MARIA CRISTINA TAVERA      

www.mariacristinatavera.com

RECOGNITIONS

·  2023 U.S. Latinx Fellowship

·  2020 McKnight Visual Arts Fellowship

·  2019 Shannon Institute Leadership Fellowship

·  2007 The Feminist Future: Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts Symposium, Museum of Modern Art MoMA), New York City, Scholarship recipient 

·  2006 Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Fellowship

·  2005 Bush Leadership Fellowship

 GRANTS

·  2023 Art Impact for Individuals grant, Minnesota State Arts Board, MN

·  2021 Creative Support for Individuals grant, Minnesota State Arts Board, MN

·  2019 Forecast Emerging Artist Research grant, Public Art funding, Minneapolis, MN

·  2016 Artist Initiative grant, Minnesota State Arts Board, Minneapolis, MN.

·  2014 Next Step grant, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC), McKnight funds, Minneapolis, MN.

·  91º Jornada Informativa del IME: Promotores Culturales, CONACULTA, Mexico City, 2012

·  Top 30 MN Latino Leaders, Oral History Project, Minnesota Historical Society, January 8, 2011

·  2009 Community Partnership grant, Minnesota State Arts Board, Minneapolis, MN.

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025

●  Bestiario, Gordon Parks Gallery, Metrostate University, September

●  Sumergir y Resurgir/Submerge and Reemerge, LA LIGA – C. Dr. Francisco Rufino de Goenaga, San Juan, 00901, Puerto Rico, April

●  Power of the People: Art of Democracy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, Oct 2024-February 2025

2024

●  Re/claiming Space in Times of Change, Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, St. Paul, MN, September

●  Hilo de Sangre, Grupo Soap del Corazón, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minnesota, July

●  Cucarachalandia, NE SCULPTURE / Gallery Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota June

●  Fraudsters, Liars and Cheats, Verified by Proof, 2024 Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI), Providence, Rhode Island, April

2023

●  Las Inventadas, Mardag Gallery at Franconia Commons, Shafer, Minnesota, September-November

●  Carlos Cortez: 100 AÑOS, National Mexican Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois, August 2023-Feb 2024

●  Essential Workers: A Visual Narrative, Self-Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA, February-March

 

2022

●  Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche and the Conquest of Mexico, Denver Art Museum, Colorado, February 6-May 8; Travels to Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico, June 2022 and Travels to San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, October 2022. [Fowler Museum, University of California-Los Angeles cancelled due to Covid-19]

●  Artists’ Annual, Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA, October 20, 2022-January 13, 2023

●  2-Person installation with Xavier Tavera, Memories & Offerings, Day of the Dead, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL, September 23 - December 11

●  MESTIZAJE: INTERMIX-REMIX, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, MN, March 19–June 12

●  Art Speaks, Minnesota History Center, Works from the Collection, February 26-July 31

●  La Linea, Grupo Soap del Corazon, William and Anna Jane Schlossman Gallery, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, February 24, 2022 - August 13, 2022

2021

●  Solo: Homeward Bound, Staniar Gallery, Washington Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, November 8–December 3

●  ADVOCATES, Portraits of Activists, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota October 17-November 30

●  By Return, Selected as the artist, Prøve Gallery, Duluth, Minnesota, October

●  George Floyd Square billboard, Minneapolis, Minnesota July-September.

●  Solo: La Movida (The Hustle), NE Sculpture Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August-September.

2020

●  Solo: Promesas de Papel/Paper Promises, Oglethorpe Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, October 30-March 14, 2021

●  Prints on Ice 2020Highpoint Center for Printmaking, December 4-January 2, 2021

●  Fabulista 2, Grupo Soap del Corazón, NE SCULPTURE I Gallery Factory, Minneapolis, MN, December 4-January 16, 2021

●  Dream DeferredSamford University, Birmingham, Alabama August 24 – October 22; Jacksonville State University, Jackson, Mississippi, September 3–24;  Blanc Gallery, Chicago, IL, September 11 October 12; Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, AL, June 4 – July 30, 2021; and Stephen Smith Art Gallery, Fairfield, AL, Spring 2021

