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AWARDS
2016Assistance League Juried Show, 2nd Place
2003Cultural Arts Council of Houston & Harris County Artist Grant Recipient
1999Honorable Mention in TFAA’s “Transcending Limits” Exhibition
1999American Photography Institute Graduate Seminar Fellowship, New York University
1999Houston Center for Photography Fellowship
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
  
2020Ball State University, Muncie Indiana
2017Uno Art Space, Stuttgart, Germany
2017Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Art Lab
2016Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
2014The Tank Project Space, Houston, Texas
2007Gensler Architecture Firm, Houston, Texas
2006Kirksey Architecture Firm, Houston, Texas
2001The Spring Collection Galveston Arts Center
2000I2 K- Imelda 2000. “Women and Their Work,” Austin, Texas
2000“Heels and Hangers,” Houston Center for Photography
1998Lawndale Art Center, Houston
1998Houston Center for Photography Fellowship Show
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022








2020

 

2019

2018
Nothing Goes to Waste, The Houston Center For Contemporary Craft

“Image for Concept,” The Hand Art Center, Stetson University, Deland, Florida
“Confluencias,” Patricia Conde Galeria, Mexico City


Image for Concept, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, Florida
“Large Format,” Patricia Conde Galeria, Mexico City


Society for Photographic Education South Central Exhibition, Firehouse Gallery, Baton Rouge, Louisianna



Fotofest Auction Preview Show at David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX
Houston Center for Photography Auction Preview Show
 2017
re/thinking photography: Conceptual Photography from Texas
 Fotofest Silver Street, Houston, Texas
 “Material Musings” by Kinzelman Art, Bank of America, Houston, Texas
 “Guest Star”, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, Texas
 “Visceral Notions”, The Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York
 Collectors Club, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas
2016Daegu Photography Biennale, Encounters IV, Korea
 Double Space, HCC Faculty Show, Houston, Texas
 Galveston Arts Center, Twenty Five, Galveston, Texas
 Festival de la Luz 2016, Argentina, August
 Assistance League Juried Show by Brady Roberts
2015The Silos on Sawyer curated by Bill Arning
 Joyce Elaine Grant Juried Exhibition by April Watson, Curator of Photography at Nelson-Atkins Museum; Texas Womans University
 Reincarnation, Art Car Museum, Houston
2014Diverseworks, Luck of The Draw
The Tank Installation Space, Spring Street Studios 
Faculty Show, Houston Community College Central
San Jacinto College, GCIC Mentor Show
Bring Your Own Beamer, Aurora Picture Show & The Menil Collection
2013Men of Honor Exhibit, 3100 Main Gallery
2012HCC Central Faculty Show
2011Arizona State University SPE Group Exhibition, by Deborah Willis
 Savannah College of Art and Design Trois Gallery SPE Group Exhibition, by Deborah Willis
201024th International Juried Show Curated by Susan Kismaric of MOMA
 Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
 Fotofest “Central” 3100 Main Gallery
 Neiman Marcus Installation in Conjunction with Manolo Blahnik Signing
 HCC Central Faculty Art Exhibition
2009“way, WAY out West,” In celebration of Asian Heritage Month, JP Morgan Chase Heritage Hall
 HCC Central Faculty Art Exhibition, University of Houston Clear Lake Gallery
2008Houston Community College Faculty Exhibition, Central College Gallery
2007Intersections: Asia/America, Galveston Arts Center, Kingwood College
2006Rice Design Alliance at Kirksey Architecture Firm
 Berkshire Museum, Massachusetts, Group Show, “Out of the Box”
 “Silver” Houston Center for Photography Retrospective Exhibition
 “Crossroads” Galveston Arts Center
2005Texas Women’s University
 Anya Tish Gallery
2004“Through the Lens” at Cultural Arts Council of Houston
 San Antonio College of Visual Art and Technology Gallery
 “Only Skin Deep,” Curated by Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis: International Center of Photography, New York, December – February. San Diego Museum of Art, February – October. Seattle Museum of Art, November – June

