Photographer: Daniel Jackson

Biography:
Felipe Lopez is a Multi-Dimensional self-taught visual artist based in Houston, Texas. Born in New York, Lopez's career began with his mixed media drawings & paintings. In 2013, Felipe's work was included in: the Exposure photography exhibition in Long Island City, NY and the African American Artist Exhibition at the MFAH. His first solo exhibition took place in 2014 at the HAA Gallery entitled Constructing the Praxis of Interactivity.
In December 2014, Felipe exhibited work at Art Miami. 2015 brought work shown at the African American Artist Exhibition at the MFAH, Houston Fine Art Fair, and the Texas Contemporary Art Fair. Combining the trade of welding along with his skills in visual art, Lopez developed his Hook series into sculpture, mixed media, and painting. His work was featured by Cindy Lisica at Revision Space in Pittsburgh, PA in April. 
 In the Fall of 2016, Felipe was selected as an Artist INC Artist Facilitators thru Fresh Arts and completed his mentorship program in 2016. Felipe’s latest Lightbulb series was also a major success at the show Natural Flexibility at Cindy Lisica Gallery in the spring of 2017. His work was featured in the gallery's group show Fine Wind, Clear Morning for PrintHouston 2017 along with work in the Aspen Art Fair.
 The end of 2017 took the concept of his lightbulb series further, through mixed media work in the bulbs with Ambiente and large sculptural pieces with Ambiente Chandelier. Both of these series were featured at Scope Miami 2017 through Asterisk Projects. May 2018 brought his largest solo exhibition to date entitled Ambiente Amore at Clarke & Associates with some of the work being shown in a group exhibition entitled Texas Eclectics in Greece in September 2018.
 To start 2019, Mayor Sylvester Turner and the City of Houston approved Houston Arts Alliance recommendation to award Lopez a Support for Artists and Creative Individuals grant which hasl help fund his largest bulb work. Early 2019 also brought another major solo exhibition entitled The Liquidity of a Right with Forma 110 with another solo exhibition in May at Deborah Colton Gallery The Want In My Nature. Felipe was also selected to be on the city wide committee for Disaster Relief with Houston Arts Alliance and the City of Houston. Lopez was also the resident artist at AFA for the high school composers project with Ambient Avenues, creating original video for student compositions.
 To round out 2019, Lopez will be involved in three major projects within the city. The first is a two silo installation as part of Sculpture Month Houston featuring his new Pendant series along with video work. The second is the Silent Exclamation video series curated and including work from Lopez for the inaugural Houston edition of the stARTup Art Fair, along with exhibiting at the fair. Thirdly, Lopez and his wife are a part of the production team for music and visuals for the theatrical debut of Saving Susannah debuting at MATCH in October. 
Felipe Lopez In addition to visual art, Lopez is also one of the founders of FM Services looks to aid other startups, artists, and professionals in maximizing their product and craft to the next level through marketing, website design, videos, photos, social media presence, creative content, and PR.


Education:

• Certified Instructor/Facilitator for Artist Inc. with Fresh Arts, 2017 and 2018
  
• NCCER Certified Welding Level 1 & 2, Houston, 2015
  
• Don Quixote School in Alicante, Spain, 2013
  
• Attended Dubspot Music Academy in NYC, 2011
  
• Selected as one of 15 students to participate in TSU Youth Entrepreneurship Academy, 2010
  
• Attended classes at Glassell School, 2009
  
• Attended art classes at MECA, 2008- 2009
  

Representation:

• Deborah Colton Gallery
  

Resident:

• Winter Street and Spring Street Studios-Houston, TX 2012 - 2013
  
• MECA (Multicultural Education and Counseling Through the Arts) 2018 - 2019
  

Shows and Career Highlights:

• 2019 Saving Susannah (play)  video production, MATCH, Houston, TX
  
• 2019 stARTup Art Fair Silent Exclamation Video Series (curator and creator), Hotel Icon, Houston, TX
  
• 2019 stARTup Art Fair Exhibiting Artist, Hotel Icon, 2019
  
• 2019 Sculpture Month Houston, The Silos at Sawyer Yards, Houston, TX
  
• Ambient Avenues Concert Series Video Artists with AFA, Kinder HSPVA, Houston, TX
  
• 2019 The Want In My Nature, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX
  
• 2019 The Liquidity of a Right, Forma 110, Houston, TX
  
• 2018 Texas Eclectics with Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece
  
• 2018 Regional Finalist Bombay Sapphire Artist Series 
  
• 2018 Ambiente Amore Solo Exhibition with Clarke & Associates Houston, TX
  
• 2017 Scope Miami with Asterisk Projects Miami, FL
  
• 2017 Aspen Art Fair with Cindy Lisica Gallery Aspen, CO
  
• 2017 Fine Wind, Clear Morning group  exhibition with Cindy Lisica Gallery Houston, TX
  
• 2017 Donated artwork to the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Gala Houston, TX
  
