Ashley Mireles is an interdisciplinary artist, public artist, and arts educator in San Antonio, Texas, producing drawings, prints, murals, and other functional artworks for public consumption. Employing homage, social critique, and often humor, she uses an illustrative style to explore her environment, cultural issues, and the human condition. Mireles exhibits nationally while creating public artworks for the City of San Antonio. Her work has been collected by the National Museum of Mexican Art, Mexic-Arte Museum, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Texas Christian University Print Collection, City of San Antonio, and University of Texas Libraries Special Collections. Her work has been published in The American Statesman, Huffington Post, Mitú, and Remezcla.
Ashley continues to focus her practice on community access by developing and organizing creative workshops and other educational programming for regional arts institutions including Artpace San Antonio as the Education Coordinator and as a founding member of Creative Women’s Alliance, formed to create and support professional arts opportunities for women of color within the San Antonio arts community. Previously, Ashley has mentored for the New York Foundation for the Arts and co-directed La Printeria, a nonprofit printmaking program specializing in producing fine art prints for the artist community while training youths in the serigraph process.
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Apparent Drawings, Equinox Gallery
2020 Apparent Drawings, San Antonio Public Library
2019 Apparent Drawings, Brick Gallery
2017 Seven Scenes, Presa House Gallery
2016 Ashley Mireles, San Antonio Public Library
Group Exhibitions
2021 Staging Nature, McNay Art Museum
2020 Tejas Made, Remezcla
2020 ELA25: Choque y Alivio, Mexic-Arte Museum
2019 Unseen Prints, Mexic-Arte Museum
2019 Tejanos: The Border Crossed Us, Ben Bailey Art Gallery
2019 Tejanos: The Border Crossed Us, Catapult Press, Catapult Creative House
2019 Tejanos: The Border Crossed Us, Cedar Valley College Educational Print Gallery
2019 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, Admitted: USA Round One, Centro de Artes
2019 Tejanos: The Border Crossed Us, Moudy Gallery
2018 Lost, Found, and Reconstructed - with Jose Villalobos, Clamp Light Artist Studios & Gallery
2018 Images of Power, Freight Gallery
2018 Latino Artists in Printmaking, La Peña
2018 Common Currents, Carver Community Center
2017 Art to the Power of Ten, McNay Art Museum
2017 LIFT: an exhibition of kites, Artpace
2017 YLA22: Ahora!, Mexic-Arte Museum
2017 MetaDADA: High Art for the Populace, Plaza de Armas
2017 Feminine Feminist, Cinnabar
2017 The Threads That Bind Us, San Antonio Public Library
2016 Nepantla: Spaces of Transformation, El Mundo Zurdo Conference, Galeria E.V.A.
2016 Dia de Los Muertos, Centro de Artes
2016 50/50, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
2016 Noche Buena, presented by La Printeria, Galeria 237
2016 Friday Siempre: Presente, Brick at Blue Star
2016 Sister Solidarity, The Movement Gallery
2016 Paper Trail Printmaking Exhibition, Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex
2016 Novela: Arte y Drama, The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
2015 How Dare You?, presented by Lady Base Gallery, Carver Community Cultural Center
2015 Ladies Night, Studio 455
2014 El Corrido del Gigante Dormido, Tennessee Tech University's Appalachian Center for Craft
2014 Mini Mural Exhibition, San Anto Cultural Arts
2014 Ink Slingers Ball, K Space Art Gallery
2014 It Came From the Bayou, Burning Bones Press
2014 Carnival of Ink, Burning Bones Press
2012 Alternative Visions, Terminal 136
2011 Annual, San Antonio Art League
Public Artworks
Green Spaces at Market Street, San Antonio River Walk, commissioned by City of San Antonio
Innature, Tobin Land Bridge, Hardberger Park Conservancy, commissioned by City of San Antonio
Collections
Disney Channel
Artpace San Antonio
National Museum of Mexican Art
Mexic-Arte Museum
Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art
Texas Christian University Print Collection
Con Safos San Antonio
City of San Antonio
University of Texas Libraries Special Collections
Bibliography
2020 Art Gallery: 40 Texas-Based Artists to Know, Remezcla
2020 Hidden Treasures Trace the History of Artpace in San Antonio, San Antonio Express-News
2020 Women Talk Art, Unflitered SA
2019 Powerhouse Women in SA, Unfiltered SA
2018 Unfiltered San Antonio
2018 Images of Power Exhibition Catalogue
2017 Chingozine 7: Let's Get Weird
2017 Issue XI: Leer, Revisar, Responder, St. Sucia
2017 Young Artists Reflect on Latinx Experiences in Texas in '¡Ahora!', Latinx Art
2017 8 Texan Artists Take On Identity and Politics in New Exhibit, Mitú
2017 YLA 22: ¡Ahora! - Activist Art in Austin, Texas, Huffington Post
2017 Glasstire Top 5: July 13, 2017, Glasstire
2017 A Steadfast San Antonio Presence in Austin's Annual Young Latin@ Artists Exhibition, San Antonio Current
2017 Warship Zine, Issue III
2017 Latino Millennial Artists Showcase Intersection of Art and Politics, The American Statesman
Art Instruction/Related Work
2021-22 Artist Fellow, San Antonio Area Foundation
2018-19 Guest Instructor, McNay Art Museum
2018-19 Artist Mentor, New York Foundation for the Arts' Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program
2018 Guest Instructor, Say Si
2018 Co-director & Instructor, La Printeria
2017 Guest Instructor, Mexic-Arte Museum
2017 Co-Curator, MetaDADA: High Art for the POPulace Zine Pop-Up Shop, Plaza de Armas
2015 Guest Instructor, San Anto Cultural Arts
2013-14 Fabricator, Taller/Studio Cortes
2017 Adjudicator, San Antonio Scholastic Art Awards
2016 Co-founding member, Creative Women's Alliance
2014 Guest Instructor, Burning Bones Press
2011-12 Studio Assistant, San Anto Cultural Arts
Ashley continues to focus her practice on community access by developing and organizing creative workshops and other educational programming for regional arts institutions including Artpace San Antonio as the Education Coordinator and as a founding member of Creative Women’s Alliance, formed to create and support professional arts opportunities for women of color within the San Antonio arts community. Previously, Ashley has mentored for the New York Foundation for the Arts and co-directed La Printeria, a nonprofit printmaking program specializing in producing fine art prints for the artist community while training youths in the serigraph process.
