2815 COLQUITT HOUSTON, TEXAS (713)

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1 2815 COLQUITT HOUSTON, TEXAS (713) DEBRA M. BARRERA Born in Corpus Christi, Texas, 1984 Currently lives and works in Houston, Texas Education M.F.A. University of Houston, Painting, Summa Cum Laude B.A. University of Texas at Austin, Fine Arts, Studio Art, Magna Cum Laude B.A. University of Texas at Austin, Liberal Arts, English, Magna Cum Laude Awards 2013 Nominee for the Texas Contemporary Award (TXC Award) Solo Exhibitions 2014 Avalon, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, Part of Right Now, Right Here: Houston, Three-solo exhibitions featuring Debra Barrera, Nathaniel Donnett, and Carrie Marie Schneider (catalogue) 2012 Kissing in Cars, Driving Alone, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas Drive Me There and Back Again, Blaffer Art Museum, Windows Into Houston series located at 110 Milam Street downtown, Houston, Texas Two Person Exhibitions 2011 timesteps, Debra Barrera and Norberto Gomez, Jr., Lawndale Arts Center, Houston, Texas 2010 Techno Cumbia, Debra Barrera and Lauren Moya Ford, Box 13 Art Space, Houston, Texas Group Exhibitions 2015 Known and UnderKnown, One Allen Center/Brookfield, Houston, Texas 2014 Draped Up & Dripped Out, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas Mirrored and Obscured: Contemporary Texas Self-Portraits, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas (catalogue) 2013 Re-enchant the Moment, Unit B Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, TX 13: Texas Biennial, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (catalogue) 50 Humans, Inaugural Exhibition, The Brandon, Houston, Texas Austere Measures, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas do it: houston, Alabama Song Art Space, Houston, Texas

2 Editions, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas 12 th National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Juried by Toby Kamps Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Gala Auction, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas 2012 Glasstire Gala Auction, Pennzoil Place, Houston, Texas The Drawing Room II, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas Studio 40, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas Luck of the Draw, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas The Empty Box Ole!, Box 13 Artspace, Houston, Texas Hunting Art Prize Gala, Houston, Texas 2011 Art Market, Art Palace Gallery, Houston, Texas Dis, Dat, Deez, Doz, Deux, Tha Joanna, Houston, Texas Heat Wave, Houston, Texax, Curated by Isabel Wilson Blaffer Gallery Auction, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 2010 Spider Women, DARKE Gallery, A Tribute to Louise Bourgeois Trifecta Perfecta, DARKE Gallery in affiliation with ArtHouston, Houston, Texas Luck of the Draw, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas School of Art Masters Thesis Exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston, Texas Dis, Dat, Deez, Doz, Deux, Tha Joanna, Houston, Texas 2009 New Wave, PG Contemporary, Houston, Texas Nada: A Show About Nothing, Rice Media Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas 2008 Luck of the Draw, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas Dramas: Real and Imagined, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas 2007 Blaffer Gallery Student Show, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 2006 Senior Studio Show, CRL Gallery, Austin, Texas, Juried by Noah Simblist Lectures / Talks 2013 Curatorial and Artist Lecture, Gallery Homeland, Houston, Texas 2012 Blaffer Art Museum, Artist Lecture, University of Houston, Houston, Texas Looking at Art, Gallery Talk, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas CAMH Slide Jam, Artist Lecture, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas 2011 Toby Kamps and Debra Barrera, Gallery Talk on Walter De Maria s Trilogies, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas 2010 Looking at Art, Gallery Talk, DARKE Gallery, Houston, Texas Curatorial 2013 Group Show, Gallery Homeland, Houston, Texas 2010 Emilio Said, Unreal Cities: Informal Architecture Zone, Architecture Gallery, University of Houston Architectural Building, Co-Designer Selected Collections Rice University Public Art Permanent Collection, Houston, Texas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas

