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James R Canales

  • Assoc Professor of Instruction at School of Art and Design, College of Fine Arts & Communication

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • Fan of a Fan: Contemporary Art Month. Space C7, San Antonio, TX. March 28, 2025 - June 20, 2025 Artists: Group (State)
  • Personal Geographies. S.M.A.R.T. Project Space, San Antonio, TX. April 12, 2025 - May 24, 2025 Artists: Group (State)
  • Rasquachismo: 35 Years of a Chicano Sensibility. McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX. December 19, 2024 - March 30, 2025 Artists: Group (National)

2024

  • Fragmented Figure: Sculpture Month Houston. ArtHouston Magazine. 40 - 44. Houston, Texas: John Bernhard. State. 2024.
    • Reviewed by: John Bernhard.
  • Connector: A Survey. Rudolph Blume Gallery, Houston, TX. September 14, 2024 - November 9, 2024 Artists: Group (State)
  • Mission Bots. Gallery 100, Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX. September 16, 2024 - October 17, 2024 Artists: Solo (State)
  • Heaps Infights. Project Space, Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX. September 16, 2024 - October 17, 2024 Artists: Solo (State)
  • Lacuna Vitae. Mothership Studios, San Marcos, TX. September 28, 2024 - October 13, 2024 Artists: Group (State)
  • Papalote Dream. Artpace, San Antonio, TX. April 25, 2024 Artists: Solo (State)
  • Starting on Opposite Ends: A Shared life and studio space help unify the work of artists Megan Harrison and Jimmy James Canales. San Antonio Current. San Antonio, TX: Chava Communications Group. State. April 2, 2024.
    • Reviewed by: Anjali Gupta.
  • Works from the UTSA Permeant Art Collection. UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures A Smithsonian Affiliate, San Antonio, TX. March 30, 2023 - January 29, 2024 Artists: Group (State)

2023

  • Sleep of Reason: The Fragmented Figure. SITE Gallery, Sawyer Yards, Houston, TX. October 7, 2023 - December 2, 2023 Artists: Group (State)
  • Across American Reality: Recent Exhibitions in Dallas and Houston. Glasstire. Houston, TX: Glasstire. State. October 27, 2023.
    • Reviewed by: William Sarradet.
  • Exit the Foot. Great Jones Gallery, Seattle, WA. April 14, 2023 - May 27, 2023 Artists: Solo (National)

2022

  • Enter / Return. The En, Seattle, WA. 2022 Artists: Solo (State)
  • The Line Layer. Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX. March 4, 2022 - May 29, 2022 Artists: Solo (State)

2020

  • A Monstrous Joy. Be Magazine Künstlerhaus Bethanien. N°27. 81 - 91. Berlin, Germany: Künstlerhaus Bethanien. International. September 30, 2020.
    • Reviewed by: Frederica Bueti.
  • Topographies of Truth. McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas. February 13, 2020 - May 17, 2020 Artists: Group (State)
  • Remember Where You Are. DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, IL. September 12, 2019 - February 23, 2020 Artists: 4 (National)

2019

  • Art in the Age of Trump. Glasstire. Houston, TX: Glasstire. State. August 24, 2019.
    • Reviewed by: Christina Rees.
    • Reviewed by: Neil Fauerso.
  • Unicorns, Aliens, and Futuristic Cities: Speculative Latinidades. Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), San Jose, CA. June 5, 2019 - August 19, 2019 Artists: 4 (National)
  • Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany. January 8, 2019 - July 15, 2019.

2018

  • Peak Shift. SITE Gallery, Houston, TX. October 13, 2018 - December 1, 2018 Artists: Group (National)
  • Recieving Interrupt. Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX. October 6, 2018 - November 24, 2018 Artists: Solo (State)
  • Gallery Round-Up: Two Venues in San Antonio. Glasstire. Houston, TX: Glasstire. State. October 19, 2018.
    • Reviewed by: Neil Fauerso.

2017

  • Lift. Artpace, San Antonio, TX. September 21, 2017 - December 31, 2017 Artists: Group (State)
  • Glasstire’s Best of 2017. Glasstire. Houston, TX: Glasstire. State. December 22, 2017.
    • Reviewed by: Neil Fauerso.
  • TX Studio: Jimmy James Canales and Megan Harrison. Arts + Culture Texas. Dallas, TX: Ken Villalovos. State. December 16, 2017.
    • Reviewed by: Casey Gregory.
  • Para Chrome. Presa House at Flight Gallery, San Antonio, TX. October 6, 2017 - October 31, 2017 Artists: Solo (State)
  • Jimmy James Canales @ Fl!ght Gallery. Glasstire. Houston, TX: Glasstire. State. October 28, 2017.
    • Reviewed by: Neil Fauerso.
  • Jimmy James Canales' Para Chrome Exhibit Takes Fl!ght. San Antonio Current. San Antonio, TX: Chava Communications. State. October 26, 2017.
    • Reviewed by: Bryan Rindfuss.
  • Spring Faculty Exhibition. Texas State Galleries, San Marcos, TX. February 20, 2017 - March 19, 2017 Artists: Group (State)

