STEVE CRUZ
419 N. TYLER
DALLAS, TEXAS 75208
(214) 942-5241
STEVE@MFAGALLERY.COM |
BIRTHPLACE
Pasadena, California
OWNER/DIRECTOR:
Mighty Fine Arts, 419 N.Tyler, Dallas TX. 75208
WEB SITES:
www.mfagallery.com
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITS:
Lago Vista Gallery, Richland College, Dallas Tx Oct.11 - Nov. 9, 2007
Mighty Fine Arts; Dallas, TX April 2- May 8, 2005
Gallery 414; Fort Worth, TX Sept. 7- Oct. 12, 2002
Mountain View College; Dallas, TX January 12 - January 30, 1998
Club Dada Gallery; Dallas, TX October 1991
Salon Gallery; Dallas, TX April 1989
Primo's; Dallas, TX September/November 1988
Extremes Gallery; Dallas, TX April 1988
Bar of Soap Gallery; Dallas, TX September 1987
Record Gallery; Dallas, TX August 1986
Record Gallery; Dallas, TX July 1985
SELECTED TWO PERSON EXHIBITS:
University of Arkansas Gallery; Little Rock, Arkansas
"The Fuzzy Naked Truth" August 7 - September 13, 2001
Gallery 414; Ft. Worth, TX "Por Culpa de las Mujeres"
March 10 - April 8, 2001
Bridge Center for Contemporary Art; El Paso, TX
January 13 - February 17, 2000
500X Gallery; Dallas, TX "The Passions of Santos/The Ecstasy of Malinche" April 10 - May 2, 1999
Brazos Gallery/Richland College; Dallas, TX "Mercado Chilango"
September 8 - October 9, 1998
500X Gallery; Dallas, TX "Saints, Sinners and Super Luchas"
November 8 - December 7, 1997
500X Gallery; Dallas, TX "Women in Therapy and Topless Babes"
November 17 - December 17, 1995
Waco Art Center; Waco, TX Exhibit Co-Winners of 1990
Central TX Art Competition January - February 1992
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Gallery 414, Fort Worth TX "Tasty Bits" Jan.19-Feb. 22, 2008
Polvo Gallery, Chicago Illinois "Mighty Fine Arts at Polvo" May 4-May 26, 2007
Gallery 414, Fort Worth TX "Them That Dare" Sept. 9 - Oct. 8, 2006
Art Corridor II, Tarrant County College Southeast Campus, Arlington TX July 3 - Aug. 17, 2006
Gallery 414; Fort Worth, TX “Blink” Sept. 10- Oct. 9, 2005
El Centro Gallery; Dallas, TX ”An Invitation to Laugh” Aug.22-
September 17,2004
Cidnee Patrick Gallery; Dallas, TX “Dynamic Duos” July 23 –
September 4, 2004
Mighty Fine Arts; Dallas, TX “Bodacious Bods” June 19 – August 1, 2004
Gray Matters; Dallas, TX “Characters by Design” July 7 – July 31, 2004
Gallery 414; Fort Worth, TX “Figuratively Speaking” November 1-
November 23, 2003
500X Gallery; Dallas, Texas 25th Anniversary Show September 6 –
September 28, 2003
ArtScan Gallery; Houston, TX “Texas Raw” May 1- June 7, 2003
Gray Matters; Dallas, TX "I've Never Seen So Many Happy People"
June 1 - July 20, 2002
Arkansas Arts Center; Little Rock, Arkansas "45th Annual Delta Exhibition" May 16 - July 7, 2002
Stephen F. Austin State University; Nacogdoches, TX "Texas National 2002" April 6 - May 12, 2002
Gallery 414; Ft. Worth, TX "Creative Itch"
September 8 - October 7, 2001
500X Gallery; Dallas, TX "Good Heaven/Bad Heaven"
November 18 - December 17, 2000
500X Gallery; Dallas, TX "Catchy Title: Board Members Gallery Night Exhibition" September 16 - October 8, 2000
Art League Houston; Houston, TX "Who Needs TV"
September 1 - September 30, 2000
500X Gallery; Dallas, TX "Rear View: Car Mirror Invitational"
November 20 - December 19, 1999
Gray Matters; Dallas, TX "Th_ S_x Sh_w: I'd Like to Buy a Vowel, Pat!"
