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| Kathy Vargas Education: MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio, 1984 EXHIBITIONS (Selected) 2004 "Windows: Open and Closed;" Textures Gallery, San Antonio, Texas 2003 "Kathy Vargas;" Edgewood Arts Magnet School; San Antonio, Texas 2002 "Kathy Vargas: Photographs, 1971-2000"; Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania "Kathy Vargas: Photographs, 1971-2000"; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas "Heaven and Earth (mostly earth)"; Joan Grona Gallery, San Antonio, Texas 2001 "Kathy Vargas"; Salon Mijangos; San Antonio, Texas "Kathy Vargas: Photographs, 1971-2000"; Notre Dame de Namur, University, Belmont, California 2000 "Kathy Vargas: Photographs, 1971-2000"; McNay Art Museum; San Antonio, Texas "I Was Little"; Centro Cultural Recoleta (as a part of the Encuentros Abiertos de Fotografia 2000); Buenos Aires, Argentina "Kathy Vargas, One Person Exhibit"; Universite D’Orleans/Orleans Town Hall; Orleans, France "I Was Little"; The Arts Center; St. Petersburg, Florida "Healing Hands"; Salvador Dali Museum; St. Petersburg, Florida 1999 "I Was Little"; Manchester Craftsmen's Guild; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania "Hasta Ya No Verte/Hasta Verte Otra Vez"; Kodak Gallery, Center for Photography at Woodstock; Woodstock, New York 1998 "I Was Little, They Were Big, Part 1" (artist of the year exhibit); San Antonio Art League Museum; San Antonio, Texas 1997 "State of Grace: Angels for the Living/ Prayers for the Dead"; ArtPace; San Antonio, Texas Dallas Visual Arts Center, "Mosaics Series"; Dallas, Texas 1996 "Miracle Lives", Galeria Alejandro Gallo; Guadalajara, Mexico "Miracle Lives", Kiam Building, FotoFest 96; Houston, Texas Ida Green Gallery, Austin College; Sherman, Texas 1995 "Speaking in Thorns," Options Gallery, Odessa College; Odessa, Texas 1994 Lynn Goode Gallery; Houston, Texas Jump Start Performance Space; San Antonio, Texas 1993 "Images of Loss and Hope," (curated by Clint Willour), Houston Center for Photography; Houston, Texas "Images of Loss and Hope," (curated by Clint Willour), Galveston Arts Center; Galveston, Texas Galeria Posada, Sacramento, California 1992 Jansen-Perez Gallery; San Antonio, Texas 1991 Louisiana State University; Shreveport, Louisiana University of Texas at El Paso; El Paso, Texas 1990 Frances Wolfson Art Gallery; Miami Dade Community College; Miami, Florida (catalog) 1989 Pinnacle Gallery; Dallas, Texas Saint Mary's Hall; San Antonio, Texas 1988 Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg; Erlangen, West Germany (retrospective) San Angelo Museum of Fine Art; San Angelo, Texas 1987 Biblioteca Simon Bolivar; Centro de Enseñanza para Extranjeros; Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Mexico D.F. 1986 Galeria Fotocamera; Grosseto, Italy 1985 Women's Center, University of California Santa Barbara; Santa Barbara, California Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center; San Antonio, Texas 1984 Galleria Sala Uno; Rome, Italy Galeria Juan Martin; Mexico D.F. Amerika Haus, Stuttgart, Germany Charlton Gallery; San Antonio, Texas Two-Person 1998 "Arismendi/Vargas" (with Connie Arismendi); CRCA Gallery; University of Texas Arlington; Arlington, Texas; curated by Benito Huerta 1996 "The Human Condition" (with Michael Nye); San Antonio Museum of Art; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Ric Collier 1991 "Oraciones Para Los Desasesinados" (with Diana Rodriguez Gil); Women & Their Work; Austin, Texas San Antonio Public Library (with Robert Buitron); San Antonio, Texas 1990 Centro Aztlan (with Hector Cardenas); San Antonio, Texas 1984 Texas Lutheran College (with Linda Schlecht); Seguin, Texas 1983 Bank of San Antonio (with Steve Reynolds); San Antonio, Texas Curated Group Exhibits: 2004 "Contested Narratives: Chicana Art from the Permanent Collection;" The Mexican Museum; San Francisco, California "Arte Caliente" The Joe A. Diaz Collection; Art Museum of South Texas; Corpus Christi, Texas "Latino Expressions: Artistas de San Antonio"; Central Library; San Antonio, Texas "MELUS 2004;" UTSA Downtown Art Gallery; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Arturo Almeida for the conference "Transfronterismo: Crossing Ethnic Borders in U.S. Literatures" presented by MELUS (Multiethnic Literature of the United States) 2003 "Foto Fest in Russia;" Samara Museum; Samara, Russia; curated by Wendy Watriss "Only Skin Deep National Survey;" internet exhibit of the International Center of Photography; New York, N.Y.; curated by Cynthia Fredette "Inside Outside, Texas Women Photographers;" Women & Their Work; Austin, Texas; The Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas; the Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas; the Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas;curated by Anne Tucker