Minjarez in her Dallas studio, 2024.(Top Image) Minjarez leading art camp at the Fort Forth Modern Museum of Art, “Women Painting Women” Exhibition 2022.(Bottom Image)

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My name is Analise Minjarez (1990, El Paso, TX), and I am an interdisciplinary artist and art educator whose work hinges on material transformation and the healing realization that the human–nature relationship is not singular. With sensitivity to light, material, and site, I pay attention to nature to understand my connection to place. As a Texas/Mexico fronteriza, a borderland perspective remains central to my conceptual thinking.

I engage with material meaning through ceramics, drawing,  textiles, video, and installation, each medium tracing my connection nature. My response to materials and their meanings at times can be overwhelming. Occasionally in tune with shifts in seasons, light, and moisture, I continue to adapt and respond to the sensations that emerge through material connection. I play with tension or look for release with material pairing in each piece. My studio practice exists both as a physical place, but also as sensations in response to material and place.

I received my M.F. A.(2022) from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX and a B.F.A. (2013) in Fibers from the University of North Texas in Denton. I’ve taught classes at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Latino Cultural Center, and SAY Sí. I have exhibited work at the Infinite School in Los Angeles, CA and at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park in Dallas, TX. Most recently, Minjarez was awarded the 2024 Nasher Artist Grant at the Nasher Sculpture Center.

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