Education
Texas Woman’s University - Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture.
Texas Christian University - Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture.
Solo Exhibitions
2022 “The Butterfly Case” Love Texas Art by Artspace III – Fort Worth, TX
“Pedacitos de Paz” Cliff Gallery, Mountain View College – Dallas, TX
2021 “ENTO•HOMO•LOGY”, Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX
“ELPIS – A Transmutation Confessional” Installation/performance, Meadows Museum of Art – Dallas, TX
2020 “Pedacitos de Paz” 2020 Nasher Sculpture Center – Dallas, TX
“En Sus Rostros,” Fort Worth Community Arts Center – Fort Worth, TX
2019 “En Sus Rostros,” Carrillon Gallery – Fort Worth, TX
“Pesticides – Works 2013-2016” TWU Fine Arts Building – Denton, TX
2018 “Simpatía Sin Compasión” Fort Worth Community Arts Center – Fort Worth, TX
2016 “Pedacitos de Paz” Ro2 Gallery – Dallas, TX
“UN-HUMAN,” Fort Worth Community Arts Center – Fort Worth, TX
“Between Dying and Death”, Artes de la Rosa Gallery- Fort Worth, TX
2015 “Fallen Comrades” Installation, 010 Gallery Student Center TWU - Denton, TX
2014 “Insignificant Pests” Installation, 010 Gallery Student Center TWU - Denton, TX
Curatorial Projects
2019 “RED,” Arlington Museum of Art – Arlington TX
“2BIG”, Artes de la Rosa Cultural Center and Gallery - Fort Worth TX
2018 “The BIG show”, Artes de la Rosa Gallery - Fort Worth TX
2017 “More than Black and White” W7 gallery– Fort Worth, TX
Selected Juried Exhibitions
2022 “Art in the Time of Corona” VOL 2, Sí Gallery - Austin, TX
“New Texas Talent XXIX”, Craighead Green Gallery – Dallas TX
“The Sh’Ma Project” – Arts Fort Worth - Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Art Fair
2021 “State of Sculpture”, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts - San Angelo, TX
“NOW | CONTEMPORARY 2021” Art Room – Fort Worth, TX
"Be Queer! Be Real!" CU46 Project – Barcelona, Spain
“On the Bayou” Texas Sculpture Group exhibition, Redbud Gallery – Houston, TX
2020 “4th Annual Small Works Show” Art Room – Fort Worth, TX
“1st Annual LGBTQIA+ Exhibition” 500X – Dallas, TX
“NOW | CONTEMPORARY” National juried. Art Room – Fort Worth, TX
“Resolution: Peace and Unity.” The Eisemann Center- Richardson, TX
2019 “Cimarron National Works on Paper”, OSU Bartlett Center - Stillwater, OK
TAC Impromptu Invitational Fall Gallery Night 2019, FWCAC – Fort Worth, TX
“6rd Annual Artspace111 Regional Juried Exhibition” Artspace111 gallery – Fort Worth, TX
“NOW | CONTEMPORARY” National juried. Art Room – Fort Worth, TX
2018 “The Faculty” Art Tooth - Fort Worth Community Arts Center – Fort Worth, TX
2017 “500X EXPO 2017” 500X gallery- Dallas, TX
Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition, York Art Gallery - York, England.
