BORN:  Denton, TX  


EDUCATION
      

The Glassell School of Art, MFAH, Painting Diploma, Houston, TX 

Rice University, Bachelor of Music-Viola Performance, Houston, TX

Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX

 AWARDS AND HONORS

2021
Visiting Artist, Russell farm Art Center, Burleson, TX

2019   
"The International Painting Annual 9" selected artist, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 

2018
Winner, Second Place, "Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2018," Houston, TX, Juror Anna Katz, Assistant Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angelas, CA

2017     
Winner, "The Big Show 2017," Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX; Juror Toby Kamps, former Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection, and upcoming Director of the Blaffer Art Museum 

2011 
   
Winner, Open Press Studios Western United States Competition (New American Paintings #96);  Juror Cassandra Coblentz, Associate Curator, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

2009    
Summer Studio Residency, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX


2008  
  
Finalist, New Work Bold Artists Series, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX

Runner-up, Open Studios Press Western United States Competition; Juror Andrea Karnes Curator, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth


2006
    
Winner, Open Studios Press Western United States Competition (New American Paintings #66); Juror Ian Berry, The Susan Rabinowitz Malloy Curator of the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery of Skidmore College


2006
   
Honorable Mention, Open Juried Exhibition”, TAACCL, Nassau Bay, TX
 
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024
"Can't See the Forest", Houston Art League, Houston, TX

2022
"Hollows and Grottos: The Arboreal Worlds of Renata Lucia and Tom Sale", Russell Farm Art Center, Burleson, TX

2018   
 
"News vs. Nature (Gulf)", Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX

2013    
"Vintage”, Buchannan Gallery, Galveston, TX (with Tami Merrick)

2009    
“The Sky Has No Memory”, Box13 ArtSpace, Houston, TX

2009    
“Interstand”, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX

2007     
“Strange Attractors”, 4411 Montrose, Houston, TX
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
(Expected) "Solatalgia", San Jacinto South Campus Gallery, San Jacinto College South, Houston, TX

2023
"Pink", Kinder Morgan Exhibition Series, Houston, TX
"Glassell Printmaking Students: 2018 - 2022", Glassell School of Art, MFAH, Houston, TX
"Wilderness", Kinder Morgan Exhibition Series, Houston, TX

2021
 "Ab - Raum", D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany, by invitation of Kulturebahnhof Artistic Director, Mandy Gerht

2019
"Tiny Pricks Project", SPEEDWELL Projects, Portland, Maine

"Tiny Sketchbook Project", The Other Art Fair, London, UK

"Tiny Sketchbook Project", Sloe Gallery, Paris, France

"Texas Vignette Art Fair", Dallas, TX,
Juror Leslie Moody Castro

"Great" mobiles Ausstellungs via Kulturbahnhof, Leipzig, Germany, by invitation of Kulturebahnhof Artistic Director, Mandy Gerht

2018

"New Texas Talent 2018", Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX, Juried by CADD (Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas)

"Fifth Annual Artspace111 Regional Juried Exhibition", Artspace111, Fort Worth TX, Juror Christina Rees, Editor-in-Chief, Glasstire


"Texas Vignette Art Fair", Dallas, TX, Jurors Erin Murphy, Jessie Moncrief, and Dee Lara 

"Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2018," Houston, TX, Juror Anna Katz, Assistant Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angelas, CA

"Glasstire Party: Houston Edition," auction artist, Houston, TX, selected by Rainy Knudsen, Founder/Publisher, Glasstire

2017
"Art on the Avenue Juried Exhibition," Winter Street Studios;  Juror Paul Davis,  Curator of Collections at The Menil Collection

"Trump This", Art Car Museum, featured "Art Cycle Project" artist, Houston, TX

"Texas Artists Strong:  Pop-up Exhibition and Fundraiser", Fresh Arts, Spring Street Studios, Houston, TX

"Stiches: The Art of Needlework", Texas Art Asylum, Houston, TX

"Collectors Club Cycle VII", Project Row Houses, Houston, TX, selection by Ryan Dennis, Project Row Houses Art Director & Curator

"The Big Show 2017," Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX; Juror Toby Kamps, former Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection, and upcoming Director of the Blaffer Art Museum

"Rørpost Collaboration Project," City Hall, Houston, TX

2016
"Art on the Avenue Juried Exhibition," Winter Street Studios;  Juror Jennie Ash, Visual Arts Director, Art League Houston
"Collector's Club Cycle VI," Project Row Houses, Houston, TX

"Rørpost Collaboration Project," Art Car Museum, Houston, TX

"Rørpost Collaboration Project", Arier Gammeltorv at UCSyd, Esbjerg, Denmark

"Rørpost Collaboration Project", City Hall, Esbjerg , Denmark


2015
"596 Miles," International Women's Foundation, Marfa, TX

"Art on the Avenue Juried Exhibition," Winter Street Studios;  Juror Christine Jelson West, Executive Director Lawndale Arts Center

