Franco Mondini – Ruiz
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1996
Parties and Parfum, Colton & Farb Gallery – Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston,
Texas, United States
Festive Art Happening with Featured Artist Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Colton & Farb
Gallery – Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States
Feast without Famine, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York City, New York, United
States
Solo project in conjunction with Mexicana: Discovering Mexican Popular Arts, 19191950, Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey, United States
Hollywood Squares, Light Box Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States
Quattrocento: 400 Paintings, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York City, New York,
United States
Postcards from Rome, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
Small Treasures, Projetto Biagiotti, Florence, Italy
¡Que Purdy! New World Museum, Houston, Texas, United Stated
Botanica Los Angeles , UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, California, United
States
Giant, Marfa Ballroom, Marfa, Texas, United States
99 Paintings, McColl Center for the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Pan in the Park, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, Missouri, United States
Nacho de Paz (and Other TexMex Miracles), Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York
City, New York, United States
Dolci, Max Mara, The Galleria, Dallas, Texas, United States
Market Squared, Galeria Ortiz, San Antonio, Texas, United States
Dust in the Wind, NY Public Art Fund, New York City, New York, United States
SHOP, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
Infinito Botanica: St Louis, Des Lee Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis,
Missouri, United States
Untitled Grid No. 7, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, New York,
United States
Mexique, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York, United States
Infinito Botanica, San Antonio, Texas, United States
Infinito Botanica: New York, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson, New York, United States
New Paintings Y Mas, Galeria Ortiz, San Antonio, Texas, United States
Tableau Vivant, The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas, United Stated
Infinito Botanica @ ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas, United States
Diesen ist Kein Kitsch, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas, United States
Ofrenda for Marion Koogler McNay, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, United
States
1995
1994
Naturaleza Muerta, Plaza Santa Catarina, Mexico City, Mexico
Untitled Grid No. 1, San Antonio, Texas, United States
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
A Time For Change, Deborah Colton Gallery, curated by Catherine Anspon,
Houston, Texas
Re-Mix, The Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, New York City, New York,
United States
Re-Mix, The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Ulterior Motifs: A Celebratory Art Extravaganza, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington,
Texas, United States
The Mexican Museum’s Nuevo Arte: Colección Tequila Don Julio, White Box, New
York, New World Museum, Houston, Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, Los Angeles
Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, United States
Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, curated by Dede Young, Neuberger
Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, New York, United States
Infinito Botanica: Bologna, Bologna Art Fair, Bologne, Italy
The Prague Biennale, Prague Museum of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech
Republic
Down the Garden Path: The Artist's Garden After Modernism, Queens Art Museum,
Queens, New York, United States
Ballroom, Marfa, Texas, United States
I Heart Texas, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Twang, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas, United States
Salon Carlotta, McColl Center for the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Half Baked Sales, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, Affordable Art Fair, New York City, New
York, United States
Communities (Mexican Town), Wayne Staste University, Detroit, Michigan, United
States
Dreamspaces/Entresueños, Deutsche Bank, New York City, New York, United
States
Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Walker ARt Center, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, United States
Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Miami Art Museum, Miami,
Florida, United States
Untitled, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Infinito Botanica: Spain, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Miami Art Museum, Miami, United
States and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Easy as 1, 2, 3 Recycled Works, San Antonio, Texas, United States
ARS01 - KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Modern Art Museum of Fort
Worth, Fort Worth, Texas and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, California, United States
Caribbean Biennal, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Lost In Space, Gary Tatinsian Gallery, New York City, New York, United States
