Bologna Art Fair, Bologne, Italy

The Prague Biennale, Prague Museum of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech

Republic

Down the Garden Path: The Artist's Garden After Modernism, Queens Art Museum,

Queens, New York, United States

2004 Ballroom, Marfa, Texas, United States

I Heart Texas, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Twang, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas, United States

Salon Carlotta, McColl Center for the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Half Baked Sales, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, Affordable Art Fair, New York City, New York, United States

2003 Communities (Mexican Town), Wayne Staste University, Detroit, Michigan, United

States

Dreamspaces/Entresueños, Deutsche Bank, New York City, New York, United

States

Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Walker ARt Center, Minneapolis,

Minnesota, United States

2002 Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Miami Art Museum, Miami,

Florida, United States

Untitled, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Infinito Botanica: Spain, ARCO, Madrid, Spain

Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Miami Art Museum, Miami, United

States and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

Easy as 1, 2, 3 Recycled Works, San Antonio, Texas, United States

2001 ARS01 - KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Modern Art Museum of Fort

Worth, Fort Worth, Texas and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San

Francisco, California, United States

Caribbean Biennal, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Lost In Space, Gary Tatinsian Gallery, New York City, New York, United States

Hopscotch, Gallery of Art, Kean University, Union, New Jersey, United States

2000 The Whitney Biennial 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New

York, United States

City of Lights: Art Walk, Comité Colbert, New York, New York, United States

Infinito Botanica, Downtown Arts Project, New York City, New York, United States

Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art,

San Diego, California, United States

Texans in the Whitney, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Yard Sale, Downtown Arts Project, New York City, New York, United States

1999 The Ecstatic, Trans-Hudson Gallery, New York City, New York, United States

1998 Trade, Salon 300, Brooklyn, New York, United States

Material World, Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria Austin, Texas, United States

Collective Visions, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, United States

The Business of Art, Instituto Cultural de Mexico, San Antonio, Texas, United States

1997 Simply Beautiful, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas, United States

Tres Proyectos Latinos, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, United States

1995 Double Trouble: Mirrors/Pairs/Twins/Lovers, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio,

Texas, United States

Synthesis and Subversion: A Latino Direction in San Antonio Art, Art Gallery of the

University of Texas at San Antonio and the UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio,

Texas, United States

1994 Blue Star VIII, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas, United States

1993 The Illusive Object, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas, United States

Hispanic Artists of 1993, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas,

United States

Closets: Queer Experiences, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, San Antonio,

Texas, United States

1992 El Impacto de Dos Mundos, Art Space Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, United

States

Shrines, Milagros Contemporary Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, United States

1991 Texas Dialogues, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas, United States

1990 Planta de Arte Nuclear, San Antonio, Texas, United States

1989 San Antonio Sculpture Symposium 1989, curated by Dave Hickey, San Antonio,

Texas, United States

Public Commissions and Curatorial Projects

2007 Gift Shop, Museo Alameda, San Antonio, Texas, United States

2003 Mas is Mas Gift Shop, Museo Americano Smithsonian, San Antonio, Texas, United

States

2002 Trophies, Southwestern Bell Corporation, Installations for new sports arena, San

Antonio, Texas, United States

Dust in the Wind, Public Art Fund, New York City, New York, United States

2000 Infinito Botanica @ Downtown Arts Project, New York City, New York, United States

Latino Redux: A New Collection of Stories, Lies and Embellishments, North Texas

State University Gallery, Denton, Texas, United States

1998 Parallels, Dallas-San Antonio, Blue Star Art Space, Co-curated by Diana Block, San

Antonio, Texas, United States

El Dia des Los Muertos, Victoria Museum of Art, Victoria, Texas, United States

1994 Blue Star on Houston Street, Co Curated with Jesse Amado, San Antonio, Texas,

United States

Grants and Residencies

2004-05 Rome Prize Recipient, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy

2003 Tryon Center Artist Residency Program, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

2002 Creative Capital Foundation Supplemental Grant

2001 Creative Capital Foundation Grant

Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant

2000 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant

1999 ArtPace General Grant

1996 ArtPace Artist in Residency Program, San Antonio, Texas, United Stated

1994 New Forms Regional Initiative Grant

Selected Bibliography

2008 Beyond Stereotypes: 21st-Century Indian Artists, by Ken Johnson, The New York

Times, June 20

2007 Celebrating Hispanics From Both Sides of a Hyphenated

Identity, by Edward Rothstein, The New York Times, April 21

San Antonio celebrates its Latino heritage with an arts bonanza, by

Jayne Clark, USA Today, April 20

Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Emerging Artists, by Joseph Jacobs, Art & Antiques, February

2006 Lone Star Style, by Cathy Horyn, The New York Times, August 27

Franco Mondini-Ruiz at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, by Edward Leffingwell, Art in

America, May

2005 Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Quattrocento at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, by Roberta Smith,

The New York Times, December 30

2004 Kitsch and Sell, by Carmela Ciuraru, ArtNews, November

2003 Franco Mondini-Ruiz at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, by Jessica Ostrower, Art in

America, May

Franco Mondini-Ruiz, by Melissa Gronlund, ArtNews, May

Franco Mondini-Ruiz: Nacho de Paz, by Sean C. Horton, ARTL!ES, Summer

Franco Mondini-Ruiz, 'Nacho de Paz', Ken Johnson, The New York Times,

January 3

2002. art: 21 Art in the Twenty First Century, by Henry N. Abrams, publications 2001 page

204

Canvas, Art News, February, page 36

Caribbean Biennal, Flash Art, May

2001 Ultra Baroque: Museum of Contemporary, San Diego, by Charles LaBelle, frieze, January/February, page 99

Franco Mondini-Ruiz: El Museo Del Barrio, by Ann Albritton, Sculpture, January/February, page 59.

