artist & vagabond / artista y vago
Andrei Renteria is a multidisciplinary artist wandering about the U.S.-Mexico frontera.
His research focuses on recurrences of discrimination, persecution, unlawful imprisonment, torture, forced disappearances, and other human rights abuses along the region. He investigates how to address and embody weighty subject matter, beyond international borders, using an experimental approach to material.
Renteria earned his BFA from Sul Ross State University in 2010 and MFA at the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2015. His work has been exhibited at Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio, Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Houston’s Holocaust Museum, and the Museum of the Big Bend in Alpine, TX.
He is a 2019 George and Eliza A. Gardner Howard Foundation Fellow in Painting and a recipient of the 2018-2019 Blue Star’s Contemporary Berlin Residency hosted by Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin.
2015
2010
Education/ Educación
Master's of Fine Arts, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Bachelor's of Fine Arts, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas
Awards/ Premios
2019
George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship in Painting, George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, Providence, RI
2018
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin Residency Program, Blue Star Contemporary Museum, San Antonio, TX
2016
2016
2015
Friends of Chuck Ramirez Award for Visual Arts, Artist Foundation, San Antonio, TX
Artist Lab Resident, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX
Wai Ching Lam Best of Show Art Prize, University of Texas at San Antonio
Exhibitions/ Exposiciones
Solo
2020
To Whom It May Concern & Fringes, Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX
2016
Aligned, 3rd Space, San Antonio, TX
Group/ Colectivas
2019
Funf, Blue Star Contemporary Museum, San Antonio, TX
2018
Images of Power, Freight Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2017
$t@tU.S.? Prints from Puerto Rico to San Antonio, Centro de Artes, San Antonio, TX
2017
Young Latino Artists, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX