GABRIEL PERALTA

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Gabriel Peralta
b. 1994, USA
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Gabriel Peralta is a multidisciplinary artist and writer whose work explores the emergence of the individual self from ecological and social entanglements. Their sculpture practice appropriates the visual language of restraint and subjugation as socio-political power mechanisms, and uses it to reimagine animal/plant/material bodies as sites for collaborative meaning-making and liberation. Gabriel received their MFA in Sculpture and a graduate certificate in Biotechnology from Texas Tech University (2024), and their BFA in Sculpture and Ceramics from The Southwest School of Art (2021). Their work has been exhibited in multiple galleries across Texas, Colorado, and in the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art. They have been Artist in Residence at the Tablelands Bioregional Center for Art (TX) in 2022 and the Elsewhere Studios Residency (CO) in 2023.

Education

2024   Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
             The School of Visual and Performing Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture.
             Center for Biotechnology and Genomics, Biotechnology Graduate Certificate.

2021    Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
             Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture & Ceramics.

2018    McLennan Community College, Waco, TX
             Associate of Arts, Fine Art.



Selected Exhibitions (*indicates solo exhibition)

2025    (Forthcoming, May - Oct, title TBD), solo show, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM
2024    
small_bars: To Activate a Landscape, OSU-Lima Farmer Family Gallery, Lima, OH
2024*  
Other Tongues, Arts Fort Worth, Ft. Worth, TX
2024*  
(In and) Out of Time: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX
2024    Belonging: TTU Ceramics Symposium Exhibition, 5 & J Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2023    CTRL+Y, 5 & J Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2023    Art, Environment, Sustainability, Garden and Arts Center, Lubbock, TX
2023    Mountains Calling, Elsewhere Studios Gallery, Paonia, CO
2023    12 x 12 x 12, 5 & J Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2023    Field Notes, CASP Work Space, Studio D, Lubbock, TX
2022    2% Milk, 98% Sculpture: Get Lost in the Sauce, Contemporary Art Museum of Plainview, Plainview, TX
2022*  Sculptures for Mice, Tablelands Exhibition Silo, Shallowater, TX
2022    Trash, Glass, and Silos, Studio 2, CASP Live/Work Studios, Lubbock, TX
2021    Potlatch, Studio D, CASP Work Space, Lubbock, TX 
2021    Good and Plenty, 5 & J Gallery, Lubbock, TX 
2021    Liminal Strands, Southwest School of Art, Santikos Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2019    Glitter on the Highway, curated by Chad Dawkins, 134 Blue Star Contemporary Space, San Antonio, TX 
2019    Alone/All One: 5th Crosscurrent Exhibition, (contributed piece for collaborative installation by Alan Chin), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
2019    Excavations; Sanctuary, juried by Alex Ebstein (Curator and Senior Manager of RUBYS Artist Grants), Mantle Art Space, San Antonio, TX 
2018    Transitions, juried by Alison Hearst (Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth), Art Center of Waco, Waco, TX  
2017    Transformation, Cultivate 7TWELVE Art Space, Waco, TX 


Residencies

2024    St. Elmo Arts Residency (shortlisted), Austin, TX    
2023
   Elsewhere Studios, Art, Environment, & Sustainability Graduate Residency, one month, Paonia, CO
2022    Tablelands Center for Bioregional Arts, three months with stipend, Shallowater, TX
2020    Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME (fellowship and residency canceled due to Covid-19 protocols) 


Selected Honors and Awards

2023   Graduate Student Research Support Grant, Texas Tech University
2017    2nd Annual Art Expedition Award (2nd place), National Juried Exhibition, Art Center of Waco 
2017    Award for Excellence in Art, McLennan Community College 
2016    37th Annual Student Purchase Award, Temple Junior College





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