Faculty:

Benito Huerta

PAINTING
Associate Professor & Director of Gallery at UTA
(M.A., New Mexico State University)

office: FA-171B
phone: 817-272-3143
email: bhuerta@uta.edu

Biography

Huerta has a B.F.A. from the University of Houston, an M.A. from New Mexico State University.  He was co-founder, Executive Director, Co-Director, Vice President and now Director Emeritus of ArtLies. .  He is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington where he has been Director of The Gallery at UTA since 1997.

A thirteen-year survey of Huerta’s work was recently exhibited and catalogued at the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi.  The exhibit entitled, “Soundings: Benito Huerta, 1992 – 2005” will travel to the El Paso Museum of Art in 2007.  His work is featured in the Blanton Museum of Art: American Art since 1900, UT Press.  Huerta was the recipient of Dallas Center for Contemporary Art’s 2002 Artist Legend of the Year Award.  His work is in several museum and corporate collections throughout the United States.

Current public art projects include Fort Worth Parks Department Design Enhancements Project and the Mexican-American Cultural Center in Austin. Huerta recently completed a terrazzo floor design for Skylink’s International Terminal at DFW International Airport (2005).

He has organized traveling surveys/retrospectives of Luis Jimenez, Mel Chin, and Celia Alvarez Munoz.

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