artist & vagabond
ANDREI RENTERIA
Andrei Rentería is an artist based in Marfa, Texas, whose work examines violence, memory, and the social and political histories of the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. His research draws from historical records, news accounts, found materials, and direct engagement with communities affected by violence and disappearance.
CONTACT CV
EDUCATION
2015
MFA (Painting & Drawing)
University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
2010
BFA (Painting)
Sul Ross State University
Alpine, TX
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIECE
Present
Preparator & Gallery Manager
Ballroom Marfa
Marfa, TX
2024 - 2026
Preparator
McNay Art Museum
San Antonio, TX
2024 - 2026
2024 & 2022
Figure Drawing Instructor
Coppini Academy of Fine Arts
San Antonio, TX
2023
Contracted Project Manager
City of San Antonio: Department of Arts & Culture, Public Arts Division
San Antonio, TX
2021-2022
Figure Drawing Instructor
Southwest School of Art
San Antonio, TX
2019-2021
Senior Lecturer
University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
2015-2018
Lecturer II
University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
SELECT AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
2025
Artist Grant Recipient
City of San Antonio: Dept. of Arts & Culture
San Antonio, TX
2024
Artist-in-Residence
Democratizing Social Justice ProjectUniversity of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
2019
Fellowship in Painting
George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation
Rhode Island
2017-2018
Selected Artist
Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin Residency Program
The Contemporary at Blue Star
San Antonio, TX
2016
Friends of Chuck Ramirez Award for Visual Arts
Artist Foundation
San Antonio, TX
2016
Artist Lab Resident
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
2015
Wai Ching Lam Best of Show Art Prize
University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2026
Group Exhibition
A Post Modernist Says Que?
Centro de Artes
San Antonio, TX
2026
Solo Exhibition
UN/DOCUMENTED
Hindes Fine Art
San Antonio, TX
2025
Solo Exhibition
Desaparecidx/ The Disappeared cactusBARN: bitti’sGRAMBEL
San Antonio, TX
2025
Solo Exhibition
Border Chronicles
South Texas College
McAllen, TX
2023
Group Exhibition
Memorias de Vida y Muerte
Instituto Cultural de México
Vienna, Austria
2023
Group Exhibition
Voces: Discussion on Identity & Society Through the LatinX Perspective
Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery University of Texas at Permian Basin, Odessa, TX
2023
Solo Exhibition
2666
Spellberg Projects
Lockhart, TX
2022
Group Exhibition
Drawn in San Antonio
McNay Art Museum
San Antonio, TX
2021
Group Exhibition
A Century of Fine Art in the Big Bend Museum of the Big Bend
Alpine, TX
2020
Solo Exhibition
To Whom It May Concern & Fringes
Palo Alto College
San Antonio, TX
2019
Group Exhibition
Crossing the Line: Drawings from the Mexic-Arte Museum Permanent Collection
Mexic-Arte Museum
Austin, TX
2019
Group Exhibition
Fünf
The Contemporary at Blue Star
San Antonio, TX
2018
Group Exhibition
Images of Power
Freight Gallery
San Antonio, TX
(curated by Alana Coates and Mark Anthony Martinez) (catalogue)
2017
Group Exhibition
$t@tU.S.? Prints from Puerto Rico to San Antonio
Centro de Artes
San Antonio, TX
(curated by Dr. Teresa Eckmann) (catalogue)
2017
Group Exhibition
Young Latino Artists 22: ¡Ahora!
