Lorena Morales

E-mail: lmendez5@hotmail.com

1965 Born Maracaibo, Venezuela

EDUCATION
2004-2009
Certificate in Painting
The Glassell School of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

EXHIBITIONS
2010
Day of the Dead, Retablo exhibition, Lawndale Art Center,
Houston, Texas
SAO Exhibition, the Glassell School of Art, MFAH, Houston, Texas
Up in the air, VAA Board and Committee Member exhibition.
Sugar Land Regional Airport, Sugar Land, Texas
Art walk 2010. Town square, Sugar Land, Texas
Studio School Student Exhibition, the Glassell School or Art, MFAH, Houston, Texas
San Jose Clinic’s Art with Heart, Intercontinental Hotel, Houston, Texas
Annual Juried Art Exhibition. Juror: Jim Edwards. Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, Texas
Local Colors, Benefit and Art Auction, the Glassell School of Art, MFAH. Houston, Texas
Visual Art Alliance 27th Juried Open Exhibition. Juror: Keith Carter. Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas
MS Art Bike, Discovery Green Park, Houston, Texas
New Borders, Four-person show. Curator: Pat Jhonson. Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, Texas

2009-2010
Holiday Art Exhibition, Art Nouveau Gallery, Maracaibo, Venezuela

2009
Visual Arts Alliance 27th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition, Juror: Clint Willour. One Allen Center, Houston, Texas
SAO Exhibition, the Glassell School of Art, MFAH, Houston, Texas
Art Walk SLAA Juried Exhibition. Town Square, Sugar Land, Texas
Feria Internacional de Arte y Antigüedades. Centro de Arte Lía Bermúdez, Maracaibo, Venezuela
Studio School Student Exhibition, the Glassell School of Art, MFAH, Houston, Texas

2008-2009
Live Oak Art Center Annual Member’s Exhibit, Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, Texas

2008
Water, Invitational & Juried Exhibition, The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake, Nassau Bay, Texas
Annual Summer Juried Art Exhibition, Juror: Kerry Inman. Art League Houston, Houston, Texas
Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Jurors: Liz Ward and Rob Ziebell. Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, Texas
The Thread that Binds, Group Art Exhibition, MECA, Houston, Texas

2007-2008
Open Door Series, winter juried exhibition. Juror: Martin Wnuk. The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake, Nassau Bay, Texas

2007
Visual Arts Alliance 25th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition. Juror: Arthur Turner. One Allen Center, Houston, Texas
Sugar Land Art Fair, Town Square, Sugar Land, Texas
Spring Show, Art League of Fort Bend, Rosenberg, Texas
Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Juror: Melissa Miller. Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, Texas
Visual Arts Alliance 24th Juried Open Exhibition, Juror: Polly Hammett. One Allen Center, Houston, Texas

2006
Open Door Series, winter juried exhibition, Juror: Arthur Turner. The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake, Nassau Bay, Texas
It’s Your Deal, Inner Art Corridor, Silent Art Auction, Winter Street Gallery, Houston, Texas
Sugar Land Art Fair, Town Square, Sugar Land, Texas
Artistas venezolanos, CEVAZ Gallery, Centro Venezolano-Americano del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela

2005
Colectiva de Artistas Venezolanos, Banco Mara Gallery, Maracaibo, Venezuela

AWARDS
2010
HUNTING ART PRIZE FINALIST. Jurors: Sarah Cash, Rita Aida Gonzalez and Lorelei Stewart
2009
HONORABLE MENTION. VAA 27th ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION. Juror: Clint Willour
2008
1st PLACE. ANNUAL SUMMER JURIED ART EXHIBITION. Juror: Kerry Inman
2007
3RD PLACE & 1ST HONORABLE MENTION. SPRING SHOW. Art League of Fort Bend
ARY STILLMAN SCHOLARSHIP, THE GLASSELL SCHOOL OF ART, MFAH
2006
JUROR’S CHOICE AWARD. TAACCL. Juror: Arthur Turner.

GALLERY REPRESENTATION
ART NOUVEAU GALLERY, Maracaibo, Venezuela