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Much of my work depicts the human body as an intersection between nature and culture. Playing on the longstanding equation of nature with sexuality, recent paintings and animations depict sites of ecstasy and eroticism where body and landscape merge into a single entity. In a recent series of watercolors on paper, anthropomorphized landscapes depict intimate acts of dominance and submission, dissolving the boundaries 
between "inside" and "outside”. In the ‘Wide Open Wide’ series the western night sky is framed by an open mouth, collapsing the boundaries between body and environment.
Joey Fauerso has shown her work nationally and internationally, with upcoming shows at David Shelton Gallery, Western Exhibitions, Parson’s University-Paris and Texas A&M Laredo. Joey is an Assistant Professor at Texas State University, and lives in San Antonio with her husband Riley Robinson and their son Brendan Robinson.
Born 1976
Have lived in San Antonio, TX, since the fall of 2001
2001
University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.F.A.
2000
University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.A. in Art
1998
University of Iowa-Iowa City, B.F.A with Honors and High Distinction
1996
Universidad Nacional, Heredia (study abroad program), Costa Rica
Grants/Awards/Residencies
2010
Hotel Pupik, International Artists in Residence Grant, Schrattenberg, Austria
Artpace Arist In Residence Short List, San Antonio, Texas
Hunting Prize Finalist
2009
REP development Grant, Texas State University
Creative Capitol Professional Development Retreat Grant
Artpace Showcase Artist, Chalk It Up, San Antonio, Texas
Artpace Arist In Residence Short List, San Antonio, Texas
Hunting Prize Finalist
2008
Korpulfsstadir Residency, Association of Icelandic Residencies, Reykjavik, Iceland
2007
San Antonio Artist Foundation Grant
Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award Nominee
Selected for the Artist’s Pension Trust, Los Angeles
2005
Golden Foundation Individual Artist Grant
ArtPace Travel Grant
Dallas Museum of Art Kimberough Fund Grant
Roswell Artist in Residence
Ucross Foundation Residency
2000
Temkin Award, The University of Wisconsin Art Department
1998
Vilas Award, The University of Wisconsin Art Department
University of Wisconsin Academic (WARF) Fellowship
1995
The Schumacher Scholarship, The University of Iowa Art Department
Solo Exhibitions and Two-Person Exhibitions
2011
Box 13, Houston TX
2010
Western Exhibitions, Chicago, Illinois
Hotel Pupik, Schrattenberg, Austria
Billboard Project, curated by Hedya Klein, Trieste, Italy
Fields and Monuments-Joey Fauerso and Riley Robinson, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX
Exotic Matter, David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2009
Fields and Monuments-Joey Fauerso and Riley Robinson, Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX
2008
Binocular Rivalry:Joey Fauerso and Michael Velliquette, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX,
Cling to Me, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, curated by Hamlett Dobbins
2007
Joey Fauerso Recent Work, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX, curated by Jennifer Stark
It is Easy, It is Good, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2004
In the Old Days When a Young Man Was a Strong Man, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2003
Artists Looking At Art, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Scope Art Fair, featured artist, represented by Finesilver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Better Luck Next Time, (MFA show) CommonWealth Gallery, Madison, WI
2010
All for One, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
Parson’s University, Paris, France
Unit B Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Amalgamations, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX
Luminaria, San Antonio, TX
“WindowWorks”. Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2009
Communion of Saints: Santa Barbara and San Antonio Artists, David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, TX, curated by Miki Garcia
Where the Ocean Meets the Sky, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, Illinois
Summer Sampler, Hogar Collection, Brooklyn NY
Multiples, David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, TX
All Ladies Video Review, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX
2008
Pleinairism, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland, curated by Kitty Scott
A Moment of Clarity, The Hogar Collection, Brooklyn, NY, three-person exhibition curated by Gerelyn Blackstone Bridges
SIM Exhibition, SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland, international invited exhibition
New Acquisitions, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Playing With Time, Blue Star Center for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX, curated by David Ruben
2007
The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture conference
Famous Adults as Children Famous Children as Adults, Monya Rowe Gallery, NY, NY
High 5: Emerging Art in America, CW Network Studios, Los Angeles, CA
RAIR Exhibition, Roswell Museum of Art, Roswell, NM
The Sirens’ Song, Art House, Austin, TX
The Sirens’ Song, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
The Sirens’ Song, The Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at UT at El Paso
2006
Six Artists Six Paintings, Material, Memphis, TN
Pulse, represented by Finesilver Gallery, Miami, FL
Art 212, represented by Finesilver Gallery, NYC
Beast, Finesilver Gallery, Houston, TX
Wild and Bushy, Volitant Gallery, Austin TX
Drawing Inside/Out, Lawndale, Houston, TX
New American Talent, Art House, Austin TX
2005
Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, FL
Texas Painting, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
Blue Star 20, Curated by Tony Jones Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
Amarillo Biennial 600: Drawing, Curated by James Elaine, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
Maco International Art Fair, represented by arcaute arte contemporaneo, Mexico City. Mexico
2004
Los Americanos, arcaute arte contemoraneo, Monterey, Mexico
A Timeless Montage of Being and Conflict, curated by Gabriela Trench, Parson's University, Paris, France
The Golden Style of Being, Bamboo Lane, Los Angeles, CA
2003
All Over and At Once, curated by Lane Relyea, The Pond, Chicago, IL
CAM Exhibition, curated by Terri Sultan, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
The Company We Keep, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Art Chicago, represented by Finesilver Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sweet!, REM Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Come Forward- New Emerging Art in Texas, curated by Lane Relyea and Suzanne Weaver, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
UTSA Faculty Show, University of Texas at San Antonio Campus Gallery
San Francisco International Art Exhibition, represented by Michael Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
Drawing in San Antonio: Works by Contemporary Area Artists, curated by Lyle Williams, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
3, Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, TX
New Works, (with Leslee Fraser), The Honey Factory, San Antonio, TX
2001
Tis’ The Reason, The Michael Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Bibliography
2010
Michael Jay McClure, Exotic Matter, exhibition catalog essay
Steve Bennet, “Art Center’s 25th Anniversary”, San Antonio Express News, February 28th
2009
Scott Dickens “Seeing “Multiples” at the David Shelton Gallery”, San Antonio Contemporary Art Examiner, August 1, 2009
Steve Bennett, “Outside 1604 but in the loop, artwise”, San Antonio Express News, August 16th, 2009
Dan Goddard, “The Heart Collection”, Inside Magazine, July/August, 2009
Dan Goddard, “Fauerso and Robinson explore “Fields and Monuments” at Palo Alto”, San Antonio Express News, My SA Blog, February 20, 2009
Sarah Fisch, “Girls on Film”, The Current, January 7, 2009
2008
Victoria Cross, “Pleinarism”, Iceland Review, November 29, 2008
Emily Seale, Cam 2008 “Binocular Rivalry”, The Current, July 9, 2008
Laura Lark, “Contemporary Art Month in San Antonio”, Glasstire, August 2008
Steve Rockwell, “San Antonio’s Luminaria”, Volume 11, Number1
Jennifer Lloyd, “Coloring Outside the Lines”, SA 210, June 25-July1, 2008
Hamlett Dobbins, Cling to Me, exhibition catalog, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
2007
Stephen Flemming, Beyond a Gift of Time, exhibition catalog, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell NM
David Pagel, High 5: Emerging Art in America, exhibition catalog, CW Network Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Mary E. Murray, Golden Foundation Catalog
Kelly Baum, “The Sirens’ Song”, Exhibition Catalog , ArtHouse, Austin, TX
Unseen Worlds Records, “Into The Blue”, Blue Gene Tyranny, album art
Edited by Nan Cuba and Riley Robinson, “Art at Our Doorstep”, Trinity University Press
Jessica Belasco, “Eastern Philosophy Anchors Artist’s Explorations”, San Antonio Express News. April 11, 2007
Nikki Moore, “The Sirens’ Song”, Austin Chronicle, Feb. 23, 2007
Amanda Douberly, “The Siren’s Song”, Glasstire, Feb. 2007
2006
Caroline Ewing, “Open and Shut”, fNews, December 2006
Kelly Klaasmeyer, “Kingdom Come”, Houston Press, Oct 20-Nov. 1
Nichole Pruitt, “Beast”, ArtsHouston, Oct, 2006
Michael Garcia, “Wide Open Wide”, Cantanker, Fall 2006
Justin Goldwater, “Feel the Cosmos: Joey Fauerso at Women and Their Work”, fluentcollabrative.org, issue 78 October 27
Dan Goddard “Portrait artist has an animated touch”, San Antonio Express News, October 29, 2006
Amanda Douberley, “Joey Fauerso:Wide Open Wide”, The Austin Chronicle, October, 27, 2006
Kelly Baum “Mind Wide Open”, catalog essay, Women and Their Work, Austin TX
Wendy Atwell, “A conversation with Joey Fauerso”, Glasstire, July 21
Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin, “Arts: Diverse Show of ‘New American Talant”’, Austin American Statesman, June 29
MaLin Wilson Powell, “If I’m Thinking I’m probably Feeling”, catalog essay, Roswell Museum of Art, Roswell, NM
Kelly Klaasmeyer, “Capsule Review”, Houston Press, June 29
2005
Fran Colpitt, Exhibition Review, ArtUS, Jan/Feb
Anjali Gupta, Exhibition Review, ArtPapers, Jan/Feb
Emily Spicer, “Courting the Muse”, San Antonio Express News, Jan 9, 2005
Tony Jones, Nuts and Bolts, Making the Blue Star 20 Exhibition, Artlies, fall issue 48
2004
Carol Kino, “A Timeless Montage of Being and Conflict”, catalog essay, Parsons University, Paris, France
Christopher French, “Paris Review”, Glasstire, October
New American Painting, featured artist
2003
Michael Workman, "Allover and At Once", Flash Art, November-December
Wendy Atwell, "A Face -off With Portraiture, Joey Fauerso Deepens the Genre", Artlies, issue 40, July
Anjali Gupta, "The Art of Living", San Antonio Current, July 24-30
Terrie Sultan, "Blue Star 18" Exhibition Catalog, Bluestar, San Antonio, TX
Dan Goddard, "Blue Star's SA Art Poetic", San Antonio Express News, August 17
Dan Goddard, "Birds of a Feather", San Antonio Express News, August 17
Kelly Klaasmeyer, "Body Art", Houston Press, July 24-30
Rainey Knudson, “Visual Art in Texas”, Glasstire
Suzanne Weaver and Lane Relyea,"Come Forward, New Emerging Art in Texas", exhibition catalog, 2003
2002
“pleaseandthankyou” (image), Perla Magazine
2001
Michael Velliquette,"Self-Conscious and Saucy", 16 Beaver Group Inc.
