| EDUCATION | |
| 2012 2002 | M.F.A. University of Texas at Austin B.F.A. University of Texas at El Paso |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2020 2019 2018 2016 2015 2014 2012 | Índices del silencio. The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA México: Vestigios de la Narcoviolencia. Alexandre Hogue Gallery at the University of Tulsa. Tulsa, OK Aplacados: Entre cascos percutidos y bardas. SNAP Gallery; Alberta, Canada De la complicidad con la agresión. Flatbed Press and Gallery. Austin, TX Fractured Memories: Living with Violence in Mexico. Casa Hola Gallery. Knoxville, TN Body count. Till Richter Museum; Schloss Buggenhagen, Germany Bodies for Billions. Rogue Gallery & Art Center; Medford, OR New Works by Miguel A. Aragon. Tiny Park Gallery Austin, TX Fractured Memories, Assembled Trauma. Mexic-Arte Museum. Austin, TX |
| TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2016 2011 | Imprinting History: Gregorio Iglesias Mayo and Miguel A. Aragón. Till Richter Museum; Schloss Buggenhagen Germany Inaugural Opening: Deborah Stratman and Miguel A. Aragón. Tiny Park, Austin TX |
| SELECTED GROUP AND INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 | New to the Collection: Prints Acquired from 2018-2021. Janet Turner Print Museum; Chico, CA Kunst bleibt! 10 years XTRO-studios. Rathenau Hallen; Berlin, Germany Print +: Sameness and Otherness in Contemporary Printmedia. Hunterdon Art Museum; Clinton, New Jersey Stand Up Prints Highpoint Center for Printmaking; Minneapolis, MN Flatbed REDUX. Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking; Austin, TX Person Perception Persona. Northlight Gallery; Phoenix, AZ Activate. UTSA Art Gallery; San Antonio, TX Contested Spaces: 2019 Harnett Biennial of American Prints. Harnett Museum of Art; Richmond, VA UMBRA: New prints for a Dark Age. International Print Center New York; New York, NY Next: a Biennial of Contemporary Print. Sabine Street Studios; Houston, TX Pressed: Six contemporary printmakers. Schick Art Gallery at Skidmore College; Saratoga Springs, NY Flatbed Press: Proof and Processes. Wichita Fall Museum of Art; Wichita Falls, TX UFER OPEN. Uferhallen; Berlin, Germany 4th Annual Hand Pulled Prints: Current Practice in Printmaking. Site:Brooklyn gallery, Brooklyn, NY The 2017 North American Print Biennial. Lesley University, Cambridge, MA FIGURE/GROUND. Montserrat Gallery; Beverly, MA Other Side: Art, Object, Self. The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College; Saratoga Springs, NY Museum of Drug Policy’s International Traveling Exhibition. Ugly Duck; London, UK Homecoming. Luis Leu gallery, Karlsruhe; Germany Wheaton Biennial: Printmaking Reimagined. Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College; Norton, MA Grafica d’Arte Americana Contemporanea. Il Bisonte Gallery; Firence, Italy Binary Harmonies: An exploration into current practices in post-digital printmaking. Disjecta Contemporary Art Center; Portland, OR Wunder mit Kalkül. Historish-Technisches Museum Peenemünde; Peenemünde, Germany Practice | Process | Place: New Work from the BFA Faculty. Gallery of the College of Staten Island; Staten Island, NY Mexico: The future is Unwritten. Fondazione Giorgio Cini; Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice; Italy West of the sun. Kala Art Institute Gallery; Berkeley, CA Horror pleni. Demasiado lleno, demasiado ruido. Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo; Montevideo, Uruguay Salon ACME No. 3. Salon ACME; Mexico |
| ART FAIRS | |
| 2020 2017 2016 | PrintAustin’s PrintEXPO. Blue Genie; Austin, TX 24th Annual Minneapolis Print & Drawing Fair. Minneapolis Institute of Art; Minneapolis, MN Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair. Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, MD 32nd Annual Fine Print Fair. Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH |
| SELECTED CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES | |
| 2019 2018 2017 2015 | (Curator) Migrating Heritage. TRM Schloss Buggenhagen; Bugenhaggen, Germany (Juror) 2019 Juried Skidmore Student. Exhibition Schick Art Gallery at Skidmore College; Saratoga Springs, NY (Co-Juror) Edging Forward New Prints 2018/Winter. International Printmaking Center of New York; New York, NY (Curator) Wolfgang Ganter – De:Composing. CUNY CSI Art Gallery; Staten Island, NY (Juror) 2015 Juried Student Art Exhibition. College of the Red Woods; Eureka, CA |
| SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS | |
| 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2012 | (Nominated) The Queen Sonja Print Award; Oslo, Norway PSC–CUNY Research Award. City University of New York (CUNY), NY (Finalist) The Hopper Prize; https://hopperprize.org/ 2nd Place Award. https://ArtistGrant.org/ NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship; New York, NY Solo Exhibition Award. The Print Center; Philadelphia, PA Artist Mentorship Award. International Print Center New York; New York, NY The Otis Philbrick Memorial Prize. The Lunder Arts Center; Cambridge, MA Henry Wasser Award for outstanding research. City University of New York (CUNY) Academy, NY Best of Show. Print Exhibition 2D | 3D Works, LH Horton Gallery Jr.; Stockton, CA The PrintAustin Award. The Contemporary Print Exhibition, O2 gallery; Austin, TX William Stewart Travel Award. CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences; Graduate Center of the City University of New York The Print Center’s Honorary Council Award of Excellence. The Print Center; Philadelphia, PA Kala Fellowship Award. Kala Art Institute; Berkeley, CA Artist of the Year in Printmaking Award. Austin Visual Arts Association;Austin, TX Artist of the Year Award. Austin Critic’s Table; Austin, TX Mexic-Arte Contemporary Artist Award. Mexic-Arte Museum; Austin, TX |
