ASHLEY MIRELES
  • Artwork
    • Apparent Drawings
    • Folktales and Myths
    • Collaborations >
      • Still Here with Lanier High School
      • Little Amal: a house to call my own
    • Public Art >
      • Innature
      • Green Spaces at Market Street
  • Bio
  • CV
[email protected]
210-643-9222

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Solo Exhibitions

2021  Apparent Drawings, Equinox Gallery
2020 Apparent Drawings, San Antonio Public Library
2019  Apparent Drawings, Brick Gallery
2016  Ashley Mireles, San Antonio Public Library

Collaborative Projects
2023 
Little Amal: a house to call my own with The Walk Productions for Little Amal Walks 
Across America with Anthony Rundblade, in partnership with The Office Performing Arts and Film, San Antonio River Foundation, San Antonio Area Foundation, and City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture
Still Here: Stories from the Westside with Lanier High School in partnership with SAY Sí, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, and San Antonio Area Foundation
2022        
Still Here: Transitions from the Westside with Lanier High School, in partnership with 
Guadalupe Community Center, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, and San Antonio Area Foundation

Group Exhibitions
2025 
Uncommon Ground, Mercury Project
Cultural Thread, Agarita Lofts
Mosh Now, Cry Later, Contemporary at Blue Star
El Segundo de Febrero: Esperanza Brava, Centro Cultural Aztlan

2024-25 
Resilient and Responsive: Artists and the Environment, Culture Commons Gallery
2023 
The Shit Show, Not For You Gallery
2022 
Tejanos: The Border Crossed Us, Texas A&M University
It's Hard Being A Woman During the Apocalypse, Clamp Light Artist Studios & Gallery
2021 
The San Antonio Show, Say Sí
Staging Nature, McNay Art Museum 
Perro Mundo / Raw World, Self Help Graphics
2020 
Tejas Made, Remezcla
ELA25: Choque y Alivio, Mexic-Arte Museum
2019 
Unseen Prints, Mexic-Arte Museum
Tejanos: The Border Crossed Us, Ben Bailey Art Gallery
Tejanos: The Border Crossed Us, Catapult Press, Catapult Creative House
Tejanos: The Border Crossed Us, Cedar Valley College Educational Print Gallery
​NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, Admitted: USA Round One, Centro de Artes
Tejanos: The Border Crossed Us, Moudy Gallery
2018 
Lost, Found, and Reconstructed - with Jose Villalobos, Clamp Light Artist Studios & Gallery
Images of Power, Freight Gallery
Latino Artists in Printmaking, La Peña
Common Currents, Carver Community Center
2017 
Art to the Power of Ten, McNay Art Museum
LIFT: an exhibition of kites, Artpace
YLA22: Ahora!, Mexic-Arte Museum
MetaDADA: High Art for the Populace, Plaza de Armas
Feminine Feminist, Cinnabar
The Threads That Bind Us, San Antonio Public Library
2016 
Nepantla: Spaces of Transformation, El Mundo Zurdo Conference, Galeria E.V.A.
Dia de Los Muertos, Centro de Artes
50/50, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
Noche Buena, presented by La Printeria, Galeria 237
Friday Siempre: Presente, Brick at Blue Star
Sister Solidarity, The Movement Gallery
Paper Trail Printmaking Exhibition, Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex
Novela: Arte y Drama, The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
2015 
How Dare You?, presented by Lady Base Gallery, Carver Community Cultural Center
Ladies Night, Studio 455
2014 
El Corrido del Gigante Dormido, Tennessee Tech University's Appalachian Center for Craft
Mini Mural Exhibition, San Anto Cultural Arts
Ink Slingers Ball, K Space Art Gallery
It Came From the Bayou, Burning Bones Press
Carnival of Ink, Burning Bones Press
2012 
Alternative Visions, Terminal 136
2011 
Annual, San Antonio Art League

Public Artworks 
Harlandale Park Public Art, Harlandale Park, commissioned by City of San Antonio
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
Artpace San Antonio
Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art
​City of San Antonio 
Con Safos San Antonio
Mexic-Arte Museum
National Museum of Mexican Art
Texas Christian University Print Collection
​University of Texas Libraries Special Collections
Walt Disney Company

Curatorial Projects

2025        
Public Art Sculpture for Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Austwell, Tx
Miles Friday & Katy McCarthy,
Intimate Ecologies, Confluence Park, San Antonio, TX

Daniela Oliver de Portillo, Hidden Blooms, San Antonio River Mission Reach 
Carlos Aguilar, Touch Grass, Web-based
Diego Chavez, Recursive, Confluence Park, San Antonio, TX
Don Mathis, Writers Take a Walk, San Pedro Creek Culture Park, San Antonio, TX
Karla Kopalli, Nature/Nurture, Confluence Park, San Antonio, TX
2024        
Jennifer Khoshbin and Nanako Pastol, KISS THE SKY, Confluence Park, San Antonio, TX

Xavier Gilmore, LoopsSounds&Songs, Confluence Park, San Antonio, TX
Adnan Razvi and Taylor Cleveland, MAWIMBI, Confluence Park, San Antonio, TX
Antonio Martinez, Sonic Transmission, Confluence Park, San Antonio, TX
Audrya Flores, Play and Decay at the Confluence, Confluence Park, San Antonio, TX
Kara Salinas, Tentsallation, Confluence Park, San Antonio, TX
2023
Gordon Huether, Presence of the Past and Culture Crossing Pavilion, St James AMEC Culture Crossing at San Pedro 
Creek Culture Park, San Antonio, TX
Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival, San Antonio, TX
2017        
MetaDADA: High Art for the POPulace Zine Pop-Up Shop, Culture Commons Gallery, 
San Antonio, TX