and Clint Willour "In Place;" Martinez Gallery; Troy, New York "Photography & Spirit of Music;" Austin Spirit Gallery, Austin, Texas; curated by Lynn Tiemann "Tejano Voices;" SBC Gallery; San Antonio Texas; curated by the Alameda’s Museo Americano and Say Si "Kuai Katzautkam – Mission Dream;" Airport Art Spaces; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Michael Mehl "El Dia de los Muertos;" Centro Cultural Aztlan; San Antonio, Texas; curated by David Zamora Casas 2002 "Regards Croises Texas-Provence Photographies;" Musee des Tapisseries, Galerie Prevert and Atelier des Eyguesiers; Provence, France; f/8 Gallery, Austin, Texas; Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas; Robot Gallery, San Antonio, Texas; curated by Nine Francoise and La Fontaine Obscure "Uncovered Treasures: Contemporary Latino and Latin American Art;" New York State Museum; Albany, N.Y. and Chapel and Cultural Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, N.Y.; curated by Laudelina Martinez "Dia de los Muertos;" Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum; Chicago, Illinois; curated by Cesareo Moreno "Invisible No More;" Southeast Museum of Photography; Daytona Beach, Florida "Blue Star 17: Between Past & Future;" Blue Star Art Space; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Maria Elena Botello Mogus "Color and Light – Hand Colored Photography: Kate Breakey, Ann Stautberg & Kathy Vargas;" The Grace Museum; Abilene, Texas; curated by Charlene Rathburn "Burning Desires, Acquisitions 1997-2001"; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas; curated by William R. Thompson, (brochure) "20th Anniversary Exhibition"; Houston Center for Photography; Houston, Texas; curated by Jean Caslin "Texas Photographers;" Blue Star Art Space; San Antonio, Texas; Flatbed Galleries, Austin, Texas; New Braunfels Museum of Art, New Braunfels, Texas; curated by Bill Fitzgibbons "Ex-Patriotism"; Art Car Museum; Houston, Texas; curated by Tex Courson "El Espejo"; ArtScan Gallery; Houston, Texas "Blue Star on Commerce;" sponsored by Blue Star Art Space; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Bernice Williams "Spirit of Woman"; Austin Spirit Gallery; Austin, Texas "Ofrendas Para Los Muertos"; Hacienda de Los Martinez/Taos Historic Museums; Taos, New Mexico; curated by Olga Torres-Reid 2001 "Private Treasures, Public View 2001"; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas; curated by George Neubert "Reflections and Other Realities"; Martinez Gallery; Troy, New York "Xuai sk’ atzauxt’ am"; International Center; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Michael Mehl "Le Femme"; Centro Cultural Aztlan, San Antonio, Texas; curated by Diane Kelsey Parker "Spirituality and Creativity"; Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, Texas; curated by Kathy Armstrong-Gillis "20th Anniversary Retrospective Art Exhibit"; Bath House Cultural Center; Dallas, Texas; curated by Teri Aguilar and Enrique Fernandez C. 2000 "Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum" (travelling): El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA; curated by Andrew Connor and Helen Lucero "San Antonio, Texas, y Mas"; Centro Cultural Sampedrano and Casa del Artista; San Pedro Sula, Honduras; curated by Marilyn de King "Islands of Order"; Leeds Gallery, University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas; curated by Roy Flukinger from the collection of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center "La Luz: Contemporary Latino Art in the United States"; National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico; Albuquerque, New Mexico; curated by Andrew Connor "Uniquely Texas Icons"; New Braunfels Museum of Art; New Braunfels, Texas; curated by Charlene Rathburn "From Root to Flower"; College of the Mainland Fine Arts Gallery; Texas City, Texas; curated by Janet Hassinger "40th Annual Invitational PhotoView Exhibition"; Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas; curated by Tammy Cromer-Campbell "Recent Acquisitions"; El Paso Museum of Art; El Paso, Texas "Hot Seat"; Textures Gallery; San Antonio, Texas 1999 "A Tribute to En Foco 25 Years of Making Photographic History"; El Museo del Barrio; New York, N.Y.; curated by Charles Biasiny Rivera from the collection of En Foco "Reveries"; Schneider Gallery Inc." Chicago, Illinois "Aztlan Hoy, La posnación chicana"; Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel II; Madrid, Spain; curated by Berta Sichel; travelled to the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York "Mexican Women/Mujeres Mexicanas"; Southeast Museum of Photography; Daytona Beach Community College; Daytona Beach, Florida; curated by Miguel Seco "Imagenes Historias/ Images and Histories"; Tufts University; Medford, Massachusetts; curated by Constance Cortez "5 in '99: Contemporary Photography by Texas