Ashley Perez
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Solo Exhibitions:
2024: Ruiz-Healy Art Gallery, Common Ground 2020: Presa House Gallery, Prey For Us
2019: McNay Art Museum, Artists Looking at Art 2016: Rubio Gallery South, Birds of a Feather
2010: Studio 2410, Taking Flight
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025: Culture Commons, Confluence of Cultures: Nuestra Gente, Cultura y Comida, San Antonio, TX
2024: Silent Auction at Clamp Light Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Luminaria San Antonio Pop Up, She is/Ella Es
Resource Center at Villa Coronado, Celebración y Salud!, San Antonio TX 2023: January Space, Art/Worker, San Antonio TX
Under Construction Gallery, The Inaugural Exhibition, San Antonio, TX
2018 - 2024: The Contemporary at Blue Star, Red Dot, San Antonio, TX
2021- 2024: UTSA Southwest Annual Gala & Art Sale, San Antonio, TX
2003 - 2024: SAY Sí, Annual Small Scale Work for a Larger Cause, San Antonio, TX 2019 Centro de Artes, VOZ: Selections from The UTSA Art Collection, San Antonio, TX 2017: SAY Sí, Cuatro Four, San Antonio, TX
2016: Galeria 237, Noche Buena, San Antonio, TX
McNay Museum of Art, Art to the Power of Ten, San Antonio, TX
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, 50/50: Salon Style Art Show Fundraiser, San Antonio, TX
High Wire Arts Gallery, Abstracts, Wings, Old World Masters, and Beads, San Antonio, TX
Movement Gallery, Solidarity Art Show, San Antonio, TX
2015: SAY Sí, VIENTE, San Antonio, TX
Lady Base Gallery, One and Only, San Antonio, TX
2014: McNay Museum of Art, Art to the Power of Ten, San Antonio, TX Educational and Cultural Arts Center at Texas A&M San Antonio Contemporary Latino Art: El Corazón de San Antonio
2013: SAY Sί, Circling Back, San Antonio, TX
High Wire Arts Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2012 - 2019: SAY Sí, Invisible Treads, Bi-Annual, San Antonio, TX
Awards and Published Works:
2022: Individual Artist Grantee, San Antonio, Texas
Published works and writing, Ofrenda Magazine
2021: Published works, Superpresent, Issue 2
2020: Day of the Dead San Antonio Calavera Collection
Published work, “Ruta Alterna”, Author Enrique Lopetegui
2019: National Association of Latino Art and Culture Fund for the Art Grantee
Published works, Issue No. 3 of "That Gray Zine," a zine about mental health
Professional Education and Community Experiences:
2025: Casa Lu Artist Residency, Mexico City
2024: Featured Artist Live Painting, Viva Poesía Festival - Mission Marquee Plaza
Educator, The Doseum Children’s Museum of San Antonio
Panelist, State of the Latina Luncheon, Latina Leadership Institute
Mentee, New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Program
Panelist, Prequalified Public Art List, City of San Antonio University of Texas Artist in Residence, AIR, San Antonio, TX
2021-PRESENT: World Heritage Trail Public Art Sculpture, Located at the Mission and Huff Traffic Island, scheduled to be completed in 2025
2008-2024: Visual Art Director, SAY Sí
2023-2024: Steward, The SAY Sí Union
2023-2024: United Professional Organizers, Business Leadership Committee Texas Commission of the Arts Grant Evaluator
2022-PRESENT: Curator in Residence, Oh Yeah Gallery
Featured Artist, Family Day at The Contemporary at Blue Star
2011-2020: Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, San Antonio Coordinator
2021: Project-based Learning Senior Lead: Cast Tech High School
2021: Chalk It Up featured artist, Artpace
2018: National Association for Latino Arts and Culture Leadership Institute
2016: Lincoln Center Summer Forum, Learning Lab for Advanced Teaching Artists
2012: Teacher's Institute of Contemporary Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Education:
2010: The University of Texas at San Antonio, BFA, Major: Painting, Minor Art History
