New book, "High Pink: Tex-Mex Fairy Tales", published by D.A.P.
http://www.artbook.com/1933045124.html
Individual Exhibitions
2008 Feast without Famine, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York
2007 Solo project in conjunction with Mexicana: Discovering Mexican Popular Arts, 1919-1950,
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey
2006 Hollywood Squares, Light Box Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2005 Quattrocento: 400 Paintings, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York
Postcards from Rome, American Academy in Rome, Italy
Small Treasures, Projetto Biagiotti, Florence, Italy
¡Que Purdy! New World Museum, Houston, Texas
2004 Botanica Los Angeles , UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles
Giant, Marfa Ballroom, Marfa
99 Paintings, McColl Center for the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina
2003 Pan in the Park, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, Missouri
2002 Nacho de Paz (and Other TexMex Miracles), Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York
Dolci, Max Mara, The Galleria, Dallas, Texas
Market Squared, Galeria Ortiz, San Antonio, Texas
Dust in the Wind, NY Public Art Fund, New York
2001 SHOP, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, New York
Infinito Botanica: St Louis, Des Lee Gallery, Washington U., St. Louis, Mo.
Untitled Grid No. 7, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY.
2000 Mexique, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York (catalog)
1999 Infinito Botanica, San Antonio, Texas (1995-1999)
Infinito Botanica: New York, Center for Curatorial Studies,
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
New Paintings Y Mas, Galeria Ortiz, San Antonio, Texas
1998 Tableau Vivant, The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas
1996 Infinito Botanica @ ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas (catalog)
Diesen ist Kein Kitsch, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas
Ofrenda for Marion Koogler McNay, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
1995 Naturaleza Muerta, Plaza Santa Catarina, Mexico City, Mexico
1994 Untitled Grid No. 1, San Antonio, Texas
Group Exhibitions
2008 Re-Mix, The Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, New York
2007 Re-Mix, The Heard Museum, Phoenix Arizona
Ulterior Motifs: A Celebratory Art Extravaganza, Arlington Museum of Art, Texas
The Mexican Museum’s Nuevo Arte: Colección Tequila Don Julio
White Box, NY, New World Museum, Houston, Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
2006 Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, curated by Dede Young,
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College
2005 Infinito Botanica: Bologna, Bologna Art Fair, Bologne, Italy
The Prague Biennale, Prague Museum of Contemporary Art, Prague
Down the Garden Path: The Artist's Garden After Modernism,
Queens Art Museum, Queens, NY
2004 Ballroom, Marfa, Texas
I Heart Texas, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Twang, ARt Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont,Texas
Salon Carlotta, McColl Center for the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina
Half Baked Sales,, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, Affordable Art Fair, New York
2003 Communities (Mexican Town), Wayne Staste University, Detroit, Michigan
Dreamspaces/Entresueños, Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Walker ARt Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2002 Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Infinito Botanica: Spain, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art,
Miami Art Museum, Miami, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Easy as 1, 2, 3 Recycled Works, San Antonio, Texas
2001 ARS01 - KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (catalog)
Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art,
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Caribbean Biennal, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Lost In Space, Gary Tatinsian Gallery, New York, NY
Hopscotch, Gallery of Art, Kean University, New Jersey
2000 The Whitney Biennial 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, NY (catalog)
City of Lights: Art Walk, Comité Colbert, New York, New York (catalog)
Infinito Botanica @ Downtown Arts Project, New York, New York
Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art,
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Texans in the Whitney, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Yard Sale, Downtown Arts Project, New York, New York
1999 The Ecstatic, Trans-Hudson Gallery, New York, New York
1998 Trade, Salon 300, Brooklyn, New York
Material World, Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria Austin, Texas