3 Bibliography 2014 Guthrie, Dana; Elliot, Amber, Houston s 50 Most Fascinating People of 2014 Houston Chronicle, December 3, Arning, Bill; Daderko, Dean; Cassel Oliver, Valerie, Right Here, Right Now: Houston, Exhibition Catalogue, Contemporary Arts Museum, 2014, pp (reproductions). McFadden, Michael, Right Here, Right Now: Houston, Arts + Culture, October 10, 2014, p. 59 (reproduction online). Glentzer, Molly, Exhibition is close to home, Debra Barrera: Right Here, Right Now, Zest (Houston Chronicle), Tennant, Donna, Debra Barrera in Right Here, Right Now, Editorial Recommendations, Visual Art Source, online, (reproduction) , Don t Miss: Aug , Houston Arts, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas, through Nov. 30, Wall Street Journal, August 22 (reproduction). Rankin, Beth, Through their eyes, The Cat 5, Beaumont, Texas, January 23, p. C12 Castle, Lynn; Hanson, Caitlin, Mirrored and Obscured: Contemporary Texas Self-Portraits, catalogue to exhibition, published by the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas, 2014, pp. 4-5, (reproduction), Glentzer, Molly, Spoken: On a collision course with work by artist Debra Barrera, Chron.com, October 25, 2013 (reproductions) -----, New American Paintings, No. 108, October/November, The Open Studios Press, pp (reproductions), Juror- Veronica Roberts, Editor: Steven T. Zevitas Klaasmeyer, Kelly, The Texas Contemporary Fair in 48 Photos, Glasstire.com, October 21 Lucas, Peter, Drive. In remembrance of Debra s sports car, Glasstire.com, October 13 (reproductions) Davenport, Bill, TX Contemporary Art Fair Unspooled, Glasstire.com, October 11 (reproduction) Glentzer, Molly, All s Fair, Houston Chronicle, Preview Section, October 10-16, p. F12 Dugat, Levi, Debra Barrera, Work Life, ilovereveiller.com, October 8 Duncan, Michael; Little, Shea, Texas Biennial, Exhibition Catalogue, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, 2013, pp (reproduction). Bynam, Susan M., 2013 Texas Biennial, 002 Magazine, September, pp (reproduction). Anspon, Catherine, ArtHouston Redux, Paper City, July, p. 6 Anspon, Catherine and Stukenberg, Kate, [In the Studio] Ascendant Visualists, Paper City, May Mattingly, June, The State of the Art: Contemporary Artists in Texas, Second Edition, e-book, Published January Boyd, Robert, Robert Boyd s Favorites of 2012, thegreatgodpanisdead.com Hooper, Rachel, Drawings, My Favorites from Houston 2012, Glasstire.com Hooper, Rachel, Debra Barrera: Kissing in Cars, Driving Alone,...might be good, issue #200, November 9 (reproductions) Martin, Elliot Zooey, Debra Barrera, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas, Recommendation, Visual Art Source, November (reproduction) Deliso, Meredith, Debra Barrera s Kickass Tribute to Car Culture at Moody Gallery, Houston Press Art Attack, October 30 & (in print) November 8-14, p. 30 (reproductions) Anspon, Catherine, The Museum Director & The Computer Whiz, (story on Bill Arning and Marc McCray s collection, Paper City, p. 55 (reproduction) Glasstire TX Auction 2012, The Inaugural Year Catalogue (reproduction) Liscum, Dean, Slide Jam April 5: Debra Barrera and Kristy Peet Burwick, Hampton, timesteps: Debra Barrera and Norberto Gomez Jr. and Lawndale Art Center Wozny, Nancy, Your Weekly Guide to Houston, culturemap.com 2011 Boyd, Robert, Debra Barrera, Alexis Granwell & Carrie Scanga at Lawndale 2010 Trifecta Perfecta, Glasstire.com Boyd, Robert, MFA Thesis Show at the Blaffer

4 2010 School of Art Masters, Thesis Exhibition, Glasstire.com Hooper, Rachel, 2010 School of Art Masters, Thesis Exhibition Books 2014 Sky and Space, Photographs by Debra Barrera, Published by Sybil Press, 2014 in an edition of 50, Hand sewn and bound by Jillian Gayle Gomez Publications by the artist 2014 Glasshouses 32: Emily Peacock, Glasstire.com, April 24 Glasshouses 31: Anthony Day, Glasstire.com, January 26 Six Poems, SUPLEX, January Margaret Meehan: we were them, Glasstire.com, October 25 Glasshouses 30: Anne J. Regan and Steven Hook, Glasstire.com, September 30 Glasshouses 29: Angel Oloshove, Glasstire.com, July 16 Jeff Elrod and Jeremy DePrez at Texas Gallery, Glasstire.com, June th Annual Master s Thesis Exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum, Glasstire.com, April 26 The Artists s Palette: Primary Colors on Paper, Glasstire.com, March 26 Glasshouses: 26, Jonathan Leach, Glasstire.com, February 24 Howard Sherman: Artist s Picks, Arts + Culture Magazine, March 2012 Black Friday in LA, Glasstire.com Glass Houses: 24, Geoff Hippenstiel, Glasstire.com Drawings with Gravity, Richard Serra: Drawing Retrospective feature, Arts + Culture Magazine, April Pushing Paint, Arts + Culture Magazine, February 2011 TX Contemporary Art Fair, Arts + Culture Magazine, November 2009 Stanley Kupp Magazine, Ed. Yannich Schandene, Issue No. 1, Series of poems, Brussels, Belgium, 2009 Grants / Fellowships 2014 Artist in Residence Fellowship, School of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 2009 Bunker Graduate Fellowship in Art, University of Houston 2008 Graduate Assistant Tuition Fellowship, University of Houston Teaching Fellowship, University of Houston Friends of Art Scholarship, University of Houston 2007 Teaching Assistant Fellowship, University of Houston Stuart Fellowship University of Houston 2004 Oxford University Study Abroad Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin

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