Hopscotch, Gallery of Art, Kean University, Union, New Jersey, United States
The Whitney Biennial 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New
York, United States
City of Lights: Art Walk, Comité Colbert, New York, New York, United States
1999
1998
1997
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
Infinito Botanica, Downtown Arts Project, New York City, New York, United States
Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art,
San Diego, California, United States
Texans in the Whitney, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Yard Sale, Downtown Arts Project, New York City, New York, United States
The Ecstatic, Trans-Hudson Gallery, New York City, New York, United States
Trade, Salon 300, Brooklyn, New York, United States
Material World, Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria Austin, Texas, United States
Collective Visions, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, United States
The Business of Art, Instituto Cultural de Mexico, San Antonio, Texas, United States
Simply Beautiful, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas, United States
Tres Proyectos Latinos, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, United States
Double Trouble: Mirrors/Pairs/Twins/Lovers, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio,
Texas, United States
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, San Antonio,
Texas, United States
Blue Star VIII, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas, United States
The Illusive Object, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas, United States
Hispanic Artists of 1993, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas,
United States
Closets: Queer Experiences, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, San Antonio,
Texas, United States
El Impacto de Dos Mundos, Art Space Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, United
States
Shrines, Milagros Contemporary Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, United States
Texas Dialogues, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas, United States
Planta de Arte Nuclear, San Antonio, Texas, United States
San Antonio Sculpture Symposium 1989, curated by Dave Hickey, San Antonio,
Texas, United States
Public Commissions and Curatorial Projects
2007
2003
2002
2000
1998
1994
Gift Shop, Museo Alameda, San Antonio, Texas, United States
Mas is Mas Gift Shop, Museo Americano Smithsonian, San Antonio, Texas, United
States
Trophies, Southwestern Bell Corporation, Installations for new sports arena, San
Antonio, Texas, United States
Dust in the Wind, Public Art Fund, New York City, New York, United States
Infinito Botanica @ Downtown Arts Project, New York City, New York, United States
Latino Redux: A New Collection of Stories, Lies and Embellishments, North Texas
State University Gallery, Denton, Texas, United States
Parallels, Dallas-San Antonio, Blue Star Art Space, Co-curated by Diana Block, San
Antonio, Texas, United States
El Dia des Los Muertos, Victoria Museum of Art, Victoria, Texas, United States
Blue Star on Houston Street, Co Curated with Jesse Amado, San Antonio, Texas,
United States
Grants and Residencies
2004-05
Rome Prize Recipient, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1996
1994
Tryon Center Artist Residency Program, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Creative Capital Foundation Supplemental Grant
Creative Capital Foundation Grant
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
ArtPace General Grant
ArtPace Artist in Residency Program, San Antonio, Texas, United Stated
New Forms Regional Initiative Grant
Selected Bibliography
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
Beyond Stereotypes: 21st-Century Indian Artists, by Ken Johnson, The New York
Times, June 20
Celebrating Hispanics From Both Sides of a Hyphenated
Identity, by Edward Rothstein, The New York Times, April 21
San Antonio celebrates its Latino heritage with an arts bonanza, by
Jayne Clark, USA Today, April 20
Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Emerging Artists, by Joseph Jacobs, Art & Antiques, February
Lone Star Style, by Cathy Horyn, The New York Times, August 27
Franco Mondini-Ruiz at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, by Edward Leffingwell, Art in
America, May
Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Quattrocento at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, by Roberta Smith,
The New York Times, December 30
Kitsch and Sell, by Carmela Ciuraru, ArtNews, November
Franco Mondini-Ruiz at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, by Jessica Ostrower, Art in
America, May
Franco Mondini-Ruiz, by Melissa Gronlund, ArtNews, May
Franco Mondini-Ruiz: Nacho de Paz, by Sean C. Horton, ARTL!ES, Summer
Franco Mondini-Ruiz, 'Nacho de Paz', Ken Johnson, The New York Times,
January 3
art: 21 Art in the Twenty First Century, by Henry N. Abrams, publications 2001 page
204
Canvas, Art News, February, page 36
Caribbean Biennal, Flash Art, May
Ultra Baroque: Museum of Contemporary, San Diego, by Charles LaBelle, frieze,
January/February, page 99
Franco Mondini-Ruiz: El Museo Del Barrio, by Ann Albritton, Sculpture,
January/February, page 59.
Beautiful People, by Mickey Boardman, Paper, April, page 52
Critics Choice: Pick of the Week, Time Out New York, March
Updating Baroque, by Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, October 3, page F.
