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Ruth Leonela Buentello

Ruth Leonela Buentello (born 1984) is an American Chicana Artist.[1][2] In 2019, she was named as a participant in the Joan Mitchell Foundation residency program.[1] In 2017, she was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors.[1] She was the third Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence sponsored by the University of Michigan.[3]

Ruth Leonela Buentello
Born1984 Edit this on Wikidata
San Antonio Edit this on Wikidata
Alma mater
OccupationArtist, painter Edit this on Wikidata
Awards
  • travel grant (2010, Artpace)
  • Painters & Sculptors Grant (2017, Joan Mitchell Foundation)
  • Artist-in-residence (2019, Joan Mitchell Foundation) Edit this on Wikidata
Websitehttps://ruthlbuentello.com/about-3/ Edit this on Wikidata

Early life edit

In 1984, Buentello was born in San Antonio.[4]

Education edit

She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in 2008.[1][5] Her work has focused on immigration, undocumented immigrants, patriarchy, machismo, labor, Chicana/o studies, and chicana art.[1][3][4][6][7] In 2009, she had co-founded the Más Rudas Chicana Artist Collective (Más Rudas) with Sarah Castillo, Kristin Gamez, and Mari Hernandez.[2][5][8] In 2010, she studied abroad in France and Italy after receiving an Artist Travel Grant from Artpace to study the art of Nikki de Saint Phalle.[1] In 2021, Buentello graduated with a Master in Fine Art degree in painting from the Maine College of Art & Design.[9]

Career edit

In 2001, she had worked as an assistant to Alex Rubio for a mural on Chupaderas Street in San Antonio.[10] In 2003, she created Piedad (Piety), a street mural focusing on police brutality in San Antonio as well.[10][11]

She participated in the Mexic-Arte Museum's exhibit Young Latino Artists 16: Thought Cloud in 2011.[1] She held a residency in 2012 with the non-profit Serie Project.[1] That same year, she published in the peer-review journal Chicana/Latina Studies.[6] In 2013, Más Rudas presented a collective work titled “Ruda Phat” at the Institute of Texas Cultures.[8]

In 2014, Más Rudas guest curated the "Young Latina Artists" show at the Mexic-Arte Museum. The collective's decision to rename the "Young Latino Artists" exhibit Buentello had participated in just 3 years earlier to the "Young Latina Artists" exhibit was meant to highlight Latina artists' work.[2]

On October 24–25, 2015, Más Rudas presented their original performance piece “Walking Altars" at the Luminaria art festival.[8]

In 2017, she was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors grant.[1] That same year, Buentello's “Domestic Narratives” exhibit was shown alongside Ana Fernandez's “Eastside Westside” exhibit at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio.[5][12]

In 2018, the work of Buentello alongside the work of Kathy Vargas and 3 other artists was exhibited in the University of Texas at San Antonio's "Deep Roots: An Intersection of Borders" exhibit.[13]

In 2019, she was the third Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan.[3] That same year, her exhibit “Yo Tengo Nombre” was on display at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery at the University of Michigan.[14] She was also featured at Presa House Gallery's 2019 Remember Me exhibit.[15]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Ruth Leonela Buentello". Joan Mitchell Foundation. 2019-10-30. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  2. ^ a b c Faires, Robert (13 June 2014). "With this summer's "Young Latino Artists" exhibit at Mexic-Arte Museum, that crucial "o" at the end of the middle word has been replaced with an "a" – it's all art by women". austinchronicle.com. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  3. ^ a b c Syed, Zayna (2019-09-20). "Efroymson artist uses art to humanize challenges faced by undocumented migrants". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  4. ^ a b SisumD (2022-10-17). "Kinship". npg.si.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  5. ^ a b c Thompson, Ryan (2017-08-30). "Latinx experiences visualized - The Paisano". Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  6. ^ a b Buentello, Ruth Leonela; Castillo, Sarah; Gamez, Kristin; Hernandez, Mari (2012). "ARTISTS' STATEMENT: Más Rudas: To Be Tough, to Be Defiant, and Without Apology". Chicana/Latina Studies. 11 (2): 8–13. ISSN 1550-2546.
  7. ^ "Desaparecidos en el Río Bravo (Disappeared in the Río Bravo)". The Outwin: American Portraiture Today | Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  8. ^ a b c "Luminaria strives to enlighten as well as entertain". Expressnews.com. 15 October 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  9. ^ "Ruth Buentello | MECA&D Portfolio". portfolio.meca.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  10. ^ a b Frank, Nicholas (2022-10-07). "Westside murals reveal a 'museum' of local culture". San Antonio Report. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  11. ^ "#25 - Piedad". San Anto Cultural Arts. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  12. ^ Silva, Elda (2017-09-20). "Latina artists go solo together at Galeria Guadalupe". San Antonio Express-News. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  13. ^ Sanchez, Rudy (2018-10-02). "Deep Roots: An intersection of Borders - The Paisano". Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  14. ^ "Events | U-M LSA Institute for the Humanities". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  15. ^ PHG (2019-01-02). "San Anto Cultural Arts, Former Students Come Together with Weekend Events Dedicated to Manny Castillo". Presa House Gallery. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
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