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Apparent Drawings, Equinox Gallery
2020 Apparent Drawings, San Antonio Public Library
2019 Apparent Drawings, Brick Gallery
2017 Seven Scenes, Presa House Gallery
2016 Ashley Mireles, San Antonio Public Library
Group Exhibitions
2021 Staging Nature, McNay Art Museum
2020 Tejas Made, Remezcla
2020 ELA25: Choque y Alivio, Mexic-Arte Museum
2019 Unseen Prints, Mexic-Arte Museum
2019 Tejanos: The Border Crossed Us, Ben Bailey Art Gallery
2019 Tejanos: The Border Crossed Us, Catapult Press, Catapult Creative House
2019 Tejanos: The Border Crossed Us, Cedar Valley College Educational Print Gallery
2019 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, Admitted: USA Round One, Centro de Artes
2019 Tejanos: The Border Crossed Us, Moudy Gallery
2018 Lost, Found, and Reconstructed - with Jose Villalobos, Clamp Light Artist Studios & Gallery
2018 Images of Power, Freight Gallery
2018 Latino Artists in Printmaking, La Peña
2018 Common Currents, Carver Community Center
2017 Art to the Power of Ten, McNay Art Museum
2017 LIFT: an exhibition of kites, Artpace
2017 YLA22: Ahora!, Mexic-Arte Museum
2017 MetaDADA: High Art for the Populace, Plaza de Armas
2017 Feminine Feminist, Cinnabar
2017 The Threads That Bind Us, San Antonio Public Library
2016 Nepantla: Spaces of Transformation, El Mundo Zurdo Conference, Galeria E.V.A.
2016 Dia de Los Muertos, Centro de Artes
2016 50/50, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
2016 Noche Buena, presented by La Printeria, Galeria 237
2016 Friday Siempre: Presente, Brick at Blue Star
2016 Sister Solidarity, The Movement Gallery
2016 Paper Trail Printmaking Exhibition, Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex
2016 Novela: Arte y Drama, The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
2015 How Dare You?, presented by Lady Base Gallery, Carver Community Cultural Center
2015 Ladies Night, Studio 455
2014 El Corrido del Gigante Dormido, Tennessee Tech University's Appalachian Center for Craft
2014 Mini Mural Exhibition, San Anto Cultural Arts
2014 Ink Slingers Ball, K Space Art Gallery
2014 It Came From the Bayou, Burning Bones Press
2014 Carnival of Ink, Burning Bones Press
2012 Alternative Visions, Terminal 136
2011 Annual, San Antonio Art League
Public Artworks
Green Spaces at Market Street, San Antonio River Walk, commissioned by City of San Antonio
Innature, Tobin Land Bridge, Hardberger Park Conservancy, commissioned by City of San Antonio
Collections
Disney Channel
Artpace San Antonio
National Museum of Mexican Art
Mexic-Arte Museum
Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art
Texas Christian University Print Collection
Con Safos San Antonio
City of San Antonio
University of Texas Libraries Special Collections
Bibliography
2020 Art Gallery: 40 Texas-Based Artists to Know, Remezcla
2020 Hidden Treasures Trace the History of Artpace in San Antonio, San Antonio Express-News
2020 Women Talk Art, Unflitered SA
2019 Powerhouse Women in SA, Unfiltered SA
2018 Unfiltered San Antonio
2018 Images of Power Exhibition Catalogue
2017 Chingozine 7: Let's Get Weird
2017 Issue XI: Leer, Revisar, Responder, St. Sucia
2017 Young Artists Reflect on Latinx Experiences in Texas in '¡Ahora!', Latinx Art
2017 8 Texan Artists Take On Identity and Politics in New Exhibit, Mitú
2017 YLA 22: ¡Ahora! - Activist Art in Austin, Texas, Huffington Post
2017 Glasstire Top 5: July 13, 2017, Glasstire
2017 A Steadfast San Antonio Presence in Austin's Annual Young Latin@ Artists Exhibition, San Antonio Current
2017 Warship Zine, Issue III
2017 Latino Millennial Artists Showcase Intersection of Art and Politics, The American Statesman
Art Instruction/Related Work
2021-22 Artist Fellow, San Antonio Area Foundation
2018-19 Guest Instructor, McNay Art Museum
2018-19 Artist Mentor, New York Foundation for the Arts' Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program
2018 Guest Instructor, Say Si
2018 Co-director & Instructor, La Printeria
2017 Guest Instructor, Mexic-Arte Museum
2017 Co-Curator, MetaDADA: High Art for the POPulace Zine Pop-Up Shop, Plaza de Armas
2015 Guest Instructor, San Anto Cultural Arts
2013-14 Fabricator, Taller/Studio Cortes
2017 Adjudicator, San Antonio Scholastic Art Awards
2016 Co-founding member, Creative Women's Alliance
2014 Guest Instructor, Burning Bones Press
2011-12 Studio Assistant, San Anto Cultural Arts