SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace San Antonio officially announced the Spring 2025 International Artists-in-Residence. Our Spring 2025 Guest Curator, Jami Powell, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Indigenous Art at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, has selected Laura Veles Drey (Houston, Texas), Anita Fields (Stillwater, Oklahoma), and Lorena Molina (San Francisco, California).
The Spring 2025 Resident Artists will begin their residency on January 27, 2024, with a Welcome Dinner on Thursday, January 30, from 6-8PM. Their exhibitions will open to the public on Thursday, March 20, 2025, and will be on view until July 13, 2025.
Laura Veles Drey is a visual artist born, raised, and based in Houston, Texas. Her artwork, writing, and performances are rooted in experiences with identity, histories, and generational storytelling of home and belonging. She explores the complexities of race, class, labor, geography, government, and economics. Drey holds an MFA. in Studio Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA (Honors) from the University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX.
She has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. In 2019, her project "Unsettled Space—by Way of Crops" received support from the Warhol Foundation’s Idea Fund Grant. She has participated in residencies at the Arquetopia Foundation and International Residency in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2019, was an Artist on Site at the Asia Society Texas Center in 2020/21, and held an artist residency at Poor Farm Experiment Research Residency: Living In The Play, Manawa, Wisconsin in 2024.
Anita Fields (Born in Oklahoma) is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist and citizen of the Osage Nation. Her sculptures of clay, textile, and installation explore the intricacies of cultural influences at the intersections of balance and chaos. Her sculptures have been featured in many solo and group exhibitions, including the Counterpublic 2023 St. Louis Triennial, St. Louis, Missouri, Form and Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, the 2018-2020 Hearts of Our People, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the 2018 Art for A New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950’s to Now at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Fields’ work can be found in collections, such as the Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian, the Museum of Art and Design, New York City, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and the Heard Museum, Arizona. She is a 2017-2023 Tulsa Artist Fellowship alum. Fields was named a 2021 National Endowment of the Arts Heritage Fellow and received a 2021 Anonymous Was a Woman award. In 2022 she received a Francis J. Greenburger award.
Lorena Molina is a Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist, educator, and curator. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Media in the School of Art at the University of Houston and is the founder and the director of Third Space Gallery, a community space and gallery that supports and highlights BIPOC artists.
Through photography, video, performance, and installation, she explores identity, intimacy, pain, and how we witness the suffering of others. The work interrogates relationships and their formation as political acts guided by negotiations of power and privilege.
At the core of her work is an exploration of spatial inequalities and the challenges that oppressed groups face in constructing place and establishing a sense of belonging. The work is driven by a deep sense of displacement experienced after a 12-year-old civil war forced her and her family to migrate to the United States. Most of her work stems from a need to find and build community in a way that is tender, accountable, and challenging through difficult conversations that make everyone involved actively question their position and privileges in society.
Molina’s current work looks at identity in the margins. She views the margins both as a place where extreme violence and pain happen but also as a place for resisting, dreaming, healing, and thriving. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Minnesota in 2015 and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from California State University, Fullerton, in 2012. Molina has been a recipient of the Diversity of Views and Experiences fellowship, The Christopher Cardozo Fellowship, (Two) Truth and Reconciliation grant from Artswave, The Idea Fund grant, and The Kala Art Institute fellowship. She has exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally, such as the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, Southeast Museum of Photography, Dayton Beach, Florida, The Rubin Center, The Carnegie, Covington, Kentucky, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida, EXPO Chicago, The Armory Show, New York, New York, The Delaplaine Art Center, Frederick, Maryland, The Beijing Film Academy, and all over the piazzas of Florence, Italy.