Collective Visions, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
The Business of Art, Instituto Cultural de Mexico, San Antonio, Texas
1997 Simply Beautiful, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas (catalog)
Tres Proyectos Latinos, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
1995 Double Trouble: Mirrors/Pairs/Twins/Lovers, Blue Star Art Space,
San Antonio, Texas (Brochure)
Synthesis and Subversion: A Latino Direction in San Antonio Art,
Art Gallery of the University of Texas at San Antonio and the
UTSA Satellite Space (catalog)
1994 Blue Star VIII, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas (catalog)
1993 The Illusive Object, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas
Hispanic Artists of 1993, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas
Closets: Queer Experiences, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center,
San Antonio, Texas
1992 El Impacto de Dos Mundos, Art Space Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Shrines, Milagros Contemporary Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1991 Texas Dialogues, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas
1990 Planta de Arte Nuclear, San Antonio, Texas
1989 San Antonio Sculpture Symposium 1989, San Antonio, Texas
(Curated by Dave Hickey)
Public Commissions and Curatorial Projects
2007 Gift Shop, Museo Alameda, San Antonio, Texas
2003 Mas is Mas Gift Shop, Museo Americano Smithsonian, San Antonio, Texas
2002 Trophies, Southwestern Bell Corporation,
Installations for new sports arena, San Antonio, Texas
Dust in the Wind, Public Art Fund, New York
2000 Infinito Botanica @ Downtown Arts Project, New York, New York
Latino Redux: A New Collection of Stories, Lies and Embellishments,
North Texas State University Gallery, Denton, Texas (catalog)
1998 Parallels: Dallas-San Antonio, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio,
Texas (Co-curated with Diana Block) (Brochure)
El Dia des Los Muertos, Victoria Museum of Art, Victoria, Texas
1994 Blue Star on Houston Street, San Antonio, Texas (Co Curated with Jesse Amado)
Grants and Residencies
2004-05 Rome Prize Recipient, American Academy in Rome
2003 Tryon Center Artist Residency Program, Charlotte, North Carolina
2002 Creative Capital Foundation Supplemental Grant
2001 Creative Capital Foundation Grant
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
2000 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
1999 ArtPace General Grant
1996 ArtPace Artist in Residency Program
1994 New Forms Regional Initiative Grant
Film Appearances
2002 Debut, directed by Danny Hobart
Screen Test, directed by Danny Hobart
Corpus, directed by Lourdes Portillo
Selected Bibliography
2008 Johnson, Ken. "Beyond Stereotypes: 21st-Century Indian Artists", The New York Times, 20 June 2008.
2007 Rothstein, Edward. "Celebrating Hispanics From Both Sides of a Hyphenated Identity,"
The New York Times, April 21, 2007.
Clark, Jayne. "San Antonio celebrates its Latino heritage with an arts bonanza",
USA Today, April 20, 2007.
Jacobs, Joseph. "Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Emerging Artists", Art & Antiques, February 2007.
2006 Horyn, Cathy. "Lone Star Style", The New York Times, August 27, 2006.
Leffingwell, Edward. “Franco Mondini-Ruiz at Frederieke Taylor Gallery”, Art in America, May.
2005 Smith, Roberta. "Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Quattrocento at Frederieke Taylor Gallery", The New York Times, 30 December.
2004 Ciuraru, Carmela. "Kitsch and Sell", ArtNews, November.
2003 Ostrower, Jessica. "Franco Mondini-Ruiz at Frederieke Taylor Gallery", Art in America, May.
Gronlund, Melissa. "Franco Mondini-Ruiz", ArtNews, May.
Horton, Sean C. "Franco Mondini-Ruiz: Nacho de Paz", ARTL!ES, Summer.
Johnson, Ken. "Franco Mondini-Ruiz, 'Nacho de Paz'", The New YOrk Times, January 3.
2002 art: 21 Art in the Twenty First Century, Henry N. Abrams,
publications 2001 pg 204
"Canvas", Art News, February 2002, pg 36
"Caribbean Biennal" Flash Art May 2002
debut Dutch 38, March/April 2002.`
2001 "Ultra Baroque: Museum of Contemporary, San Diego"
Charles LaBelle, frieze, Jan/Feb 2001, p. 99.
"Franco Mondini-Ruiz: El Museo Del Barrio"
Ann Albritton, Sculpture, Jan/Feb 2001, p. 59.
"Beautiful People"
Mickey Boardman, Paper, April 2001, p. 52.
"Critics Choice: Pick of the Week"
Time Out NY, March 2001.
2000 "Updating Baroque" Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times,
October 3, 2000, pp. F. 8, F.9.
"Blinded by Buzzwords"
Michael Duncan, Art in America, July 2000, pp. 38, 40.
"The pleasant surprise of the new, in two big surveys"
Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 3 April 2000.
"Varied Realms Thrive Uptown"
Holland Cotter, The New York Times, 14 April 2000.
