Lives and works in New York and San Antonio
EDUCATION
St. Mary's University, B.A. English '82, Summa Cum Laude
St Mary's School of Law JD Law '85, Highest Honors
SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2008
The Powder Room, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Feast without Famine, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, New York
2007
A Mexican Museum of Modern Art, Newark Museum of Art and Aljira Center for
Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey
Modern Pinatas, Window Works, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas
Gift With Purchase, University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas
Love Stories, Galeria Ortiz, San Antonio, Texas
Painting Under Glass, The Art Cases at SoHo, San Antonio, Texas
2006
Paintin' Place, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Hollywood Squares, Light Box Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Tea for Tú , San Antonio Public Library, San Antonio, Texas
2005
Quattrocento: Four Hundred Paintings, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York
Postcards from Rome, American Academy in Rome, Italy
Small Treasures, Projetto Biagiotti, Florence, Italy
2004
Botanica Los Angeles, UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, California (catalog)
Giant, Marfa Ballroom, Marfa, Texas
99 Paintings, McColl Center for the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina
2003
Pan in the Park, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, Missouri (catalog)
2002
Nacho de Paz (and Other TexMex Miracles), Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York
2001
SHOP, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, New York
Infinito Botanica: St Louis, Des Lee Gallery, Washington U., St. Louis, Mo.
Untitled Grid No. 7, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY.
2000
Mexique, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York (catalog)
1999
Infinito Botanica, San Antonio, Texas (1995-1999)
Infinito Botanica: New York, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
1998
Tableau Vivant, The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas
1996
Infinito Botanica @ ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas (catalog)
Diesen ist Kein Kitsch, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas
1995
Naturaleza Muerta, Plaza Santa Catarina, Mexico City, Mexico
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Room with a Queen, Bridge Art Fair, Miami, Florida
Time for a Chage, Deborah Colton Galley, Houston, Texas
Curiosities, Edward Cella Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
"Mestizos Moderne", Re-Mix, New Modernities in a Post Indian World, The Heard
Museum, Phoenix, Arizona and The National Museum of The American Indian
Smithsonian, New York, New York (catalog)
2007
Nuevo Arte: Colección Tequila Don Julio, The Mexican Museum,
White Box, NY, New World Museum, Houston, Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Ulterior Motifs: A Celebratory Art Extravaganza, Arlington Museum of Art, Texas
2006
Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase
College, Purchase, New York (catalog)
2005
The Prague Biennale, Prague Museum of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech
Republic
Infinito Botanica: Bologna, Bologna Art Fair, Bologna, Italy
Down the Garden Path: The Artist's Garden After Modernism, Queens Museum of Art, New York, New York (catalog)
2004
I Heart Texas, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Twang, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
Salon Carlotta, McColl Center for the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina
2003
Mexican Town, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Dreamspaces/Entresueños, Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
2002
Infinito Botanica: Spain, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
Dust in the Wind, NY Public Art Fund, New York, New York (catalog)
Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Miami Art Museum, Miami, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Easy as 1, 2, 3 Recycled Works, San Antonio, Texas
ARS01 - KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (catalog)
Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Caribbean Biennal, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Lost In Space, Gary Tatinsian Gallery, New York, NY
Hopscotch, Gallery of Art, Kean University, New Jersey
2000
The Whitney Biennial 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalog)
City of Lights: Art Walk, Comité Colbert, New York, New York (catalog)
Infinito Botanica @ Downtown Arts Project, New York, New York
Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California (catalog)
Texans in the Whitney, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Yard Sale, Downtown Arts Project, New York, New York
1998
Material World, Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria Austin, Texas
Collective Visions, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
The Business of Art, Instituto Cultural de Mexico, San Antonio, Texas
1997
Simply Beautiful, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas (catalog)
Tres Proyectos Latinos, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
1995
Double Trouble: Mirrors/Pairs/Twins/Lovers, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas (Brochure)
Synthesis and Subversion: A Latino Direction in San Antonio Art, Art Gallery of the University of Texas at San Antonio and the UTSA Satellite Space (catalog)
1994
Blue Star VIII, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas (catalog)
1993
The Illusive Object, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas
Hispanic Artists of 1993, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas
Closets: Queer Experiences, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, San Antonio, Texas
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2004-5, Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome
2003, McColl Center Artist in Residency Program, Charlotte, North Carolina
2001, Creative Capital Foundation Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
2000, Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant, Artpace Artist in Residency Program
1994, New Forms Regional Initiative Grant
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
Rothstein, Edward. "Celebrating Hispanics From Both Sides of a Hyphenated
Identity," The New York Times,April 21, 2007.
Clark, Jayne. "San Antonio celebrates its Latino heritage with an arts bonanza",
USA Today, April 20, 2007.
Jacobs, Joseph. "Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Emerging Artists", Art & Antiques, February.
2006
Horyn, Cathy. "Lone Star Style", The New York Times, August 27, 2006.
Leffingwell, Edward. "Franco Mondini-Ruiz at Frederieke Taylor Gallery", Art in America, May 2006.
2005
Smith, Roberta. "Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Quattrocento", The New York Times,
December 30, 2005.
2004
Carmela Ciuraru. "Kitsch and Sell," ARTnews, November 2004, p.131.
2003
Jessica Ostrower. "Franco Mondini-Ruiz at Frederieke Taylor Gallery", Art in America, May 2003.
Melissa Gronlund. "Franco Mondini-Ruiz", ArtNews, May 2003.
Ken Johnson. "Franco Mondini-Ruiz, 'Nacho de Paz'", The New York Times, January 3 2003.
2002
art: 21 Art in the Twenty First Century, Henry N. Abrams, publications 2001, pg 204.
"Canvas", Art News, February 2002, pg 36.
"Caribbean Biennale", Flash Art, May 2002.
2001
"Ultra Baroque: Museum of Contemporary, San Diego"
Charles LaBelle, frieze, Jan/Feb 2001, p. 99.
Ann Albritton , "Franco Mondini-Ruiz: El Museo Del Barrio", Sculpture, Jan/Feb 2001, pg 59.
"Critics Choice: Pick of the Week", Time Out NY, March 2001.
2000
Christopher Knight "Updating Baroque", Los Angeles Times, October 3, 2000, p. F.8, F.9.
Michael Duncan "Blinded by Buzzwords", Art in America, July 2000, pp. 38, 40.
Peter Schjeldahl, "The pleasant surprise of the new, in two big surveys", The New Yorker, April 3, 2000.
Holland Cotter, "Varied Realms Thrive Uptown", The New York Times, April 14, 2000.
Katy Siegel, "Biennial 2000: Whitney Museum of Art", ARTFORUM, May 2000, p. 171.
Patricia C. Johnson, "They'll take Manhattan", Houston Chronicle, 4 May 2000, p. 1D.
