Jesús Moroles

(American, born 1950)

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Jesús Moroles

Disc Spiral, 2009

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Jesús Moroles

Two Head Fish, 2007

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Jesús Moroles

Disc Ruin, 1999

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Jesús Moroles

Moonscape, 2007

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Biography

Timeline

1950
Born in Corpus Christi, TX
1975
AA, El Centro College, Dallas, TX
1978 - 1979
Apprenticed under LUIS JIMÉNEZ, El Paso, TX
1978
BFA, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
1979 - 1980
Worked with Marble in Pietrasanta, Carrara, Italy
1988
Appointed to Board of Directors, International Sculpture Center, Washington, DC
1993
Appointed to Board of Trustees, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
1996
Appointed to the Board of Commissioners, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC


Awards and Honors

Recipient, National Medal of Arts, The White House, Washington, DC, 2008

Exhibitions

2007
San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, TX (solo), travelled
2006
Moroles: Paper & Granite, Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin, Odessa, TX (solo)
“Art in the Garden: Sculpture/Escultura,” San Antonio Botanical Gardens, San Antonio, TX (group)
“Big Red: Carved in Stone,” Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI (group)
2005
Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX (solo)
“Color/Pattern/Grid,” Austin Museum of Art-Downtown, Austin, TX (group)
2004
Rock, Roll and Play, Dallas Museum of Art, Fina Gallery, Dallas, TX (solo)
“Around the World in Forty Years,” Art in Embassies Program, State Department, Washington, DC (group)
2003
Jesús Moroles Granite Sculpture, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX (solo)
2002
Harmony in the Stone, Hall of State at Fair Park, Dallas, TX (solo)
2000
J. Cacciola Gallery New York, NY
1999
J. Cacciola Gallery New York, NY
Barbara Davis Gallery Houston, TX
1998
Joy Tash Gallery Scottsdale, AZ