Rosemary Meza-DesPlas
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas is a Mexican-American artist who creates art in the form of hand-sewn human hair, watercolor and drawing installations. She received her Master of Fine Arts Degree in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art (Hoffberger School of Painting) and a BFA from the University of North Texas. Rosemary Meza-DesPlas has exhibited nationally and internationally in such galleries and museums as Espacio Gallery in London, UK; Hoxton Arches Gallery in London, UK; Yorck Studios, Berlin,Germany; LuXun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, China; Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada; Espace Kiron in Paris, France; A.I.R. Gallery, NYC, NY; ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL and New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM. Rosemary Meza-DesPlas has presented academic papers about the visual arts at conferences: “Doing the Body in the 21st Century”, Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; “Latino Art Now! Re-Imaging Global Intersections”, Inter-University Program for Latino Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; “International Conference on the Image”, Freie Universitat Berlin, Berlin, Germany and “Mod Art’13 on Beauty & Ugliness”, Modern Art Conference in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION:
MFA. 1990 Hoffberger School of Painting Maryland Institute, College of Art
BFA. 1988 Painting/Drawing University of North Texas
HONORS:
1995 Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund Award; Dallas Museum of Art
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITS:
2015 I Love You, Man: I Think This is the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship, ARC Gallery &
Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
2013 Armas Desnudas, Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
Pretty Blunderbuss, Wade Wilson Art, Santa Fe, NM
2012 Cap the Violence; Pile on the Sexy, ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
2011 Personages, Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
2010 Fat Bottomed Girls and Hip Boobsters, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX 2008
Woman Under the Influence, Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
2006 Uncomfortable Positions, Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
2004 Masturbation Session Part I: It’s All About Me, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX
2003 A.I.R. Gallery, Gallery II, NYC, NY
SELECTED GROUP MUSEUM EXHIBITS:
2016 Salon International Art Résilience, Musée de Peinture de Saint-Frajou, Saint-Frajou France
2015 Feminism Across the Generations, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL
Salon International Art Résilience, Musée de Peinture de Saint-Frajou, Saint-Frajou France
2014 Figures: Artwork from the Permanent Collection, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
2013 TEJANO: Contemporary Hispanic Artists of Texas, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX
Art on the Edge, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico (juror: Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Menil Collection)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS:
2016 Itsy Bitsy Biennial, Green Kill Gallery, Kingston, NY
Peace Among Savages Group Show about Guns, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
40th Annual Juried Exhibit, Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO
Flesh Anew, Conrad Wilde Gallery, curated by Ryan Napier, Tucson, AZ
Spectrum, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
prox*y, Grackle Art Gallery, curated by Lauren Cross, Fort Worth, TX
Hand Maid, Sweet’Art Collective, Hoxton Arches Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Womxn aee Perfect!, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
Corpus, The Craft Studio, University of Missouri in Columbia, MO
Abandoned Margins: Policing the Black Female Body, Woman Made Gallery,
Chicago, IL, (curated by Janice Bond, independent curator)
2015 Los Olvidados, curated by Carlos Donjuan, Kirk Hopper Fine Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
Gendered Perspectives: An Investigation into Contemporary Identities, Hartmann Center
Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
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Beauty, Meridian Street Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
It’s Complicated, ART7 Crockett Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
Urban Threads, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Place and Identity, deadWEST, Group Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX
Urge Unchecked, The Commons, Margaretville, NY
Borders and Boundaries, Target Gallery/Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
Art of the South 2015, Hyde Gallery, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
I Am, You Are, ART7 Crockett Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
ARC 40th Anniversary show, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL
Y NOT!, Sweet’Art Collective, Espacio Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Mujeres: Selected Prints from the Serie Project, Dr. Robert E. Cantu Gallery, Austin, TX
Undercover: Selections from The Kinsey Institute, Wabash College, Eric Dean Gallery, Crawfordsville, IN