“Profusion in the Void” Texas sculpture Group Artspace111 gallery – Fort Worth, TX
“4th Annual Artspace111 Regional Juried Exhibition” Artspace111 gallery – Fort Worth, TX
“A Shift of the Mind’s Eye”, ART7 Gallery– Fort Worth, TX
2016 TAC 11th annual Regional Juried Membership Exhibit, Fort Worth C.A.C – Fort Worth, TX
“3rd Annual Artspace111 Regional Juried Exhibition” Artspace111 gallery – Fort Worth, TX
“The Best of the Biennial” Fort Worth Community Arts Center. – Fort Worth, TX
“The John Weinkein Juried Student Exhibition” TWU – Denton TX
“The Way I see it: Real Life!” ART7 Gallery– Fort Worth, TX
2015 “Lucky Seven” Texas Woman’s University fine arts Gallery–Denton, TX
“Biennial 600” Amarillo Museum of Art – Amarillo, TX
“It’s Complicated” ART7 Crockett Community Gallery – Fort Worth, TX
“Curvature” ART7 Crockett Community Gallery – Fort Worth, TX
“I am, You are” ART7 Crockett Community Gallery – Fort Worth, TX
“Variable Array” TWU Graduate Student Exhibition, FWCAC – Fort Worth TX
2014 “The John Weinkein Juried Student Exhibition” TWU – Denton TX
“The Dishman Art museum and C.A.M.E.O. Presents Emerging Artists 2014” Dishman Art Museum and Gallery Lamar University – Beaumont, TX
“M.A.C.H.I.N.E: Consciousness” Gallery West UT Arlington, Arlington TX
“Vortman’s Student art competition” Texas Woman’s University Fine Arts Gallery –Denton, TX
“Selected Works Texas Woman’s University Graduate Student Exhibition” 500X Gallery – Dallas, TX
2013 “Lucky Seven” Texas Woman’s University fine arts Gallery–Denton, TX
“Fort Worth Community Arts Center 10 Invitational Exhibition” Fort Worth Cultural Arts Center gallery - Fort Worth, TX
“500X EXPO 2011” 500X gallery- Dallas, TX
Group Exhibitions
2023 “Texas Sculpture Group Member Show” Irving Arts Center – Irving, TX
“Residency Reveries” Love Texas Art by Artspace III – Fort Worth, TX
“150 Years, 150 Artists” , Texas Christian University – Fort Worth, TX
“Light Years” Temple Emanuel 150-year Celebration by Aurora – Dallas, TX
2022 “DUETS” Arts Fort Worth – Fort Worth, TX
“The Art South Family Reunion”, The Pool Gallery – Fort Worth, TX
“home.” FWCAC – Fort Worth, TX
2021 “New Stories: New Futures” Will Rogers, AURORA / Fort Worth Arts Council -Fort Worth
"ART IN THE TIME OF CORONA" | VOL.2 | 2021 (YEAR 2) - Dab Art Online Exhibition
“Sundance Stroll”, Downtown Fort Worth - Fort Worth, TX
2020 “The New Abnormal”, Fort Worth Community Arts Center – Fort Worth, TX
“2020”, Ro2 Gallery - Dallas TX
“My Corona”, Ro2 Gallery - Dallas TX
2019 “A Collective Take Over,” FWCAC – Fort Worth, TX
“Current Works: Faculty & Staff Exhibition” East Fork Gallery - Fort Worth, TX
“RED,” Arlington Museum of Art – Arlington TX
“Chaos” 2019, Ro2 Gallery - Dallas TX
“2BIG”, Artes de la Rosa Gallery - Fort Worth TX
2018 “Everyone Was A Kid” Davis Foundry Gallery- Dallas, TX
“Branching Out” FWAC Botanical Research Institute of TX – Fort Worth, TX
“Flight of Fancy Faculty” Keller City Hall – Keller, TX
“Chaos” 2018, Ro2 Gallery - Dallas TX
“Fort Worth Art Collective Spring Gallery night 2018” FWCAC – Fort Worth, TX
“The BIG show”, Artes de la Rosa Gallery - Fort Worth TX
2017 “Fort Worth Art Collective at The Grackle” - Fort Worth TX
“More than Black and White” W7 gallery– Fort Worth, TX
“Chaos” 2017, Ro2 Gallery - Dallas TX
“This is the Fort”, Fort Works Arts Gallery, Fort Worth TX
2016 “TAIC at USAO” University of Science and Arts Oklahoma Gallery, Chickasha OK.
“Gallery 76102 Presents the Fort Worth Art Collective,” UTA 76102 Gallery, Fort Worth TX
“Fort Worth Art Collective’s Fall Gallery Night,” Pop-Up Group Show, Fort Worth TX. “Chaos” 2016, Ro2 Gallery - Dallas TX
“Fort Worth Art Collective Spring gallery night 2016” FWCAC – Fort Worth, TX
“Proxy” The Grackle Gallery – Fort Worth, TX
2015 Fort Worth Art Collective “Fall gallery night 2015”, Botanical Research Institute of Texas– Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Art Collective “Spring Show 2015”, W7 Complex– Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Art Collective “W7 Gallery Inauguration” W7 gallery– Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Art Collective “Race Street 116”, “pop up” gallery – Fort Worth, TX
2013 “Hot n’ Sweaty” 500X Gallery – Dallas, TX
“From A-Z” Texas Woman’s University fine arts Gallery –TWU Denton, TX
Fort Worth Art Collective “Race Street 108”, “pop up” gallery – Fort Worth, TX
2012 Fort Worth Art Collective “Art n’ Form”, “pop up” gallery – Fort Worth, TX
Public Artworks
2021 “Diversity of One” Downtown Fort Worth TX
“A Pinned Map of Unconventional Truths” (temporary installation)– Fort Worth, TX
2017 “Kindness Matter Mural,” Burleson TX.