8, F. 9
Blinded by Buzzwords, by Michael Duncan, Art in America, July, pages 38, 40
The pleasant surprise of the new, in two big surveys, by Peter Schjeldahl, The New
Yorker, April 3
Varied Realms Thrive Uptown, by Holland Cotter, The New York Times, April 14
Biennial 2000: Whitney Museum of Art, by Katy Siegel, ARTFORUM, May, page
171
They'll take Manhattan, by Patricia C. Johnson, Houston Chronicle, May 4, page 1D
Big Apple is home to many San Antonians, by Cory Leahy, San Antonio Express
News, January 16, page 8H
Contemporánea 2000 Mexique, by Julia P. Herzberg, Exhibition Catalog, Musee del
Barrio, New York, New York, February
NT artists give students a taste of San Antonio, by Mike Daby, The North Texas
Daily, February 29, page 8
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1993
1991
The Max Factor, by Julie Caniglia, ARTFORUM, March
Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Exhibition Catalog, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art,
March, page 162
Latino art show tells tall tales, by Janet Kutner, The Dallas Morning News, March 18
pages 4C-5C
Arts: New York show has S.A. spice, by Elda Silva, San Antonio Express News,
March 24
Artists share their vision of Whitney Museum fete, by Elda Silva, San Antonio
Express News, March 24, page 12A
S. Texas works look to define ethnicity, by Dan Goddard, San Antonio Express
News, March 30
An Art to Save the World?, by Noel Frackman, Review, April 1, page 75
The Search for Life in an Alien Universe, by Herbert Reichert, Review, April 1, page
36
The New Zoo: McGrew's Zoo, by Lyle Rexer, Review, April 1, page 36
San Antonio Artist Revels in his Time in the Biennial Spotlight, by Elda Silva, San
Antonio Express News, April 2, page 12A
Gorgeous Politics: The Life and Work of Franco Mondini-Ruiz, by Alejandro Diaz,
Masters Thesis, Bard College
The Ecstatic, by Ken Johnson, The New York Times, September 10
The Ecstatic, by Simon Watson, Simon Says, September, volume 4, number 1
There's beauty everywhere: Artist taking views on inclusivity to Whitney, by Elda
Silva, San Antonio Express News, December 18
Big Apple Paisano, by Jonathon Marcus, San Antonio Current, December 30, page
11
Franco Mondini-Ruiz: Water for the Spirits of Danny and Drew, by Jean McMann,
Altars and Icons, Chronicle Books
Infinito Botanica: Enigmatic Divinities, by Felipe Arevalo, Artlies, number 16, Fall
Simply Beautiful, by Dana Friis-Hansen, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston,
page 15, catalog
Inventory as Story, by Janet L. Rumble, Metropolis, December
Synthesis & Subversion: A Latino Direction in San Antonio Art, Frances Colpitt, Art
Gallery of the University of Texas at San Antonio and the UTSA Satellite Space, July,
catalog
Double Trouble: Mirrors/Pairs/Twins/Lovers, by Dana Friis-Hansen, Blue Star Art
Space, July, catalog
Franco Mondini-Ruiz 96.3, by Frances Colpitt, ArtPace: A Foundation for
Contemporary Art, San Antonio, September, catalog
Still Life with Potatoes, Pearls, Raw Meat, Rhinestones, Lard and Horse Hooves,
Sandra Cisneros, Loose Woman, by Alfred A. Knopf; published in The New
Yorker, April
Infinito's Eclectic Jumble May Seed Arts District, by Mike Greenberg, San Antonio
Express News, December 20
FAT, by David Fuller, Poliester, Fall, Mexico
FAT Plays on Vanity, by Dan Goddard, San Antonio Express News, July 11
Arlington Museum is off to a Good Start, by Janet Kutner, Dallas Morning News, 6
July
Publications
2005
2002
1998
High Pink: Tex-Mex Fairy Tales, DAP Press
Latino Redux: A Collection of Stories, Lies and Embellishments, University of North
Texas Art Gallery
Parallels: Dallas - San Antonio, Blue Star Art Space
Film Appearances
2002
Debut, directed by Danny Hobart
Screen Test, directed by Danny Hobart
Corpus, directed by Lourdes Portillo
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