2014 20 Years of Serie Project, Julia C. Butridge Gallery, Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, TX
Pop-Up Exhibition: On The Image, presented by the International Conference on The
Image, Yorck Studios, Berlin,Germany
The F Word: Feminism Now, ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
Square, Members Exhibition, ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
Seams, Hoxton Arches Gallery, Sweet’Art Collective. London, United Kingdom
Sewing the Line, curated by Leslie Moody Castro, H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
Mid-America College Art Association Members Juried Exhibition, The University of San
Antonio at Texas Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX
The Living Mark, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR
Draw, Drawing, Drawn, Vita Art Center, Ventura, CA
Regional Juried Exhibition, ArtSpace 111, Fort Worth, TX (jurors: Andrea Karnes and Ron Tyler)
Square, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada,
WCA Best of 2014 Exhibition, ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art, LuXun Academy of Fine Arts Art Gallery, Shenyang, China
2013 Marks, Madelon Powers Gallery, E. Stroudsburg University; East Stroudsburg, PA
A Fine Line: Contemporary Drawing, Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead, KY
ARC Gallery 40th Anniversary Exhibition, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art-Cademia, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
10th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition, Fort Worth Community Art Center, Fort Worth, TX
2012 10th Biennial: 36 Cats and One Stripe Pussy, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (curated by
Ingrid Schaffner, Senior Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania)
Backlash: on Women’s Basic Rights & Freedoms, SOHO20 Gallery, NYC, NY
TASA One Foot Exhibition, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX
Hecho en Dallas, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX (jurors: Peter Doroshenko, Maria
Teresa Garcia Pedroche, Roberto Tejada
Power, Politics, and Performance, Steinhilber Art Gallery, Oshkosh, WI
Governing Bodies, Gallery Nord, San Antonio, TX (curated by Kathy Armstrong, Director
of Exhibitions, Southwest School of Art)
Rawls National Juried Art Exhibition, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA
Re/Invention, ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
CAC 23rd Annual Juried Show, Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, Nevada (juror:
Mat Gleason, Los Angeles based art critic and curator)
Momentum, 40th Anniversary/Women's Caucus Art, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (juror: Rita
Gonzalez, Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
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AAF (Affordable Art Fair), Los Angeles, ARC Gallery Booth, Los Angeles, CA
Texas Draws II, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX (curated by Kathy Armstrong,
Director of Exhibitions, Southwest School of Art)
2011 Privacy Please!, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Erin Riley Lopez, independent curator
and Annette Rusin, NY based artist)
Artist Exchange with Le Genie de La Bastille & ARC Gallery, Espace Kiron, Paris, France
Ooh La La Chicago, ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
Drawing Connections, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy
29th Annual Art in the Metroplex Exhibition, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
(juror: Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Menil Collection)
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas & Jan Parker, Actuel’Art Lagalerie, Paris, France
AAF (Affordable Art Fair), NYC, ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation Booth, NYC, NY
The Kentucky National 2011, Clara M. Eagle Gallery,Murray State University, Murray, KY
(juror: Matthew Strauss, Founder & Director, White Flag Projects)
2010 Art in the District, a satellite art show of the Dallas Art Fair, Fairmount Hotel, Dallas, TX
Transmorphing, Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA
The Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show 2010: A Contemporary Look at Sex and Gender,
School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Texas Artists Exhibition, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, TX
Drawing in the Expanded Field, Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University
North Texas Hispanic Artists, East Fork Gallery, Tarrant County College, Trinity River
Campus, Fort Worth, TX
500X Past & Present Members Drawing Show, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
El Centro College, Dallas, TX
Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, Bloomington, IN
Siena Art Institute; Siena, Italy
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Margaret Regan, “Skin Deeper”, Tucson Weekly, Tuscon, AZ, June 9, 2016.
Ryan Kost, “A ‘Perfect’ Vision”, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, March 29, 2016.
“Vingt artistes de dix pays au salon, Art Résilience”, Ladepeche, Saint-Frajou, France, August 8, 2015.
Editorial Team, “Target Gallery Presents Borders and Boundaries”, East City Art, Alexandria, VA, June 8, 2015.
Douglas Fairfield, “The Edge Factor, The work of 8 Regional Artists at the New Mexico Museum of Art”,
Pasatiempo, The New Mexican, Santa Fe, NM, January 18, 2013.
