
Kinfolk House
SOUTHERN SOLILOQUIES
March 7th - May 2nd
Southern Soliloquies is a powerful collaborative exhibition featuring artists Bernardo Vallarino, Cecilia Sierra, and Ruth Leonela Buentello. Through sculpture, installation, painting, printmaking, and mixed media, the exhibition offers an intimate yet urgent reflection on life in the contemporary South, where personal memory, cultural inheritance, migration, and systems of power intersect.
Southern Soliloquies centers voices that speak from lived experience. Each artist approaches the South not as a monolith, but as a layered and contested space shaped by borders, labor, ecology, ancestry, and survival. Together, their works form a collective meditation on what it means to bear witness, to remember, and to remain human within conditions of erasure and displacement.
solo exhibits
2024 - Size Matters - The Golden Rule
2023 - Hard on Guns, Gold & God, Arlington Museum of Art
2022 - The Butterfly Case, Love Texas Art by Artspace III Ft. Worth
2022 - Pedacitos de Paz 2022, Cliff Gallery, Mountain View College
2021 - ENTO•HOMO•LOGY, Redbud Gallery Houston
2021 - ELPIS – A Transmutation Confessional, Meadows Museum of Art, Dallas
2021 - LAMENTATION, Installation. AURORA "New Stories: New Futures" Will Rogers
2020 - Pedacitos de Paz 2020, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
2020 - En Sus Rostros, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2019 - En Sus Rostros, Carrillon Gallery, Ft.Worth
2019 - Pesticides – Works 2013-2016, TWU Fine Arts Building, Denton
2018 - Simpatía Sin Compasión, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2016 - Pedacitos de Paz, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas
2016 - UN-HUMAN, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Ft. Worth
2016 - Between Dying and Death, Artes de la Rosa Gallery, Ft. Worth