Resume Selections

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2003
In My Family/En mi familia, Austin Children’s Museum, Austin, Texas. Exhibition is traveling to: Kalamazoo Valley Museum, Kalamazoo, MI; Pittsburgh Children's Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Grand Rapids Children's Museum, Grand Rapids, MI; San Antonio Children's Museum, San Antonio, TX; Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, San Jose, CA; Children's Museum of Brownsville, Brownsville, TX; Minnesota Children's Museum, St. Paul, MN.

Carmen Lomas Garza, Como la Salvila/Like the Aloe, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. Exhibition will travel to the Resource Library, Gaea Foundation, Washington, DC. (catalogue).

2001
Carmen Lomas Garza: A Retrospective, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California. Exhibition traveled to: San Antonio Museum of Art in San Antonio, Texas; Art Museum of South Texas, South Texas Institute for the Arts in Corpus Christi, Texas; Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin in Odessa, Texas; National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida

1999
Papel Picado: The Paper Cutouts of Carmen Lomas Garza, Galeria de la Raza/Studio 24, San Francisco, California

1997
Carmen Lomas Garza: Monitos, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City, Missouri

1996
Carmen Lomas Garza: Cuadros de recuerdos de una artista Chicana/Paintings of Memories of a Chicana Artist, Steinbaum-Krauss Gallery, New York, NY (video)

1995
Directions, Carmen Lomas Garza, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (brochure)

Carmen Lomas Garza, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, New York

Los primos del rio abajo, Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico

1994
Dia de los muertos/Ofrenda para Antonio Lomas, Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii

1992
Homenaje a Tenochtitlan: An Installation for Day of the Dead, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts (video)

1991 - 1992
Piece of My Heart/Pedacito de mi corazón, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas. Exhibition traveled to El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas; Texas A & I University, Kingsville, Texas; Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, Texas; Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, Illinois; Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California (catalogue)

1987
Lo real maravilloso, The Marvelous/The Real, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California (catalogue)

1977
Carmen Lomas Garza, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California

1972
Monitos, Estudios Rio Gallery, Mission, Texas

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2002
Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California 1950 – 2000, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California. (catalogue)

2001
Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge, BBH, San Antonio, Texas. Exhibition opened at San Antonio Museum of Art and is traveling in the USA (catalogue)

2000
Arte Latino: Treasures From the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Exhibition traveled in the USA (catalogue)

1995
Facing Eden/100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area,
M. H. deYoung Memorial Museum, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California

1993
Art of the Other Mexico, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago Illinois. Exhibition traveled in the USA and Mexico. (catalogue)

1992
The Chicano Codices, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California. Exhibition traveled in the USA (catalogue)

1990
C.A.R.A., Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles. Exhibition traveled in the USA (catalogue)

1987
Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painter and Sculptors, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Exhibition traveled in the USA (catalogue)

1978
Homage to Frida Kahlo, Día de los Muertos, Galería de la Raza/Studio 24, San Francisco, California (brochure)

1977
Dále Gas: Chicano Art of Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue)

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

° El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
° Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
° Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
° McAllen Memorial Library, McAllen, Texas
° Mexican American Library Project, Univ. of Texas Library, Austin, Texas
° Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, Illinois
° Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
° San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
° San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California
° San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California
° San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
° Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
° The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California
° The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
° Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona

PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS

1999
Baile, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco. Copper cutout wall sculpture, 16 x 24 feet

1993
Cumpleaños y Barbacoa, Federal Reserve Bank, Dallas, Texas. Oil painting, 36 x 48 inches

1984
History of Northern California Water, San Francisco Water Department, Millbrae Suburban Facility. Seven acrylics paintings each 36 x 48 inches and one painting 36 x 72 inches

FINE ART AWARDS AND GRANTS

2004
Rockefeller Study and Conference Center, Residency Program, Bellagio, Italy

1996
National Endowment for the Arts / FONCA, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, International Creative Artists' Residency Program, Oaxaca and Mexico City

1990
California Arts Council Fellowship in Painting

1987
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting

1981
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Printmaking

CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS AND HONORS

2000
° The 2000 Pura Belpré Award for Illustration
° The 2000 Carter G. Woodson Honor Book, National Council for Social Studies
° The 2000 Skipping Stones Honor Award
° Américas Award Honor Book
° Parent's Guide to Children's Media, Inc. Outstanding Achievement
° Parent's Choice Picture Book Recommendation
° Outstanding Selections for 2000 by Parent's Council, Ltd

1996-97
° The Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
° Pura Belpré Honor Book 1996 The American Library Association, and The National Association to Promote Library Services to The Spanish Speaking (REFORMA), Austin, Texas
° 1997-98 Texas Bluebonnet Master List
° Hungry Mind Review “Children’s Books of Distinction” Award
° Skipping Stones Book Award Winner
° Américas Honor Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature
° International Reading Association Notable Books for a Global Society Choice
° Choices, Cooperative Children’s Book Center

1990
° Pura Belpré Honor Award
° Texas Bluebonnet Award
° American Library Association Notable Book
° Recommended by the Elementary School Library Collection
° Parent’s Choice Approved Book
° Library of Congress “Best Books of the Year” selection
° School Library Journal “Best Books of the Year” selection

SPECIAL HONORS

In March 2007 the Los Angeles Unified School District Board approved the naming of a new primary school in East LA, the Carmen Lomas Garza Primary Center. The school, located on 2750 E. Hostetter Street, will expand in a few years to include an elementary school.

EDUCATION

° Master of Art, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 1981
° Master of Education, Juarez-Lincoln/Antioch Graduate School, Austin, Texas, 1973
° Bachelor of Science, Texas Arts and Industry University, Kingsville, Texas, (Texas Teacher Certification), 1972