Steve Bennett, “Texas Draws II”, San Antonio Express-News, San Antonio, TX, March 18, 2012.
Charles Dee Mitchell, “Gallery Gourmet: Rosemary Meza-DesPlas at Mighty Fine Arts”, Dallas
Morning News, Dallas, TX, October 4, 2008.
Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe, “Rosemary Meza Art Review”, Art Lies, Spring 2006 Issue #50.
Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe, “Blink Glimpses Back on a Decade’s Work”, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, TX, October 2, 2005.
Janet Kutner, “Cidnee Patrick Gallery Show Delves Into Artists’ Curiosities”, Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX, August 17, 2004.
Mike Daniel, "Figurative Art at the Gallery at UTA", Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX, February 22, 2002.
Mike Daniel, "Good Heaven/Bad Heaven", Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX, December 8, 2000.
Mike Daniel, "Spotlight on the Human Form", Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX, January 7, 2000.
Janet Kutner, “Art Review”, Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX, April 27, 1999.
Christina Rees, "Univisions", The Dallas Observer, Dallas, TX, April 22-28, 1999.
Charles Dee Mitchell, “Art Review”, Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX, November 22, 1997.
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Shermakaye Bass, "Meza at Mexic-Arte Museum", Austin American, Austin, TX, May 28, 1997.
Mike Greenberg, "Commentaries on Womanhood a Jump-Start Hit", San Antonio Express News, San
Antonio, TX, March 11, 1996.
ONLINE PERIODICALS:
Melissa C. Hilborn and Dario Rutigliano, “Artist Interview with Rosemary Meza-DesPlas”, ARTiculAction
Contemporary Art Review, 10th Edition, Special Issue, March 5, 2016,
https://issuu.com/articulaction/docs/articulaction_art_review_-_spissue/140
Joseph Erbentraut, “Artist Hand-Sews Her Own Hair to Create Lavish, Haunting Drawings”, HuffPost Arts
& Culture, March 12, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/11/rosemary-meza-desplas-
drawings_n_6850000.html
BLOGS:
Rodney Rogers, “Rosemary Meza-DesPlas”, Out the Window (blog). June 21, 2014.
http://devicecircle.blogspot.com/2014/06/rosemary-meza-desplas.html
Rachel Kulp, “Bad Girls”, The Broad Review (blog). February 22, 2012. http://rachelkulp.tumblr.com/
Brendan Carroll, “Male Chauvinist Pig Reviews Feminist Art Exhibit”, He Said She Said Art Money Sex
(blog). December 2, 2011. https://brendanscottcarroll.wordpress.com/tag/rosemary-meza-desplas/
CATALOGUES:
2016 Studio Visit Magazine Volume 31
2015 Feminism Across the Generations, Koehnline Museum of Art
“Y Not”, Espacio Gallery, Sweet’Art Collective, London, United Kingdom
2014 Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art, Shenyang, China
Mid-America College Art Association Members Juried Exhibition, The University of San
Antonio at Texas Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX
“Seams”, Hoxton Arches Gallery, Sweet’Art Collective. London, United Kingdom
2013 Art on the Edge, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
ARC 40th Anniversary Exhibition, ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation
2012 Siena Art Institute, Drawing Connections, Siena, Italy
Texas Draws II, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
Momentum, 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Women’s Caucus for Art, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Espace Kiron, Artist Exchange with Le Genie de La Bastille & ARC Gallery, Paris, France
Kentucky National 2011, Clara M. Eagle Gallery
RESIDENCIES:
2002 Coronado Studios, Austin, TX, Serie Project
1997 Coronado Studios, Austin, TX, Serie Project
SELECTED TRAVELING EXHIBITS:
Exquisite Uterus Project curated by Alison Gates & Helen Klebesadel,
2013 Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 Reeve Union/Steinhilber Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Coronado Studios Serie Print Project curated by Sam Coronado
2004 Galeria Luis Nishizawa-ENAP-UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Galeria Lorenzo Homar, Philadelphia, PA
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX
SELECTED LECTURES:
2016 Doing the Body in the 21st Century, Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Program,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March/April 2016, Paper Presentation: Shake Your Hips
Like Battleships: The Female Figure in 21st Century Visual Art
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Latino Art Now! Re-Imaging Global Intersections, Inter-University Program for Latino
Research, University of Illinois at Chicago & the Smithsonian Latino Center, Chicago, IL,
April 2016, Paper Presentation: La Historia: Latino Art Collectives in Texas
2015 I Love You, Man: I Think This is the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship,
International Network for Alternative Academia, Barcelona, Spain, May 11-13, Paper
Presentation: I Love You, Man: I Think This is the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship
Considerations and Challenges: Socially-Engaged Art in China, International Caucus of
the Women’s Caucus for Art, Open Engagement, Pittsburgh, PA, April 17-19, Panel Discussion
2014 Fifth International Conference on the Image, Freie Universitat Berlin, Berlin, Germany, October,
Paper presentation: Chicks with Guns: The Links between Violence, Sexuality and
Femininity in Images
National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies, Baton Rouge, LA, February, Paper
Presentation: La Costura, Sew What?
