Benito Huerta

Huerta received a B.F.A. degree from the University of Houston, and his M.A. from New Mexico State University. He was Co-founder, Executive Director and Emeritus Board Director of Art Lies, a Texas Art Journal. He is a Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington where he has been Director/Curator of The Gallery at UTA since 1997.

His work will be featured in two upcoming exhibitions at the Houston Museum of African American Culture and the Wichita Falls Museum of Art and was recently exhibited inFresh Perspectives: Benito Huerta and the Collection at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth where he still is exhibiting a large scale painting, Axis Mundi until May, 2015. Recent one-person exhibitions took place at the Glassell Gallery, Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth and a group exhibition at the Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas. His work was also the focus of a 20-year survey exhibition, Intermission, at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago in 2011.

Huerta was the recipient of Dallas Center for Contemporary Arts 2002 Legend of the Year Award and Exhibition and was the first Maestros Tejanos exhibiton in 2008 at the Latino Cultural Center, Dallas. His work is in several museum and corporate collections throughout the United States.He is currently working on Urban Village: South Main Street public art design project and completed work on the Marine Creek Park Corridor Master Plan both in Fort Worth, Texas. Other public art projects include SnakePath (Mexican Milk Snake), Mexican American Cultural Center, Austin, Texas (2007); Wings, DFW International Terminal D Skylink terrazzo floor designs (2005), Axis, Henry Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio (2003), and two Medical Center Light Rail Stations for Houston Metro in collaboration with PDG Architects (2004).

Submitted by William Campbell Gallery