Visiting Artist Lectures
2010
Parsons University, Paris, France
Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX
Hotel Pupik, international artists in residence grant, Schrattenberg, Austria
UTSA, San Antonio, TX
Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
2009
Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX
2008
The McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
2007
Women and Their Work, “Why Then, Why Now”
BlueStar Contemporary Art Center
2 to Watch, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
2006
Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
Southern Conference of the Humanities, Ashville, NC
Roswell Museum of Art, Roswell, NM
2005
University of Texas at San Antonio, TX
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX
2004
Nordic Artists Centre in Dale, Dale, Norway
Parsons University, Paris, France
University of Texas at San Antonio, TX
2003
Creative Research Lab, Austin, TX
McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Selected Collections
Artist Pension Trust
Atlee Development Inc
San Antonio River Foundation
Linda Pace Foundation
San Antonio Museum of Art
South Texas Blood and Tissue Center Collection
The Progressive Insurance Collection
Cox Smith Law Firm
Rialto Realty
Dan R. Goddard (Apr 13, 2010)
"Fauerso explores the existential human condition in her cosmic figurative paintings, while Velliquette is making exquisitely detailed masks and totems using the child’s craft of colorful cut construction paper."
Dan R. Goddard (Oct 7, 2009)
"Curator Miki Garcia, executive director of the Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, has assembled a lively show brimming with wit and cleverness..."
Sarah Fisch (Apr 28, 2010)
Exotic Matter, the breathtaking show at David Shelton Gallery, stays on his walls only until May 8. Go marvel at Joey Fauerso's sexually charged, rigorously investigative and (yes) beautiful paintings, which are all about surface. Well, and depth. And also nudity. And renderings of exploding plant life so lush you want to disrobe and roll around in them. Michael Velliquette takes paper-cutting past the ordinary "painstaking" or "elaborate" territory into, well, the exotic; they're relics from a culture you're not altogether familiar with, but always knew was out there somewhere. The show's been held over for two weeks, and Michael McClure Ph.D., assistant professor of Contemporary Art and Theory at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, saw fit to write an essay about it; we think it's worth driving north to see it.
Steve Bennett (Apr 18, 2010)
In addition to being a painter of substance and resonance, Joey Fauerso is an astonishing technician. It is work the trip out to Shelton's gallery just to see the dense black that Fauerso achieves in "Feel What it Feels Like"--in watercolor, a notoriously difficult medium.
Michael Velliquette's work is sort of like coming upon a new species of orchid or butterfly in the wild. In addition to being a painter of substance and resonance, Joey Fauerso is an astonishing technician. It is worth the trip out to Shelton's Stone Oak gallery just to see the dense black that Fauerso achieves in "Feel What It Feels Like" - in watercolor, a notoriously difficult medium.
Steve Bennett (Aug 16, 2009)
The inaugural "Multiples" show, featuring works in a wide range of media by some of the region's most accomplished and respected artists, is well worth the drive.
Scott Dickens (Aug 1, 2009)
Within Multiples, the aptly titled exhibition, the David Shelton Gallery has collaborated with several artists to create multiple works. The gesture seems to have been returned tenfold. Multiples delivers to the viewer a body of work united by craftsmanship, that delves into the distinctly modern while maintaining direct ties to the classical. As the viewer moves from one piece to the next, each body of work successfully adds to the exhibition a new dimension rooted in the individual artist's distinct sense of style. Shortly thereafter, this plethora of individuality proceeds to collide into an interesting, and well thought out exhibition.