Mexic-Arte Museum
Austin, TX
(curated by Alana Coates) (catalogue)
2017
Group Exhibition
23rd Annual Texas National
Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches, TX
(juried by Benito Huerta, Director of The Gallery, University of Texas at Arlington)
2017
Group Exhibition
30th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper
McNeese State University
Lake Charles, LA
(catalogue)
2017
Group Exhibition
Homage
The Contemporary at Blue Star
San Antonio, TX
2016
Group Exhibition
Artist Lab 2016
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
2016
Group Exhibition
SATX/MX: Un Viaje Lleno de Cultura, Centro de Artes
San Antonio, TX
(curated by Sean Fitzgibbons) (catalogue)
2016
Group Exhibition
Genocide: Man’s Inhumanity to Humankind
Holocaust Museum Houston
Houston, TX
(curated by Gus Kopriva, owner of Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX)
(juried by Clint Willour, curator of the Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX) (catalogue)
2016
Group Exhibition
New Art/Arte Nuevo 2016
Main Art Gallery
University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, TX
(juried by Kimberly Arp, Professor Emeritus, Louisiana State University) (catalogue)
2016
Group Exhibition
Heterotopia
The Lumberyard
apexart: Marfa
Marfa, TX
(curated by Crystal Ann Nelson, Franchise Program Winner, apexart, NY, NY)
SELECT PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
Gupta, Anjali. “San Antonio’s cactusBARN space presenting two solo exhibitions for CAM 2025” San Antonio Current. March 6, 2025.
Fuentes, Jessica. “Democratizing Racial Justice Announces Inaugural Artists-in-Residence” Glasstire. April 7, 2024.
Zacarias, Delia Sofia. “Exploring Socio-Political Issues Beyond Borders International Borders with Andrei Renteria'' Unfiltered San Antonio. September 3, 2019.
Tannert, Christoph. “Anklage, Protest, Erinnerung/Accusation, Protest, Memory” Be Magazin #25. 2018
Del Toro, Marissa. “Andrei Renteria: The Language of Violence and the Battle Against Silence” Latinx Spaces. June 13, 2018.
Sarkar, Christian. “YLA 22: ¡Ahora! – Activist Art in Austin, Texas” Huffington Post. July 13, 2017.
Cruz, Araceli. “8 Texan Artists Take on Identity and Politics in New Exhibit” Mitú, July 18, 2017.
Silva, Elda. “Artists play up their strengths in Artist Lab show: Religion, border violence among issues explored,” San Antonio Express News, December 26, 2016.
Rubin, David. “Los de Abajo: Garbage as an Artistic Source at the Guadalupe,” Rivard Report, June 12, 2016.
Yoland, K. “California artist Crystal Nelson curates Heterotopia in Marfa,” West Texas Talk (blog), KRTS Marfa Public Radio, October 25, 2013.
LECTURES, PRESENTATION, WORKSHOPS
2025
“Border Chronicles,” artist talk, South Texas College, Feb. 13
2023
“Voces” artist talk, University of Texas at the Permian Basin, Jan. 19
2022
“Gallery Talk: Drawn in San Antonio–Today” gallery talk, McNay Art Museum, March 24.
2021
“Art in an Age of Planetary Entanglement: A conversation between artists, curators, and art historians.” Fifth Annual International Conference on Border Studies: Everyday Borders. Panelists: José Villalobos, Alana Coates, Juan de Dios Mora, and Andrei Renteria. Virtual Conference. Office of Global Engagement, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, October 29.
2020
“To Whom It May Concern” artist talk, Palo Alto College, Feb. 27.
2017
“Fringes” Art Talk for YLA22 | ¡Ahora!, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX, July 15.
2017
“Global Migration,” panelist, Artpace, San Antonio, TX, May 25.
2017
“Artist Lab Panel,” panelist, The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX, January 28.
2017
“Los De Abajo: Garbage as an Artistic Source,” curator and panelist; moderated by Dr. Tomas Ybarra Frausto, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX, July 8.
2016
“Withdrawal and Extension,” Verbing Painting, panelist, Mash Up: Navigating Art & Academia in This Millennium, Mid-America College Art Association, San Antonio, TX, October 23.
COLLECTIONS
Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX
City of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX
National Hispanic Cultural Arts Center, Albuquerque, NM
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
2018
Culturas, Main Gallery University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio TX
2016
Los de Abajo, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX
Last Updated 25.12.19