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Luisa Duarte
Houston-based artist Luisa Duarte was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She received her bachelor’s in architecture from the Universidad del Zulia, in Maracaibo, Venezuela, in 1987.
Duarte’s work has been exhibited in various institutions around the world, including the Holocaust Museum in Houston, Texas; The Museum of Geometric and Madi Art in Dallas, Texas; The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia, Maczul in Maracaibo, Venezuela; The Museo of Miranda in Los Teques, Venezuela; the Galveston Arts Center in Galveston, Texas; and the 2017 Texas Biennial in Austin, Texas.
Most recently, Duarte’s work was selected for inclusion in a major exhibition at the Art Museum of South Texas, Texas Artists – Women in Abstraction (2022); and a solo exhibition of her work, Inseparable Ties, was curated by Kinzelman Art Consulting, and exhibited in the TC Energy Building, Houston Texas (2021).
In 2019, Duarte was a recipient of the Houston Art Alliance’s “City’s Initiative Grant; and she received first place in the 10th Annual Visual Arts Alliance juried invitational in 2016.
Duarte is currently an artist-in-residence at the Asia Society Texas Center in Houston.
