Tina Medina

Installation Images

Selected Works

Biography

Medina has contributed to numerous art jury panels, speaking engagements, discussion panels and workshops in the city of Dallas, including being a member of the oldest artist-run co-op in Texas, 500X Gallery and serving on City of Dallas Public Art Committees. In 2022, Medina was accepted in the third cohort of the Dallas Cedars Union studio/artist membership, awarded a Nasher Sculpture Center Artist Grant and is a recipient of the Talley Dunn Gallery Equity in the Arts Fellowship.

Medina’s art has been exhibited nationally in exhibits such as Immigration, Migration, Movement & The Humanities at Arizona State University, as well as Strive: An Exhibition Highlighting American Immigration & the American Dream, D’Art Center, Norfolk, Virginia. In 2021 her work was featured in Arte Latino Now 2021, a virtual exhibit for the Center for Latino Studies at Queens University Charlotte in NC, and she was the Changarrito Artist of the Month for Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas. In 2022, she created a community-based solo art exhibit at Arts Mission Oak Cliff and had a solo retrospective exhibition at the Latino Cultural Center of Dallas. Most recently Medina was selected to participate in Soy de Tejas, a statewide survey of Latinx art in San Antonio, Texas.

Medina has curated exhibits such as Contemporary Latino American Artists of the Metroplex and ELLA: Exhibiting Local Latina Artists. In 2021 Medina co-founded Nuestra Artist Collective and in 2022 collaboratively organized, curated, and exhibited work with 9 other Texas women artists in an art exhibit focusing on the U.S. Mexico border shown in Dallas (2022) and San Antonio (2023). Through an exploration of fibers, painting, video, and audio Medina’s art reflects U.S. American history from the point of view of the underrepresented voices in our communities such as people of color, farmworkers, the undocumented and women and children.

Exhibitions

On-site and Individual Works

Off-site

Videos

Press