RESUME
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
UNDOCUMENTED TALES OF THE FUTURE: NOW, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2023
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Ruiz-Healy Art at The Armory Show, New York, NY
2022
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Threads from Border-landia, Ruiz-Healy Art, New York, NY
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Undocumented Threads, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX
2019
Exposing Unseen Boundaries: Works by Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, Brown University, Providence, RI
2018
Consuelo J. Underwood: Thread Songs from the Borderlands, 108 Contemporary, Tulsa, OK
2017
Mano-Made: New Expression in Craft by Latino Artists, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA, in partnership with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a Getty initiative
2015
Borderlines: The Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Mothers: The Act of Seeing, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2013
Welcome to Flowerlandia, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
State Fairs: Growing American Craft, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Threading Glass: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood and Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX
2024
American Sunrise: Indigenous Art at Crystal Bridges, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
In the Shadow of the Wall, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
McNay Print Fair, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX
Madre Tierra, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX
2023
Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección, El Museo Del Barrio, New York, NY 2023 International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA), Ruiz-Healy Art, New York, NY
Art in Embassies Exhibit, American Embassy, Bucharest, Romania
Stitched: Recent Contemporary Acquisitions, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Historias/Histories, Christie's, New York, NY
Open Ended: SFMOMA’s Collection 1900 to Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Permanent Collection Highlights, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA
Flagged for Discussion, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR 2022 This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, DC
2021
Crafting America, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
2019
Woven: Connections and Meanings, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
Striking Gold: Fuller at Fifty, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
The U.S.-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility, El Dorado Arts Festival, Lille, France
2018
New Threads, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
2017
The U.S.-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, in partnership with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a Getty initiative
Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
Looming Spaces, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
2016
Stories of Migration: Contemporary Artists Interpret Diaspora, The Textile Museum, George Washington University, Washington, DC
2005
Tortilla Meets Tortilla Wall, InSite_05, Border State Park, Performance at United States/Mexico Border
2001
Defining Craft 1: Collecting for the New Millennium, Museum of Arts and Design (formerly American Craft Museum), New York, NY (Traveling Exhibition 2001-2005)
2000
The Renwick Invitational: Five Women in Craft, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Selected Collections
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Print Department, Los Angeles, CA
Mellon Foundation, New York, NY
Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
National Hispanic Center for The Arts, Albuquerque, NM National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Selected Awards/Residencies
American Craft Council, Gold Medal for Consummate Craftsmanship, 2026
International Artist-in-Residence Program, Artpace, San Antonio, TX (Beverly Adams, Curator), 2024
Latinx Artist Fellowship, US Latinx Art Forum, 2022
James Renwick Alliance for Craft, Masters of the Medium Award, 2021
American Craft Council, Council of Fellows, 2018
National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, Master Artist Grant, 2017
Selected Bibliography
2025
Silverman, Julia, “A Crafty Show About State Fairs Stares Down the White House,” Art in America, December 12, 2025
Durón, Maxilíano, “Icons: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Follow the Threads” Art in America, Fall 2025.
Karr, Christopher, “Power and Resistance: ‘Threading Glass’ at Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio,” Glass Tire, May 27, 2025
2024
Minella, Anne-Marie and Bosseur, Jean-Yves, Les artistes et le textile. L'Objet d'Art, 2024.
Lewthwaite, Stephanie, “Relational Ecologies in Contemporary Chicana Art.” The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
2022
Pérez, Laura E. and Ann Marie Leimer, Editors, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision. Duke University Press, 2022.
2021
Durón, Maxilíano, “Latinx Art Got More Visibility Than Ever in 2021. What Will Change Going Forward?” ARTnews, December 30, 2021.
Carey Sweet, “Fiber artist breaks through boundaries: renowned artist channels ancestors, memories to explore crossing borders,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 24, 2021.
Herrera-Sobek, María, “Prickly Politics in Borderlands Art: Aesthetic Activism and the Barbed Wire Motif in Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s Artwork.” In InterAmerican Perspectives in the 21st Century: Festschrift in Honor of Josef Raab (Inter-American Studies), Olaf Kaltmeier and Wilfried Raussert, Editors. University of New Orleans Press, 2021.
Robinson, Megan D, “Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women to Show at SAAM,” Art & Object, February 10, 2021.
Adamson, Glenn, and Jen Padgett, Crafting America: Artists and Objects, 1940 to Today, exhibition catalog, cover image. University of Arkansas Press, 2021.
2019
Lindwall, Courtney, “Weaving Beauty into the Borderlands,” National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), onEarth, September 16, 2019.
2017
Zaiden, Emily, Mano-Made: New Expression in Craft by Latino Artists, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, exhibition catalog. Los Angeles, CA: Craft In America, 2017.
Javiar, Carla “Why this professional artist enlisted the help of public school students instead of gallery assistants,” KPCC, Los Angeles, CA. Coverage of student collaboration for Mano-Made: New Expression in Craft by Latino Artists, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA, December 4, 2017.
2016
“Video: ‘Undocumented Travelers’ Blossoms at GW Museum and Textile Museum: Wall- sized installation reflects personal experiences with the U.S.-Mexico border,” GW Today, April 12,
Jenkins, Mark, "These stories of displaced families are told in fabric, needle and thread," The Washington Post, August 4, 2016.
2012
Craft in America: Threads, PBS Television (Featured Artist). PBS premiere May 11, 2012.
