Biography

Ouida Touchón is a visual artist who spends most of her waking moments at the easel or the press. She has her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in Painting, and her Masters of Art from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in studio arts. In addition she has studied with mentors and distinguished printmakers and painters in Italy, Mexico, and the United States.

In 2003 she moved to Las Cruces, in southern New Mexico and opened Cruz Nopal Art Studio where she produces unique paintings and handprints in a variety of styles. Her work is in the collections of the El Paso Museum of Art and the Historical Museum for the State of New Mexico as well as the Federal building of Las Cruces, New Mexico. She is represented by various galleries throughout the United States.

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EDUCATION:
2003 Master of Arts/ Studio, University of Missouri Kansas City
2000 BFA Painting, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City MO
2000 International Art School Summer Session w Lennart Anderson, Umbria, Italy
1999 Instituto de Allende, San Miguel de Allende
1991 & 1994 Mentorship, Jim Kosvanec, NWS, San Miguel de Allende, MX
1984 AA Fashion Design, AA Patternmaking, El Centro College, Dallas, TX
1967-1971 University California Long Beach, Studio Art and Art History

RECENT EXHIBITIONS:
2010 Preston Contemporary Art Center, El Paso/ Southern New Mexico Juried Exhibition, Mesilla, NM
2010 Women’s Works 2010, Woodstock Arts Center, Woodstock, IL
2009 Solo Show, JW Gallery, Hurley, NM
2009 Bestiary y Nahuales, group portfolio, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
2008 Artists on Art, featured painting Domestic Bliss, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso TX
2008 Binacional/ Binational, collaborative group show held at the El Paso Art Museum and Museo de Arte, Juarez, Mexico
2008 "Patterns of Behavior" group show, Unit 5 Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2007 Featured Artist, Main Street Gallery, Las Cruces, NM
2006 'Recent Woodcuts’, Solo Show, Rio Grande Galleries, Las Cruces, NM
2006 La Prensa/Southwest Printmakers, Directors Gallery, Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces, NM
2006 Featured Artist, Tierra Montana Gallery, Livingston, Mt
2005 ‘The Piedra Lumbre Suite’, Solo show, Nash Gallery, Mesilla NM
2005 ‘Nudes and Lovers’ Show, Tang Gallery, Bisbee, AZ
2005 Featured Artist, Nash Gallery, Mesilla, NM

AWARDS:
2007 Newcomers Award, Dona Ana Arts Council, Las Cruces, NM
2005 Merit Award, Faces of Woman, Las Vegas Arts Council, Las Vegas, NM
2004 Merit Award, Encantada, Rio Grande Art Association, Albuquerque, NM
2000 IVPAC Grant, International Art Studies program, UMKC
2001 Merit Award, Cultures without Borders, group show
2002 Graduate Assistance Fund, The Women’s Council, UMKC

ACTIVITIES IN THE ARTS:
Ongoing: Board of Governance, Alma de Arte Charter HS, Las Cruces
Ongoing: Instructor, El Paso Museum of Art, classes in printmaking.
2010 Southern Graphics Council Convention, Philadelphia, PA
2008-09 Columnist, “Art Talk”, criticism and review, the Las Cruces Bulletin
2008 Painted mural project/ Main Gallery,Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces, NM
2007 Southern Graphics Council Convention, Kansas City, MO
2006 Instructor Papermaking with Native plants, Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM
2005 Residency, Piedra Lumbre basin, Abiquiu New Mexico
2005 Southern Graphics Council Convention, Washington DC
2004-6 Board of Directors NMSU Art Gallery
2003 Studio Ex-Hacienda Escalera, Guanajuato, MX
2001 Travel to Guanajuato MX on GAF Grant painting project.

MEMBERSHIPS:
American Print Alliance
Southern Graphics Council
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Dona Ana Arts Council

COLLECTIONS:
State of New Mexico Historical Museum, Mesilla NM
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
US Federal Building in Las Cruces, New Mexico