Nabil Gonzalez
Born in El Paso, TX, 1988
Living and working in El Paso, TX
EDUCATION
2016
- MFA RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Concentration in Printmaking
2012
BFA UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO, Concentration in Printmaking & Graphic Design
WORK EXPERIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO, Assistant Professor of Instruction in Printmaking & Graphic Design Spring 2017 to Present, El Paso, TX
FINE ARTS WORKS CENTER, Printmaking workshop instructor, Summer 2023, Provincetown, MA
ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER, Printmaking/Bookbinding workshop instructor, Summer 2021, Summer 2022, Snowmass, CO
NABIL GONZALEZ DESIGN, Freelance Graphic Designer, 2012 to Present, El Paso, TX
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Instructor 2016, Providence, RI
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Graduate Student Liaison for Printmaking Department 2015 to 2016, Providence, RI
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Printmaking Graduate Teacher Assistant 2014 to 2016, Providence, RI
JOHN DUNN STUDIO, Web Design Intern Feb. 2013 to March 2013, El Paso, TX
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO, Printmaking Student Assistant 2010 to 2012, El Paso, TX
EL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Desk Clerk 2008 to 2009, El Paso, TX
COLLECTIONS
University of Arizona, Library Special Collections, Tucson, AZ
University of Virginia, Library Special Collections, Charlottesville, VA
Bromer Booksellers and Gallery, Book Arts Collection, Boston,MA
Zuckerman Museum of Art, Printmaking Collection, Kennesaw, GA
Souther Graphics Conference, SGC Archives, Kennesaw, GA
Scripps College, Denison Library Special Collections, Claremont, CA
El Paso Museum of Art Contemporary Art Collection, El Paso, TX
Rhode Island School of Design Fleet Library Special Collections, Providence, RI
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
ACHIEVEMENTS
2023
Ann Horack Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
2021
First Place 2021 Irene Rosenzweig Biennial Exhibition, The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR
2015
First Place Annual Student Artists’ Book Juried Exhibition, RISD Fleet Library, Providence RI
2013
Sunset Heights Block Party Graphic Design 1st Place, Sunset Heights Community, El Paso, TX
First Place Marfa Light Festival Design, Marfa Texas Chamber of Commerce, Marfa TX
Printmaking NSAL First Place, National Society of Arts and Letters El Paso Chapter, El Paso TX
2012
Outstanding Artistic Achievement Two-Dimensional Studio Art, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso TX
Department of Art Outstanding Service Award, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso TX
Graphic Design Honorable Mention: Chihuahuan Desert Museum and Gardens Identity Campaign, The 2012 Annual Juried UTEP Student Art Exhibition, El Paso TX
2011
Manuel Acosta Memorial Art Scholarship, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso TX
2010
Vera Wise Memorial Scholarship, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso TX
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2016
Anderson Ranch Printmaking Residency, Snowmass Village, CO
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Who Are You? Solo Exhibition, Galeria Cinco Puntos, El Paso, TX
2016
Nabil Gonzalez (All Female Shows Series), Honeyguide Gallery, El Paso, TX
2013
Perceptions of Memory, The Station, El Paso, TX
Nabil Gonzalez Solo Exhibition, Loft Light Studio, El Paso, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Irene Rosenzweig 2023 Juried Biennial, The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR
Create Something Beautiful: Founding Members Exhibition, La Mecha Contemporary, El Paso, TX
2023 UTEP Faculty Biennial, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center, El Paso,TX
Nexo Entre Ráices/Nexus Between Roots, KSU Downtown Gallery, Kent, OH
Nexo Entre Ráices/Nexus Between Roots, National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum, Albu-querque, NM
2022
Who Are you? Solo exhibition, Galeria Cinco Puntos, El Paso,TX
Troubling: Artists’ Books that Enlighten and Disrupt Old Ways of Being and Seeing, BIMA Rachel Fe-ferman Gallery, Bainbridge, WA
8x8 Printmaking Exhibition Print Fiesta 2022, Silver City, NM
Miradas Sobre la Niñez Exposición, Taller Gráfica MAPECO, Uruapan Michoacan Mexico
The 8x8, Alameda Art + Salvage, El Paso TX
8x8 Bucket Prints, Sculpture Resource Center, Tucson, AZ
8x8 Bucket Prints, North 4th Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
8x8 Bucket Prints, Prints y Pan, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
8x8 Bucket Prints, Axel Contemporary Mobile Art Van, Santa Fe, NM
8x8 Bucket Prints, Los Griegos Library, Albuquerque, NM
8x8 Bucket Prints, Diana Ingalls Leyva Studio Gallery, Silver City, NM
8x8 Bucket Prints, Argos Studio Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
8x8 Bucket Prints, Remarque Print Workshop, Albuquerque, NM
The Printmaker’s Ball, Toma Gallery and Studios, El Paso, TX
Made in The USA, Tag Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The 8x8, Alameda Art + Salvage, El Paso, TX
2021
Prints for Protest 2021 Exhibition, Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia, PA
Irene Rosenzweig 2021 Juried Biennial, The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR
The Book as Art Muse v.9 Decatur Arts Alliance, Decatur Library, Decatur,GA
Day of The Dead Exhibition, Hapeville Depot Museum, Hapeville, GA
2020
Mujeres Con Faldas de Serpientes y Talones de Aguila: 33rd Solo Mujeres Exhibition, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA
