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The Rubin Center's annual Student Exhibition features outstanding work created by undergraduate students enrolled in the Department of Art during the 2025-2026 academic year. The exhibition includes a broad range of media taught within the department, including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, metals, printmaking, and graphic design. Works are selected by nationally and internationally recognized professionals in the fields of fine arts and graphic design, who also award prizes in each represented medium. The exhibition will open at the end of the spring semester.
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Adriana Corral is an interdisciplinary artist whose research-based practice examines systems of power shaped by immigration, citizenship, labor, public health, and transnational exchange, informed by her upbringing on the U.S.–Mexico border. Working across sculpture, installation, and drawing, she engages archival materials and collaborates with historians, scientists, advocates, and affected communities to surface obscured histories and ongoing conditions of violence. Her work attends closely to processes of excavation, both material and conceptual, often incorporating elements such as ash and soil to evoke the physical and symbolic remnants of erasure, loss, and resistance. |
Corral has exhibited nationally and internationally, with presentations at institutions including MASS MoCA, the New Orleans Museum of Art, Ballroom Marfa, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Artadia Award and the Latinx Artist Fellowship, and has participated in residencies such as Artpace, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, and the Joan Mitchell Center. She holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and a BFA from the University of Texas at El Paso.
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Ivette Valenzuela is a Mexican graphic designer whose practice centers on the production and circulation of visual culture through poster design, particularly within the context of cultural and artistic events in northwestern Mexico. Her work understands the poster as both a communicative and critical medium, engaging public space while shaping cultural memory and collective experience. She has received international recognition, including Gold Awards from Graphis Poster Annual (2012, 2022) and multiple a! Diseño awards, as well as honors from the Biennial of the Poster in Mexico and the Carlos Lozano Medal for her career in cultural poster design. |
Her work has been exhibited widely in international biennials and exhibitions across Mexico, Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and is included in publications such as Graphis Poster Annual, a! Diseño Magazine, and Making Posters (Bloomsbury, 2020). Valenzuela has been invited to lecture at institutions across the United States and Latin America, and currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Faculty of Design at Universidad Anáhuac, Mexico, while completing her master’s degree in Editorial Design at Universidad Gestalt de Diseño.