Assistant University

Debra Barrera

Image

The Automobile, ****

Timesteps, 2011

Sculpture 2009-2010

Drawing 2009-2010

The Surrender Series

Text

The Automobile, 2012 Poems

Selected Poems, 2009-2011

Information

Studio Information CV

Exhibitions Events

Publications

Projects

Glean

Respect

Influence

Copyright 2010

Built with Indexhibit

The Foundry

Debra M. Barrera

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Background

Born Corpus Christi, Texas, 1984

Currently lives and works in Houston, Texas

Education

M.F.A. University of Houston, Painting, Summa Cum Laude

B.A. University of Texas at Austin, Fine Arts, Studio Art, Magna Cum Laude

B.A. University of Texas at Austin, Liberal Arts, English, Magna Cum Laude

Solo Shows

2013 TBA, Moody Gallery, Houston, Tx (upcoming Fall 2013)

2012 The Automobile, Peel Gallery, Houston, Tx (upcoming Fall 2012)

2012 Drive Me There and Back Again, Blaffer Art Museum, Windows into Houston series,

Houston, Tx (upcoming)

Two Person Shows

2011 timesteps, Debra Barrera and Norberto Gomez, Jr., Lawndale Arts Center,

Houston, Tx

2010 Techno Cumbia, Debra Barrera and Lauren Moya Ford, Box 13 Art Space, Houston, Tx

Group Shows

2012 Glasstire Gala Auction, Pennzoil Place, Houston, Tx

2012 Blaffer Gala Auction, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, Tx

2012 Studio 40, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Tx

2012 Luck of the Draw, DiverseWorks, Houston, Tx

2012 The Empty Box Ole!, Box 13 Artspace, Houston, Tx

2012 Hunting Art Prize Gala, Houston, Tx

2011 Art Market, Art Palace Gallery, Houston, Tx

2011 Dis, Dat, Deez, Doz, Deux, Tha Joanna, Houston, Tx

2011 Heat Wave, Isabel Wilson, Curator, Houston, Tx

2011 Blaffer Gala Auction, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, Tx

2010 Spider Women, A Tribute to Louise Bourgeois, DARKE Gallery

2010 Trifecta Perfecta, DARKE Gallery, in affiliation with ArtHouston, Houston, Tx

2010 Luck of the Draw, DiverseWorks, Houston, Tx

2010 School of Art Masters Thesis Exhibition, The Blaffer Museum, Houston, Tx

2010 Dis, Dat, Deez, Doz, Deux, Tha Joanna, Houston, Tx

2009 New Wave, PG Contemporary, Houston, Tx

2009 Nada: A Show About Nothing, Rice Media Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Tx

2008 Luck of the Draw, DiverseWorks, Houston, Tx

2008 Dramas: Real and Imagined, Sally Sprout Gallery at Williams Tower, Houston, Tx

2007 Blaffer Gallery Student Show, University of Houston

2006 Senior Studio Show, CRL Gallery, Juried by Noah Simblist, Austin, Tx

Lectures / Talks

2012 CAMH Slide Jam, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Artists Lecture, Houston, TX

2011 Toby Kamps and Debra Barrera Gallery Talk on Walter De Maria s Trilogies, Menil

Collections, Houston, Tx

2010 Looking at Art Gallery Talk, DARKE Gallery on group exhibition, DARKE Gallery,

Houston Tx

Bibliography

2012 Dean Liscum, Slide Jam April 5: Debra Barrera and Kristy Peet

2012 Hampton Burwick, timesteps Debra Barrera and Norberto Gomez Jr. at Lawndale Art

Center

2012 Nancy Wozny, Your Weekly Guide to Houston, culturemap.com

2011 Robert Boyd, Debra Barrera, Alexis Granwell & Carrie Scanga at Lawndale

2010 Glasstire.com, Trifecta Perfecta

2010 Robert Boyd, MFA Thesis Show at the Blaffer

2012 Glasstire.com, "2010 School of Art Masters Thesis Exhibition"

2010 Rachel Hooper, 2010 School of Art Masters Thesis Exhibition

Publications

2012 "Glass Houses: 24, Geoff Hippenstiel", Glasstire.com

2012 "Drawing with Gravity", Richard Serra: Drawing Retrospective feature, author, Arts +

Culture Magazine, April 2012

2012 Pushing Paint, author, Arts + Culture Magazine, February 2012

2011 TX Contemporary Art Fair, author, Arts+Culture Magazine, November 2011

2009 Stanley Kupp Magazine, Ed. Yannick Schandene, Issue No. 1. Series of poems.

Brussels, Belgium, 2009

Grants/Fellowships

2009 Bunker Graduate Fellowship in Art, University of Houston

2008 Graduate Assistant Tuition Fellowship, University of Houston

2008 Teaching Fellowship, University of Houston

2008 Friends of Art Scholarship, University of Houston

2007 Teaching Assistant Fellowship, University of Houston

2007 Stuart Fellowship, University of Houston

2004 Oxford University Study Abroad Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin

Collections

Bill Arning, Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Personal Collection

Curatorial

2010 Emilio Said, Unreal Cities: Informal Architecture Zone, Architecture Gallery,

University of Houston Architecture Building, Co-Designer

Employment

2011 Present

Assistant Director, McMurtrey Gallery, 3508 Lake Street, Houston, Tx, 77098

Visual Arts Contributor, Arts + Culture Magazine

2007-2010

Teaching Fellow, University of Houston, Main Campus, Houston, Tx

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