Michael Menchaca

Born in 1985 in San Antonio, Texas, Michael Menchaca (they/them) received their Associate degree from San Antonio College in 2007, their B.F.A. from Texas State University in 2011, and M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2015. Michael Menchaca’s art is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, D.C.; U.S. Library of Congress, D.C.; Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; Princeton University Art Museum, NJ; El Museo Del Barrio, NY; The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR; and The San Antonio Museum of Art, TX; among others. Exhibitions include the Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; El Museo del Barrio, NY; Davis Museum, MA; The Chrysler Museum of Art, VA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, D.C.; The Benton Museum of Art, CA; The Contemporary Austin, TX; The Lawndale Art Center, TX; The McNay Museum, TX; North Carolina Museum of Art, NC; and The Print Center New York, NY. They have been an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, ME; Vermont Studio Center, VT; Wassaic Project, NY; Segura Arts Studio at Notre Dame University, IN; Serie Project at Coronado Studios, TX; The Studios at MASS MoCA, MA; Artpace, TX; and a fellow-in-residence at The Fine Arts Work Center, MA. They are one-half of the artist collective Dos Xicanx. In 2021, the US Latinx Art Forum (USLAF), supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation, awarded Menchaca the inaugural Latinx Artist Fellowship.