exhibitions
2025
(upcoming solo show ) SCAD Museum of Art - Savannah, GA
2024
(upcoming solo show) Pending Flowers - Reynolds Gallery - Richmond, VA
(upcoming) Rhythms - Wharton Esherick Museum - Paoli, PA
Soy De Tejas: Curated by Rigoberto Luna - Arts Fort Worth - Fort Worth, TX
Contigo: Co-Curated by Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy - GGLA - Los Angeles, CA
2023
Excavated Selves: Becoming Magic Bodies - The Immigrant Artist Biennial - New York, NY
Beyond Reverie - Skye Gallery - New York, NY
Material Mythologies - No Place Gallery - Columbus, OH
Perpetual Screw - International Objects - Brooklyn, NY
Naturescape - The Arts Center in Greenwood - Greenwood, SC
Wouldn’t You Love To Know - Half Gallery - New York, NY/Middlefield, MA
Hermés Paris - Sculptural window installation - Aspen, CO
This is Out of Hand - ICA MECA&D - Portland, ME
Storage Wars - The Hole NYC - Los Angeles, CA
Dallas Art Fair - The Hole NYC - Dallas, TX
First Impression - Room57 Gallery -New York, NY
Volta Art Fair with Ethan Cohen Gallery - Basel, Switzerland
Glitch Ecology and the thickness of now - Honor Fraser Gallery - Los Angeles, CA
Making Visible: Migration and Identity - Marymount Manhattan College - New York, NY
Soy De Tejas: Curated by Rigoberto Luna - Centro de Artes Gallery/ Museo Alameda - San Antonio, TX
Local Objects - International Objects - Brooklyn, NY
Art Palm Beach Fair with Ethan Cohen Gallery - Palm Beach, FL
2022
Color Him Tender - The Projecto at Furman + Keil Architects - Austin, TX
Art Miami Fair with Ethan Cohen Gallery - Miami, FL
No Misery Can Tell, No Word of Farewell - Wassaic Projects - Wassaic, NY
Pasele! Pasele! - MAD54 Gallery - New York, NY
Material Knowledge - Arsenal Contemporary - New York, NY
Volta Art Fair with Ethan Cohen Gallery - Basel, Switzerland
Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Art Fair with Ethan Cohen Gallery - Palm Beach, FL
Titebond Infinity - Woodward Studios - Ridgewood, Queens
The Last Words - Ethan Cohen Gallery - New York, NY
2021
Art Miami Fair with Ethan Cohen Gallery - Miami Beach, FL
Queens Arts Council Exhibition - Ridgewood, NY
Volta Art Fair with Ethan Cohen Gallery - Basel, Switzerland
Some Things Never Grow Back - Solo Show at Ethan Cohen Gallery - Beacon, NY
PRIDE - Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Chicago Artists Coalition WIP – Chicago, IL
Anemoia – Textraño Mucho Gallery – Mexico City, MX
Domesticated, Curated by Coady Brown – Richard Heller Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
2020
Darkest Before Dawn: Art in the time of Uncertainty - Ethan Cohen KuBe – Beacon, NY
Seeing Purple/Seeing Red – SPSR Website – Bozeman, MT
I wake up in a foreign country everyday (Solo Show) -Ethan Cohen Gallery - New York, NY
Our Shared Backyard (Solo Show) - Reynolds Gallery - Richmond, VA
Breakthrough – Ethan Cohen Gallery – New York, NY
Cabin Fever - 1708 Gallery - Richmond, VA
Geografia Relativa Curated by Guadalajara 90210 - Mexico City, MX
Two Self-Portraits and One Soft Piece of Wood (Solo Show) - Fine Arts Work Center - Provincetown, MA
Fellows Show - Provincetown Art Association and Museum - Provincetown, MA
2019
The Plant Show - Ground Level Platform - Chicago, IL
Summer Steals - Reynolds Gallery - Richmond, VA
International Sculpture Center - Mana Contemporary - Jersey City, NJ
VCU MFA Thesis Show - The Anderson Gallery - Richmond, VA
2018
Invasive Species on Playa– Burning Man - Black Rock City, NV
Homecoming (Solo Show) - Prizer Gallery– Austin, TX
Raul De Lara (Solo Show) – Greasewood Gallery– Marfa, TX
Re: ARTS – Pfizer Building - Brooklyn, NY
VCU MFA Candidacy Show – VCU Police Station - Richmond, VA