• 2017 Natural Flexibility group exhibition at Cindy Lisica Gallery Houston, TX
  
• 2016 Chosen as an Artist INC Artist Facilitator thru Fresh Arts
  
• 2016 Solo Show at The Duende Art Project Houston, TX
  
• 2016 Solo Show at KCAM – Contemporary Art Museum Fort Bend Katy, TX
  
• 2016 Group Show at Revisions Space in Pittsburgh, PA
  
• 2015 Texas Contemporary Art Fair Installation in Houston, TX
  
• 2015 Houston Fine Art Fair Installation
  
• 2015 Duo show with Ken Mazzu at KCAM
  
• 2015 KCAM – Contemporary Art Museum Fort Bend Lead Artist for Pieces of Texas Project
  
• 2015 Citywide Exhibition Museum of Fine Arts Houston
  
• 2015 Group Show at Zoya Tommy Houston
  
• 2014 Art Miami with PSH Projects :: La Paz
  
• 2014 Borderland – Hidden Identities & Forbidden Desires in Zaragoza Spain
  
• 2014 Borderland – Hidden Identities & Forbidden Desires at MECA in Almeria, Spain
  
• 2014 Solo exhibition at Peveto Gallery in Houston, TX
  
• 2013 Donated artwork to Care All benefiting Child Advocates in Houston, TX
  
• 2013 Group Exhibition at Hardy and Nance Studios for Art Crawl in Houston, TX
  
• 2013 Exposure photography exhibition in Long Island City, NY
  
• 2013 Solo Exhibition at Houston Arts Alliance Gallery in Houston, TX
  
• 2013 African American Artist Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in Houston, TX
  
• 2012 Winter Pop-Up at Peveto Gallery in Houston, TX
  
• 2012 Plastic Fantastic Exhibition, Deborah Colton Gallery in Houston, TX
  
• 2012 The Little Big Show at War'Hous Visual Studios in Houston, TX
  
• 2012 Instructor for PrintHouston First Impressions: A Young Artist Printmaking Workshop
  
• 2012 Solo exhibition artist talk with Wade Wilson Art Cha Houston series
  
• 2012 Dallas Art Fair in Dallas, TX
  
• 2011 On the Edge Of New: Emerging artist group exhibition at Wade Wilson Art in Houston, TX
  
• 2011 Texas Contemporary Art Fair in Houston, TX
  
• 2011 Artist Studio Residency at CATM, New York, NY
  
• 2011 Donated artwork to Colton & Farb Gallery, proceeds towards Fodice Foundation
  
• 2011 Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn NY, touring across the USA
  
• 2011 Solo Art Show Houston, TX
  
• 2011 Art Exhibit at Spectrum Art Show in Sugar Land, TX
  
• 2010 Houston Wine Fest exhibition in Houston, TX
  
• 2010 Exhibited artwork at One Woman National Business Conference in Houston, TX
  
• 2010 Solo Art show at the Galveston Opera House in Galveston, TX
  
• 2009-2010 Art show at Lampros Gallery in The Woodlands, TX
  
• 2009-2010 Featured artist at Post Office Gallery in Galveston, TX
  
• 2009 Exhibited artwork at MECA for Hispanic Heritage Month in Houston, TX
  
• 2010 Solo exhibition at Prairie View A&M for Hispanic Heritage Month, Curated by Lauren Kelly
  

PRESS:

• 2011 TV Asia: interview for emerging artist series
  
• 2011 Houston Style Magazine: emerging artist interview
  
• 2011 Fox 26 Hola Houston program: interview for Youth Entrepreneur Academy
  
• 2012 Houston Magazine: interview solo exhibition Wade Wilson Cha Houston series, mentor for PrintHouston children’s workshop
  
• 2012 Houston Press: interview for solo exhibition Wade Wilson Art Cha Houston series
  
• 2012 Free Press Houston: featured editorial in July print edition
  
• 2012 Houston Press Art Attack: editorial and interview in September edition
  
• 2012 Free Press Houston: Executing Elements article in December print edition
  
• 2014 Free Press Houston: Synesthesia Sound article in April print edition
  
• 2016 Free Press Houston: I Come From The Water article in May edition
  
• 2017 CityBook Houston Magazine, Natural Flexibility exhibition review
  
• 2017 Houston Chronicle, Art Events Natural Flexibility exhibition preview
  
• 2017 Houstonia Magazine, Fine Wind, Clear Morning exhibition review
  
• 2017 Art Houston Interview
  
• 2018 Houston City Book feature
  
• 2018 Houstonia Magazine feature
  
• 2018 Houston Chronicle show preview for Ambiente Amore
  
• 2018 Arts + Culture Texas Magazine show review for Ambiente Amore
  
• 2018 PaperCity feature
  
• 2019 The Liquidity Of A Right Review for Houston Chronicle
  
• 2019 Houston Public Media’s Unwrap Your Candies Now interview for The Want In My Nature
  
• 2019 Houston Public Media’s Houston Matters for the HAA Disaster Recovery Board
  
• 2019 Houston City Book for Sculpture Month Houston
  

Private Collections:

• Lester Marks
  
• Jereann Chaney
  
• Martha Finger
  
• Micheline Ferrand Newall
  
• Deborah Colton
  
• Marianna Debes
  
• Paola Creixell
  
• Graham Shearing
  
• Ken Christie
  
• Cheech Marin
  
• Michel Mullye
  
• Kimberly Gremillion
  
• Mark Hawkins
  
• Jim Petersen
  
• Matthew Lennon
  
• Wade Wilson
  
• Dr. Don Frohlich
  
• Terrence Hobdy