Women Artists"; Art Museum of Southeast Texas; Beaumont, Texas; curated by Lynn Castle "Passionate Visions"; Bath House Cultural Center & Latino Cultural Center; Dallas, Texas; curated by Maria Teresa Garcia Pedroche "Milennial Exhibit"; Airport Art Spaces; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Michael Mehl "Women of Hope"; La Peña/Las Manitas; Austin, Texas 1998 "Contemporary Texas Artists: Connie Arismendi, James Cobb, Melissa Miller and Kathy Vargas"; Weil Gallery; Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Corpus Christi, Texas; curated by Jim Edwards "El Papel del Papel"; La Sala Central del Antiguo Arsenalde la Marina Española en la Puntilla, San Juan, Puerto Rico; curated by Pedro Rodriguez and Antonio Martorell; also travelling to Taller Puertoriqueño and Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, 1999; Taller Boricua and Caribbean Cultural Center, New York, N.Y.; Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, 2000; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico "1598, 1848, 1898: Conflict, Conquest and Consequences"; Museo de las Americas; Denver, Colorado; curated by Jose Aguayo and George Rivera "Points In Time"; Rebarn Gallery; University of the Incarnate Word; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Diana Roberts "Vestigios"; Airport Art Spaces; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Michael Mehl "Transformation"; Southwest School of Art and Craft; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Paula Owen 1997 "American Images, The SBC Collection of Twentieth-Century Art"; Austin Museum of Art; Austin, Texas "AMST Collects in the Modernist Era: 1972-1997"; Art Museum of South Texas; Corpus Christi, Texas; curated by William Otton Collections/Collectors; San Antonio Museum of Art; San Antonio, Texas; work from the collection of Joe Diaz "Secrets and Revelations: Shamans, Saints & Sinners"; The Carver Gallery; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Bernice Williams "Hopeworks: Trabajos de Esperanza"; the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center; San Antonio Texas; curated by Michael Marinez "(the) (Kam' er-a) (red'i) (art-test')"; Centro Cultural Aztlan; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Andy Villarreal 1996 "Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry"; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Washington D.C.; curated by Dena Andre, Philip Brookman, Jane Livingston and Frances Fraley; also travelling to Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1996; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, 1996; The Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey, 1997; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, 1997; Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, Georgia, 1997; Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, 1997; Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1998; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, 1998; David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1998; International Center for Photography, New York, N.Y., 1998; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1999; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Art Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, 1999; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Uniersity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2000; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregan, 2000; Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2001 "Photography in the 1990s"; Wright State University Art Galleries Creative Arts Center; Dayton, Ohio; curated by Ron Geibert (with accompanying CD Rom) "de mujer a mujer: A Celebration Of Latinas By Latina Artists; Austin Museum of Art/Laguna Gloria; Austin, Texas; curated by Amelia Malagamba "Darkness & Silence: The Photographic Works of Kate Breakey, Kent Rush, and Kathy Vargas; Southwest Texas State University; San Marcos, Texas; curated by Roger Colombik Photography Exhibit; Slover McCutcheon Gallery; Houston, TX; curated by Sean Rudolph "Beds, Graves and Other Places to Lie Down"; The Bath House Cultural Center; Dallas, TX "Mujeres Moviendo el Mundo"; La Peña; Austin, Texas; curated by Aida E. Franco "PhotoView"; Longview Art Museum; Longview, Texas "Dia de los Muertos"; Centro Cultural Aztlan; San Antonio, Texas 1995 "The Pleasure Principle;" CEPA Gallery; Buffalo, New York; curated by Robert Hirsch and Kathleen Campbell "Sniper's Nest: Art that has Lived with Lucy R. Lippard;" Center for Curatorial Studies; Bard College; Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. "From the West, Chicano Narrative Photography;" The Mexican Museum; San Francisco, CA (travelling); curated by Chon A. Noriega "Camera/Canvas;" Kilgore College Fine Arts Gallery; Kilgore, Texas; curated by John Hillier "Planos Liricos;" UNAM San Antonio; San