LOOT ACHRIS (LAURI GARCIA JONES) | CV

San Antonio, TX

EDUCATION

2018 BFA, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, Texas

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

The Best of Times. The Worst of Times., BLK WHT GRY Gallery, San Antonio, TX

Everything but the Beginning, Palo Alto College Gallery 100, San Antonio, TX

2022

Witches, Weirdos, Perverts, and the Ridiculousness of Childhood, Not For You Gallery, San Antonio, TX

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

WARP/ WEFT, Not For You Gallery, San Antonio, TX

It’s Hard Being a Woman During the Apocalypse, Clamp Light Studios & Gallery, San Antonio, TX

Son de Allá, Son de Acá, El Chante: Casa de Cultura, Albuquerque, NM

Fostering Toby, Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, TX

Unbecoming, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX

2021

Featured Artist Exhibition, Choice Goods Gallery, San Antonio, TX

2020

Four Rooms (Installation), Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, TX

2019

Pride Pachanga, South Texas Museum of Popular Culture, San Antonio, TX

Still Fresh, Aanna Reyes Gallery, San Antonio, TX

Rowdy Women Take-Over, South Texas Museum of Popular Culture, San Antonio, TX

Clamp Light Mural Reveal, Clamp Light Artist Studios, San Antonio, TX

2018

Made Fresh, Anna Reyes Gallery, San Antonio, TX

Common Currents: 1818-1867, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX

2017

Controlled Burn, Mini Art Museum, Colombia, South America

SURD, Studio 209, San Antonio, TX

2016

Caras III, Fotoseptiembre, Centro Cultural Aztlan, San Antonio, TX

Some of My Closest Friends Call Me Mom, San Antonio Express-News Gallery, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX

Same But Different, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, TX

2015

Incunabula, Fotoseptiembre, SAFOTO Web Galleries, San Antonio, TX

10 Whispers, AnArte Gallery, San Antonio, TX

2014

Mixing it Up, Fotoseptiembre, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, TX

Visual Arts 2014 Juried Exhibition, Palo Alto College Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX

Visual Arts 2014 Juried Exhibition, San Antonio College Visual Arts Gallery, San Antonio, TX

2013

Freedom of Art, Art at the Jalapeño, High Wire Arts Gallery, San Antonio, TX

Audacious City Limits, Art SA Gallery, San Antonio, TX

Layers of Light, Fotoseptiembre, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, TX

Palettes and Paintings, Texas Juried Art Exhibition, The Woodlands, TX

2012

Personal Journey, Northwest Vista College-Palmetto Center for the Arts, San Antonio, TX

2011

Wabi Sabi (Group Exhibit); The Beauty of The Ordinary, Northwest Vista College-Palmetto Center for the Arts, San Antonio, TX

She Alone, Keller-Rihn Studio, San Antonio, TX

Commissions/ Public Art

2023

Exquisite Corpse Illustrations (Dreamland | Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, August 2023 - January 2024), Commissioned by Mc Nay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX

2021

Artpace Chalk-It-Up (Mural at Encino Library- October 2021- October 2021), Artpace, San Antonio, TX

2019

Contemporary Art Month (Installation at Forest Hills Library- July 2019 - August 2019), San Antonio Public Library, San Antonio, TX

Public Collections

Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX

The Woodlands High School Art Trust, The Woodlands, TX

Awards / Recognitions

2022 Individual Artist Grantee, City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture,  San Antonio, TX

2019 Contemporary Art Month Cammie Award, CAM, San Antonio, TX

2017 San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists Scholarship

2015 Edith McAllister Award, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX

Bibliography

2020   Cover Artist, La Prensa Texas, February 2020 Issue

2015 “Artistic Expression through Photography”, San Antonio Woman Magazine, September 2015 Issue