Residencies
2022 - 23 Love Texas Art, Fort Worth, TX.
Awards
2021 Best Artis of Fort Worth (Critic’s choice) Fort Worth Weekly Magazine
Artwork Archive Art Business Accelerator Grant Shortlist Finalist
2020 “The New Normal” Grant Top award recipient
Meadows Museum, Moss/Chumley Award recipient.
2019 NALAC - Leadership Institute Fellow
2018 COCA (Center of Contemporary Artist) Prize Finalist
2017 Aesthetica Art Prize Longlist Artist.
2016 Peripheral Visions Arts Fellowship Recipient and Foundations Prize Winner.
FTW Arts Dealers Association Award for Excellence and Admirable Art.
2015 John Waineken Juried Show 2nd Place Award
School Of fine Arts Scholarship Recipient
2014 Kobler Visual Arts Funds Scholarship recipient
2013 Catherine Cloud Edwards Scholarship recipient
2007 “The TCU Honor Society of Artist and Designers”
2006 “The TCU Honor Society of Artist and Designers”
Press
2023 NBC 5. Artist Spotlight feature. February 27, 2023.
Glasstire “The Preciousness of Truth: a Review of “The Butterfly Case by Bernardo Vallarino” at Love Texas Art” by Megan Wilson Krznarich January 2, 2023
2022 Fort Worth Report “Fort Worth artist offers glimpse into ‘The Butterfly Case’ with talk at Love Texas Art” by Marcheta Fornoff, December 14, 2022.
2021 “ARTIST: Critic’s Choice: Bernardo Vallarino” Fort Worth Weekly, September 25, 2021.
2020 “Bernardo Vallarino: Pedacitos de Paz” Glasstire, November, 2020
“The Nasher is placing North Texas artists front and center in a new public art project” John Zotos. Dallas Morning News, October 29, 2020
“Artist On Artist: Bernardo Vallarino,” Christopher Blay, Glasstire, November 6, 2020
2019 “Bernardo Vallarino at Carillon Gallery,” Marco Jimenez, Dollar Draft DFW, November 20, 2019.
“Meet Bernardo Vallarino” Interview, Voyage Dallas, October 22, 2019.
2018 “Art That Speaks to Refugee Experience” Anne Bothwell, KERA RADIO State of the Arts. July 20, 2018.
“Fort Worth artist brings attention, compassion to plight of migrants seeking safe haven” Charlene Santiago, Fort Worth Star Telegram, July 13, 2018.
2017 “Adjunct Shows Kindness Through Art” Raegan Schafetter, The Collegian, December 5, 2017.
Mural reminds Burleson that kindness matters, Bethann Coldiron, Burleson Star, November 2, 2017
2016 Christopher Blay, untitled The Fort Worth Weekly’s Art Blog. April 8, 2016. fwweekly.com/2016/04/08/untiteled-the-fort-worth-weelys-art-blog-2 Heather Hines, TWU Student Displays Art in Fort Worth, The Lasso, March 2, 2016. Vol 102 No.16
Publications
2022 Artfolio 2022, A Curated Collection of the World’s Most Exiting Artists. – Edited by Douglas King and juried by Kristin Rivas. DAYIII Producations
2017 International Sculpture Centers Texas Chapters Digital Exhibit
Future Now. 100 Contemporary Artists from the Aesthetica Art Prize. Aesthetica Art Prize 2017. Aesthetica Magazine LTD, 2017.
2016 Christopher Blay, untitled The Fort Worth Weekly’s Art Blog. April 8, 2016. http://www.fwweekly.com/2016/04/08/untiteled-the-fort-worth-weelys-art-blog-2
Heather Hines, TWU Student Displays Art in Fort Worth, The Lasso, March 2, 2016. Vol 102 No.16
Peripheralvisionarts.org. “UN-HUMAN: An Interview with Bernardo Vallarino”. www.peripheralvisionarts.org/journal/vallarino-interview . February 23, 2017
2014 Fort Worth Open Studio – Fort Worth, TX
Art & Seek “Top Pick” website / NPR - KERA broadcast Oct.15 “Insignificant Pests”
Student Creative Arts & Research Symposium Catalog, TWU - Denton, TX
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