Antonio, Texas "Dia de los Muertos, Ofrendas en dos Culturas;" La Peña/Las Manitas; Austin, Texas "Arte Cosmicao;" Esperanza Peace and Justice Center;" San Antonio, Texas "Celebración;" Fine Arts Center; Lubbock, Texas "Art Alumni Exhibition;" University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery; San Antonio, Texas "Corazon;" Bath House Cultural Center; Dallas, Texas; curated by Jose Vargas "17th Annual Lubbock Arts Festival;" Lubbock, Texas; curated by Jean Caslin "Regeneracion;" Centro Cultural Aztlan; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Anet Alaniz "Cruces de la Vida;" Bath House Cultural Center; Dallas, Texas; curated by Viola Delgado 1994 "American Photography: A History in Pictures;" San Antonio Museum of Art; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Don Bacigalupi "Contemporary Women Photographers;" The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Houston, Texas; curated by Anne W. Tucker "Images Fixed By Light;" Jansen Perez Gallery; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Angelika Jansen "Colaborateur/Resistance [Blue Star 9];" Blue Star Art Space; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Don Bacigalupi "Las Comadres: Visionarias Chicanas;" Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center; Pueblo, Colorado; curators: Jennifer Cook and Jim Fouch "Artistas en America;" La Peña; Austin, Texas; curated by Liliana Wilson, Peter Ortiz and Anna Salinas "Cultura! Hispanic Regionalism;" The Center for Hispanic Arts; Corpus Christi, Texas; curated by Nola Sendejar "El Corazon;" Bath House Cultural Center; Dallas, Texas; curated by Jose Vargas 1993 "Target: South Texas -- Depth of Field;" Art Museum of South Texas; Corpus Christi, Texas; curated by Maggie Gillham (catalog) "Texas Focus: Recent Photographic Acquisitions from the Mundy and Willour Collections;" The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Houston, Texas; curated by Anne W. Tucker "Works On Paper: Alumni Exhibit;" San Antonio College; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Susan Witta Kemph "Chicanolandia" (travelling) MARS Art Space, Phoenix, Arizona; Los Alamos Historical Society, Los Alamos, New Mexico; Peoria Arts Commission, Peoria, Arizona; Mohave Community College, Kingman, Arizona; MACLA San Jose Center for Latino Arts, San Jose, California; Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Porter College, U.C. Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California; curated by Robert Buitron "Texas Artists;" Patricia Stewart Gallery; St. Helena, California; curated by Angelika Jansen "Women as Voyeurs;" Cruzitas Galeria; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Terry Ybañez "International Women's Day Exhibit;" La Peña; Austin, Texas; curated by Liliana Wilson "CARA, Then & Now;" Jansen Perez Gallery; San Antonio, Texas; Incarnate Word College, San Antonio, Texas; curated by Angelika Jansen "Dia de los Muertos;" La Peña; Austin, Texas; curated by Liliana Wilson 1992 "From Media to Metaphor: Art about AIDS"; Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York (1992); Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington (1992); Sharidan Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania (1992); Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1993); Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida (1993); McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina (1993); Fine Art Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (1993); Klausner Gallery, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California (1993); the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York Univerity, New York, N.Y. (1994); a traveling exhibition organized by Independent Curators International, New York. Curated by Robert Atkins and Thomas W. Sokolowski. (catalog) "20th Anniversary of the Visiting Artist Program;" CU Art Galleries; University of Colorado at Boulder; Boulder, Colorado "Baja Tejas: South Texas Artists -- Works on Paper;" Instituto Cultural Peruano Norte Americano; Lima, Peru; curated by Kent Rush "Chicano Art -- Seis Autores Tejanos;" Atenco Municipal de Cultura; Guadalajara, Spain; curated by Maria Teresa Garcia for the Meadows Museum; Dallas, Texas (catalog) "5 Artistas Chicanos;" Instituto Mexicano Norteamericano de Relaciones Culturales de Nuevo Leon, A.C.; Monterrey, Mexico "The Chicano Codices: Encountering Art of the Americas" (travelling); The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California (1992); Foothills Arts Center, Golden, Colorado (1993); El Centro de la Raza, Seattle, Washington (1994); University Art Gallery at California State University Northridge, Northridge, California (1993); Plaza de la Raza, Los Angeles, California (1993); Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, California (1994); curated by Marcos Sanchez Tranquilino (catalog) "20th Anniversary Exhibition;" The Art Center; Waco, Texas; curated by Joe Kagle "El Dia de Los Muertos;" Los Angeles Photography Center; Los Angeles, California; curated by Laura Aguilar "America, 500 Años Despues;" La Peña; Austin, Texas; curated by Cynthia Sanchez "On Death/La Muerte;" Bridge Center for Contemporary Art; El Paso, Texas; curated by Mary Evelyn Sorrell "Worldviews In Collision;" Our Lady of the Lake University; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Jody Cariolano "Igual Pero Diferente;" El Paso Art Museum, El Paso, Texas; Jansen Perez Gallery, San Antonio, Texas; curated by Felipe Reyes and Kevin Donovan "Lo Mejor de lo Nuestro;" La Peña and the Dougherty Art Center; Austin, Texas; curated by Modesta Treviño "Three Year Review;" D-Art Visual Art Center; Dallas, Texas; curated by Patricia Meadows "Mujer: Palabras y Visiones;" La Peña; Austin, Texas; curated by Liliana Wilson 1991 "Alma, Corazon y Vida;" Circolo della Rosa; Rome, Italy; curated by Liliana Wilson (catalog) "Contemporary Hispanic Women Artists of Texas" (travelling); The Art Center, Waco, Texas; Sealy Gallery, Galveston, Texas; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas; Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas; Del Rio Council on the Arts, Del Rio, Texas; curated by Benito Huerta (catalog) "Death Warmed Over;" Center for Research in Contemporary Art; the Universityof Texas at Arlington; Arlington, Texas; curated by Al Harris "Deliberating A Vision: Hispanic Perspectives;" Union Art Gallery; University of Wisconsin; Milwaukee, Wisconsin "Ojo Vivo/The Living Eye: Contemporary Chicano Photography;" Los Angeles Photography Center; Los Angeles, California; curated by Laura Aguilar "Healing Hands;" Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, Texas; D-Art, Dallas, Texas; curated by Connie Gibson (catalog) "Bridging Borders;" Laredo Junior College; Laredo, Texas; curated by Terry Ybañez "Freedom of Choice;" Esperanza Peace & Justice Center; San Antonio, Texas; curated by David Zamora Casas "Dia de los Muertos;" La Peña; Austin, Texas; curated by Liliana Wilson and Cynthia Sanchez "Dia de los Muertos;" Bath House Cultural Center; Dallas, Texas; curated by Leticia Huerta 1990 "Mixing It Up;" University of Colorado; Boulder, Colorado; curated by Lucy Lippard "Emulsionally Involved;" Images Gallery; Cincinnati, Ohio; curated by William Messer "Created Histories;" Fine Arts Gallery; Texas Tech University; Lubbock, Texas; curated by Rick Dingus in conjunction with the South Central region SPE Conference "Texas Dialogue: El Paso/San Antonio;" Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas; the Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, Texas; curated by Al Harris "Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (CARA)" (travelling); Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, California; Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona; National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.; El Paso Art Museum, El Paso, Texas; Bronx Museum, Bronx, New York; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas "Post-Chicano Generation in Art: Breaking Boundaries;" MARS Art Space; Phoenix, Arizona; curated by Liz Lerma Bowerman 1989 "Three Artists;" O'Kane Gallery; University of Houston Downtown; Houston, Texas; curated by Benito Huerta "Renderings;" Arte Moderno Gallery; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Sofia Perez "Austin Annual;" Mexic-Arte; Austin, Texas; curated by Pio Pulido "24 Hours A Day: Living with AIDS;" Blue Star Art Space; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Oscar Garza 1988 "The Presence of the Sublime;" San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas; Tyler Art Museum, Tyler, Texas; curated by Jim Edwards "Texas Exploring the Boundaries;" Lawndale Art & Performance Center; Houston, Texas; curated by Mary Evelyn Sorrell "Contempo/Tejano;" City of El Paso Arts Resources Department, El Paso, Texas; Branigan Cultural Center, Las Cruces, New Mexico; South Broadway Cultural Center Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Center for the Arts, NNMCC Española Campus, Española, New Mexico; Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico; curated by Vicente Martinez "East Coast/West Coast/Third Coast;" Locus Gallery; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Ralph Mendez "Intersections;" 110 Broadway Gallery, San Antonio, Texas; Erindale Campus, University of Toronto, Canada; curated by Sofia Perez "New Directions;" the University of Texas at San Antonio Teaching Gallery; San Antonio, Texas "Mujeres Creativas de Tejas;" Dougherty Arts Center; Austin, Texas "Mujeres Y Artistas;" Esperanza Peace & Justice Center; San Antonio, Texas 1987 "Third Coast Review: A Look at Art in Texas;" Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado; the University