Natalia Anciso Biography

Natalia Anciso is a Chicana-Tejana visual artist and educator. Anciso was born in Weslaco and raised in Mercedes hardscrabble towns in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Deep South Texas. Shortly after her birth Anciso's family moved to Austin where they would reside until she was the age of 10. She would eventually move back to the Rio Grande Valley to her parents' hometown of Mercedes where she would graduate from Mercedes High School in 2003. After high school Anciso received her BA in Studio Art from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008. Shortly thereafter she would move to Oakland California where in 2011 she would earn an MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Both a product and reflection of humble hardworking and resilient migrant farmworkers and laborers Anciso is the first in her family to graduate from college and subsequently graduate school.Anciso's art has been included in exhibitions throughout the country and internationally. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the San Jose Museum of Art the Oakland Museum of California the Vincent Price Art Museum of Los Angeles the Mexic-Arte Museum of Austin the Alameda National Center for Latino Arts and Culture of San Antonio the National Museum of Mexican Art and the Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago Centro Cultural de la Raza of San Diego Galeria de la Raza of San Francisco the historic residence museum of the Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for the Arts and Crafts a Smithsonian Affiliate in Alta Loma California (in conjunction with Los Angeles-based Craft in America) and Recyclart in Brussels Belgium.

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