Xicanx: New Visions, Centro de Artes Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2020 UTEP Faculty Exhibition, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center, El Paso,TX
2019
Irene Rosenzweig 2019 Juried Biennial, The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR
Juntos: El Paso/Juarez Creative Coallition, Galeria Cinco Puntos, El Paso, TX
Chuco Strong, ArtSpace Gallery, El Paso, TX
Saints, Super Heroes and the Demonized Portfolio, La Madriguera Grafica, Santiago de Queretaro, Qro, MX
North Texas SGCI 2019 Saints, Super Heroes and the Demonized, North Texas SGCI 2019, Dallas, TX
Outer Terrains, Box 13 Gallery, Houston, TX
2018
Here & Now, Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces, NM
Here & Now, NMSU Art Gallery, Las Cruces, NM
2018 UTEP Faculty Exhibition, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center, El Paso,TX
2017
Un/Settled, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Interference/Interaction, NMSU Art Gallery, Las Cruces, NM
Transnational Border Art, San Diego City College LUXE Gallery, San Diego, CA
IPCNY New Prints 2017/Winter, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
Tangential Intimacies, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center, El Paso,TX
2016
The Glare, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
RISD Grad Show, Convention Center, Providence, RI
Sprung, Rabbithole Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2nd Annual Student Artists’ Book Juried Exhibition, RISD Fleet Library, Providence RI
Lasting Impressions, 505 Fletcher, Providence RI
2015
RISD Prints, Art Academy of Hubei, Hubei, China
RISD Prints, Academy of Fine Arts in Nanjing, Nanjing, China
RISD Prints, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Bienal Ciudad Juarez-El Paso Biennial 2015, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso TX
Bienal Ciudad Juarez-El Paso Biennial 2015, Museo de Arte INBA, Cd, Juarez, Chih. MX
1st Annual Student Artists’ Book Juried Exhibition, RISD Fleet Library, Providence RI
- Spring, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence RI
2014
Printmaking Triennial, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence RI
Borde Manifiesta 2014, Honeyguide Gallery, El Paso TX
All Female Art Show, Honeyguide Gallery, El Paso TX
3 Regions, 2 Borders, 1 Vision, Honeyguide Gallery, El Paso TX
25,861, Fox Fine Arts Glass Gallery, El Paso TX
2013
Subasta Amor Por Juarez, The Station, El Paso, TX
Amor Por Juarez Chalk the Block, Pop-up Gallery, El Paso, TX
ART: Printmaking 2013, Institute 4 Creativity, Champaign, Ill
ART: Printmaking 2013, St. John & Myers, Lexington, KY
ART: Printmaking 2013, The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Tangibles: Beauty and Purpose in the Art of the Book, NAU Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ
Bienal Ciudad Juarez-El Paso Biennial 2013, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso TX
Bienal Ciudad Juarez-El Paso Biennial 2013, Museo de Arte INBA, Cd, Juarez, Chih. MX
ART: Printmaking 2013, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Dialogos e Interpretaciones II: The Americas, United States/Colombia
Santa Muerte, UMKC Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO
2012
Do Art Biannual Student Show, Union Gallery, El Paso, TX
Volva Meth, Glass Box Gallery, El Paso,TX
Chalk the Block, Pop-up Gallery, El Paso, TX
Flatfile VII, Fox Fine Arts Glass Gallery, El Paso TX
Colectivo 17 Ojos, Glass Box Gallery, El Paso, TX
Spring 2012 Graphic Design Student Portfolio Exhibition, Fox Fine Arts Glass Gallery, El Paso, TX
The 2012 Annual Juried UTEP Student Art Exhibition, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center, El Paso TX
Printmeikiando BFA Exhibition, Fox Fine Arts Glass Gallery, El Paso TX
2011
Flatfile VI, Fox Fine Arts Glass Gallery, El Paso TX
Grabado, Union Gallery, El Paso TX
COLLABORATIONS
2016
Desdibujadas Public Art Project, Collaboration with Vanessa Romero and Cesar Faustino, Providence, RI
2014
Uplift Public Art Project, Collaboration with Margarita Cabrera, El Paso TX
25,861, Collaboration with Laura Turon, El Paso TX
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2021
VIVA LA VIDA community mural: Hispanic Heritage Month, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO
ARTIST TALKS
2023
2023 UTEP Faculty Biennial Artist Talk, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center, El Paso,TX
FAWC Guest Faculty Artist Talk Summer 2023, Fine Arts Works Center, Provincetown, MA
2022
Anderson Ranch Guest Faculty Lecture Summer 2022, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2020
2020 UTEP Faculty Exhibition: Artist Panel Series, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center, El Paso,TX
2019
Outer Terrains Artist Talks, Box 13 Gallery, Houston, TX
2016
Anderson Ranch 2016 Artists-In-Residence Talk Series, Carbondale Library, Carbondale, CO
Anderson Ranch Artists-In-Residence Talks, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
Nabil Gonzalez, Honeyguide Gallery, El Paso, TX
2014
25,861 Nabil Gonzalez & Laura Turon, Fox Fine Arts Glass Gallery, El Paso TX
ARTICLES/VIDEOS
2016
Interview Q&A: Nabil Gonzalez, Strange Fire Collective, http://www.strangefirecollective.com/qa-nabil-gonzalez
2013
El Paso Artist wins 2013 Marfa Lights Festival T-shirt Design Contest, Big Bend Now Newspaper
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Local Artist More Than Students, Fusion Magazine
Santa Muerte is a Chilling Look at Mexican Drug War’s Ghastly Toll, Kansas City Star Newspaper
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2012
Printmeikiando, Art Magazine El Paso
Video Interview Printmeikiando, Art Magazine El Paso
REFERENCES
Available upon request