of Colorado Art Galleries, Boulder, Colorado; The Power Plant Visual Arts Center, Fort Collins, Colorado; Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas; curated by Annette Carlozzi "Spaces in the Heart of Texas;" Women & Their Work; Austin, Texas; curated by Mary Kitchens "Significant Contributions;" Mexic-Arte; Austin, Texas; curated by Sylvia Orozco "10th Anniversary Exhibit;" Austin Visual Arts Association; Austin, Texas "San Antonio Artists;" Rockport Art Center; Rockport, Texas 1986 "Blue Star: Contemporary Art for San Antonio;" Blue Star Art Space; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Steven Bradley "Dead Days;" Blue Star Art Space; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Maureen O'Malley "Austin Annual 1986;" Mexic-Arte; Austin, Texas; curated by Sylvia Orozco "Mita Y Mita;" La Peña; Austin, Texas; curated by Nivea Gonzalez "Ofrendas;" Texas Sculpture Symposium Art Space; San Antonio, Texas; curated by Gerry Frost 1985 "Day of the Dead;" Cameron University Art Department; Lawton, Oklahoma "Mujer Despierta/Woman Awake;" Instituto Cultural Mexicano; San Antonio, Texas 1984 "Texas Women Photographers Today;" Canon Photo Gallery; Amsterdam, Holland "Almazan/Cortinas/Vargas;" Locus Gallery; San Antonio, Texas "Fifth Year Gala;" Bank of San Antonio; San Antonio, Texas "Time Capsule;" San Antonio Museum of Art; San Antonio, Texas 1983 "Yanaguana;" Artists Alliance Gallery; San Antonio, Texas "The Intermedia Quilt;" Artists Alliance Gallery; San Antonio, Texas 1982 "Recent Photography;" Charlton Gallery; San Antonio, Texas 1981 "BFA at the Charlton;" Charlton Gallery; San Antonio, Texa s 1980 "Three San Antonio Photographers;" Carver Cultural Center; San Antonio, Texas "NOW Conference Exhibit;" Hemisfair Exhibition Hall; San Antonio, Texas 1979 "Zarzamora;" SAMOMA Gallery; San Antonio, Texas 1975-76 Several group exhibits across Texas with the Chicano art group "Consafo" Magazines & Periodicals (Selected) Voices of Mexico: "Kathy Vargas’s Concrete Sorrows Transparent Joys" by Lucy Lippard; Issue 64, July – September, 2003; pp. 33-41 Photographer’s Forum: "Kathy Vargas" by Claire Sykes; Fall 2002/September, pp. 40-46 AIX en dialogue: "Regards Croises: Texas – Provence;" September, 2002; p. 15 Cabinet: "The Traveling Interview: The Second Leg" by Lucy Lippard & Kathy Vargas; Issue 5, Winter 2001, pp. 50-51 Nueva Luz, Commemorative Issue edited by Charles Biasiny Rivera; Volume 7, #2, 2001; p.55 Urban Latino: "Arte: Kathy Vargas’ Photosynthesis" by Jacquie Moody; June/July 2001; pp. 68-69. Artlies: "Kathy Vargas Photographs, 1971 – 2000" by Rebecca S. Cohen; Spring, 2001; p. 83. Artes De Mexico: Ex Votos: "Milagros Antiguos Iconos de Fe" by Martha J. Egan; Numero 53, December, 2000; pp. 30, 31, 35. SPOT: "Between Two Worlds Photography at the El Paso Museum of Art" by William Thompson; Date unknown, p. 5. FOTOMUNDO: (magazine published in Buenos Aires, Argentina) "Kathy Vargas: Yo Era Chica, Ellos Grandes" (portfolio presentation); August, 2000, No. 388; cover and pp. 46-48 SPOT: "Going Gentle Into That Good Night" by Michael Lieberman; Fall 1999; pp. 22-23 Flash Art: "Cityscape San Antonio" by Franklin Sirmans; Summer 1998; pp. 109-111 AZTLAN (cover) Volume 23 Number one; Spring, 1998 Artists Newsletter: (periodical published in Sunderland, England) "News: San Antonio Hosts UK Artist" by Dan Goddard; May, 1997; pp. 8-9 Photo District News: "Photographers Explore A Gentler Way To Die" by Jay Mallin; March, 1996; pp 70– 74 frontera: "How Their West Was Shunned: in the Mexican Museumm's 'From the West' Exhibit, A Forgotten Tale Is Told" by C. Ondine Chavoya; Volume I, No. 2; April, 1996; pp. 32-33, 41 Contact Sheet: "Kathy Vargas" by Jeffrey Hoone; June, 1995; #85; pp. 20-23 ViAztlan: (cover); Summer/Fall, 1995; Latin American Art: "Immortalizing Death -- The Photography of Kathy Vargas" by Diana Emery Hulick; Fall, 1994; Volume 6, Number 1; pp. 62 - 65 Heresies -- Latina: A Journal of Ideas; portfolio and text; Spring, 1994; Issue #27 Nueva Luz, a photographic journal: "Kathy Vargas" portfolio and article by Shifra Goldman; 1993; Vol.4, No.2, pp. 2-11, 32-33, cover SPOT (published by the Houston Center for Photography): "Postcards from the Edge" by Nels P. Highberg; Spring, 1993; p. 19 New Art Examiner: (review) "Chicano Codices: Encountering Art of the Americas" by Hart Hill; April, 1993; p. 39 Latin American Art: (review) "San Antonio/Kathy Vargas/Jansen Perez Gallery" by Dan Goddard; Winter, 1992; pp. 92-93 (English); 117-118 (Spanish) The New Censorship: "Conquest"; October, 1992; Vol. 3, No. 7, p. 2 Art Papers: "Contemporary Hispanic Women Artists" by Saundra Goldman; September/October, 1991; pp. 61-62 The Americas Review; Houston, Texas; 1989; pp. 34, 53, 83, 115, and front and back covers Art In America -- Annual Guide 1988-89: (review) "1987 In Review: Alternative Spaces -- Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas; " 1988; p. 52 SPOT (published by the Houston Center for Photography): "Contra-Positions" by Joan Seeman Robinson; Summer, 1988; pp. 14-15 Texas Monthly; July, 1987; p. 70 Arts Magazine: "Point of No Return" by Jeff Perrone (letter about my work to the author used in his article); December, 1985; p. 89 fem.: "Artistas Chicanas Texanas" by Shifra Goldman; June/July, 1984; pp. 29-31 Texas Architect Magazine: "San Antonio Portrait" (photography portfolio); November/December, 1978; pp. 23-31 Newspapers (Selected) The New York Times: "Loyal to Two Cultures, From Chicano Roots To a New Ambiguity" by Holland Cotter, Friday, June 8, 2001; p. B27 San Antonio Current: "Inner Visions" by Jacquie Moody, December 14 – 20, 2000; cover and pp. 11-13 San Antonio Express-News: "Pictures of pain, tints of beauty" by Elda Silva, December 17, 2000; pp. 1H, 8H. St. Petersburg Times: "Pictures of Health" by Jeanne Malmgren, April 30, 1999; pp. D1, D2 San Antonio Express-News: "Artists pose thorny questions in 'New Works: 97.1'"; by Dan Goddard, March 23, 1997; p. 7G The New York Times: "Looking Straight into the Eyes of the Dying" by Vicki Goldberg, March 31, 1996; pp. 34 & 37 USA Today: "'Hospice': A dignified look at death" by Doug Levy, Wednesday, March 13, 1996; p. 9D The Contra Costa Times: "Photo exhibits preclude snap judgments" by Anita Amirrezvani, January 5, 1996 The San Jose Mercury News: "Exhibit brings Hispanic lives into sharp focus" by Catherine Maclay, January 5, 1996 pp. D1, D3 Denver Post: "Chicano Images Live On" by Richard Johnson, Wednesday, January 20, 1993; Section F, pp. 1F, 3F Rocky Mountain News: "Foothills Show Is Three Exhibits In One" by M.S. Mason, Sunday, January 10, 1993; Spotlight, pp. 6-7C Tribuna de Monterey: "Exposicion de arte chicano en el IMNRC el 16" by Ruth E. Vallejo, June 14, 1992; Section E, p. 5 Vanguardia: "Introducen el arte chicano a Monterey" June 15, 1992 El Norte: "Exhibiran aqui una probadita de arte chicano" by Alma Isabel Torres, June 13, 1992; p. D5 El Porvenir Cultural: "Buscan chicanos tener arte legitimo" by Pascual Covarrubias, Thursday, June 18, 1993; p. 2 El Nacional: "La muerte une a chicanos, artisticamente, con Mexico" by Zacarias Jimenez, Tuesday, June 16, 1992; p. 15 El Porvenir Cultural: "Exhibe Imnrc cultura de cinco pintores chicanos" by Pascual Covarrubias, Monday, June 15, 1992; p. 7 San Antonio Light: "Vargas Finds Multiple Meanings" by Marcia Goren Weser, Sunday, October 25, 1992; p. J5 Austin Chronicle: "The Artist's Eye" by Rebecca Levy, October 25, 1991 Dallas Observer: "Their Own Medicine" by Tome Sime, October 3, 1991 Dallas Morning News: "Death Brought to Life" by Janet Kutner, January 31, 1991; pp. 5C, 6C Houston Chronicle: "Putting on Happy Front" by Patricia C. Johnson, Monday, August 26, 1991; Section D, pp. 1, 6 Houston Post: "Exhibit Gives Proof Debt-ridden Gallery Deserves to Survive" by Susan Chadwick Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "Artists Explore Topic of Death" by Janet Tyson, January, 1991 The Daily Texan: "Women's Show Exposes Overlooked Art" by Jennifer Goldstein, Monday, June 10, 1991; p. 8 Austin American-Statesman: "Two Laguna Gloria Shows Strike Balance" by J.R. Oleson, Saturday, June 8, 1991; p. 13 El Paso Times: "Bridge Art Show Bonds 2 Cities" by Maria Cortes, Friday, February 22, 1991 Rocky Mountain News: "Women's Visions Fill Eclectic, Sharp, Dazzling Exhibit" by Jennifer Heath, March, 1990; pp. 72, 74 Boulder Tribune-Herald: "Show Highlights Art of Hispanic Women" Friday, October 26, 1990 Erlangen Nachrichten: "Bildraume zwischen Leben und Tod" by spk, July 22, 1988; p. 5; Erlangen, Germany La Opinion: "El Arte de Kathryn Vargas" by Juan Bruce-Novoa, October 23, 1983; La Comunidad Sunday Supplement, pp. 4-6; Los Angeles, California Catalogs 2004 ExPatria; Art Car Museum; Houston, Texas 2002 Regards Croises Texas – Provence Photographies; La Fontaine Obscure; Provence, France The Texas Group/El Grupo Tejano; Middle Tennessee State University; Murfreesboro, Tennessee, essay by Nancy L. Kelker 2001 Latin American Artist-Photographers From the Lehigh University Art Galleries Collection; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, essay by/with Ricardo Viera, Susana Torruella Leval, and Deborah Cullen Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Washington D.C., essay by 2000 Kathy Vargas Photographs 1971 – 2000; McNay Museum of Art; San Antonio, Texas, essays by Lucy R. Lippard and Malin Wilson Powell 1999 5 in '99 Contemporary Photography by Texas Women Artists; Art Museum of Southeast Texas; Beaumont, Texas Aztlán Hoy: La Posnación Chicana; Consejeria de Cultura, Comunidad de Madrid; Madrid, Spain The Role Of Paper/El Papel de Papel; Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center; San Antonio, Texas Imagenes