Bennie Flores Ansell, M.F.A. Curriculum Vitae Name: Work Address: Ms. Bennie Flores Ansell Central Campus of Houston Community College Fine Art Department 1300 Holman Houston, TX 77004 Office Telephone Number: 713-718-6610 College Email Address: bennie.ansell@hccs.edu Education B.A. University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 1989 M.F.A. University of Houston, 1999 National Photography Graduate Fellow, New York University, 1999 & 2000 Teaching Experience o Instructor, 2008 Present o Houston Community College Central Campus o Courses: Art Appreciation, Photography I & II, Digital Arts I & II o Fine Art Faculty, 2006-2008 o High School for The Performing and Visual Arts o Courses: Photoshop, Junior Coordinator, Drawing and Art Criticism o Adjunct Faculty 2005 o Houston Community College Southeast o Courses: Art History I o Fine Art Consultant, 2000-2002 o High School for The Performing and Visual Arts o Courses: Black and White Photo, Collage, Dance Photography o Teaching Assistant 1998
o o University of Houston Course: Photoshop o Gallery Teacher 1996-2000 o Contemporary Arts Museum o Gallery Teacher 1996-1999 o Blaffer Gallery University of Houston Professional, Technical, and Work-related Experience and Skills SOLO EXHIBITIONS Galveston Arts Center, 2016 The Tank Installation Space Spring Street Studios, 2014 Gensler Architecture Firm, Houston, Texas, 2007 The Spring Collection Galveston Arts Center, 2001 I2 K- Imelda 2000. Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas, 2000 Heels and Hangers, Houston Center for Photography, 2000 Lawndale Art Center, Houston, 1998 Houston Center for Photography Fellowship Show, 1998 GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015 Site Houston, The Silos on Sawyer Reincarnation, Art Car Museum Texas Women s University Joyce Elaine Grant Juried Exhibition by April Watson 2014 BYOB- Aurora Picture Show and The Menil Collection 2013 Faculty Show, Houston Community College Central 2012 Faculty Show, Houston Community College Central
2011 Arizona State University SPE Group Exhibition Savannah College of Art and Design Trois Gallery SPE Group Exhibition 2010 24 th International Juried Show Curated by Susan Kismaric of Moma, Visual Arts Center of New Jerse Fotofest Show Central at 3100 Main Art Gallery Neiman Marcus Manolo Blahnik Installation 2009 way, WAY out West, In celebration of Asian Heritage Month, JP Morgan Chase Heritage Hall HCC Central Faculty Art Exhibition, University of Houston Clear Lake Gallery 2008 Houston Community College Faculty Exhibition, Central College Gallery 2007 Intersections: Asia/America, Galveston Arts Center, Kingwood College 2006 Rice Design Alliance at Kirksey Architecture Firm Berkshire Museum, Massachusetts, Group Show, Out of the Box Silver Houston Center for Photography Retrospective Exhibition Crossroads Galveston Arts Center 2005 Texas Women s University Anya Tish Gallery 2004 Through the Lens at Cultural Arts Council of Houston San Antonio College of Visual Art and Technology Gallery Only Skin Deep, International Center of Photography, New York, Curated by Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis, December-February 2004 San Diego Museum of Art, February October 2004 Seattle Museum of Art November June 2005 2003 Round 18, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas Inside/Outside: Texas Women Photographers, Curated by Anne Wilkes Tucker & Clint Wilour show through 2004
2002 Through the Looking Glass, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO Houston Center for Photography Fotofest Retrospective New American Talent, TFAA, juror Catherine Canjo, Director of Art Pace 2001 Sultry, Houston Community College 2000 Serious Play, Adambomb Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Taxonomies, Chenevert Green, Houston, Texas Juried Members Show, by Terrie Sultan, Women and their Work The Reductive Eye, Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas Click Chicks, Arlington Museum of Art & Texas Women s University Houston Area Exhibition, juried by Joe Havel, Jessica Cussack & Mary Bebe, Blaffer Gallery, Housto Texas 2000 API Photography Fellowship Show, NYU, New York, New York Perennial, ¼ Hora Project Space, Elgin, Texas Fotofest Downtown Public Art at Foley s The Really Big Shoe Show, City Museum, St. Louis, Missouri 1999 Transcending Limits TFAA, Austin Texas, Beaumont Museum of Art, Blue Star Art Space, San Anton Photo Austin, Flatbed Press Galleries, Austin, Texas 1999 API Photography Fellowship Show, NYU, New York 1999 New Texas Talent, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas Half and Half, Purse Building Gallery, Houston, Texas MFA Thesis Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas 1998 Blurred Boundaries, Winter Street Gallery, Houston, Texas How s My Driving? Mobile art space, Fotofest, Houston, Texas
1997 The Big Show, juried by Don Bacigalupi, Lawndale Art Center ABC show, Diverseworks, Houston, Texas 1996 Picturing Asia America, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas Opening Moves, John Cleary Gallery, Houston, Texas Houston Area Exhibition, juried by Dana Friis Hansen, Mary Miss & Luis Jimenez, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas Professional Achievements and Publications AWARDS Cultural Arts Council of Houston & Harris County Artist Grant Recipient, 2003 Honorable Mention in TFAA s Transcending Limits Exhibition, 1999 American Photography Institute Graduate Seminar Fellowship, New York University, 1999 & 2000 Houston Center for Photography Fellowship, 1999 PUBLIC ART PROJECTS 2015 Houston Arts Alliance Downtown Management District Wayfinding Signs Project Installation by December 2015 at the corner of Jackson and Jefferson 2007 Finalist for The Southwest Police Station, Houston, Texas 2006 Finalist for The Herman Park Conservancy Zoo/Lakefront, Houston, Texas 2003 The CACHH Selected Artist for The Water Department in Humble, Texas, 2002 NEMO installed at The Police Station at The University of Houston LECTURES 2011 Society for Photographic Education, Imagemaker Presentation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2005 The Menil Collection Artist Eye Series 2004 Truman State University Visiting Artist, Guest Lecturer 2001 Philosophy of Aesthetics 2000 Women and Their Work- Solo Exhibition Lecture 1999 National Graduate Seminar Fellow, American Photography Institute, New York University 1999 CAMH At Home and Abroad: 20 Filipino Artists 1998 Women Studies Conference, UH Clear Lake BIBLIOGRAPHY Houstonia Magazine, Going With the Grain by Brittanie Shey, 2015 KUHF Radio News, Art Exhibit Makes A Statement About Preserving Houston's Historical Buildings, 2015 Houston Chronicle by Joy Sewing November 2014 Houston Chronicle by Sarah Rufca August 2013 Paper City by Catherine Anspon Spring 2011 Houston Chronicle November 13, 2008 Spot Magazine Fall 2006 Filipinas Magazine July 2006 Yellow Magazine, 2005 Artlies, fall 2002, review of New American Talent Show, by Elizabeth Mc Bride Artlies, Summer 2002, An Obsession With Compulsion, by Clint Wilour Shuz, winter 2000, The Incredible Lightness of Bennie Flores Ansell Austin American Statesmen, December 21, 2000, The Best of 2000 Arts Austin American Statesmen, July 6, 2000, The Perfect Swarm, by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin.
Paper City, November 1999, The Medium of Photography: What to Collect Now, by Catherine Anspon Houston Chronicle, February 22, 1998, A Wider Aperture, by Patricia Johnson Fort Worth Star Telegram, June 21, 1996, Picture This, by John Austin