Celia Cortez, Mary
Fort Worth, Texas
celia.cortez84@yahoo.com
www.celiacortez.org
Education
2016-2018 MFA in Studio Arts, Cum Laude, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, North Carolina
2009-2012 BFA in painting, Cum Laude, The University of Texas at Arlington,
Arlington, Texas
Solo Exhibitions
2018 I Carry You With Me, Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro, North Carolina
2012-2013 Words, Music, and Lyrics, Rose Marine Theater, Fort Worth, Texas
Group Exhibitions
2019 Threads, Artes de la Rosa, Fort Worth, Texas2018 Family Reunion, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
2018 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North
Carolina
2015 Selections from Exhibitionists Show, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
2015 Exhibitionists, Shipping and Receiving, Fort Worth, Texas
2015 National Community College Hispanic Council of American Association
Community Colleges, Fort Worth, Texas
2015 Second Annual Juried Exhibition, Juror Vernon Fisher, Artspace 111, Fort Worth
Texas
2014 Tethered, Atrium Gallery at The University of North Texas Health and Science
Center, Fort Worth, Texas
2014 Advanced Placement, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
2013 Ideas in Art Award Recipient Exhibition, Gallery West at The University of Texas at
Arlington, Arlington, Texas
2012 BFA Exhibition, The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, Texas
2012 Selective Memory, Atrium Gallery at The University of North Texas Health
and Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas
2012 Constant, Celia Cortez and Alyssa Hawkins-Heeter, Gallery West, Arlington, Texas
2011 Groundwaves, Ridglea Theater, Fort Worth, Texas
2010 Juried Exhibition Illusions, Gallery West at The University of Texas at Arlington,
Arlington, Texas
2010 This and That: Food for Thought, Atrium Gallery at The University of North
Texas Health and Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas
2009 Tarrant County College Student Exhibition, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth,
Texas
2009 Selections 2009 from the Fort Worth Art Dealers Association, Fort Worth
Community Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas
2008 Studio 817 Gallery Night Exhibition, Fort Worth, Texas
2007 Tarrant County College Student Exhibition, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth,
Texas
Awards and Honors
2015 Selected for Artspace 111's 2nd Juried Exhibition, Fort Worth, Texas
2015 Artspace 111 selected work from the Exhibitionists show displayed in Studio "B"
exhibition, Fort Worth, Texas
2012 James S. Barnett Jr. Award, Ideas in Art, Arlington, Texas
2011 The Arlington Arts League, 2nd place, Arlington, Texas
2010 Selected juried exhibition, Illusions, Arlington, Texas
2009 Art Slam, critiqued by Eddy Rawlinson, Professor at El Centro College
Selected Collections
Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, Texas