MARIA CRISTINA TAVERA
www.mariacristinatavera.com
RECOGNITIONS
· 2023 U.S. Latinx Artist Fellowship
· 2020 McKnight Visual Arts Fellowship
· 2019 Shannon Institute Leadership Fellowship
· 2007 The Feminist Future: Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts Symposium, Museum of Modern Art MoMA), New York City, Scholarship recipient
· 2006 Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Fellowship
· 2005 Bush Leadership Fellowship
GRANTS
· 2023 Art Impact for Individuals grant, Minnesota State Arts Board, MN
· 2021 Creative Support for Individuals grant, Minnesota State Arts Board, MN
· 2019 Forecast Emerging Artist Research grant, Public Art funding, Minneapolis, MN
· 2016 Artist Initiative grant, Minnesota State Arts Board, Minneapolis, MN.
· 2014 Next Step grant, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC), McKnight funds, Minneapolis, MN.
· 91º Jornada Informativa del IME: Promotores Culturales, CONACULTA, Mexico City, 2012
· Top 30 MN Latino Leaders, Oral History Project, Minnesota Historical Society, January 8, 2011
· 2009 Community Partnership grant, Minnesota State Arts Board, Minneapolis, MN.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SCREENINGS
2023 Ch’ixi: Things can be and not be at the same time, Mardag Gallery, Shafer, MN, September-November
2022 Corrections Officer Esteban Gilberto Fuentes, Essential Workers: A Visual Narrative, Self-Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA, February-March
2022 Zozobra, La Linea con Grupo Soap del Corazon, William and Anna Jane Schlossman Gallery, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, February 24, 2022 - August 13, 2022
EDUCATION
M.P.A. Leadership in the Arts, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 2008
· B.A. Spanish & B.A. Latin American Studies, University of Minnesota, 1990
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
● Plains Museum, Fargo, ND, 2025
● Museum of Fine Arts-Boston, Boston Massachussetts, 2025
● St Catherine’s University, 3 giclee prints, 2024
● National Mexican Museum of Art, Nikko Samurai Security, screen print, Chicago, IL, 2024
● Zuckerman Museum of Art, SGCI Archives, Machination, screen print, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, 2024
● City of Minneapolis Public Art Commission, Green Crescent Installation, Strength in Unity, Minneapolis, MN, 2023
● Special Collections, Macalester College, Promesas de Papel/Paper Promises, screen print, 2021
● Biblioteca Central de Cantabria, Los Gallos, screen print, Santander, Spain, 2018
● Hagfors Center Permanent Public Art, Augsburg University, Searching for Understanding, 6 prints, Commission 2018
● Tweed Museum of Art, Retyping Casta Series, 8 screen prints, Duluth, MN, Purchased 2017
● Plains Museum, (8’ X 4’ Steamroller print), Fargo, ND, Purchased 2009
● Weisman Art Museum, (8’ X 4’ Steamroller print), Minneapolis, MN, Purchased 2007
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
· 2021 Kala Artist Residency, Berkeley, CA
· 2022 Hannaher’s, Inc. Print Studio Artist Residency July, Fargo, ND
· 2020 Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, DC, [postponed COVID-19]
· 2018 Segura Art Studios, Printmaking Artist Residency, South Bend, Indiana
PUBLICATIONS
· “Frida Kahlo” essay, "Allgemeines Künsterlexikon"(AKL), ed. by Bénédicte Savoy, Andreas Beyer and Wolf Tegethoff, DE GRUYTER, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße 1, 80807 München, Germany, April 2013.
· “The Future Belongs to Those Who Draw from the Past,” Essay on Mexican Print Artists in the MIA collection, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2012. (http://www.artsmia.org/index.php?section_id=16)
· Frida Kahlo, Bibliography and Exhibition History, Exhibition catalog, October 2007.
· Mexican Pulp Art, Feral House Publishing, Los Angeles, CA, 2007.
· “Borders, Boundaries, Margins, Confines & Limits,” Colors, Article, Author, Volume 6, Issue 3, 1997.
Portfolio Available Upon Request