Education

2012 - 2014. The University of Texas at San Antonio. Master of Fine Art, Art

2007 - 2010. The University of Houston. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Magna Cum Laude

2004 – 2007. North Harris College/Lone Star College/Houston Community College| GeneralStudies

1999 – 2001. Washington University in St. Louis, School of Art

Honors | Awards | Achievements

2023 Houston Endowment Jones Artist Award, City of San Antonio 2023 Individual Artist Grant Awardee, San Antonio Art League & Museum 2021 Artist of the Year, 2020 Luminaria Artist Foundation Grant, 2018 Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant, 2016 NALAC Fund forthe Arts (NFA): San Antonio Artist Grant, 2014 Surdna Foundation Grant Recipient, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Artist Lab Fellowship, Dave Bown Projects Award of Excellence, Hunting Art Prize Finalist (2013 & 2014), 2005 Houston Marathon Finisher, 1999 1st Place Black/White Drawing -Houston Independent School District Art Competition, 1999 Congressional Art Competition Winner, 18th District, Texas.

Publications:

Oxford American Issue 124: Southern Art Issue Spring 2024, Harper’s Magazine December 2022, New American Paintings No. 162: West Issue, Southwest Contemporary Vol.5: Collectivity & Collaboration, Create! Magazine Issue 12, The Oxford American Summer 2018, West Branch Spring/Summer 2023, Artedel Pueblo: The Outdoor Public Art of San Antonio, As Viewed From the Pit: Photos From The South Texas Metal Scene 1978-1989, 2nd Edition

Features & Reviews:

Texas Monthly, Glasstire, The San Antonio Express News, La Prensa Texas, The Houston Chronicle, The Houston Press, Spectrum News, The San Antonio Current, The Austin Chronicle, Whataburger, Chicano Channel Magazine, KSAT News

Collections      

Texas Public Radio Irma & Emilio Nicolas Media Center, The McNay Art Museum, The National Museum of Mexican Art, The National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum, Mexic-Arte Museum, Benson Latin American Collection, Tappan Collective, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Capital One Financial Services, University Health System Salud-Arte, Queens University of Charlotte, The Woodlands High School Art Trust, Artes de la Rosa, Whataburger Museum of Art, The City of San Antonio, and The San Antonio Art League & Museum

Clients

Whataburger, Joeris General Contractors, VisitSanAntonio.com, The Doseum, San Antonio Public Library Foundation, The Atkins Group, Centro SA, GoogleFiber, Levi’s Jeans

Residencies

2021    San Antonio Museum of Art Inaugural Artist-in-Residence. San Antonio, TX

2018    The Studios at MASS MoCA. North Adams, MA

2016    Artist Lab Fellowship Program. Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. San Antonio, TX

2013    "Changarrito" Artist-in-Residence. Mexic-Arte Museum. Austin, TX

2012    Modern Multiples. Los Angeles, CA

Other

Mentor| NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentor Program | San Antonio | 2024 - 2025

Art Adviser| Modern in San Antonio | March 2023 - current

Director& Curator | Clamp Light Studios & Gallery | January 2021 – November 2024

Member &Director of Public Relations | Montrose Art Society Art Collective| May 2010 –August 2012

Solo Exhibitions

2024   

Somewhere Between Work and Play. Clamp Light Gallery. San Antonio, TX

So Many Styles, I Am A Group Show. Box13 ArtSpace,Front Box Gallery. Houston, TX

2023   

Doing Werk | Artist-Parents. Spellerberg Projects. Lockhart, TX

This Is How We Do It: Art and Family. Clamp Light Gallery. San Antonio, TX

Then And Now.Wanderlust Ironworks. San Antonio, TX

2022 

This & That. Dock SpaceGallery. San Antonio, TX

2021   

2021 Artist of the Year: Raul Rene Gonzalez. San Antonio Art League & Museum. San Antonio, TX

2020   

Doing Werk. Fort Worth Community Art Center. Visit Fort Worth Gallery. Fort Worth, TX