2003: SAY Sí Alumni
Solo Exhibitions:
2024: Ruiz-Healy Art Gallery, Common Ground 2020: Presa House Gallery, Prey For Us
2019: McNay Art Museum, Artists Looking at Art 2016: Rubio Gallery South, Birds of a Feather
2010: Studio 2410, Taking Flight
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025: Culture Commons, Confluence of Cultures: Nuestra Gente, Cultura y Comida, San Antonio, TX
2024: Silent Auction at Clamp Light Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Luminaria San Antonio Pop Up, She is/Ella Es
Resource Center at Villa Coronado, Celebración y Salud!, San Antonio TX 2023: January Space, Art/Worker, San Antonio TX
Under Construction Gallery, The Inaugural Exhibition, San Antonio, TX
2018 - 2024: The Contemporary at Blue Star, Red Dot, San Antonio, TX
2021- 2024: UTSA Southwest Annual Gala & Art Sale, San Antonio, TX
2003 - 2024: SAY Sí, Annual Small Scale Work for a Larger Cause, San Antonio, TX 2019 Centro de Artes, VOZ: Selections from The UTSA Art Collection, San Antonio, TX 2017: SAY Sí, Cuatro Four, San Antonio, TX
2016: Galeria 237, Noche Buena, San Antonio, TX
McNay Museum of Art, Art to the Power of Ten, San Antonio, TX
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, 50/50: Salon Style Art Show Fundraiser, San Antonio, TX
High Wire Arts Gallery, Abstracts, Wings, Old World Masters, and Beads, San Antonio, TX
Movement Gallery, Solidarity Art Show, San Antonio, TX
2015: SAY Sí, VIENTE, San Antonio, TX
Lady Base Gallery, One and Only, San Antonio, TX
2014: McNay Museum of Art, Art to the Power of Ten, San Antonio, TX Educational and Cultural Arts Center at Texas A&M San Antonio Contemporary Latino Art: El Corazón de San Antonio
2013: SAY Sί, Circling Back, San Antonio, TX
High Wire Arts Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2012 - 2019: SAY Sí, Invisible Treads, Bi-Annual, San Antonio, TX
Awards and Published Works:
2022: Individual Artist Grantee, San Antonio, Texas
Published works and writing, Ofrenda Magazine
2021: Published works, Superpresent, Issue 2
2020: Day of the Dead San Antonio Calavera Collection
Published work, “Ruta Alterna”, Author Enrique Lopetegui
2019: National Association of Latino Art and Culture Fund for the Art Grantee
Published works, Issue No. 3 of "That Gray Zine," a zine about mental health
Professional Education and Community Experiences:
2025: Casa Lu Artist Residency, Mexico City
2024: Featured Artist Live Painting, Viva Poesía Festival - Mission Marquee Plaza
Educator, The Doseum Children’s Museum of San Antonio
Panelist, State of the Latina Luncheon, Latina Leadership Institute
Mentee, New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Program
Panelist, Prequalified Public Art List, City of San Antonio University of Texas Artist in Residence, AIR, San Antonio, TX
2021-PRESENT: World Heritage Trail Public Art Sculpture, Located at the Mission and Huff Traffic Island, scheduled to be completed in 2025
2008-2024: Visual Art Director, SAY Sí
2023-2024: Steward, The SAY Sí Union
2023-2024: United Professional Organizers, Business Leadership Committee Texas Commission of the Arts Grant Evaluator
2022-PRESENT: Curator in Residence, Oh Yeah Gallery
Featured Artist, Family Day at The Contemporary at Blue Star
2011-2020: Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, San Antonio Coordinator
2021: Project-based Learning Senior Lead: Cast Tech High School
2021: Chalk It Up featured artist, Artpace
2018: National Association for Latino Arts and Culture Leadership Institute
2016: Lincoln Center Summer Forum, Learning Lab for Advanced Teaching Artists
2012: Teacher's Institute of Contemporary Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Education:
2010: The University of Texas at San Antonio, BFA, Major: Painting, Minor Art History
2003: SAY Sí Alumni