| RESIDENCIES | |
| 2022 2021 2019 2018 2016 2015 2014 | (Upcoming) East London Printmakers; London, UK (Upcoming) Kala Art Institute; Berkeley, CA Coronado Printstudio; Austin, TX Slugfest Printmaking Workshop; Austin TX Constellation studios LLC; Lincoln, NE Double Dare Dog Studios; Kauai, HI Zygote Press; Cleveland, OH Flatbed Press and Gallery; Austin TX Historish-Technisches Museum Peenemünde; Germany Till Richter Musuem; Schloss Buggenhagen, Germany |
| SELECTED ARTIST TALKS, WORKSHOPS AND PANELS | |
| 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 | Recognition & Repetition. Printmaking in the expanded field: professional practice seminar series. the Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists (SNAP); Alberta, Canada (Virtual Artist Talk) Critical Dialogs series. Temple University; Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Philadelphia, PA (Virtual Artist Talk) Co-hosted by Manhattan Graphics Center; New York, NY & The Print Center; Philadelphia, PA. (Presenter and Panelist) The Ghost in the Machine, SGCI Conference: Texchange; Dallas, TX (Artist Talk) México: Vestigios de la Narcoviolencia. The University of Tulsa. Tulsa, OK (Panelist) Política de Drogas y Militarización en México. El Museo de Politica de Drogas; Mexico City, Mexico (Gallery Talk) Pressed: Six contemporary printmakers. Schick Art Gallery at Skidmore College; Saratoga Springs, NY (Artist Talk) Seeing and feeling the disappearing of a Human Being. University of Alberta; Edmonton AB, Canada (Gallery Talk) Aplacados: entre cascos percutidos y bardas. Society of North Alberta Print-Artists; Edmonton AB, Canada (Artist Talk) The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery. Saratoga Springs, NY (Gallery talk) International Printmaking Center of New York; Manhattan, NY (Panelist) IPCNY PrintFest 2016: Working in the Arts. International Printmaking Center of New York; Manhattan, NY (Presenter and Panelist) Nexus: Convergence of contemporary Matrices, SGCI Conference: Flux Portland; Portland, OR (Artist Talk) Exploring Print: Three Artists Illuminated. Flatbed Press and Gallery; Austin TX (Artist Talk and workshop) Donut Talks: Fellowship Artist Miguel A. Aragon. Kala Art Institute; Berkeley, CA (Artist Talk and workshop) Visiting Artist. Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts University of Texas at El Paso. El Paso, TX (Artist Talk) Approaching Zero: At the Frontier of Contemporary Printmaking: Artist Talk with Miguel A. Aragón and Walter Jule. Kala Art Institute; Berkeley, CA |
| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| 2020 2018 2017 2015 2014 2013 2012 | ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now by Claudia E. Zapata, Terezita Romo, E. Carmen Ramos, and Tatiana Reinoza Princeton University Press; p. 122 – 123 ISBN: 9780691210803 Grapheion, International Review of Contemporary Prints, Book and Paper Art Published by Hollar Foundation; p. 20 ISBN: 978-80-906630-2-2 Peenemünde Project: Geschichte wird Kunst / Imprinting History with texts by Philipp Aumann, Till Richter and works by Gregorio Iglesias Mayo and Miguel A. Aragón. EDITION BRAUS Berlin GmbH. ISBN: 978-3862281657 Mexico: The Future is Unwritten; Contemporary Artists from Mexico. Luciano Benetton, Ariadna Ramonetti Liceaga, Bárbara Perea, Iñaki Herranz, Octavio Avendaño Trujillo Davidson. Imago Mundi – Luciano Benetton Collection; p. 50 ISBN: 978-88-98764-55-6 Ghost. Amze Emmons, R.L. Tillman, Jason Urban. Printeresting; p. 26 – 27. ISBN: 978-0-9968181-1-7 State of Emergency; Marita Sturken and Lia Newman. Davidson College; p. 5, 9, 14-15. ISBN: 978-1-890573-13-3 FotoFest 2014 Biennial Catalogue; Wendy Watriss and Frederick Baldwin. Schilt Publishing; p. 198, 206. ISBN: 978-90-5330-828-8 New Art/Arte Nuevo; Scott Sherer and Catheine Lee. Univeristy of Texas San Antonio; p. 8. ISBN: 978-0-9831130-6-5 2013 Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition by Cathyn Shine. Univeristy of Canterbury; p. 5, 6. ISBN: 978-0-473-26827-5 A Survey of Contenporary Printmaking; Edited by Matthew Egan, Michael Ehlbeck and Heather Muise. Lazymuse Productions; p. 120 ISBN: 978-0-985241-4-0-7 |
| SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |
| Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Boston, MA The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum; Skidmore College; Saratoga Springs, NY Minneapolis Institute of Art; Minneapolis, MN National Museum of Mexican Art; Chicago, IL The Janet Turner Print Museum; Chico, CA Weatherspoon Art Museum; Greensboro, NC Wichita Falls Museum of Art; Wichita Falls, TX Fort Wayne Museum of Art; Fort Wayne, IN Historish-Technisches Museum Peenemünde; Germany Museu do Douro; Peso da Régua, Portugal Kala Art Institute; Berkeley, CA Mexic-Arte Museum; Austin, TX Till Richter Museum: International Contemporary Art. Schloss Buggenhagen, Germany |