November 6 - December 4, 1999
500X Gallery: Dallas, TX "Barely Legal: 500X Board Members Group Exhibition" September 11 - October 10, 1999
Gallery 414; Ft. Worth, TX "The Gallery Night Exhibition 1999"
September 18 - October 17, 1999
ACA Gallery @ Art Plex; Austin, TX "Multiple Impressions"
August 12 - September 4, 1999
UTD Gallery; Richardson, TX "Hecho: El Otro Lado"
September 25 - October 4, 1996
Texas Christian University; Ft. Worth, TX "Art in the Metroplex"
September 7 - October 4, 1996
Austin Museum of Art (Laguna Gloria); Austin, TX "Bucking the Texas
Myth" July 7 - August 18, 1996
Martin-Rathburn Gallery; San Antonio, TX "Female Energy"
July 7 - August 18, 1995
Club Dada Gallery; Dallas, TX "Imagenes Contemporaneo"
May 1995
Cable Access Community Gallery; Dallas, TX Este Es Arte Membership Exhibit March 1 - March 31, 1995
500X Gallery; Dallas, TX 4th Annual Virgen de Guadalupe Exhibit
December 3 1994 - January 8, 1995
North Lake College Gallery; Irving, TX Three-Person Exhibit
October - November 1994
DVAC; Dallas, TX "Myths of Machismo"
July 8 - July 22, 1994
North Lake College Gallery; Irving, TX "Salon de Otono"
November 8 - December 1, 1993
Club Dada Gallery; Dallas, TX "Los Tres Hombres"
October 1 - November 15, 1993
DVAC; Dallas, TX Critics' Choice 1993 July 1993
GYST Gallery; Denison, TX ARTE de ARTE
March 1993
Waco Art Center; Waco, TX 1990 Central Texas Art Competition
January 1990
Estrada Gallery & Frame Shop; Dallas, TX El Sol de Tejas 1st Annual
Exhibit of Emerging Hispanic Artists October 1989
Texas Commerce Tower; Dallas, TX City Faire Invitational Exhibit
May 1988
Crescent Gallery; Dallas, TX Citation Exhibit; Texas Fine Arts Association November 1986
Texas Christian University; Ft. Worth, TX "Art in the Metroplex" September 1986
DVAC; Dallas, TX Critics' Choice Show September 1985
TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS:
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"Far From the Border" curated by Paul Rogers Harris, Curator
Del Rio Council for the Arts;
- Del Rio, TX - March 13 - 31, 1995
Texas Women's University; Denton, TX - October 1 - October 31, 1995
Austin College; Sherman, TX - November 16 - December 8, 1995
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"20 x 500: Views from a Dallas Warehouse" Curated by Randall Garrett
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500X Gallery; Dallas, TX - September 12 - October 11, 1998
Richland College; Dallas, TX - October 14 - November 6, 1998
Art Center of Waco; Waco, TX - November 12 - January 10, 1999
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Coronado Studios' Serie Print Project Curated by Sam Coronado
Center for Hispanic Arts/South Texas Institute for the Arts
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Corpus Christi, TX - November - January 1998
University of Texas Pan American; Edinburg, TX -
January - March 1998
Doughterty Arts Center; Austin, TX - May 1998
McAllen International Museum; McAllen, TX -
June 15 - September 4, 1998
Guadalupe Arts Center; San Antonio, TX -
January - February 2000
University of Arkansas –Little Rock AR - Oct. 1- Nov. 5, 2003
Galeria Luis Nishizawa – ENAP-UNAM, Mexico City -
March – May 2004
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX -
Nov. 2004 – Jan. 2005
La Paz, Baja California, Mexico (travel exhibit with Dr. George Rivera) -
March 2005
Julia C. Butridge Gallery at Dougherty Arts Center, Austin TX -
May 2004
HONORS:
Waco Art Center; Waco, TX Central Texas Arts Competition
Co-Winner January 1990
Crescent Gallery; Dallas, TX Texas Fine Arts Association
Juror's Choice Award November 1986
Dallas Visual Art Center; Dallas, TX Critics' Choice Show
Critics' Choice Award Winner September 1985
LECTURES:
University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Little Rock, Ark
Gallery Talk September 14, 2001
University of Dallas; Richardson, TX
Gallery Talk October 14, 1998
Richland College; Dallas, TX
Gallery Talk September 17, 1998
Mountain View College; Dallas, T X
Gallery Talk January 21, 1998
North Lake College; Irving, TX
Gallery Talk October 1994
RESIDENCIES:
Coronado Studios; Austin, TX Serie Project May 2002
Coronado Studios; Austin, TX Serie Project May 26 - May 31, 1997
CATALOGUES:
20 X 500 Views from a Dallas Warehouse, 1998
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
August 18,2004,Dallas Morning News,”Dalliances of Desire”
Cidnee Patrick Gallery,Janet Kutner
ArtLies Fall 2002, Fort Worth Review, Cabeza Grande: Steve Cruz Gallery 414, Reviewed by Janet Tyson
September 12, 2002 "Fort Worth Biannual", Fort Worth Weekly,
Anthony Mariani
October 5, 2002 "Expressive Characters Inhabit Cabeza Grande",
Fort Worth Star Telegram, Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
September 27, 2002 Racial Profiling Color Reproduction, Dallas Morning
News Guide, Mike Daniel
September 5-11, 2002, Night and Day Calendar, Dallas Observer,
Annabelle Massey Helber
August 19, 2001 "The Fuzzy Naked Truth", Arkansas Democratic Gazette,
Werner Trieschmann
March 31, 2001 "Gallery Watch", Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Kendra McCown
March 13, 2001, "Art Smart", Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Andrew Marton, Art Critic
December 8, 2000 "Good Heaven/Bad Heaven" Quick Sketch,
The Dallas Morning News, Mike Daniel
February/March 2000 "Pop Codex at the Bridge", The Bridge,
Daniela Medeiros Epstein
April 27, 1999 Art Review, The Dallas Morning News, Janet Kutner
April 22-28, 1999 "Univsion", The Dallas Observer, Christina Rees
November 22, 1997 Art Review, The Dallas Morning News,
Charles Dee Mitchell
Fall 1995, "Imagenes Contemporaneo", CIRCA The Texas-Based Journal
of Contemporary Art, Anthony W. Lee
April/May 1995 "Big Steve Sez", Beyond Magazine, Rosemary Meza
COMMUNITY ART PROGRAMS
Neighborhood Touring Program Residency Artist; City of Dallas
Office of Cultural Affairs, 2000 – 2006
City of Dallas, Parks and Recreation Dept. Afterschool Art Programs
2000 – 2006
PUBLIC ARTS PROJECT
City of Dallas-Fire Station #39 Sculpture, 2007 -2008
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