2003Round 18, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas
 “Inside/Outside: Texas Women Photographers,” curated by Anne Wilkes Tucker & Clint Wilour,
shown through 2004 at these venues: Houston Center for Photography, The Grace
Museum Abilene, Galveston Art Center and Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
2002“Through the Looking Glass,” Truman State University, Kirksville, MO
 Houston Center for Photography Fotofest Retrospective
 “New American Talent,” TFAA, Juror Catherine Canjo, Director of Art Pace
2001“Sultry,” Houston Community College
2000“Serious Play,” Adambomb Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
 “Taxonomies,” Chenevert Green, Houston, Texas
 “Juried Members Show,” by Terrie Sultan, Women and their Work
 “The Reductive Eye,” Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas
 “Click Chicks,” Arlington Museum of Art & Texas Women’s University
 Houston Area Exhibition,” juried by Joe Havel, Jessica Cussack & Mary Bebe, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas
 “2000 API Photography Fellowship Show,” NYU, New York, New York
 “Perennial,” ¼ Hora Project Space, Elgin, Texas
 Fotofest Downtown Public Art at Foley’s
 “The Really Big Shoe Show,” City Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
1999Transcending Limits TFAA, Austin Texas, Beaumont Museum of Art, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio
 Photo Austin, Flatbed Press Galleries, Austin, Texas
 “1999 API Photography Fellowship Show,” NYU, New York
 “1999 New Texas Talent,” Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas
 “Half and Half,” Purse Building Gallery, Houston, Texas
 “MFA Thesis Show,” Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
1998“Blurred Boundaries,” Winter Street Gallery, Houston, Texas
 “How’s My Driving?” Mobile art space, Fotofest, Houston, Texas
1997“The Big Show,” juried by Don Bacigalupi, Lawndale Art Center
 “ABC show,” Diverseworks, Houston, Texas
1996“Picturing Asia America,” Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas
 “Opening Moves,” John Cleary Gallery, Houston, Texas
 “Houston Area Exhibition,” juried by Dana Friss Hansen, Mary Miss & Luis Jimenez, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2015Houston Arts Alliance Wayfinding Signs Project, Downtown Houston, Texas
2007Finalist for The Southwest Police Station, Houston, Texas
2006Finalist for The Herman Park Conservancy Zoo/Lakefront, Houston, Texas
2003The CACHH Selected Artist for The Water Department in Humble, Texas
2002Police Station at The University of Houston
LECTURES
2019

 

2011

Southeast Museum of Photography, Image for Concept Panel Discussion, Daytona, Florida

 

Society of Photographic Education, Imagemaker Presentation, Philadelphia

2005The Menil Collection—Artist Eye Series
2004Truman State University Visiting Artist, Guest Lecturer
2001Philosophy of Aesthetics, Warwick Hotel, Houston, Texas
2000Women and Their Work—Solo Exhibition Lecture
1999NYU National Graduate Seminar Fellow, American Photography Institute
 CAMH—At Home and Abroad: 20 Filipino Artists
1998Women Studies Conference, UH Clear Lake
BIBLIOGRAPHY
 
2018 Lenscratch Art and Science “Magic”

Hanselle, Ralf “Der Reiz des Echten”, FotoMagazin Edition Germany, 2017. Print

 Galveston Arts Center, “Twenty Five: A Celebration Twenty Five: A Conclusion, 2017”. Print
 Seock Hyunhye, “Daegu Photo Biennale 2016”
 Sajinyesul, Korean Photo Magazine, 2016. Print
 Anspon, Catherine, “Houston’s Best Dinner Party: Food’s Turned Into Art at This Star-Packed Affair”, Paper City, September 17, 2016
 Wozny, Nancy— “Performania: Performance Without a Theater”, Arts + Culture: November 20, 2015, Print
 Glentzer, Molly— “Site Houston Turns Silos Into Art”, Chron: November 5, 2015
 Shey, Brittanie— “Going with the Grain”, Houstonia Magazine: 2015
 KUHF Radio News, “Art Exhibit Makes a Statement About Preserving Houston’s Buildings”, 2015
 Sewing, Joy— “Bennie Flores Ansell: Artist, Teacher Likes Unexpected Style”, Houston Chronicle, November, 2014, Print
 Anspon, Catherine— Paper City: Spring 2011
 Houston Chronicle, November 13, 2008
 Spot Magazine, Fall 2006
 Filipinas Magazine, July 2006
 Yellow Magazine, 2005
 McBride, Elizabeth— review of “New American Talent Show”, Artlies, Fall 2002
 Wilour, Clint— “An Obsession With Compulsion”, Artlies, Summer 2002
 “The Incredible Lightness of Bennie Flores Ansell”, Shuz, Winter 2000
 “The Best of 2000 Arts”, Austin American Statesmen, December 21, 2000
 van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire— “The Perfect Swarm”, Austin American Statesmen, July 6, 2000
 Anspon, Catherine— “The Medium of Photography: What to Collect Now”, Paper City, November 1999
 Johnson, Patricia— “A Wider Aperture”, Houston Chronicle, February 22, 1998
 Austin, John— “Picture This”, Fort Worth Star Telegram, June 21, 1996
EDUCATION
1999M.F.A. University of Houston, Texas
1989B.A. University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
 Born January 5, 1967, Manila, Philippines