Awards/Fellowships

2024 Advocacy Leadership Institute Fellow, National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures
2021-23 Artist Fellow, San Antonio Area Foundation
2022 
Leadership Institute Fellow, National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures
Friends of San Antonio Arts & Letters Award for Arts Education


Lectures/Presentations/Talks
2025
Moderator, Artist Talk with Daniela Oliver de Portillo, Ruiz-Healy Art
Moderator, San Pedro Creek Culture Park Public Artist Panel, Mustard Seed Plaza at San Pedro Creek Culture Park
2024 
Presenter, Global Outdoor Health Summit, Hardberger Park Urban Ecology Center

Panelist, Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program: Sustaining One’s Art Career, New York Foundation for the Arts
Emcee & Speaker, Presence of the Past at the St James AMEC Culture Crossing Press Conference, San Pedro Creek Culture Park 
Panelist, Breakthrough Texas Careers Panel
2023 
Lecture/Presenter, Professional Practices, School of Art & Design, Texas State University

Presenter, Alternative Spring Break, Center for Civic Leadership, Rice University
2022 
Presenter, Supporting Artists as Workers: Policies, Programs, and Practices from the 
Field, Grantmakers In the Arts
Lecture/Presenter, Senior Seminar, School of Art, University of Texas at San Antonio
2021 
Lecture/Presenter, Senior Seminar, School of Art, University of Texas at San Antonio


Professional/Volunteer Service
2025- Public Art Committee, City of San Antonio Arts Commission
2024- Cultural Committee, Visit San Antonio

2022-25 
Public Art Curator, San Antonio River Foundation
Public Art Subject Matter Expert, San Antonio River Authority
2025
Public Art Consultant, Land Heritage Institute
Public Art Consultant, Public Art Sculpture Project for the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge

2023 
Artist Facilitator, Renaissance NOW Arts and Policy Certification Program for Cities

Panelist, City of Austin Department of Economic Development Elevate Grant for Cultural Organizations
2017-22 Education and Community Programs Manager, Artpace San Antonio
2022 
Community Advisory Board, Advanced Learning Academy 

Search Advisory Committee, UTSA College of Liberal and Fine Arts Director of School of Art 
​Selection Committee, San Antonio River Authority San Pedro Creek Public Art
2021 Panelist, City of San Antonio Independent Artist Project Grants
2019 
Artist Mentor, New York Foundation for the Arts' Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program

Teaching Artist, Relief Printing Workshop, McNay Art Museum
​2018 
Co-Director & Instructor, La Printeria

Teaching Artist, Continuing Education: Silkscreen Printing Workshop, McNay Art Museum
Teaching Artist, Cardboard Relief Printing Workshop, SAY Sí
Artist Mentor, New York Foundation for the Arts' Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program 
2017 
Teaching Artist, Cardboard Relief Printing Workshop, Mexic-Arte Museum

Adjudicator, San Antonio Scholastic Art Awards
2016 Co-founder, Creative Women's Alliance
2015 Teaching Artist, Papermaking Workshop, San Anto Cultural Arts
2014 Teaching Artist, Relief Printing Demonstration, Burning Bones Press
2013-14 Fabricator, Taller/Studio Cortes
2011-12  Studio Assistant, San Anto Cultural Arts


Short Documentary Films
Still Here (2022)
8:42
San Antonio Area Foundation
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oaoGsZ4D4Qrd8LrGWdSg-4FGY0kEzl2T/view  

7 Questions with Artist Ashley Mireles (2020)
2:35
Department of Arts and Culture, City of San Antonio
https://youtu.be/vIpgunE324I 

Experience Nature Through Art: Wildlife Viewing Blinds at the new Robert L.B. Tobin Land Bridge (2020)
6:11
Department of Arts and Culture, City of San Antonio
https://youtu.be/fhK_7eW64xo 

Bibliography
2024 Somos Tejanas, Norma Elia Cantú and Jody Marin, Trinity Press
2022 Phil Hardberger Park: A Story in Photographs, Phil Hardberger Park Conservancy
2020
Art Gallery: 40 Texas-Based Artists to Know, Remezcla
Hidden Treasures Trace the History of Artpace in San Antonio, San Antonio Express-News
Women Talk Art, Unflitered SA
2019 Powerhouse Women in SA, Unfiltered SA
2018
Unfiltered San Antonio
Images of Power Exhibition Catalogue
2017 ​
Chingozine 7: Let's Get Weird
Issue XI: Leer, Revisar, Responder, St. Sucia
Young Artists Reflect on Latinx Experiences in Texas in '¡Ahora!', Latinx Art
8 Texan Artists Take On Identity and Politics in New Exhibit, Mitú
YLA 22: ¡Ahora! - Activist Art in Austin, Texas, Huffington Post
Glasstire Top 5: July 13, 2017, Glasstire
A Steadfast San Antonio Presence in Austin's Annual Young Latin@ Artists Exhibition, San Antonio Current
Warship Zine, Issue III
Latino Millennial Artists Showcase Intersection of Art and Politics, The American Statesman

Email

[email protected]

Phone

210-643-9222
  • Artwork
    • Apparent Drawings
    • Folktales and Myths
    • Collaborations >
      • Still Here with Lanier High School
      • Little Amal: a house to call my own
    • Public Art >
      • Innature
      • Green Spaces at Market Street
  • Bio
  • CV