2024
UNDOCUMENTED TALES OF THE FUTURE: NOW, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2023
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Ruiz-Healy Art at The Armory Show, New York, NY
2022
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Threads from Border-landia, Ruiz-Healy Art, New York, NY
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Undocumented Threads, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX
2019
Exposing Unseen Boundaries: Works by Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, Brown University, Providence, RI
2018
Consuelo J. Underwood: Thread Songs from the Borderlands, 108 Contemporary, Tulsa, OK
2017
Mano-Made: New Expression in Craft by Latino Artists, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA, in partnership with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a Getty initiative
2015
Borderlines: The Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Mothers: The Act of Seeing, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2013
Welcome to Flowerlandia, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
State Fairs: Growing American Craft, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Threading Glass: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood and Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX
2024
American Sunrise: Indigenous Art at Crystal Bridges, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
In the Shadow of the Wall, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
McNay Print Fair, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX
Madre Tierra, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX
2023
Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección, El Museo Del Barrio, New York, NY 2023 International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA), Ruiz-Healy Art, New York, NY
Art in Embassies Exhibit, American Embassy, Bucharest, Romania
Stitched: Recent Contemporary Acquisitions, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Historias/Histories, Christie's, New York, NY
Open Ended: SFMOMA’s Collection 1900 to Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Permanent Collection Highlights, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA
Flagged for Discussion, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR 2022 This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, DC
2021
Crafting America, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
2019
Woven: Connections and Meanings, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
Striking Gold: Fuller at Fifty, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
The U.S.-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility, El Dorado Arts Festival, Lille, France
2018
New Threads, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
2017
The U.S.-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, in partnership with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a Getty initiative
Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
Looming Spaces, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
2016
Stories of Migration: Contemporary Artists Interpret Diaspora, The Textile Museum, George Washington University, Washington, DC
2005
Tortilla Meets Tortilla Wall, InSite_05, Border State Park, Performance at United States/Mexico Border
2001
Defining Craft 1: Collecting for the New Millennium, Museum of Arts and Design (formerly American Craft Museum), New York, NY (Traveling Exhibition 2001-2005)
2000
The Renwick Invitational: Five Women in Craft, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Selected Collections
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Print Department, Los Angeles, CA
Mellon Foundation, New York, NY
Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
National Hispanic Center for The Arts, Albuquerque, NM National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Selected Awards/Residencies
American Craft Council, Gold Medal for Consummate Craftsmanship, 2026
International Artist-in-Residence Program, Artpace, San Antonio, TX (Beverly Adams, Curator), 2024
Latinx Artist Fellowship, US Latinx Art Forum, 2022
James Renwick Alliance for Craft, Masters of the Medium Award, 2021
American Craft Council, Council of Fellows, 2018
National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, Master Artist Grant, 2017
Selected Bibliography
2025
Silverman, Julia, “A Crafty Show About State Fairs Stares Down the White House,” Art in America, December 12, 2025
Durón, Maxilíano, “Icons: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Follow the Threads” Art in America, Fall 2025.
Karr, Christopher, “Power and Resistance: ‘Threading Glass’ at Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio,” Glass Tire, May 27, 2025
2024
Minella, Anne-Marie and Bosseur, Jean-Yves, Les artistes et le textile. L'Objet d'Art, 2024.
Lewthwaite, Stephanie, “Relational Ecologies in Contemporary Chicana Art.” The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
2022
Pérez, Laura E. and Ann Marie Leimer, Editors, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision. Duke University Press, 2022.
2021
Durón, Maxilíano, “Latinx Art Got More Visibility Than Ever in 2021. What Will Change Going Forward?” ARTnews, December 30, 2021.
Carey Sweet, “Fiber artist breaks through boundaries: renowned artist channels ancestors, memories to explore crossing borders,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 24, 2021.
Herrera-Sobek, María, “Prickly Politics in Borderlands Art: Aesthetic Activism and the Barbed Wire Motif in Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s Artwork.” In InterAmerican Perspectives in the 21st Century: Festschrift in Honor of Josef Raab (Inter-American Studies), Olaf Kaltmeier and Wilfried Raussert, Editors. University of New Orleans Press, 2021.
Robinson, Megan D, “Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women to Show at SAAM,” Art & Object, February 10, 2021.
Adamson, Glenn, and Jen Padgett, Crafting America: Artists and Objects, 1940 to Today, exhibition catalog, cover image. University of Arkansas Press, 2021.
2019
Lindwall, Courtney, “Weaving Beauty into the Borderlands,” National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), onEarth, September 16, 2019.
2017
Zaiden, Emily, Mano-Made: New Expression in Craft by Latino Artists, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, exhibition catalog. Los Angeles, CA: Craft In America, 2017.
Javiar, Carla “Why this professional artist enlisted the help of public school students instead of gallery assistants,” KPCC, Los Angeles, CA. Coverage of student collaboration for Mano-Made: New Expression in Craft by Latino Artists, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA, December 4, 2017.
2016
“Video: ‘Undocumented Travelers’ Blossoms at GW Museum and Textile Museum: Wall- sized installation reflects personal experiences with the U.S.-Mexico border,” GW Today, April 12,
Jenkins, Mark, "These stories of displaced families are told in fabric, needle and thread," The Washington Post, August 4, 2016.
2012
Craft in America: Threads, PBS Television (Featured Artist). PBS premiere May 11, 2012.