2019   

All In A Day’s Werk. UT Rio Grande Valley Rusteberg Art Gallery. Brownsville, TX

Front and Back, and Side to Side. Artpace Main Space Gallery. San Antonio, TX

WatchMe Werk. HCC Northline Art Gallery. Houston, TX

2018   

Raul Gonzalez: Taco, Texas.Albright College Freedman Gallery - Foyer Gallery. Reading, PA

All About That Werk. Forum 6 Contemporary. Houston, TX

Feelin LikeA Champ. Revenant Gallery. San Antonio, TX

2017   

PureEnergy. Presa House Gallery. San Antonio, TX

Can You Feel That? Miami University. Oxford, OH

Doing Work. grayDUCK Gallery. Austin, TX                                                    

Doing Werk. FreightGallery. San Antonio, TX

2016   

Werds & Places. Carver Branch Library. San Antonio, TX

Artist Looking At Art: Portraits of a Working Artist. McNay Art Museum. SanAntonio, TX

TEXAS. FreightGallery. San Antonio, TX

2015     

Dulce. Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Theater Gallery. San Antonio, TX

Life, Death,and Other Stories. 3rd Space Gallery. San Antonio, TX

2014   

M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition | WERK| In the Zone. Terminal 136. San Antonio, TX

2013   

Consider All Things. Main Street Projects. Houston, TX

2012   

Farewell Show. Jack Meier Gallery. Houston, TX

Inside a City. Galeria de la Rosa, Artes de la Rosa. Fort Worth, TX.

Group Exhibitions

2024   

Cultural Bounty: The Bestead-Lerma-Annala Collection.UTSA Southwest Campus, Russell Hill Rogers Galleries, San Antonio, TX (curatorArturo Almeida)

Forward Facing: A Look at Contemporary Portraiture. Tyler Museum of Art. Tyler, TX

Voyage3: Artifacts of Humanity, The Carver Community Cultural Center. San Antonio, TX (curator Mark Anthony Martinez and Mav Pascal)

Painting at Night 2024:An Artist/Mother Podcast and Collar Works Exhibition. Opalka Gallery. Albany, NY. (curators:Sean Desiree and Alisa Sikelianos-Carter)

11th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition. Artspace 111. Fort Worth,TX (curator Maggie Adler)

Los Outsiders Presents Chai’n Brai Laika Daimon Part 2. Canopy Projects. Austin, TX

Sense of Space. grayDUCK Gallery. Austin, TX.

Vernacular System: the 2024 CAM Perennial Exhibition. Contemporary at Blue Star. San Antonio (curator Christopher Blay)

Latitudes. Lake|Flato Architects. San Antonio, TX. (curator Jacqueline McGilvray)

This Ship Is Sailing. 115 Blue Star. San Antonio, TX. (curator Vikky Jones)

2023   

Red Dot Art Sale & Fundraiser. Contemporary at Blue Star. San Antonio, TX

Kaleido Arthouse Season 1. Kaleido. SanAntonio, TX

Salvation is My Heart on Display. Houston Endowment. Houston, TX

Introspections. Box 13Artspace. Front Gallery. Houston, TX (curator: Rosa Ana Orlando)

Adams County Arts Council 19th Annual Juried Art Exhibition. Schmucker Art Gallery. Gettysburg College. Gettysburg, PA., (curator Lauren Nye)

Los Outsiders Presents Art Crush: Chai n Brai Laika Daimon. Laredo Centerfor the Arts. Laredo, TX.