"Biennial 2000: Whitney Museum of Art"
Katy Siegel, ARTFORUM, May 2000, p. 171.
"They'll take Manhattan"
Patricia C. Johnson, Houston Chronicle, 4 May 2000, p. 1D.
"Big Apple is home to many San Antonians"
Cory Leahy, San Antonio Express News, 16 January 2000, p. 8H.
"Contemporánea 2000 Mexique"
Julia P. Herzberg, Exhibition Catalog, Musee del Barrio,
New York, New York, Feb. 2000.
"NT artists give students a taste of San Antonio"
Mike Daby, The North Texas Daily, 29 February 2000, p. 8.
"The Max Factor" Julie Caniglia, ARTFORUM, March 2000.
"Franco Mondini-Ruiz"
Exhibition Catalog, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, March 2000, p. 162.
"Latino art show tells tall tales"
Janet Kutner, The Dallas Morning News, 18 March 2000, pp. 4C-5C.
"Arts: New York show has S.A. spice"
Elda Silva, San Antonio Express News, 24 March 2000.
"Artists share their vision of Whitney Museum fete"
Elda Silva, San Antonio Express News, 24 March 2000, p. 12A.
"S. Texas works look to define ethnicity"
Dan Goddard, San Antonio Express News, 30 March 2000.
"An Art to Save the World?"
Noel Frackman, Review, 1 April 2000, p. 75.
"The Search for Life in an Alien Universe"
Herbert Reichert, Review, 1 April 2000, p. 36.
"The New Zoo: McGrew's Zoo"
Lyle Rexer, Review, 1 April 2000, p. 36.
"San Antonio Artist Revels in his Time in the Biennial Spotlight"
Elda Silva, San Antonio Express News, 2 April 2000, p. 12A.
1999 "Gorgeous Politics: The Life and Work of Franco Mondini-Ruiz"
Alejandro Diaz, Masters Thesis, Bard College, 1999.
"The Ecstatic"
Ken Johnson, The New York Times, 10 September 1999.
"The Ecstatic"
Simon Watson, Simon Says, September 1999, vol. 4, no. 1.
"There's beauty everywhere: Artist taking views on inclusivity to Whitney"
Elda Silva, San Antonio Express News, 18 December 1999.
"Big Apple Paisano"
Jonathon Marcus, San Antonio Current, 30 December 1999, p. 11.
1998 "Franco Mondini-Ruiz: Water for the Spirits of Danny and Drew"
Jean McMann, Altars and Icons, Chronicle Books, 1998.
1997 "Infinito Botanica: Enigmatic Divinities"
Felipe Arevalo, Artlies, no. 16, Fall 1997.
"Simply Beautiful"
Dana Friis-Hansen, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1997, p. 15. (Catalog)
1996 "Inventory as Story"
Janet L. Rumble, Metropolis, December 1996.
"Synthesis & Subversion: A Latino Direction in San Antonio Art"
Frances Colpitt, Art Gallery of the University of Texas at San Antonio
and the UTSA Satellite Space, July 1996. (Catalog)
"Double Trouble: Mirrors/Pairs/Twins/Lovers"
Dana Friis-Hansen, Blue Star Art Space, July 1996. (Catalog)
"Franco Mondini-Ruiz 96.3"
Frances Colpitt, ArtPace: A Foundation for Contemporary Art,
San Antonio, Sept. 1996.(Catalog)
1995 "Still Life with Potatoes, Pearls, Raw Meat, Rhinestones, Lard and Horse Hooves"
Sandra Cisneros, Loose Woman, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
(Published in The New Yorker, April 1995)
"Infinito's Eclectic Jumble May Seed Arts District"
Mike Greenberg, San Antonio Express News, 20 December 1995.
1993 "FAT"
David Fuller, Poliester, Fall 1993. (Mexico)
"FAT Plays on Vanity"
Dan Goddard, San Antonio Express News, 11 July 1993.
1991 "Arlington Museum is off to a Good Start"
Janet Kutner, Dallas Morning News, 6 July 1991.
Essays and Books
High Pink: Tex-Mex Fairy Tales, DAP Press, 2005.
Latino Redux: A Collection of Stories, Lies and Embellishments,
University of North Texas Art Gallery 2002
Parallels: Dallas - San Antonio, Blue Star Art Space, Brochure, 1998 |
