Born Coro, Falcon; Venezuela 1986
Lives and works in Houston, Texas
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
2011 Master of Fine Arts, Painting and Printmaking
The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing
The University of Houston, Houston, Texas
AWARDS, GRANTS AND HONORS
2014 Sojourn Residency
2014 Print Matters Board Member
2014 Sunblossom Residency
2013 Hunting Art Prize Finalist
2013 Women's History Month Lecturer at San Antonio College
2012 Print Matters Artist Member
2011 Many Mini Residency
2011 Liz Alexander Visual Art Award from Houston Arts Alliance
2010 Art and Art History Graduate Scholarship
2010 College of Liberal and Fine Arts Scholarship/Fellowship
2009 Art and Art History Graduate Scholarship
2009 Annual Student Art Exhibition; 3rd Place, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2013 New Works, Red Arrow Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2013 Solo Exhibit, the Brink Gallery, Missoula, Montana
2013 Transitory Spaces/ All That I Remember, Living Arts of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
2013 Two-Person Exhibit, San Antonio College Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2011 MFA Thesis: All That I Remember, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas
2011 PASA Temporary Exhibits, San Antonio, Texas
2010 I Had a Flashback of Something That Never Existed, UTSA Visual Resource Collection, San Antonio, Texas
2010 Working Memory, Gallery E, San Antonio, Texas
2010 PASA Temporary Exhibits: San Antonio City Hall, San Antonio, Texas
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 What's in Store III, Unit for Sonja Roesch Gallery, Houston, Texas
2014 Sojourn Residency Exhibition, 608 Aurora Gallery, Houston, Texas
2014 Starting Gate, The Mariago Collective, Houston, Texas
2014 Impressions 2014, HCC Gallery, Houston, Texas
2014 Select Fair 2014, New York, New York
2014 Luck of the Draw 2014, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas
2014 The Empty Box: All Aboard the Empty Box, Box 13 Arts Space, Houston, Texas
2014 Open Studios, Hardy & Nance Studios, Houston, Texas
2013 Hullabaloo, Gallery Homeland, Houston, Texas
2013 East End Fest, Sponsored by Gerard Trevino, Houston, Texas
2013 Texas Contemporary Art Fair 2013, Houston, Texas
2013 Steamrolled, Peveto, Houston, Texas
2013 Markers, Flight gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2013 Hunting Prize Gala 2013, Houston, Texas
2013 Temporary Arts Exhibits, City Hall, Houston, Texas
2013 Making an Impression, Washington Printmaker's Gallery, Washington, DC
2012 Transitory Spaces, Box 13 Art space, Houston, Texas
2012 Monster Show 7, Domy Bookstore, Houston, Texas
2012 Size Doesn't Matter, Red Arrow Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2012 Making an Impression, the Museum of Printing History, Houston, Texas
2012 What’s in Store, Unit for Sonja Roesch Gallery, Houston, Texas
2012 The LP Show, the Record Ranch Gallery, Houston, Texas
2012 Houston Print Matters Invitational, Design Works Gallery, Galveston Island, Texas
2012 Luminaria 2012, Women’s Pavillion, San Antonio, Texas
Curated by Dean Daderko, Curator for the CAMH
2012 Prop-up Your Unit, Kinzelman Art Consulting, Houston, Texas
2012 National Juried Exhibition 2012, NK Gallery LLC, Boston, Massachusetts
2012 The Millenials, Morlan Gallery of Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky
2011 Redefinition: An Artistic Experience, Ensemble Theater, Houston, Texas
2011 Drawn Out Death, Talento Bilingue Houston, Houston, Texas
2011 Many Mini Residencies, Skydive Art Space, Houston, Texas
2011 Red Dot Show, Blue Star Art Complex, San Antonio, Texas
2011 XXVII Student Art Exhibition, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Curated by Patty Ortiz, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
2010 San Antonio Collegiate Student Exhibition, San Antonio Art League Museum, San Antonio, Texas
2010 XXVI Student Art Exhibition, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Curated by Dan Sutherland Professor at UT-Austin
2010 One, Two, Three Show, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas
2010 Red Dot Show, Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio, Texas
2010 Half-breed, King Raw Studios annex of Texas Lutheran University, Sequin, Texas
2010 Chalk it up! Downtown San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
2009 San Antonio Collegiate Student Exhibition,San Antonio Art League Museum, San Antonio, Texas
2009 XXV Student Art Exhibition, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2009 What Do You Really Need? Medien Kultur Haus Wels, Austria
2009 Art in the Chamber!!!The Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, San Antonio, Texas
2009 Pound for Pound, 118 Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2008 Library Exhibitions, University Of Houston, Houston, Texas
2008 New Art/ Arte Nuevo, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2008 The Water Show, the Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake, Houston, Texas
2008 To What Degree, Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas
2007 Annual Student Art Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas
2007 Annual Student Art Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 Fredrickson, Erika; “Into the Void: In retrieval from an unconscious mind, Gissette Padilla plays with memory”, Missoula news (Jan 2013)
2012 Meredith Deliso, “Unit” at Gallery Sonja Roesch: For the Love of Prints, Multiples and Editions of all Stripes, Houston Press (July, 16, 2012)
2012 Geoff Smith, A Frame Shop with Curatorial Cache, Arts + Culture Magazine Houston (June 29, 2012)
2012 Anastasia F Kirages, Interview with Painter and Printmaker Gissette Padilla, fyeahwomenartist.com (May 22, 2012)
2011 Bill Davenport, Three Artist Receive HAA Liz Alexander Memorial Awards, Glasstire.com (October 13, 2011)
2011 Critic’s Choice, San Antonio Current (May 2011)
2011 Emily Messer, Gallery Stroll UTSA Satellite Space, Art Beat/ San Antonio Express-News (May 5, 2011)
2011 H. Jennings Sheffield: tethered/ Gissette Padilla: All That I Remember, Glasstire.com (May 5, 2011)