2013 Mod Art’13 on Beauty & Ugliness, Modern Art Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, November, Paper
Presentation: Desired: The Norm of Imperfection
Panel Discussion for Sadie Hawkins, CentralTrak, Artist Residency & Gallery, Dallas, TX
Texas Association of Schools of Art Conference, Houston, TX, October, Paper Presentation:
Desired: The Norm of Imperfection
2010 Texas Association of Schools of Art Conference, Austin, TX, October, Panel presentation: Curly,
Shaggy, Gleaming, Streaming The Art of Hair: An Intimate Recycling Program
Dallas Art Dealers Association, Fall Gallery Walk, How to Start an Art Collection panel
BOOKS:
1995 The Laughter Between My Legs, Poetry Chapbook
PUBLICATIONS:
2016 International Journal on the Image, Image Volume 7, Issue 2
2013 Beauty & Ugliness, Mod Art’13 Conference Proceedings, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts
University, Istanbul, Turkey
Lunch Ticket, Antioch University, Los Angeles, Literary Magazine
VIDEOS:
2015 Rosemary Meza-DesPlas: What Gives You Pleasure, SexEd: Art-inspired community based US sex education
2007 Triumph of our Communities: Artists and Organizations, Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University
MEMBERSHIPS:
College Art Association
Women’s Caucus for Art
Mid-America College Art Association
TEACHING:
2000 El Centro College, Dallas, Texas
MFA. 1990 Hoffberger School of Painting Maryland Institute, College of Art
BFA. 1988 Painting/Drawing University of North Texas
HONORS:
1995 Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund Award; Dallas Museum of Art
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITS:
2015 I Love You, Man: I Think This is the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship, ARC Gallery &
Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
2013 Armas Desnudas, Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
Pretty Blunderbuss, Wade Wilson Art, Santa Fe, NM
2012 Cap the Violence; Pile on the Sexy, ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
2011 Personages, Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
2010 Fat Bottomed Girls and Hip Boobsters, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX 2008
Woman Under the Influence, Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
2006 Uncomfortable Positions, Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
2004 Masturbation Session Part I: It’s All About Me, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX
2003 A.I.R. Gallery, Gallery II, NYC, NY
SELECTED GROUP MUSEUM EXHIBITS:
2016 Salon International Art Résilience, Musée de Peinture de Saint-Frajou, Saint-Frajou France
2015 Feminism Across the Generations, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL
Salon International Art Résilience, Musée de Peinture de Saint-Frajou, Saint-Frajou France
2014 Figures: Artwork from the Permanent Collection, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
2013 TEJANO: Contemporary Hispanic Artists of Texas, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX
Art on the Edge, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico (juror: Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Menil Collection)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS:
2016 Itsy Bitsy Biennial, Green Kill Gallery, Kingston, NY
Peace Among Savages Group Show about Guns, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
40th Annual Juried Exhibit, Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO
Flesh Anew, Conrad Wilde Gallery, curated by Ryan Napier, Tucson, AZ
Spectrum, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
prox*y, Grackle Art Gallery, curated by Lauren Cross, Fort Worth, TX
Hand Maid, Sweet’Art Collective, Hoxton Arches Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Womxn aee Perfect!, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
Corpus, The Craft Studio, University of Missouri in Columbia, MO
Abandoned Margins: Policing the Black Female Body, Woman Made Gallery,
Chicago, IL, (curated by Janice Bond, independent curator)
2015 Los Olvidados, curated by Carlos Donjuan, Kirk Hopper Fine Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
Gendered Perspectives: An Investigation into Contemporary Identities, Hartmann Center
Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
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Beauty, Meridian Street Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
It’s Complicated, ART7 Crockett Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
Urban Threads, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Place and Identity, deadWEST, Group Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX
Urge Unchecked, The Commons, Margaretville, NY
Borders and Boundaries, Target Gallery/Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
Art of the South 2015, Hyde Gallery, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
I Am, You Are, ART7 Crockett Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
ARC 40th Anniversary show, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL
