AWARDS
Brown Boi Leadership Institute, Oakland CA, 2013.
2022
Screenplay Finalist, Fall 2022 Program: Amplifying Latinx Stories, M Film Lab
2021-2023
HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Scholar Fellow
2021-2022
E. Carmen Ramos, ed. ¡Printing the Revolution! Chicano Graphics, The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian American Art Museum: Princeton: in association with Princeton University Press, 2020.
Best Arts Book GOlD Medal: International Latino Book Awards
Alice Award Short List
Finalist, College Art Association’s Alfred H. Barr Jr. Prize
Recipient, Association for Latin American Art’s ALAA-Thoma Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award
2015-2020
Meadows Graduate Student Council Travel Grant Recipient
2019
Student Scholarship Recipient, Digital Humanities + Latinx Studies: Doing Work that Matters, Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT), Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 3-7.
2017
East Austin Studio Tour Fellowship (as part of Puro Chingón Collective)
2015
Dean’s Departmental Award at SMU Research Day in Art History
2014
East Austin Studio Tour Fellowship (as part of Puro Chingón Collective)
Austin City Council Proclamation "Puro Chingón Collective Day: June 20." (as part of Puro Chingón Collective)
Mexic-Arte Museum Outstanding Supporter/Partner
Juiceland Make Your Mark Mural Contest Winner (as part of Puro Chingon Collective)
Meadows Doctoral Fellowship in Art History
2013
Brown Boi Leadership Institute Selectee, Oakland CA, November 23-27,
National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) Leadership Institute Graduate, July 15-20.
Austin Critic’s Table Awards Nomination, Work of Art: Independent or Public Project, “Changarrito” Mexic-Arte Museum, Claudia Zapata, Changarrito curator and programmer, May 23.
Austin Critic’s Table Awards Nomination, Visual Art Category: Solo Gallery Exhibition, “Miguel Aragón: Fractured Memories, Assembled Trauma” Mexic-Arte Museum, Claudia Zapata, curator, May 23.
SXSWi Revolucionario Awards “The Mobilizer” Nominee
2012
Downtown Austin Alliance, Art and Placemaking Grant, Artist Recipient. (as part of Puro Chingon Collective)
Mexican American Cultural Center Award of Excellence, Service in the Latino Cultural Arts, November 29.
Austin Critic’s Table Awards Nomination, Visual Art Category: Touring Show, Art, "31K Portraits for Peace," Mexic-Arte Museum, Claudia Zapata, curator, May 24.
2011
Austin Critic’s Table Awards Nomination, Visual Art Category: Museum Exhibition, "Young Latino Artists 15: Consensus of Taste," Mexic-Arte Museum, Claudia Zapata, curator, May 27
2009
The University of Texas at Austin Graduate Student Travel Grant
Downtown Austin Alliance, Art and Placemaking Grant, Artist Recipient. (as part of Puro Chingón Collective)