House Party. Artspace Wimberley. Wimberley, TX. (curated by Jules Buck Jones)

AMoA Biennial 600. Amarillo Museum of Art. Amarillo, TX (curator: Anna Walker)

2022   

9th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition. Artspace One Eleven. Fort Worth, TX (curator: Daisha Board)

Visual ArtAlliance’s 38th Juried Open Exhibition: Other Stories About Who We Are. Sabine Street Studios Gallery. Houston, TX(curator Alison de Lima Greene)

2022 National Prize Show. Cambridge Art Association at the Kathryn Schulz Gallery. Cambridge, MA (curator Barbara O’Brien)

Arte Latino Now 2022. Queens University of Charlotte. Charlotte, NC

2022 Contemporary Art Month Perennial: Interior Realities. Sala Diaz. San Antonio, TX (curator Lauren Cross)

2021   

ACROSS |Urban Arts Center. Dallas, TX (curator: Jose Villalobos)

AMoA Biennial 600 – Justice-Equality-Race-Identity |Amarillo Museum of Art. Amarillo, TX (curator: Leslie Moody Castro)

Elements of Expression | ICOSA Gallery. Austin TX (curator Raasin McIntosh)

Looking at Leadership | Notre Dame University of Maryland Gormley Gallery. Baltimore, MD (curator: Sarah McCann)

Alive In Memory & Spirit | Mission Marquee Plaza. San Antonio, TX (curator: Rigoberto Luna)

2020   

2020 Contemporary Art Month Perennial:Topographies of Truth | McNay Art Museum. San Antonio, TX (curator: LeeHallman)

Aquí Estamos: New Selections from the Permanent Collection | National Hispanic Cultural Center ArtMuseum. Albuquerque, NM

2019   

Some Things To Talk About | Gallery W at The Whitney Center for the Arts. Pittsfield, MA

Crossing the Line: Drawings from the Mexic-Arte Museum Permanent Collection. Austin, TX

Effort Economy. Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum. San Antonio, TX

2018   

Spectrum: Exploring Gender Identification. MCLA Gallery 51.North Adams, MA

Young Latino Artists 23: Beyond Walls, Between Gates, Under Bridges. curated by Gilbert Rocha. Mexic-Arte Museum. Austin, TX

Collect It For The Culture. curated by Robert Hodge. The Union. Houston, TX

Landscapes, Portraits,Still Lifes. curated by Sara Vanderbeek. DORF. Austin, TX

Common Currents. 300 Year ~ 300 Artists. Artpace. San Antonio, TX

VOZ:Selections from the UTSA Art Collection, curated by Arturo Almeida. Centro de Artes. San Antonio, TX

Images of Power. curated by Alana Coates & Mark Anthony Martinez. Freight Gallery. San Antonio, TX

2017   

Crossing Borders: An Immigrant Art Project. Living Arts of Tulsa.Tulsa, OK

2016   

6thChicana/o Biennial. MACLA (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana).San Jose, CA

SATX |MX: Un ViajeLleno De Cultural. Centro De Artes. San Antonio, TX

2016 Artist Lab Exhibition, Raul Gonzalez: Work These Days. Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. San Antonio, TX

This Is WhatIt Feels Like. Radius Center. San Antonio, TX. (2-person, BraydonGold)

How To Play Guitar. 337 Project Space. Grand Rapids, MI

2015   

Debt Fair. Art League Houston. Houston, TX

2015 Contemporary Art Month Perennial: Move Me. Guadalupe Cultural ArtsCenter. San Antonio, TX (curator: Amy Mackie)

2014   

Arte Latino Now. Queens University of Charlotte. Charlotte, NC

Undetermined Matter. grayDUCKGallery. Austin, TX (2-person)

2013   

Young Latino Artists 18: Con/Juntos. Curated by Michael Anthony Garcia. Mexic-Arte Museum. Austin, TX

New Texas Talent XX. Craighead Green Gallery. Dallas, TX

TheMenil/Fiesta Project. Inman Gallery. Houston, TX

New Art/ArtNuevo: San Antonio 2012. University of Texas at San Antonio Main Art Gallery. San Antonio, TX

2010   

The Big Show. Lawndale Art Center. Houston, TX (curator: PaulMiddendorf)

2009   

Annual Juried Exhibition. Live Oak Art Center. Columbus, TX(curator: Gus Kopriva)

2008   

The Big Show. Lawndale Art Center. Houston, TX. (curator: Aram Moshayedi)