2017
Raul De Lara (Solo Show) – Big Ass Canvas - Austin, TX
Welcome! – Lummus Park - Miami, FL
49 NE 22nd Street – Wynwood District - Miami, FL
Snakes and Ladders – The Anderson - Richmond, VA
Latinx – VCU Fine Arts Building Gallery - Richmond, VA
Raul De Lara & Leonardo Moleiro – Big Ass Canvas - Austin, TX
Luminarts Visual Arts Fellowship – Union League Club of Chicago - Chicago, IL
Universal Love – Heaven Gallery - Chicago, IL
Design & Art Series #10 – Dock 6 Collective - Chicago, IL
Paddle8 – Christie’s Fine Art - Chicago, IL
WORK IN PROGRESS – Chicago Artists Coalition Annual Benefit - Chicago, IL
Hiding in Plain Sight –Chicago Artists Coalition - Chicago, IL
Simple Pleasures – Heaven Gallery - Chicago, IL
YRU Leaving, WRY Going – The Franklin - Chicago, IL
2016
Exhaustion & Exuberance - Chicago Artists Coalition - Chicago, IL
2015
Halloween – The Archer Beach Haus - Chicago, IL
Quiet Ghosts (Solo Exhibition) – Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency - Saugatuck, MI
2015 Up and Up – Visual Arts Center - Austin, TX
5X7 – The Contemporary Austin - Austin, TX
3rd & Colorado – Curated by Big Ass Canvas - Austin, TX
2014
Vibrant Matter – Visual Arts Center - Austin, TX
Blow Out – The University of Texas at Austin - Austin, TX
ERCATX III – Mass Gallery – Austin, TX
East Austin Studio Tour – The Tiger Den Studio – Austin, TX
Art Prom – Curated by Big Ass Canvas - Austin, TX
Coffee Bean And Tea Leaf - Austin, TX
2013
99 Balloons Art Show – Fayetteville, AR
Herradura Barrel Art Collection – Brazos Hall - Austin, TX
Herradura Barrel Art Collection – LMNT Lounge - Miami, FL
West Austin Studio Tour – UT Art Co-op Gallery – Austin, TX
2011
Small Works Student Exhibition – ACC Rio Grande - Austin, TX
East Austin Studio Tour – Hearts & Robots Studio – Austin, TX
Education
2019
MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media - Virginia Commonwealth University
2015
BFA in Studio Art - The University of Texas at Austin
RESIDENCIES &
Awards
2024
Silver Art Projects Residency
The Hopper Prize Shortlist
Penland Winter Residency - Distinguished Fellow
2023
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Craft/Sculpture
Art in America: Top 20 Global New Talent To Watch
2022
Haystack Mountain School of Craft: Open Studio Residency
Haystack Mountain School of Craft: BIPOC Fellowship
National Park Service Artist-in-Residence: OCARC Residency
Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists Residency: Conversation in Practice Program
2021
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Art Center Residency at Governor’s Island
Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant
NYFA Artist Grant
2019
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Fellowship
VCU Dean’s Thesis Grant
2018
International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award
2017
Luminarts Fellowship Finalist
Robert F. DeCaprio Exhibition Judge
2015
Chicago Artists Coalition HATCH Projects Residency
Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists Residency: Summer Fellowship
The University of Texas at Austin New York Seminar Scholarship
2014
Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists Residency: Summer Class Scholarship
Michael Aubrey Jones Endowed Scholarship
Core77 Design Award in Communication Design
2013
Herradura Barrel Art Collection Miami Finalist
Herradura Barrel Art Collection Austin Regional Winner
Michael Aubrey Jones Endowed Scholarship
Visiting Artist
Maine College of Art and Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, San Diego State University, Marymount Manhattan College, Parsons School of Design, Kent State University.