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Ruth Leonela Buentello
Ruth Leonela Buentello (born 1984) is an American Chicana Artist.[1][2] In 2019, she was named as a participant in the Joan Mitchell Foundation residency program.[1] In 2017, she was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors.[1] She was the third Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence sponsored by the University of Michigan.[3] Early lifeIn 1984, Buentello was born in San Antonio.[4] EducationShe attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in 2008.[1][5] Her work has focused on immigration, undocumented immigrants, patriarchy, machismo, labor, Chicana/o studies, and chicana art.[1][3][4][6][7] In 2009, she had co-founded the Más Rudas Chicana Artist Collective (Más Rudas) with Sarah Castillo, Kristin Gamez, and Mari Hernandez.[2][5][8] In 2010, she studied abroad in France and Italy after receiving an Artist Travel Grant from Artpace to study the art of Nikki de Saint Phalle.[1] In 2021, Buentello graduated with a Master in Fine Art degree in painting from the Maine College of Art & Design.[9] CareerIn 2001, she had worked as an assistant to Alex Rubio for a mural on Chupaderas Street in San Antonio.[10] In 2003, she created Piedad (Piety), a street mural focusing on police brutality in San Antonio as well.[10][11] She participated in the Mexic-Arte Museum's exhibit Young Latino Artists 16: Thought Cloud in 2011.[1] She held a residency in 2012 with the non-profit Serie Project.[1] That same year, she published in the peer-review journal Chicana/Latina Studies.[6] In 2013, Más Rudas presented a collective work titled “Ruda Phat” at the Institute of Texas Cultures.[8] In 2014, Más Rudas guest curated the "Young Latina Artists" show at the Mexic-Arte Museum. The collective's decision to rename the "Young Latino Artists" exhibit Buentello had participated in just 3 years earlier to the "Young Latina Artists" exhibit was meant to highlight Latina artists' work.[2] On October 24–25, 2015, Más Rudas presented their original performance piece “Walking Altars" at the Luminaria art festival.[8] In 2017, she was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors grant.[1] That same year, Buentello's “Domestic Narratives” exhibit was shown alongside Ana Fernandez's “Eastside Westside” exhibit at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio.[5][12] In 2018, the work of Buentello alongside the work of Kathy Vargas and 3 other artists was exhibited in the University of Texas at San Antonio's "Deep Roots: An Intersection of Borders" exhibit.[13] In 2019, she was the third Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan.[3] That same year, her exhibit “Yo Tengo Nombre” was on display at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery at the University of Michigan.[14] She was also featured at Presa House Gallery's 2019 Remember Me exhibit.[15] References
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