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EDUCATION
2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Texas at San Antonio
2007 Associate of Art, Del Mar College Corpus Christi, TX

AWARDS & HONORS
2024 US Latinx Art Forum Fellowship
2022 National Performance Network Documentation & Storytelling grant
2021 National Performance Network Artist Engagement Fund
City of San Antonio Individual Artist Grant
2020 Luminaria Artist Foundation grant
2015 National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures grant

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 A SELECTION OF STORIES UNEARTHED, KSpace Contemporary, curated by Michelle Smythe, Executive Director, Corpus Christi, Texas.
2022 IT COULD ONLY BE LIVED, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
VESSELS, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, curator Rene Barilleaux
2021 OLD SOULS, Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, TX, curator Rigoberto Luna
2020 THROUGH THE THRESHOLD, San Antonio Botanical Gardens via Luminaria showcase
2018 GATHERING BONES, curated by Dr. Jeffreen Hayes, Artpace San Antonio, TX
2017 YO SOLITA ME ENSENE, South Texas College McAllen, TX, curator Gina Otvos
LUCRE, Provenance Gallery San Antonio, TX, curator Stephanie Torres
2016 EL COLOR DE LA OBRA, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center San Antonio, TX
2014 ANCESTRAL ARCHETYPES, Blue Star Contemporary San Antonio, TX
2013 OF WATER AND TIME, 3rd Space Art Gallery San Antonio, TX
2012 AS THEY WERE, REM Gallery San Antonio, TX

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 TARGET TEXAS, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, curated by Deborah Fullerton.
2024 SOY DE TEJAS (traveled) Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX, curated by Rigoberto Luna
2024 OPEN HANDS: CRAFTING THE SPIRITUAL, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, curated by Rene Paul Barilleaux.
2023 SON DE ALLA, SON DE ACA, (traveled) Chicano Park Museum, San Diego, CA, co-curated by Rigoberto luna, Vicente Telles, Christian Ramirez, and Ricardo Islas.
2023 SOY DE TEJAS, Centro de Artes, San Antonio, TX, curated by Rigoberto Luna
REFINED REFLECTIONS INTO THE FORMIDABLE: CONTEMPORARY LATINO ART FROM THE ZOE DIAZ COLLECTION, Russell Hill Rogers Galleries UTSA Southwest Campus, curated by Dr. Scott A. Sherer.
2022 FORMATION, Kinfolk House, Fort Worth, TX curated by Jessica Fuentes and Leticia and Sedrick Huckaby.
SITES OF MEMORY DiverseWorks, Houston, TX, Curator Ashley DeHoyos
SON DE ALLA, SON DE ACA South Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM,
Co-Curators Rigoberto Luna, Vicente Telles, and Ricardo Islas.
STATE OF THE ART: RECORD, LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA, (travelled)
STATUS OF WOMEN City of San Antonio Culture Commons Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2021 PLURALITY OF ISOLATIONS, Ruiz Healy Art, San Antonio, TX
2020 STATE OF WOMEN IN SAN ANTONIO, Plaza de Armas, San Antonio, TX
STATE OF THE ART II 2020, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | The Momentary, Bentonville, AR, curated by Lauren Haynes, Allison Glenn, and Alejo Benedetti.
VISIBILITIES: INTREPID WOMEN OF ARTPACE, Artpace San Antonio, TX, curator
Erin Murphy
2019 REMEMBER WHERE YOU ARE, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL, curated by Mia Lopez
ENTRE LINEAS, Central Library Gallery, Austin, TX, curated by Coka Trevino
INTO THE DIRT, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX, curated by Andrea Calo
CTRL+A, K Space Contemporary Corpus Christi, TX, curated by Rigoberto Luna
OUTER TERRAINS, Box13 Houston, TX, curated by Tere Garcia
2018 MUJERES DE SUR/ WOMEN FROM THE SOUTH, The Union Houston, TX
AUN RECORDAMOS AQUEL HOGAR, curated by Sean Fitzgibbons
Wright Gallery Texas A&M University College Station, TX (travelled)
Art Room Gallery Fort Worth, TX (travelled)
Meadows Museum, Shreveport, LA (travelled)
2017 UNDER THE GUN, Three Walls at Sala Diaz San Antonio, TX, curator Michelle Monseau
AMERICAN DREAM, K Space Contemporary Corpus Christi, TX
A WOMAN’S PLACE IS…, Centro de Artes San Antonio, TX, curated by Kathy Vargas
2016 WOMEN ARE PERFECT, Galeria de la Raza San Francisco, CA
2015 CONVERSATIONS, French & Michigan San Antonio, TX, curated by Dr. Scott Sherer
EAST BOUND AND DOWN, Good Children Gallery New Orleans, LA
2012 THE BUTCHER’S SHOW, Waring, TX, curator Rebecca Dietz

LECTURES, PANELS, VIRTUAL ENGAGEMENTS
2023 The Backroom Museo Tamayo, a virtual space reserved for personal archive and artistic investigation (online archive).
2022 Educator and Community Workshops (2) and a Gallery Discussion with Professor Stephen Andes, LSU Museum of Art
Artist Looking At Art: Conversation, McNay Art Museum
Overlapping Territories Symposium: Why Does Land Matter?, Organized by Ashley DeHoyos ,moderated by Marisa Del Toro. DiverseWorks, Houston, TX.
2021 Inside Art Talks: Global Heritage Tecnológico de Monterrey, Sept & Nov (virtual)
Texas Talks Art: Jenelle Esparza and Lauren Thompson, Asst. Curator McNay Art Museum (virtual).
Art Break: Touching Pictures with Jenelle Esparza and Naoko Takahatake, curator of prints and drawings Getty Research Institute. Moderated by Mazie Harris,
assistant curator, Getty Museum (virtual).
INSIDE ART TALKS: Jenelle Esparza with Lou Garza, Tecnológico de Monterrey (virtual)
2020 Mystic & Natural World, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX (virtual)
2019 Jenelle Esparza & Melissa Leandro, DePaul Art Museum Chicago, IL
Conference on Texas Art Artist Panel, Witte Museum San Antonio, TX
Working Artist Panel at Southwest School of Art San Antonio, TX
2017 Artist lecture, ‘Yo Solita Me Ensene,’ South Texas College in McAllen, TX
2016 Artist Panel moderated by Veronique Le Melle at Centro de Artes in San Antonio, TX
Artist Panel moderated by Dr. Amelia Malagamba at Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX.

RESIDENCIES
2023 Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL - July 2023
2018 Artpace International Artist in Residence, San Antonio, TX

PUBLIC ART
2023 Daydreaming, two quilted silk appliqué fiber pieces inside University Health System Women and Children’s wing, San Antonio, TX.
2021 Hearts that Flow Like Rivers, stoneware installation inside Methodist Hospital | Metropolitan, San Antonio, TX.
2017 Si la Tierra Pudiera Hablar permanent 8x20 ft mural Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, TX.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Museum of South Texas, permanent collection, Corpus Christi, TX
San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA), permanent collection, San Antonio, TX
Methodist Hospital | Metropolitan, San Antonio, TX
University Health System (Sky tower and Women & Children’s Wing), San Antonio, TX
Frost Bank Operations Center San Antonio, TX
City of San Antonio (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center; Mayor’s Office; Department of Arts & Culture)