2016

  • Geomagic: Art, Science & the Zuhl Collection. University Art Gallery New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. September 8, 2016 - December 21, 2016 Artists: Group (National)

2015

  • Five Artists One Piano. Box 13 ArtSpace, Houston, TX. 2015 Artists: Group (State)
  • Move Me. Museo Guadalupe, San Antonio, TX. 2015 Artists: Group (State)
  • Gently Fried. Sam Z. Coronado Gallery, Austin, TX. 2015 Artists: Group (National)
  • Time Body Space Objects 4. Spectacle Island, Boston, MA. 2015 Artists: Group (National)
  • Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont. August 30, 2015 - September 25, 2015.

2014

  • @rtpace. Window Works Artpace, San Antonio, TX. 2014 Artists: Solo (State)
  • How to Activate a Storefront Window. Visual Art Source. Thousand Oaks, CA: Bill Lasarow. National. October 13, 2014.
    • Reviewed by: David Rubin.

2013

  • CAM (X). Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX. 2013 Artists: 2 (State)
  • Technomercado. X-Marks the Art Project, Public Art San Antonio, TX. 2013 Artists: Group (State)
  • Fair Play. Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX. 2013 Artists: Group (State)
  • Vacancy 5: Go West. Parchman Gallery, San Antonio, TX. 2013 Artists: 2 (State)
  • Popo Branco. University of Texas at San Antonio Art Collection, San Antonio, TX. Public. 2013, Painting.
  • IRL (In Real Life). UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX. 2013 Artists: Solo (State)
  • Fair Play Gallery Longnecker. The Great God Pan is Dead. Houston, TX: Robert Boyd. State. November 19, 2013.
    • Reviewed by: Robert Boyd.
  • Jimmy James Canales UTSA Satellite Space. Glasstire. Houston, TX: Glasstire. State. April 17, 2013.
    • Reviewed by: Leslie Moody Castro.

2012

  • Charlie Mike. R Gallery, San Antonio, TX. 2012 Artists: Group (State)
  • Vacancy 2: Beauty Salon. Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX. 2012 Artists: 4 (State)
  • Bloodlining, He Said She Said. McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX. 2012 Artists: 2 (State)
  • Indestructible Piñata. Lone Star Studios, San Antonio, TX. 2012 Artists: Solo (State)
  • Baila Esta Cactus: Chronicles. Cactus Bra Space, San Antonio, TX. 2012 Artists: Solo (State)
  • Pica Hat. Hobby International Airport Art Collection, Houston, TX. Public. 2012, Acquired: 2014, Sculpture.
  • Chiquito Indestructible Piñata. Arturo Almeida, San Antonio, TX. Private. 2012, Acquired: 2013, Sculpture.
  • Indestructible Piñata. Marty and Ernie Guerra, San Antonio, TX. Private. 2012, Acquired: 2013, Sculpture.

2011

  • Mapache Man. Luminaria, San Antonio, TX. 2011 Artists: Group (State)
  • Karate Zarape. Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX. 2011 Artists: Solo (State)
  • Mapache Man Makes a Point About our Mythology. San Antonio Expresss News. San Antonio, TX: Hearst Newspaper. State. March 9, 2011.
    • Reviewed by: Elda Silva.

2010

  • New Arte Nuevo. UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX. 2010 Artists: Group (State)
  • Techjano/a: Hybrid Logic. The Museo Alameda Smithsonian Institute, San Antonio, TX. 2010 Artists: Group (State)
  • Better to Die on My Feet. Self Help Graphic Arts, Los Angeles, CA. 2010 Artists: Group (National)

2009

  • Soy Ilegal, No Criminal. Centro Cultural Aztlan, San Antonio, TX. 2009 Artists: Group (State)
  • Pop Yo Trunk. Una Noche de la Gloria, Guadalupe Street, San Antonio, TX. 2009 Artists: Group (State)
  • The Art of Personal Adornment. Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City, SD. 2009 Artists: Group (National)
  • Estilo San Anto. Five Seven Delle Project Space, Boston, MA. 2009 Artists: Group (National)
  • Vicious Rosary. Arbor Art House Gallery, San Antonio, TX. 2009 Artists: Solo (State)

2008

  • Simply the Best: Student Exhibition. Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA. 2008 Artists: 3 (National)
  • Bullet Rosary. Eulogio Guzman, Boston. Private. 2008, Acquired: 2008, Sculpture.

2007

  • Ready to Go. Gallista Gallery, San Antonio, TX. 2007 Artists: Solo (State)