Y NOT!, Sweet’Art Collective, Espacio Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Mujeres: Selected Prints from the Serie Project, Dr. Robert E. Cantu Gallery, Austin, TX
Undercover: Selections from The Kinsey Institute, Wabash College, Eric Dean Gallery, Crawfordsville, IN
2014 20 Years of Serie Project, Julia C. Butridge Gallery, Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, TX
Pop-Up Exhibition: On The Image, presented by the International Conference on The
Image, Yorck Studios, Berlin,Germany
The F Word: Feminism Now, ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
Square, Members Exhibition, ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
Seams, Hoxton Arches Gallery, Sweet’Art Collective. London, United Kingdom
Sewing the Line, curated by Leslie Moody Castro, H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
Mid-America College Art Association Members Juried Exhibition, The University of San
Antonio at Texas Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX
The Living Mark, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR
Draw, Drawing, Drawn, Vita Art Center, Ventura, CA
Regional Juried Exhibition, ArtSpace 111, Fort Worth, TX (jurors: Andrea Karnes and Ron Tyler)
Square, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada,
WCA Best of 2014 Exhibition, ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art, LuXun Academy of Fine Arts Art Gallery, Shenyang, China
2013 Marks, Madelon Powers Gallery, E. Stroudsburg University; East Stroudsburg, PA
A Fine Line: Contemporary Drawing, Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead, KY
ARC Gallery 40th Anniversary Exhibition, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art-Cademia, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
10th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition, Fort Worth Community Art Center, Fort Worth, TX
2012 10th Biennial: 36 Cats and One Stripe Pussy, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (curated by
Ingrid Schaffner, Senior Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania)
Backlash: on Women’s Basic Rights & Freedoms, SOHO20 Gallery, NYC, NY
TASA One Foot Exhibition, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX
Hecho en Dallas, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX (jurors: Peter Doroshenko, Maria
Teresa Garcia Pedroche, Roberto Tejada
Power, Politics, and Performance, Steinhilber Art Gallery, Oshkosh, WI
Governing Bodies, Gallery Nord, San Antonio, TX (curated by Kathy Armstrong, Director
of Exhibitions, Southwest School of Art)
Rawls National Juried Art Exhibition, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA
Re/Invention, ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
CAC 23rd Annual Juried Show, Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, Nevada (juror:
Mat Gleason, Los Angeles based art critic and curator)
Momentum, 40th Anniversary/Women's Caucus Art, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (juror: Rita
Gonzalez, Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
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AAF (Affordable Art Fair), Los Angeles, ARC Gallery Booth, Los Angeles, CA
Texas Draws II, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX (curated by Kathy Armstrong,
Director of Exhibitions, Southwest School of Art)
2011 Privacy Please!, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Erin Riley Lopez, independent curator
and Annette Rusin, NY based artist)
Artist Exchange with Le Genie de La Bastille & ARC Gallery, Espace Kiron, Paris, France
Ooh La La Chicago, ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
Drawing Connections, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy
29th Annual Art in the Metroplex Exhibition, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
(juror: Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Menil Collection)
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas & Jan Parker, Actuel’Art Lagalerie, Paris, France
AAF (Affordable Art Fair), NYC, ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation Booth, NYC, NY
The Kentucky National 2011, Clara M. Eagle Gallery,Murray State University, Murray, KY
(juror: Matthew Strauss, Founder & Director, White Flag Projects)
2010 Art in the District, a satellite art show of the Dallas Art Fair, Fairmount Hotel, Dallas, TX
Transmorphing, Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA
The Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show 2010: A Contemporary Look at Sex and Gender,
School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Texas Artists Exhibition, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, TX
Drawing in the Expanded Field, Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University
North Texas Hispanic Artists, East Fork Gallery, Tarrant County College, Trinity River
Campus, Fort Worth, TX
500X Past & Present Members Drawing Show, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
El Centro College, Dallas, TX
Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, Bloomington, IN
Siena Art Institute; Siena, Italy
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Margaret Regan, “Skin Deeper”, Tucson Weekly, Tuscon, AZ, June 9, 2016.
