JOSÉ VILLALOBOS
AMERICAN, B. EL PASO, TEXAS
LIVES AND WORKS IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
RESIDENCIES
2024- ARTPACE INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RESIDENCY, SAN ANTONIO, TX
2024- FOUNTAINHEAD ARTIST RESIDENCY, MIAMI, FL
2024- CALA ALLIANCE ARTIST RESIDENCY, PHOENIX, AZ
2022- JOAN MITCHELL ARTIST RESIDENCY, NEW ORLEANS, LA
2019- WATERSHED CENTER FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS, NEW CASTLE, ME
2017- CHANGARRITO RESIDENCY MEXIC-ARTE MUSEUM, AUSTIN, TX
2016- ARTIST LAB RESIDENCY, GUADALUPE CULTURAL ARTS, SAN ANTONIO, TX
AWARDS
2025 TRELLIS FUND ARTS AWARD-STEPPING STONE GRANT, NEW YORK, NY
2022 DASH AWARD GRANTEE, ATLANTA, GA
2020 TANNE FOUNDATION AWARD, BOSTON, MA
2018 JOAN MITCHELL PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS GRANT, NEW YORK, NY
2016 ARTIST LAB FELLOWSHIP GRANT, SAN ANTONIO, TX
2010 FIRST PLACE FOR TRINIDAD SANCHEZ BORDER LINES POETRY AWARD, SAN ANTONIO, TX
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART, DALLAS, TX
ALBRIGHT COLLEGE, READING, PA
MEXIC-ARTE MUSEUM, AUSTIN, TX
THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, SAN ANTONIO, TX
SOHO HOUSE INTERNATIONAL, AUSTIN, TX
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO — BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS, 2016
SOLO/TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024: Designing Masculinities, ARTYARD, Frenchtown, NJ (May 2024)
2024: Terrenos, Museo De Arte de Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, México (May 2024)
2024: Groomed, Artpace, San Antonio, TX (March 2024)
2024: Queerteñx:Trans Fronterizes, Cuir Transnationalism, Laband Art Gallery, LMU, Los Angeles,CA
2023: Fuertes y Firmes, Big Medium, Austin, TX
2023: I Saw the Sign, Everybody Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2022: Semillas, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX
2021: Ser Hombre, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX
2021: The Measure of a Cock, FLXST Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2021: Por Maricón: The Measures and Violence of Masculinity, Dallas LCC, Dallas, TX
2021: de los otros, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2020: Joto Fronterizo: Selected Works, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX
2019: Joto Fronterizo (Survey Exhibition), Albright College, Reading, PA
2019: Fragmentos y Suturas, South Texas College, McAllen, TX
2019: Cicatrices, Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2016: De La Misma Piel, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
In Plain Sight: Queer Rural Narratives, Breck Create, Breckenridge, CO
La Frontera, Centro Cultural Tijuana, MX.
La Frontera, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA
2023
Son De Allá y Son De Acá, Chicano Park Museum, San Diego, CA
The Border is a Weapon, Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse, NY
In This Body, I Persevere, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
Fluid Gaze, 516 Arts Contemporary Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
La Frontera (Juárez), Universidad Autónoma Ciudad Juárez, MX.
La Frontera, Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of El Paso TX, El Paso, TX
MudKin, Roski Mateo Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Desert Rider: Dreaming in Motion, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
XICAN A.O.X BODY, The Cheech Museum, Riverside, CA
Soy de Tejas, Centro de Artes, San Antonio, TX
2022
From Here and There: An Unbreakable Cultural Bond, MX Cultural Inst., New Orleans, LA
Contemporary Ex-Votos: Devotion Beyond Medium, NMSU Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM
(Re)Context: Artists Reconstructing Words, Rubin Center for the Arts, El Paso, TX
H20, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, LA
Son De Allá y Son De Acá, South Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM
Desert Rider, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Sweeping the Mantle of the Earth, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO
SoundSpace: Conversation Pieces, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
The Border is a Weapon, 937 Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2021
Mutible Land, Governor's Island, NY, NY.
Texas Biennial, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2020
NADA Chicago Gallery Open, Everybody Gallery, Chicago IL
ELA 25: Choque, Mexicarte Museum, Austin, TX
Third Coast Biennial, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX
2019
Sound Space, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Queer Forms, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota
Watershed Center of the Ceramic Arts, Joan Pearson Watkins Gallery, New Castle, ME
Trans America/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today. McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Queer Craft, University of Minnesota, Morris, MN
2018
Monarchs: Brown and Native Artists in the path of the Buttery, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio TX, Curated by Risa Puleo
Bienal Transfronteriza 2018, Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México
Transborder Bienal 2018, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
2017
¡Ahora!, 2017 YLA Exhibition, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX