Victoria is from San Antonio, Texas. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Baylor University in 2019. She is currently a second year graduate student at the University of North Texas pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Artist Statement
My work is a record of mundane yet impactful experiences of everyday life. Memory and space create a visual narrative of the physical and metaphorical ways I navigate the world around me. Space is sometimes a place of comfort or other times a souvenir of a distant event. The memories I explore can be simultaneously joyful and melancholy, tender and distant, or hopeful and hopeless. Through my paintings I am processing and rediscovering the past in a new way through the intimacy and tactility of mark-making. Each work presents a bittersweet narrative where I examine the complex circumstances that have brought me to a specific moment in time.
Education
University of North Texas
Master of Fine Arts
Painting and Drawing
2022
Baylor University
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Studio Art
2019
Teaching Experience
University of North Texas
Teaching Assistant
Foundations | Space – Physical, temporal, and virtual
2020
Teaching Assistant
Foundations | Design 1
2019-2020
Related Experience
Baylor University
Studio Assistant
Winter Rusiloski Assistant Professor of Art (Painting)
2018 – 2019
Studio Assistant
Kyle Chaput Assistant Professor of Art (Printmaking and Drawing)
2018 – 2019
Awards
1st Place Texas National Competition and Exhibition
2020
Voertman Ardoin Fellowship
2020 – 2021
Toulhouse Graduate School Academic Achievement Scholarship
2019-2021
CVAD Scholarship
2019 – 2020
L. James and Alisa A. Andras Endowed Scholarship Fund
2018-2019
Karl and Shirley Umlauf Endowed Scholarship Fund
2017-2019
Curriculum Vitae
Exhibitions
2020
4th Annual Small Works Show
Art Room, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX. USA
Expo
500x Gallery, Dallas, TX. USA
CCAN
Juried by Thomas Motley
The Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX. USA
Territorial: New Works by Victoria Gonzales, Erika Jaeggli and Maria
Union Art Gallery, Denton, Texas. USA.
Digital Dream Tour
Risen Shine Gallery, Denton, Texas. USA
Texas National Competition and Exhibition
Juried by Annette Lawrence, Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX. USA.
1st Place
2019
Unlearning
Cora Stafford Gallery, Denton, Texas. USA.
30 Under 30
Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, Texas. USA.
Hispanic Heritage Art Show & Celebration
CenTex Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Waco, Texas. USA.
Transitions
Cross Hatch 304, Waco, TX, USA.
Baylor University Student Art Exhibition
Juried by Tish Brewer. Waco, Texas. USA.
Juror's Choice Award for Drawing.
Rising Eyes of Texas
Rockport Center for Fine Arts, Rockport, Texas. USA.
2018
Mayjoring in Art
Juried by Daniel Blagg. Fortworth Community Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas. USA.
Baylor University Student Art Exhibition
Juried by Cohn Drennan. Waco, Texas. USA. J
Juror’s Choice Award for Printmaking
100 for 100
Juried by Jay Wilkinson. Fort Works Art, Fort Worth, Texas. USA.
Hispanic Heritage Art Show & Celebration
CenTex Hisp Chamber of Commerce, Waco, Texas. USA.
Portraits
Cultivate7Twelve, Waco, Texas. USA.
Selected as Cocktails with the Curator Guest
2016
Baylor University Student Art Exhibition
Juried by Clint Willour. Waco, Texas. USA.