ABOUT THE ARTIST
XOCHI SOLIS (b. 1981) is an Austin, TX-based mixed media artist. Her works include multilayered, collaged paintings constructed of paint, hand-dyed paper, vinyl, plastics, and images from found books and magazines. Solis employs collage to communicate her present moment and relies on the illusions created by photographic surfaces to tell a nuanced narrative about time, place, and sensation. As with her past work, she continues to grapple with the question of how to represent an environment where her heritage, her body, and dreams of the future can co-exist.
During the summer of 2021, she was an invited artist of WRONG Marfa to participate in a pilot residency program in Marfa, TX. In 2016, she was artist-in-residence at Pele Prints in St. Louis, MO, completing a series of monoprints that combined her painting and collage methods with a variety of printmaking techniques. Continuing to explore these printmaking techniques, she has collaborated on two editions with Shoestring Press in Brooklyn, NY in 2017 and 2018. Solis is one of 30 artists featured in the book Collage: Contemporary Artists Hunt and Gather, Cut and Paste, Mash Up and Transform (Chronicle Books, 2014) and one of 45 featured artists in the recent publication A BIG IMPORTANT ART BOOK (NOW WITH WOMEN): Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists--and Projects to Help You Become One (Running Press, 2018).
Recent exhibitions include: Contemporary Ex-Voto: Devotion Beyond Medium, New Mexico State University Art Museum; Rooted by invisible means, Galveston Arts Center in Galveston, TX (2020); Remedies for a Generation: Xochi Solis & Rachel Levit Ruiz, Uprise Art (2020); Crawl into the shapes the shadow takes, WRONG Gallery in Marfa, TX (2018); Mujeres del Sur / Women from The South, The Union HTX in Houston, TX (2018); At Large: Part 2, Reyes Project in Birmingham, MI (2018); Shaped by Subtraction, BOX 13 Artspace in Houston, TX (2017); Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (2017); We must build as if the sand were stone, South Texas College Library Gallery, McAllen, TX (2016); Rivers of our Vision, Lawndale Art Center in Houston, TX (2013); Flatlander, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO (2015); New Art in Austin: 20 to Watch, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX (2008). In addition to her studio practice, she is a board member at Future Front Texas and spins vinyl records as Mira Mira with a focus on the preservation and performance of Tejanx culture.
Photo by Emmanuel Ramon-Barajas.
Reach me at xochisolis @ gmail.com
For original work, visit Uprise Art or contact advisors@upriseart.com.