Fidencio Duran
EDUCATION
BFA 1984 Painting University of Texas at Austin
COMMISSIONS (selected)
2007 Dell's Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, Sunday Best,
Harvest in September, Austin, Texas, '07
2006-04 Dublin Dr. Pepper, Texas Commission on the Arts, Our Royal Line,
Dublin, Texas, '06
University of Houston Permanent Art Collection, Strength in Caring,
Center for Students with Disabilities, Houston, Texas, '04
2003-02 Austin Energy, Quincenera, Holly Street Power Plant, Austin,
Texas, '03
Tokyo Electron, Montopolis, U. S. A., Montopolis Neighborhood
Center, Austin, Texas, '03
2000-
1995 South Texas Independent School District, The Last Haven,
Biblioteca las Americas, Mercedes, Texas, '00
Art in Public Places Program, The Visit, Austin Bergstrom
International Airport, Austin, Texas, '99
Mulicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts, Our
House, Crockett Elementary, Houston, Texas, '95 -'96
SOLO EXHIBITS (selected)
2007-03 A Painted Memory: The Art of Fidencio Duran, Nave Museum,
Victoria, Texas, Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, Mexic-Arte
Museum, Austin, Texas, Chicago State University, Chicago
Illinois, Museo Latino, Omaha, Nebraska, Mesquite Art
Center, Mesquite, Texas, '05 -'07
Solo Exhibit, Museo Centenario, San Pedro Garza Garcia,
Nuevo Leon, Mexico, '01
New Paintings, Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, Texas, '96
Family/Community: Fidencio Duran, Amarillo Art Museum,
Amarillo, TX, '94
GROUP EXHIBITS (selected)
Arte Chicano, Emmanuel Gallery, curated by: Dr. George Rivera,
Denver, CO, '09
2009-
1984 Shelter, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL, '09
Enmascarados- a tribute to Lucha Libre, Angel Quesada,curator
Pump Project Art Complex, Austin, TX ' 08- '09
Latino Selections from the Permanent Collection, Art Museum of
South Texas, curator: Michelle Locke, Corpus Christi, Texas, '08
Texas Chair Project, Austin Museum of Art, curator: Damian
Priour, Austin, Texas, '08
A Declaration of Immigration, National Museum of Mexican Art,
curator: Cesareo Moreno, Chicago, Illinois, '08
Cantos del Pueblo, Alameda Museum, curator: Henry Estrada,
San Antonio, Texas, '07
Visiones from Post Modern Aztlan, Galeria Lorenzo Homar, Taller
Puertorriqueno, curator: Anabelle Rodriguez, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, '04
Chicano Art for our Millenium, Mesa Southwest Museum, curator:
Dr. Gary Keller, Mesa, Arizona, '04
Power of Place, Finesilver Gallery, curator: Connie Arismendi,
San Antonio, Texas, '01
Cuatro Cuates, Galeria Sin Fronteras, Austin, TX , '87
New Works, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, curator: Monica
Kendraka, Austin, Texas, '87
Eleventh Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Norman
R. Eppink Art Gallery, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas
'87
Fidencio Duran and Robert Colescott, Hadler/Rodriguez Galleries,
Houston, Texas, '84
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008-
1992 Instructor, Austin Community College, Basic Illustration, Austin,
Texas, Summer '02., Basic Illustration
Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, Basic Drawing I, Austin,
Texas, Spring '99
Instructor, Southwest Texas State University, Basic Drawing I,
Basic Design I, San Marcos, Texas, Fall '93
Assistant Instructor, Southwest Texas State University, Basic
Drawing I, Basic Design I, San Marcos, Texas, '92
ARTS IN EDUCATION (selected)
2008-
1985 Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX , Aug. '08, paint collaborative
mural at Metz Recreation Center, 6-11 years old
Mexic-Arte Museum/Glimmer of Hope Foundation, Austin, TX,
Fall '05,paint collaborative mural with group of 5th graders
La Pena, Austin, TX, ' 02, Floricanto, conduct art workshop
with incarcerated art students that resulted in anthology
La Pena, Austin, TX , Spring, '98, paint collaborative tile mural
with 5th grade art class of Hilltop Elementary, Del Valle I. S. D.
Cultural Council of Victoria, '93, direct collaborative shaped panel
mural with middle and high school art students
Tyler Museum of Art/Tyler I. S. D., Sept' 89 - May '90
paint collaborative murals with Middle and High School
art students
La Esperanza, Inc. , Brownsville, TX, 'Sept '85 - May '86
paint large exterior mural with alternative school students
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2008- On Making Art, Fort Worth Public Art Program, Oct. ' 04
2001
Contemporary Chicana/o Art Symposium Speaker, Arizona State
University, Aug. '03
Slide Lecture, University of Texas at El Paso, Art Department,
El Paso, Texas, '01
Lecturer/Critic in Residence, University of Texas at Brownsville,
Rancho del Cielo Program, '01, conduct critiques of students
work
BIBLIOGRAPHY (selected)
Alvaro Ibarra, "Enmascarados", Fluent Collaborative, (December)
2008)
Ben Bamsey, "More than memories", Artworks Magazine, (Winter
2007), 92-96
Roberta Fallon, "A Good Mix, Visiones from Post Modern Aztlan",
Philadelphia Weekly, (2004)
Gary D. Keller, Mary Erickson, Kaytie Johnson, Joaquin Alvarado,
Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art, I: 92, 196-197, 303,
Tempe, Arizona, Bilingual Review Press/Editorial Bilingue, (2002)
Glen R. Brown, "Fidencio Duran: Family/Community", CIRCA,
(1994)
Patricia Johnson, "Introductions", Houston Chronicle, (1984)
COLLECTIONS (selected)
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
BELO Corporation, Dallas, Texas
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
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