2014    
"ArtChatter Uncorked," Nos Caves Vin, Houston, TX; curated by Elise Arnoult Miller, Arnoult Fine Art Consulting

Diploma Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, MFAH, Houston, TX

2011   
"Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2012," Houston TX; Juror Robin Clark, Curator of Contemporary Art at San Diego Museum of Art

2009    
“Rock, Scissors, Paper,” Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX; curated by Lisa Qualls, artist

“Prismattak,” Domy-Houston; curated by Lisa Marie Godfrey, artist 

2008    
“The Big Show,” Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX; Juror Aram Moyashedi, Curator, LA>

“The Empty Box,” Box13 ArtSpace, Houston TX

“eMotion Pictures:  An Exhibition of Orthopaedics in Art,” Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL; Traveling selections from the San Francisco show made in conjunction with the Exhibition Curator of the Chicago Cultural Center

“eMotion Pictures:  An Exhibition of Orthopaedics in Art,” San Francisco, CA;  Jurors René de Guzman, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, John Killacky, The San Francisco Foundation, and Paul Pratchenko, Painter/Professor, SFSU

“Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2008”; Juror Dr. Kevin Salatino, Department Head and Curator of Prints and Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA

“Intersections:  A Group Show of Works by the Art Chatter Critique Group,” The Jung Center, Houston, TX

“Red Hot Group Show,” Darke Gallery, Houston, TX

2007    
25thJuried Membership Exhibition,” Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, TX; Juror Arthur Turner

Geek Art Invitational and Juried Exhibition,” The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake, Nassau Bay, TX;  by invitation, Debra Kendrick, TAACCL Curator

"The Big Show,” Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX;  Juror Rita Gonzalez, Assistant Curator, Special Exhibitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA

“24th Juried Open Exhibition,” Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, TX; Juror Polly Hammet

“Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2007,” Houston, TX; Juror Carter Foster, Curator of Drawings, The Whitney Museum, New York NY

2006    
“9 x 12 Works On Paper Show,” Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX

“The Big Show,” Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX; Juror Dominic Molon, Pamela Alper Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

“Summer Open Juried Exhibition,” TAACCL, Nassau Bay, TX; Juror Eric Michael Jones

“23rd Juried Open Exhibition,” Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, TX; Juror Sally Sprout, Principal, Sally Sprout Fine Art

2005
   
“The Big Show,” Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX; Juror Michael Olijnyk, Curator of Exhibitions for The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA

“FACE,” Art Car Museum, Houston, TX
 
PUBLICATIONS

2024
"The Hand Magazine", Issue 44, Prairie Village, KS

2019   
"The International Painting Annual 9", Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 

2017   
“Ringers at Lawndale's 'The Big Show': Can you spot them,?” The Houston Chronicle, Molly Glentzer, 07/21/2017

“Toby Kamps’ Big ‘Big Show’”, Glasstire, Michael Bise, 07/14/2017

2016

"Anatomy of a Collaboration," ArtHouston magazine, Fall/Winter, Issue 3  

2011
    
"New American Paintings Juried Exhibition in Print, No. 96" 

"rock, scissors, paper", Lisa Qualls 

2009
Capsule Art Reviews, “Prismattak”, Houston Press, March, 11, 2009

2008    
AAOS “Emotion Pictures: An Exhibition of Orthopaedics in Art” project

2006    
“New American Paintings Juried Exhibition-in-Print, No. 66”
 
OTHER

2021-22
Texas Master Naturalist-Gulf Coast Chapter Member and Native Plant Society of Texas Member

2020-2021
Sketchbook Skool Volunteer: Spark Ambassador;  Cohort Co-leader; Be an iPad Artist;  Co-Presenter:  Ready, Set, Print

2018-2022
City of Houston Artist Pool Member 

2015-17
Houston Organizer (one of three) and Webmaster, Rørpost Collaboration Project (international collaboration between  Houston and Danish artist groups)

2014
Instructor, Special Topics in Art Education - Encaustic Painting, MFAH, Houston TX

2006-18
ArtChatter Critique Group Member, Houston TX

2009    
Temporary Part-Time Apprentice Junk Dealer working at "Bill’s Junk", (included in the "No Zoning" exhibition) CAMH, Houston TX

Box13 ArtSpace Resident Artist, Houston TX

2008-9
Artists Cohort, DiverseWorks/Houston Arts Alliance Professional Development Program

2008    
Box13 ArtSpace Resident Artist/Board Member (Secretary), Houston, TX


COLLECTIONS
International Woman's Foundation, Marfa, TX
and private collections in Texas, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania.

Some work has been exhibited under the name Renate Jones.