SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace & Contemporary Art Month announced their partnership for the 2018 CAM Perennial Exhibition. Every March San Antonio artists, performers and curators present the best the community has to offer at art institutions around the city. At the core of Contemporary Art Month’s 2018 Perennial Exhibition is San Antonio’s deep-rooted connection with The Canary Islands, whose settlers arrived in San Antonio in the 18th century.

“Artpace is an organization with a global scope but a local heart,” said Artpace Executive Director Veronique Le Melle. “We are thrilled to partner with CAM to exhibit work that exemplifies the historical ties between San Antonio and The Canary Islands and brings together such a talented roster of local and international artists.”

The 2018 CAM Perennial pairs artists in a cross-cultural exchange between San Antonio and the Canary Islands. The artists were chosen by Canary Islands-based guest curator Adonay Bermudez for an exhibition in Artpace’s Hudson Showroom. As part of this exchange, the exhibition will travel to The Canary Islands after its conclusion as the CAM Perennial at Artpace.

2018 CAM Perennial Artists
San Antonio-based artists
• Hayfer Brea (Caracas, Venezuela, b. 1975)
• Barbara Miñarro (Monterrey, Mexico, b. 1989)
• Ethel Shipton (Laredo, Texas, b. 1963)

Canary Islands-based artists
• Luna Bengoechea (Gran Canaria, Spain. b. 1984)
• Francis Naranjo (Gran Canaria, Spain. b. 1961)
• PSJM, Cynthia Viera & Pablo San José (Las Palmas G.C., Spain b. 1973. & Mieres, Spain, b. 1969)

Hayfer Brea has a University Degree in Plastic Arts with a specialization in Mixed Media from Instituto Universitario de Estudios Superiores de Artes Plásticas Armando Reverón (Caracas, 2004) and a Bachelor of Fire Arts from Escuela de Artes Visuales Cristóbal Rojas (Caracas, 1995).

Barbara Miñarro was born in Monterrey, Mexico and currently lives and works in San Antonio, Texas. As an artist influenced and making a life between two cultures, Miñarro’s work explores ideas of the body in migration. Her soft sculptures, installations and paintings utilize the tactile memory of clothing, the earth and the physical body to express the emotional journey of immigration. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Texas at San Antonio Miñarro is a resident artist at Clamp Light Studios and the Visitor Services Associate at the Linda Pace Foundation.

Ethel Shipton was born and raised in Laredo, Texas. She received a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989. Ethel worked for the Texas House of Representatives as a photographer for more than eight years. She lived and worked in Mexico City in 1990 and 1992, and then returned to Texas, settling down in San Antonio.

Her practice is informed by a strong conceptual base and encompasses a variety of expression. Through painting, installation, photography, and text, Shipton spotlights instants of clarity that flit by in the comings and goings of daily life. Past works have centered on ideas of urban scenes, language, and attempts to process information. Time is an important issue of her oeuvre. We can find references to time and images of time throughout her art practice. “Space and time, movement and place I see going hand and hand. These two elements continue to be groundwork for my artwork. We all continue to move between time and space on a moment-by-moment basis.” – Ethel Shipton

Shipton has exhibited at numerous galleries, including Artpace San Antonio, TX, Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM; Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Beach, CA; Austin Museum of Art, TX; Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX; Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX and Studio Santa Catarina, Mexico City. In 2011, Shipton was awarded Artist Honoree of the year at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum.

Luna Bengoechea’s artistic work revolves around the problems of the modern food industry and reflects on the new models of food production in a system dictated by economic interests and speculation with natural goods. Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of La Laguna, Master in Art Production at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and training in painting at Chelsea College of Art in London. She has residence scholarships at No Lugar (Quito), Sorojchi Tambo (Bolivia) and at the La Regenta Art Center (Spain). His work has been shown at MUSAC (León), CAAM (Las Palmas), Young Art Taipei Fair (Taiwan), TEA Tenerife Space of Arts, Embassy of Spain in Havana, Cultural Center El Tanque de Tenerife, Hardy Tree Gallery ( London), Manuel Ojeda Gallery (Las Palmas) or Kessler-Battaglia Gallery (Valencia), among others. Their latest individual exhibitions stand out in the CAAM - Atlantic Center of Modern Art (2017) and in the Contemporary Art Room of Tenerife (2016).

Francis Naranjo’s work has focused mainly on the relations between the human condition and socializable factors of the system. He has done public works, has lectured, curated projects, written about artists and reflections, has made and participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, among other activities. His work has been presented at the University of Pontevedra (Spain), National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile (Santiago de Chile), Contemporary Art Center\ Wilfredo Lam (Havana, Cuba), Kulturprojekt Röda Sten (Göteborg, Sweden), Museum National of Bolivia (La Paz, Bolivia), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, Germany), Museum of Contemporary Art of Paraná (Brazil), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France), Barbican Arts Center (London, United Kingdom), Center Pompidou (Paris, France), Center of Contemporary Art of Tel Aviv (Israel), MAC-Museum of Contemporary Art (Chile), Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum. (Madrid, Spain), Dean Project (New York, USA), Jeu de Paume National Museum (Paris, France), among others.

PSJM is a creation, theory and management team that presents itself as an «art brand», thus adopting the procedures and strategies of advanced capitalism to subvert its symbolic structures. The "team-brand" has been included among the 100 most representative artists of international political art in Art & Agenda: Political Art and Activism (Gestalten, Berlin, 2011). He has also been included in Younger than Jesus. Artist Directory The essential handbook to the future of art (New York: Phaidon-New Museum, 2009) and Come Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design (New York: Princeton Architectural Press NY, 2014, among other publications.) His works are present in numerous international exhibitions in spaces such as Hirshhorn Museum (Washington DC), Brazilian Museum of Sculpture (São Paulo), A Foundation (London), PS1-MOMA (New York), Fundación Miró (Barcelona), Artium (Vitoria) , Sorbonne Artgallery (Paris), CAAM (Las Palmas), Spanish Cultural Center (Costa Rica), TEA Tenerife Arts Space, Museum of Aquitaine (Bordeaux), Municipal Gallery of Porto (Oporto), MUCA-Rome (Mexico City) ), Center of Graphic Arts (Ljubljana).