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Beronica Gonzales is from San Antonio, Texas. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing & Painting with a Double minor in Art History and Psychology from the University of North Texas in 2021. In 2023, Gonzales received the Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund Award from the Dallas Museum of Art. She was the Cluley Projects Inaugural Open Call recipient in 2022. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings and has been exhibited in various spaces throughout Texas.



artist statement


My work engages with the passage of time and the ways in which both found and created objects can preserve moments in time. Objects can serve as vessels for ever-evolving personal sentiments. Found materials are used to draw out and lay bare the personal yet often unknown histories of both their previous owner and the journey of the item itself. By repurposing found items and reproducing my own everyday personal effects in my work, I preserve my subjects and create memorials to the mundane. Through their transformation, the memorialized objects are given a new life to exist as an artwork. By doing so, I express and resist the erosion of time on the objects and my connections to them. The inclusion of found and created possessions connects the individual narrative at play in my work with the anonymized pasts of my working materials.


curriculum vitae



EDUCATION  
2017-2021
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drawing & Painting
Double minor in Art History and Psychology
University of North Texas, Denton, TX


SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024

TBA, Moncrief Cancer Institute, Fort Worth, TX (forthcoming) 

2023

It’s Just Me, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX 

2022

Lying in Squares, Cluley Projects, Dallas, TX

2021

Material Girl(s) Beronica Gonzales and Victoria Gonzales, Union Art Gallery, Denton, TX

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Soft Bones, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX, curated by Analise Minjarez 

2023

Everybody Everybody, Clamp Light Gallery, San Antonio, TX 

Presence, The MAC, Dallas, TX

Lost, Sought, Found, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, curated by Kay Seedig

Hyperlocal III, The MAC, Dallas, TX

2022

Art Room’s 5th Annual Small Works Show, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, juried by Katie Murray

Fooling Ourselves, The Boedeker Building, Dallas, TX

Off Canvas, Lakeview Gallery, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, TX, curated by Victoria Gonzales

Texas Vignette Art Fair, Dallas Market Hall, Dallas, TX, curated by Vicki Meek

Refuge, The MAC, Dallas, TX

Looking Back 2022, Cluley Projects, Dallas, TX

2021

Face to Face: Portraits, Site: Brooklyn Gallery (online), Brooklyn, NY, juror Julia Fiore, Previous roles include Digital Marketing Manager at The Museum of Modern Art, Senior Editor at Artsy

Now | Contemporary 2021, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, juror Dr. Lauren Cross, Program Coordinator and Senior Lecturer of the Interdisciplinary Art and Design Studies (IADS) program at the University of North Texas

College Expo 2021, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX, juror Dr. Valerie Gillespie, Owner of Pencil on Paper Gallery

34th annual Materials: Hard + Soft International Contemporary Craft Competition and Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX, juror Pablo Barrera, Associate Curator, Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City, OK

2020

Art Room’s 4th Annual Small Works Show, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, juried by Deedra Baker and Katie Murray of Art Room

30 Under 30, Gough Gallery, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX, juried by panel

Expo 2020, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX, jurors Sedrick and Letitia Huckaby of Huckaby Studios, Fort Worth, TX

Hot and Sweaty, 500X Gallery (online), Dallas, TX

Texas National 2020, The Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX, juror Annette Lawrence, Professor of Studio Art, College of Visual Arts and Design at University of North Texas

Rising Eyes of Texas, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX, juror Rebecca Gomez, Curator of Exhibitions and Director of Programs, Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, TX

Dallas Quilt Show, Dallas Market Hall, Dallas, TX

60th Annual Voertman Student Exhibition, Cora Stafford Gallery, Denton, TX, juror Andrea Karnes, Head Curator, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX

2019

Linda McNatt Animal Shelter Benefit Exhibition, Denton, TX

2018

UNT Collegiate Recovery Program Benefit Art Gala, Denton, TX 

RESIDENCIES
2024
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany. Grantee of Contemporary at Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 

2022
The Cedars Union, Cohort 3 studio artist, Dallas, TX

HONORS/AWARDS

2024
Horn Scholarship, Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, NC

2023
The Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund, Dallas Musuem of Art, Dallas, TX

2022
Recipient of Cluley Projects Inaugural Open Call

2020
Honorable Mention, Rising Eyes of Texas

Honorable Mention, 60th Annual Voertman Student Exhibition

2017 
Design selected for public mural, Hill Country Family Services, Boerne, TX

PUBLICATIONS
2024
West Branch, Issue No. 104, Winter, Cover

2022
New American Paintings, Issue No. 162, West, Editor’s Selection

GALLERY TALKS
2023
Lost, Sought, Found, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX

2022
Off Canvas, Lakeview Gallery, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, TX

2021 Meadows Gallery, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Materials Hard + Soft, Interview and Gallery Talk, Denton, TX. Gallery talk and artwork used to create a lesson plan for Denton ISD 8th grade ART 3 students, made possible by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.



©  2024 Beronica Gonzales