Ryan Kost, “A ‘Perfect’ Vision”, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, March 29, 2016.
“Vingt artistes de dix pays au salon, Art Résilience”, Ladepeche, Saint-Frajou, France, August 8, 2015.
Editorial Team, “Target Gallery Presents Borders and Boundaries”, East City Art, Alexandria, VA, June 8, 2015.
Douglas Fairfield, “The Edge Factor, The work of 8 Regional Artists at the New Mexico Museum of Art”,
Pasatiempo, The New Mexican, Santa Fe, NM, January 18, 2013.
Steve Bennett, “Texas Draws II”, San Antonio Express-News, San Antonio, TX, March 18, 2012.
Charles Dee Mitchell, “Gallery Gourmet: Rosemary Meza-DesPlas at Mighty Fine Arts”, Dallas
Morning News, Dallas, TX, October 4, 2008.
Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe, “Rosemary Meza Art Review”, Art Lies, Spring 2006 Issue #50.
Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe, “Blink Glimpses Back on a Decade’s Work”, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, TX, October 2, 2005.
Janet Kutner, “Cidnee Patrick Gallery Show Delves Into Artists’ Curiosities”, Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX, August 17, 2004.
Mike Daniel, "Figurative Art at the Gallery at UTA", Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX, February 22, 2002.
Mike Daniel, "Good Heaven/Bad Heaven", Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX, December 8, 2000.
Mike Daniel, "Spotlight on the Human Form", Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX, January 7, 2000.
Janet Kutner, “Art Review”, Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX, April 27, 1999.
Christina Rees, "Univisions", The Dallas Observer, Dallas, TX, April 22-28, 1999.
Charles Dee Mitchell, “Art Review”, Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX, November 22, 1997.
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Shermakaye Bass, "Meza at Mexic-Arte Museum", Austin American, Austin, TX, May 28, 1997.
Mike Greenberg, "Commentaries on Womanhood a Jump-Start Hit", San Antonio Express News, San
Antonio, TX, March 11, 1996.
ONLINE PERIODICALS:
Melissa C. Hilborn and Dario Rutigliano, “Artist Interview with Rosemary Meza-DesPlas”, ARTiculAction
Contemporary Art Review, 10th Edition, Special Issue, March 5, 2016,
https://issuu.com/articulaction/docs/articulaction_art_review_-_spissue/140
Joseph Erbentraut, “Artist Hand-Sews Her Own Hair to Create Lavish, Haunting Drawings”, HuffPost Arts
& Culture, March 12, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/11/rosemary-meza-desplas-
drawings_n_6850000.html
BLOGS:
Rodney Rogers, “Rosemary Meza-DesPlas”, Out the Window (blog). June 21, 2014.
