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Monica Barrera
monicamoonlight10@gmail.com
Dallas, TX
2018 MA, University of North Texas, Denton, TX.
2012 BFA, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX.
2008 Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
TWO AND THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2012 Healer/Destroyer: Works by Monica Barrera and Jesse Jones, Gallery West, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX.Curator: Nancy Palmeri
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Hecho en Dallas, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX. Curator: Jose Vazques Ramirez and Michelle Cortez Gonzalez
2026 Concurrence, East Dock, Dallas, TX. Curator: Destiny King
2026 Enlaced, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX. Curator: Enrique Fernandez Cervantes
2026 Chicano, Art on Main, Dallas, TX. Curator: Ariel Esquivel and Junanne Peck
2026 Eleven, The Janette Kennedy Gallery, Dallas, TX. Curator: 500X
2025 Red Room, Studio B Collective, Dallas, TX. Curator: Destiny King
2025 25:10, New Media Contemporary, Dallas, TX. Curator: James Talambas
2025 Hecho en Dallas, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX. Curators: Reyna Ramirez and Antonio Lechuga
2025 Oak Cliff Art Oak Cliff, East Dock, Dallas, TX. Curator: Cima Arts
2025 Ofrendas – Art as a Living Memory, City Park, Dallas, TX. Curator: Ariel Esquivel
2025 Concurrence, DFW Art House, Dallas, TX. Curator: Ashley Whitt
2025 New Members Expo, 500X, Irving, TX. Curator: Ashley Whitt
2024 Día de Los Muertos: Love Messages for the Forgotten and Disappeared, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX. Curator: Enrique Fernandez
2024 Man, It’s So Hot in Here, The Eclectika, Irving, TX. Curator: Anonymous Heir
2024 Small & Spicy, The 500 Annex, Irving, TX. Curator: 500x Gallery
2024 Works on Paper, Irving Art Association, Irving TX. Curator: Ariel Esquivel and Juanne Peck
2024 10x10x140, The Eclectika, Irving, TX. Curator: Anonymous Heir
2024 The Abstract, Irving Art Association, Irving TX. Curator: Ariel Esquivel and Juanne Peck
2024 El Corazón, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX. Curator: Jose Vargas
2023 Dreams and Nightmares, The Eclectika, Irving, TX. Curator: Brigid Fox
2023 Expo 2023, The 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX. Curator: Randall Garrett
2023 Thriftopia, Plush Gallery, Dallas, TX. Curator: Randall Garrett
2021 The Heart of Teaching, Music Hall at Fair Park, Dallas, TX. Curator: The Dallas Education Foundation
2018 ArtsGoogle, Near Southside, Ft. Worth, TX Curator: Near Southside, Inc.
2018 Girl’s Club: Female Voices of Dallas, Granada Theater, Dallas TX. Curator: Beats by Her
2018 Capriccio, Special Location, Irving, TX. Curator: Juanita Jimenez
2017 Pictorial Pedagogy, The Union Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Curator: Ellie Ivanova
2016. 2nd Print Expo, The Canopy, Austin, TX. Curator: Print Austin
2015 Pancakes and Booze Art Show, Quixotic World, Dallas, TX. Curator: Tom Kirlin
2012 BFA Exhibition, The Gallery at UTA, University of Texas, Arlington, TX. Curator: Benito Huerta
2012 Message In a Bottle, Trammel Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas TX. Curator: Eva Kutschied
2011 Zinery, Weitman Gallery, St. Louis, MO. Curator: Paul Windle
2011 Message In a Bottle, Trammel Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, TX. Curator: Eva Kutschied
2011 Multiplicity: Argentina, Gallery West, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX. Curator: Michelle Murillo
2010 Message in a Bottle, Trammel Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, TX. Curator: Eva Kutschied