Ruth Leonela Buentello | |
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| Born | 1984  |
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| Occupation | Artist, painter |
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| Website | ruthlbuentello |
Ruth Leonela Buentello (born 1984) is an American Chicana Artist. [1] [2] In 2019, she was named as a participant in the Joan Mitchell Foundation residency program. [1] In 2017, she was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors. [1] She was the third Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence sponsored by the University of Michigan. [3]
In 1984, Buentello was born in San Antonio. [4]
She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in 2008. [1] [5] Her work has focused on immigration, undocumented immigrants, patriarchy, machismo, labor, Chicana/o studies, and chicana art. [1] [3] [4] [6] [7] In 2009, she had co-founded the Más Rudas Chicana Artist Collective (Más Rudas) with Sarah Castillo, Kristin Gamez, and Mari Hernandez. [2] [5] [8] In 2010, she studied abroad in France and Italy after receiving an Artist Travel Grant from Artpace to study the art of Nikki de Saint Phalle. [1] In 2021, Buentello graduated with a Master in Fine Art degree in painting from the Maine College of Art & Design. [9]
In 2001, she had worked as an assistant to Alex Rubio for a mural on Chupaderas Street in San Antonio. [10] In 2003, she created Piedad (Piety), a street mural focusing on police brutality in San Antonio as well. [10] [11]
She participated in the Mexic-Arte Museum's exhibit Young Latino Artists 16: Thought Cloud in 2011. [1] She held a residency in 2012 with the non-profit Serie Project. [1] That same year, she published in the peer-review journal Chicana/Latina Studies. [6] In 2013, Más Rudas presented a collective work titled “Ruda Phat” at the Institute of Texas Cultures. [8]
In 2014, Más Rudas guest curated the "Young Latina Artists" show at the Mexic-Arte Museum. The collective's decision to rename the "Young Latino Artists" exhibit Buentello had participated in just 3 years earlier to the "Young Latina Artists" exhibit was meant to highlight Latina artists' work. [2]
On October 24–25, 2015, Más Rudas presented their original performance piece “Walking Altars" at the Luminaria art festival. [8]
In 2017, she was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors grant. [1] That same year, Buentello's “Domestic Narratives” exhibit was shown alongside Ana Fernandez's “Eastside Westside” exhibit at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio. [5] [12]
In 2018, the work of Buentello alongside the work of Kathy Vargas and 3 other artists was exhibited in the University of Texas at San Antonio's "Deep Roots: An Intersection of Borders" exhibit. [13]
In 2019, she was the third Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan. [3] That same year, her exhibit “Yo Tengo Nombre” was on display at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery at the University of Michigan. [14] She was also featured at Presa House Gallery's 2019 Remember Me exhibit. [15]