http://devicecircle.blogspot.com/2014/06/rosemary-meza-desplas.html
Rachel Kulp, “Bad Girls”, The Broad Review (blog). February 22, 2012. http://rachelkulp.tumblr.com/
Brendan Carroll, “Male Chauvinist Pig Reviews Feminist Art Exhibit”, He Said She Said Art Money Sex
(blog). December 2, 2011. https://brendanscottcarroll.wordpress.com/tag/rosemary-meza-desplas/
CATALOGUES:
2016 Studio Visit Magazine Volume 31
2015 Feminism Across the Generations, Koehnline Museum of Art
“Y Not”, Espacio Gallery, Sweet’Art Collective, London, United Kingdom
2014 Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art, Shenyang, China
Mid-America College Art Association Members Juried Exhibition, The University of San
Antonio at Texas Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX
“Seams”, Hoxton Arches Gallery, Sweet’Art Collective. London, United Kingdom
2013 Art on the Edge, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
ARC 40th Anniversary Exhibition, ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation
2012 Siena Art Institute, Drawing Connections, Siena, Italy
Texas Draws II, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
Momentum, 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Women’s Caucus for Art, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Espace Kiron, Artist Exchange with Le Genie de La Bastille & ARC Gallery, Paris, France
Kentucky National 2011, Clara M. Eagle Gallery
RESIDENCIES:
2002 Coronado Studios, Austin, TX, Serie Project
1997 Coronado Studios, Austin, TX, Serie Project
SELECTED TRAVELING EXHIBITS:
Exquisite Uterus Project curated by Alison Gates & Helen Klebesadel,
2013 Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 Reeve Union/Steinhilber Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Coronado Studios Serie Print Project curated by Sam Coronado
2004 Galeria Luis Nishizawa-ENAP-UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Galeria Lorenzo Homar, Philadelphia, PA
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX
SELECTED LECTURES:
2016 Doing the Body in the 21st Century, Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Program,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March/April 2016, Paper Presentation: Shake Your Hips
Like Battleships: The Female Figure in 21st Century Visual Art
4
Latino Art Now! Re-Imaging Global Intersections, Inter-University Program for Latino
Research, University of Illinois at Chicago & the Smithsonian Latino Center, Chicago, IL,
April 2016, Paper Presentation: La Historia: Latino Art Collectives in Texas
2015 I Love You, Man: I Think This is the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship,
International Network for Alternative Academia, Barcelona, Spain, May 11-13, Paper
Presentation: I Love You, Man: I Think This is the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship
Considerations and Challenges: Socially-Engaged Art in China, International Caucus of
the Women’s Caucus for Art, Open Engagement, Pittsburgh, PA, April 17-19, Panel Discussion
2014 Fifth International Conference on the Image, Freie Universitat Berlin, Berlin, Germany, October,
Paper presentation: Chicks with Guns: The Links between Violence, Sexuality and
Femininity in Images
National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies, Baton Rouge, LA, February, Paper
Presentation: La Costura, Sew What?
2013 Mod Art’13 on Beauty & Ugliness, Modern Art Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, November, Paper
Presentation: Desired: The Norm of Imperfection
Panel Discussion for Sadie Hawkins, CentralTrak, Artist Residency & Gallery, Dallas, TX
Texas Association of Schools of Art Conference, Houston, TX, October, Paper Presentation:
Desired: The Norm of Imperfection
2010 Texas Association of Schools of Art Conference, Austin, TX, October, Panel presentation: Curly,
Shaggy, Gleaming, Streaming The Art of Hair: An Intimate Recycling Program
Dallas Art Dealers Association, Fall Gallery Walk, How to Start an Art Collection panel
BOOKS:
1995 The Laughter Between My Legs, Poetry Chapbook
PUBLICATIONS:
2016 International Journal on the Image, Image Volume 7, Issue 2
2013 Beauty & Ugliness, Mod Art’13 Conference Proceedings, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts
University, Istanbul, Turkey
Lunch Ticket, Antioch University, Los Angeles, Literary Magazine
VIDEOS:
2015 Rosemary Meza-DesPlas: What Gives You Pleasure, SexEd: Art-inspired community based US sex education
2007 Triumph of our Communities: Artists and Organizations, Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University
MEMBERSHIPS:
College Art Association
Women’s Caucus for Art
Mid-America College Art Association
TEACHING:
2000 El Centro College, Dallas, Texas