2019

·  Generation: Women Artists in the Plains Art Museum Collection, Fargo, June -March 2020

·  Caravan, H. Williams Teaching Galleries, Concordia University, St. Paul, November 21-December 13

·  7th annual Grabadolandia Print Festival, National Museum of Mexican Art, 7th, Chicago, IL, November

·  2019 Conjuring Crossroads: Time Traveling with This Bridge Called My Back, Instituto Gráfico de Chicago (IGC) & Chicago Art Department, November

·  Sommerfest 2019: Música Juntos (Music Together), Minnesota Orchestra, July-August

2018

●  Post Patriarchal Feminism, Co Exhibitions Gallery, Minneapolis, December 2018-January 2019

●  Espejos y Reflejos (Mirrored Refletions), Third Place Gallery, Minneapolis, April

●  El Gran Choque (The Great Crash), Impact 10: ENCUENTRO, Biblioteca Central de Cantabria, Salamanca, Spain, September

●  Art is My Weapon II, Homewood Gallery, inkjet print, Minneapolis, March

●  Eyes Should be Washed, Pirsig Projects, drawing, Minneapolis, February

 SCREENINGS

2023 Ch’ixi: Things can be and not be at the same time, Mardag Gallery, Shafer, MN, September-November

2022 Corrections Officer Esteban Gilberto Fuentes, Essential Workers: A Visual Narrative, Self-Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA, February-March

2022 Zozobra, La Linea con Grupo Soap del Corazon, William and Anna Jane Schlossman Gallery, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, February 24, 2022 - August 13, 2022

EDUCATION

    M.P.A. Leadership in the Arts, Minor Equivalent: Art History, Humphrey School, University of  Minnesota, 2008

·  B.A. Spanish & B.A. Latin American Studies, University of Minnesota, 1990

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

●  Museum of Fine Arts-Boston, Boston Massachussetts, 2025

St Catherine’s University, 3 giclee prints, 2024

●  National Mexican Museum of Art, Nikko Samurai Security, screen print, Chicago, IL, 2024

●  Zuckerman Museum of Art, SGCI Archives, Machination, screen print, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, 2024

●  City of Minneapolis Public Art Commission, Green Crescent Installation, Strength in Unity, Minneapolis, MN, 2023

●  Special Collections, Macalester College, Promesas de Papel/Paper Promises, screen print, 2021

●  Biblioteca Central de Cantabria, Los Gallos, screen print, Santander, Spain, 2018

●  Hagfors Center Permanent Public Art, Augsburg University, Searching for Understanding, 6 prints, Commission 2018

●  Tweed Museum of Art, Retyping Casta Series, 8 screen prints, Duluth, MN, Purchased 2017

●  Plains Museum, (8’ X 4’ Steamroller print), Fargo, ND, Purchased 2009

●  Weisman Art Museum, (8’ X 4’ Steamroller print), Minneapolis, MN, Purchased 2007

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

·  2021 Kala Artist Residency, Berkeley, CA

·  2022 Hannaher’s, Inc. Print Studio Artist Residency July, Fargo, ND

·  2020 Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, DC, [postponed COVID-19]

·  2018 Segura Art Studios, Printmaking Artist Residency, South Bend, Indiana

 PUBLICATIONS

·  “Frida Kahlo” essay, "Allgemeines Künsterlexikon"(AKL), ed. by Bénédicte Savoy, Andreas Beyer and Wolf Tegethoff, DE GRUYTER, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße 1, 80807 München, Germany, April 2013.

·  “The Future Belongs to Those Who Draw from the Past,” Essay on Mexican Print Artists in the MIA collection, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2012.  (http://www.artsmia.org/index.php?section_id=16)

·  Frida Kahlo, Bibliography and Exhibition History, Exhibition catalog, October 2007.

·  Mexican Pulp Art, Feral House Publishing, Los Angeles, CA, 2007.

·  “Borders, Boundaries, Margins, Confines & Limits,” Colors, Article, Author, Volume 6, Issue 3, 1997.

 

Portfolio Available Upon Request