E Historias/ Images and Histories: Chicana Altar-Inspired Art; Tufts University Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts and Santa Clara Univeristy, Santa Clara, California 1998 Kathy Vargas "I Was Little, They Were Big"; (artist of the year exhibit and catalog) San Antonio Art League Museum; San Antonio, Texas Contemporary Texas Artists, Connie Arismendi, James Cobb, Melissa Miller, Kathy Vargas; Weil Gallery, Center for the Arts; Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Fotoseptiembre Internacional '98; Centro de la Imagen; Mexico D.F. 1997 Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Arts Fellowships, 1994, 1995, 1996; Mid America Arts Alliance; Kansas City, Missouri Kathy Vargas 97.1 (brochure); ArtPace; San Antonio, Texas 1996 Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry; The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Washington D.C. Fotoseptiembre 1996; Centro de la Imagen; Mexico D.F. FotoFest 1996; Houston, Texas 1995 In Search of the Pleasure Principle; CEPA Gallery; Buffalo, New York From The West, Chicano Narrative Photography; the Mexican Museum; San Francisco, CA 1993 Target: South Texas -- Depth of Field; The Art Museum of South Texas; Corpus Christi, Texas 1992 The Chicano Codices: Encountering Art of the Americas; The Mexican Museum; San Francisco, California From Media to Metaphor: Art about AIDS; Independent Curators Inc.; New York, N.Y. 1991 Contemporary Hispanic Women Artists of Texas; Waco Art Center; Waco, Texas Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (CARA); Wight Art Gallery; UCLA; Los Angeles, California Healing Hands; Lubbock Fine Arts Center; Lubbock, Texas Alma, Corazon Y Vida; Circulo della Rosa; Rome, Italy 1990 Kathy Vargas: Priests Series and Oracion: Valentine's Day/Day of the Dead Series; Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College; Miami, Florida 1988 The Presence of the Sublime; San Antonio Museum of Art; San Antonio, Texas 1987 Third Coast Review: A Look at Art in Texas; Aspen Art Museum; Aspen, Colorado 1986 Contemporary Art for San Antonio -- The Blue Star Exhibition; Blue Star Art Space; San Antonio, Texas 1985 AVAA 1985 Citation Exhibition; Austin Visual Arts Association; Austin, Texas 1984 The Myth of the Bride; Women's Caucus for Art; San Antonio, Texas 1983 The Intermedia Quilt; Artists' Alliance; San Antonio, Texas GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS Pace-Roberts Foundation for Contemporary Art: Residency, San Antonio, TX, 1997 Pace-Roberts Foundation for Contemporary Art: London Studio, San Antonio, TX 1997 Mid-America Arts Alliance grant, 1995 Light Work Fellowship; Syracuse, N.Y., 1994 Individual Artist's Grant from the Department of Arts and Cultural Affairs, City of San Antonio, 1991 COLLECTIONS National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Washington D.C. La Fontaine Obscure, Provence, France Southeast Museum of Photography; Daytona, Florida The Lucy R. Lippard Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; New Mexico Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery & Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska Lincoln Museum of Fine Arts; Houston, Texas Mexican Museum; San Francisco, California Art Museum of South Texas; Corpus Christi, Texas San Antonio Museum of Art; San Antonio, Texas McNay Museum of Art; San Antonio, Texas El Paso Museum of Art; El Paso, Texas Art Museum of Southeast Texas; Beaumont, Texas En Foco; New York, N.Y. Lightwork; Syracuse, New York Center for Photography at Woodstock; Woodstock, N.Y. University of Texas Humanities Research Center; Austin, Texas University of Colorado; Boulder, Colorado University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas Lehigh University Art Galleries, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Casa de las Americas; Habana, Cuba Centro de Enseñanza para Extranjeros, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; MexicoD.F. Consejo Mexicano de Fotografia; Mexico D.F. Women's Center, University of California; Santa Barbara, California Library, University of California; Santa Barbara, California Center for Chicano Studies; University of California; Santa Barbara, California Federal Reserve Bank; Dallas, TX San Antonio Art League Museum; San Antonio, Texas Texas Lutheran College; Seguin, Texas The Object Library at the Art Center; Waco, Texas Arts Council of San Antonio; San Antonio, Texas Bank of San Antonio; San Antonio, Texas South Texas Blood & Tissue Center; San Antonio, Texas Hill Country Arts Foundation; Ingram, Texas FFACTS (AIDS) Clinic; San Antonio, Texas Southwestern Bell; Houston, Texas Fuddrucker's Inc.; San Antonio, Texas Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld; Austin, Texas Helen Kornblum; St. Louis Missouri Joe Diaz; San Antonio, Texas Drs. Ricardo Romo, San Antonio, Texas Henry Munoz; San Antonio, Texas |