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. Most recently, she was an artist-in-residence at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany. Gonzales is currently based in Chicago, IL where she is pursing her MFA in Fiber & Material Studies at the School of the Art Insitute of Chicago.
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EDUCATION
MFA, Fiber & Material Studies (Expected graduation date 2027)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
BFA, Drawing & Painting
Double minor in Art History and Psychology
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Objects of Affection, Moncrief Cancer Institute, Fort Worth, TX, curated by Leslie Medrano
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
2026 New Work 2026, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL
2026 Against the Grain Direction, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago, IL
2025 I Remember, Sullivan Center, Chicago, IL
2025 Creative Care, Moncrief Cancer Institute, Fort Worth, TX
2025 Marfa Invitational Open | Texas, Marfa, TX
2025 Pink Tax, Zona 7, Fort Worth, TX
2025 Postcards from the Edge, Berry Campbell, New York, NY
2024 Deck the Hallways, Easyside, Fort Worth, TX
2024 35 Under 35, LBIF, Long Beach Township, NJ. Juror Ruba Katrib, Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, MoMA PS1
2024 New Texas Talent, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX, juried by Jessica Fuentes
2024 Past and Present, The Dallas Foundation, Pegasus Park, Dallas, TX, juried
2024 Soft Bones, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX, curated by Analise Minjarez
2023 Everybody Everybody, Clamp Light Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2023 Presence, The MAC, Dallas, TX
2023 Lost, Sought, Found, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, curated by Kay Seedig
2023 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
2022 Fooling Ourselves, The Boedeker Building, Dallas, TX
2022 Off Canvas, Lakeview Gallery, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, TX, curated by Victoria Gonzales
2022 Texas Vignette Art Fair, Dallas Market Hall, Dallas, TX, curated by Vicki Meek
2022 Refuge, The MAC, Dallas, TX
2022 Looking Back 2022, Cluley Projects, Dallas, TX
2021 Face to Face: Portraits, Site: Brooklyn Gallery (online), Brooklyn, NY, juror Julia Fiore, Digital Marketing Manager at The Museum of Modern Art, Senior Editor at Artsy
2021 Now | Contemporary 2021, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, juror Dr. Lauren Cross, Program Coordinator and Senior Lecturer of the IADS program at the University of North Texas
2021 College Expo 2021, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX, juror Dr. Valerie Gillespie, Owner of Pencil on Paper Gallery
2021 34th annual Materials: Hard + Soft International Contemporary Craft Exhibition, 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
2020 30 Under 30, Gough Gallery, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX, juried by panel
2020 Expo 2020, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX, jurors Sedrick and Letitia Huckaby of Huckaby Studios, Fort Worth, TX
2020 Hot and Sweaty, 500X Gallery (online), Dallas, TX
2020 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
2020 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
2020 Dallas Quilt Show, Dallas Market Hall, Dallas, TX
2020 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
2026 Kriti Gallery Artist Residency, Banaras Cultural Foundation, Varanasi, India
2025 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany. Grantee of Contemporary at Blue Star, San Antonio, TX
2022 The Cedars Union, Cohort 3, Dallas, TX
HONORS/AWARDS
2026 Loretta Grellner Scholar, Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI
2026 Windgate Fellow, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2025 J. Field/R. Field Travel Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2025 New Artist Society Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2024 Horn Scholarship, Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, NC
2023 Glasstire Top Five: December 14, 2023. “It’s Just Me”
2023 The Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund, Dallas Musuem of Art, Dallas, TX
2022 Recipient of Cluley Projects Solo Exhibition Inaugural Open Call, Dalllas, TX
2020 Honorable Mention, Rising Eyes of Texas
2020 Honorable Mention, 60th Annual Voertman Student Exhibition
2017 Design selected for public mural, Hill Country Family Services, Boerne, TX
PUBLICATIONS
2024 New American Paintings, Issue No. 174, West, Editor’s Selection
2024 West Branch, Issue No. 104, Winter, Cover
2022 New American Paintings, Issue No. 162, West, Editor’s Selection
© 2026 Beronica Gonzales