Artist Bio
Tina Medina is an artist, educator, and curator living in Dallas, Texas. Originally from West Texas, Medina earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Texas Tech University and her Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of North Texas. Since 2006 Medina has served as a full-time professor of art at Dallas College.
Medina has contributed to numerous art jury panels, speaking engagements, discussion panels, and workshops in the city of Dallas, including being a member of the oldest artist-run co-op in Texas, 500X Gallery, and serving on the City of Dallas Public Art Committees. In 2022, Medina was accepted in the third cohort of the Dallas Cedars Union studio/artist membership, awarded a Nasher Sculpture Center Artist Grant, and is a recipient of the Talley Dunn Gallery Equity in the Arts Fellowship.
Medina's art has been exhibited nationally in exhibits such as Immigration, Migration, Movement & The Humanities at Arizona State University, as well as Strive: An Exhibition Highlighting American Immigration & the American Dream, D’Art Center, Norfolk, Virginia. In 2022, she created a community-based solo art exhibit at Arts Mission Oak Cliff and had a solo retrospective exhibition at the Latino Cultural Center of Dallas. Most recently Medina was selected to participate in Soy de Tejas, a statewide survey of Latinx art in San Antonio, Texas.
Medina has curated exhibits such as Contemporary Latino American Artists of the Metroplex and ELLA: Exhibiting Local Latina Artists. In 2021 Medina co-founded Nuestra Artist Collective and collaboratively organized, curated, and exhibited work with 9 other Texas women artists who make art about the U.S./Mexico border in an art exhibit called Fronteriza shown in Dallas and San Antonio, Texas.
Through an exploration of fibers, painting, video, and audio Medina’s art reflects U.S. American history from the point of view of the underrepresented voices in our communities such as people of color, farm, and domestic workers, the undocumented, women, and children.