Beautiful People, by Mickey Boardman, Paper, April, page 52

Critics Choice: Pick of the Week, Time Out New York, March

2000 Updating Baroque, by Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, October 3, page F.

8, F. 9

Blinded by Buzzwords, by Michael Duncan, Art in America, July, pages 38, 40

The pleasant surprise of the new, in two big surveys, by Peter Schjeldahl, The New

Yorker, April 3

Varied Realms Thrive Uptown, by Holland Cotter, The New York Times, April 14

Biennial 2000: Whitney Museum of Art, by Katy Siegel, ARTFORUM, May, page

171

They'll take Manhattan, by Patricia C. Johnson, Houston Chronicle, May 4, page 1D

Big Apple is home to many San Antonians, by Cory Leahy, San Antonio Express

News, January 16, page 8H

Contemporánea 2000 Mexique, by Julia P. Herzberg, Exhibition Catalog, Musee del

Barrio, New York, New York, February

NT artists give students a taste of San Antonio, by Mike Daby, The North Texas Daily, February 29, page 8

The Max Factor, by Julie Caniglia, ARTFORUM, March

Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Exhibition Catalog, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art,

March, page 162

Latino art show tells tall tales, by Janet Kutner, The Dallas Morning News, March 18

pages 4C-5C

Arts: New York show has S.A. spice, by Elda Silva, San Antonio Express News,

March 24

Artists share their vision of Whitney Museum fete, by Elda Silva, San Antonio Express News, March 24, page 12A

S. Texas works look to define ethnicity, by Dan Goddard, San Antonio Express News, March 30

An Art to Save the World?, by Noel Frackman, Review, April 1, page 75

The Search for Life in an Alien Universe, by Herbert Reichert, Review, April 1, page

36

The New Zoo: McGrew's Zoo, by Lyle Rexer, Review, April 1, page 36

San Antonio Artist Revels in his Time in the Biennial Spotlight, by Elda Silva, San

Antonio Express News, April 2, page 12A

1999 Gorgeous Politics: The Life and Work of Franco Mondini-Ruiz, by Alejandro Diaz,

Masters Thesis, Bard College

The Ecstatic, by Ken Johnson, The New York Times, September 10

The Ecstatic, by Simon Watson, Simon Says, September, volume 4, number 1

There's beauty everywhere: Artist taking views on inclusivity to Whitney, by Elda Silva, San Antonio Express News, December 18

Big Apple Paisano, by Jonathon Marcus, San Antonio Current, December 30, page 11

1998 Franco Mondini-Ruiz: Water for the Spirits of Danny and Drew, by Jean McMann,

Altars and Icons, Chronicle Books

1997 Infinito Botanica: Enigmatic Divinities, by Felipe Arevalo, Artlies, number 16, Fall

Simply Beautiful, by Dana Friis-Hansen, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston,

page 15, catalog

1996 Inventory as Story, by Janet L. Rumble, Metropolis, December

Synthesis & Subversion: A Latino Direction in San Antonio Art, Frances Colpitt, Art

Gallery of the University of Texas at San Antonio and the UTSA Satellite Space, July,

catalog

Double Trouble: Mirrors/Pairs/Twins/Lovers, by Dana Friis-Hansen, Blue Star Art

Space, July, catalog

Franco Mondini-Ruiz 96.3, by Frances Colpitt, ArtPace: A Foundation for

Contemporary Art, San Antonio, September, catalog

1995 Still Life with Potatoes, Pearls, Raw Meat, Rhinestones, Lard and Horse Hooves,

Sandra Cisneros, Loose Woman, by Alfred A. Knopf; published in The New

Yorker, April

Infinito's Eclectic Jumble May Seed Arts District, by Mike Greenberg, San Antonio

Express News, December 20

1993 FAT, by David Fuller, Poliester, Fall, Mexico

FAT Plays on Vanity, by Dan Goddard, San Antonio Express News, July 11

1991. Arlington Museum is off to a Good Start, by Janet Kutner, Dallas Morning News, 6

July

Publications

2005 High Pink: Tex-Mex Fairy Tales, DAP Press

2002 Latino Redux: A Collection of Stories, Lies and Embellishments, University of North

Texas Art Gallery

1998 Parallels: Dallas - San Antonio, Blue Star Art Space

Film Appearances

2002 Debut, directed by Danny Hobart

Screen Test, directed by Danny Hobart

Corpus, directed by Lourdes Portillo

2445 North Boulevard

Houston, Texas 77098





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