.email

hello at hectorcm dot com

.cv

héctor carmona miranda
(august 2023)

.education

, mfa jewelry design and metalsmithing, texas tech university, lubbock, texas.
, aas in Jewelry, austin community college, austin, texas.
, bfa studio art, emphasis photography. university of texas at austin, austin, texas.
, course rhinoceros 3d (mcneel certified), itesm campus ciudad de mexico, mexico.
, character animation (alias maya certified), eunoia school, ciudad de mexico, mexico.
, learning maya intro (alias maya certified), eunoia school, ciudad de mexico, mexico.

.academic experience

2022-2023, guest jewelry and metalsmithing professor, rochester institute of technology, rochester, new york.

2021-2022, graduate instructor: technology in the arts, texas tech university, lubbock, texas. i developed a new curriculum that is used by new instructors to teach the course on photoshop, illustrator and premiere pro.

2019-2022, teaching assistant: beginning jewelry and metalsmithing, texas tech university, lubbock, texas. 

2021, smap graduate coordinator for the saturday morning art project, (spring 2021 2021) i facilitated 7 workshops by ttu faculty. this program is supported by the helen jones foundation for gifted and talented high school students and serves high schools throughout the south plains region. for the organic cast sterling silver ring workshop, i assisted with preparing kits for the students, wax working, casting, and finishing processes and setting the zoom meeting for the workshop. i volunteered three hours as a smap graduate coordinator and ambassador representing texas tech university.  the jewelry design and metalsmithing workshops were held via zoom under the supervision of professor robly a. glover.

2021, summer discovery program instructor, junior high and high school students for summer university art experience, school of art, texas tech university, lubbock, texas. i taught two one-week jewelry workshops.

2020-2021, graduate instructor: beginning jewelry and metalsmithing, texas tech university, lubbock, texas.

2019-2022, graduate lab technician, advisor and head technician for new technologies, 3d printing: filament printer, sla printer. i helped spearhead this new initiative for the jewelry design and metalsmithing area at texas tech university.

.exhibitions

2023. bring on the gems at snag, international, juried. exhibition at whistle stop depot in tucson, az. major juried exhibition during the internationally recognized tucson gem & fair show. feb. 3 - march 31, 2022.

2023. what if? gallery 114 national juried exhibition, portland oregon. a show based on “imaginative commitments that did not happen”, “answers to absurd hypothetical questions”. january 5 to january 28, 2023.

2022, hotter ’n hell 2022, national collegiate juried exhibition. “el mil chistes 2022”, “concealed mini sculptures”, and “beauty” were three works out of 49 works of art by 25 collegiate artists from 13 states, selected by the juror, elizabeth brim, who is a blacksmith and teacher living in western north carolina. orville hanchey gallery, northwestern state university of louisiana, natchitoches, louisiana. june - august 2022.

2021, art now america: national juried exhibition, slocumb galleries, east tennessee state university, johnson city, tennessee, “thumbs up, thumbs down” was selected by juror mike calway-fagen, this piece is one of the 37 artists chosen out of 139 submissions from all over the country. march 2 to april 9, 2021.

2020, metal complexions, a national exhibition of jewelry and metalwork presented by the prestigious houston metal arts guild (hmag), jung center in the houston museum district, houston, texas. juror: anna walker, assistant curator of decorative arts, craft, and design at the museum of fine arts, houston (mfah). there were 77 artworks by 46 artists selected for this year’s exhibition including hector carmona miranda’s “these ain’t that mouse’s hands”. february 2, 2020, to february 28, 2020. 

2020, international art & design competition 2020, an international exhibition. accademia riaci, florence italy, 53 artworks by artists worldwide were selected for this year’s exhibition including hector carmona miranda’s “these ain’t that mouse’s hands” in the category of non-professional and was awarded 3rd place. the jury was composed of leading professionals from the italian artistic scene: david bicci, daniele bartalesi, andi nufer and monica buongiovanni, april 2020.

2017, concrete, plastic & metal, emma s. barrientos mexican american cultural center. austin, texas, solo show february 4, 2017, to march 25, 2017.

2016, crafttexas 2016, a biennial national juried exhibition featuring 53 works by 38 artists, including hector carmona miranda’s “shaped rock”. juried by paul sacaridiz, executive director of haystack mountain school of crafts; nicole burisch, core fellow critic-in-residence at the museum of fine arts, houston’s glassell school of art; and hccc texas master, sandie zilker, department chair of jewelry and enamel and three-dimensional design at the mfah glassell school of art. at the houston center for contemporary craft, houston, texas. september 23, 2016 to january 8, 2017.

2015, up+up, department of art and art history senior art exhibition at visual arts center, university of texas at austin, group show, austin, texas. march 13, 2015 to april 4, 2015.

.awards

2024 upcoming. el sur, art residency, i have been awarded a coveted residency at el sur for the upcoming year of 2024. known for nurturing creative exploration and fostering rich intercultural dialogue, mexico city, mexico.

2019-2022, school of art graduate assistantships, j.t. & margaret talkington college of visual and performing arts, texas tech university, lubbock, texas.

2021-2022, ttu graduate art scholarship, j.t. & margaret talkington college of visual and performing arts, texas tech university, lubbock, texas.

2020-2021, ttu morgan sevilla graduate scholarship, j.t. & margaret talkington college of visual and performing arts, texas tech university, lubbock, texas.

2020-2021, ttu helen jones 2021 talent based graduate scholarship, arts and sciences, j.t. & margaret talkington college of visual and performing arts, texas tech university, lubbock, texas.

2019-2020, ttu helen jones graduate scholarship, j.t. & margaret talkington college of visual and performing arts, texas tech university, lubbock, texas.

2017, award of excellence: emerging artist 2017, the emma s. barrientos mexican american cultural center, austin, texas.

2016-2018, latino arts residency program, the emma s. barrientos mexican american cultural center, austin, texas.

.reviews and works reproduced

magazine, fernanda carrasco "mexico desconocido, no viajo sin…" april – may 2019, vol. 503, page 22. (review of my jewelry work, photo king’s ring)

catalog, crafthouston 2016: texas. catalog, houston center for contemporary craft, page 8, full color photo of the piece ‘shaped rock’ from the exhibition.

newspaper, the austin chronicle, austin, texas, march 17, 2017 (review of exhibition concrete, plastic & metal)

.professional experience

2004-present, freelance digital and prototyping artist, austin and el paso, texas and ciudad juarez, mexico.

2007-2008, video editor and post-production specialist, s-mart ciudad juarez, chihuahua, mexico. 

2004-2006, creative, atmósfera productions ciudad juarez, mexico.

2002-2004, creative director, ritmoson latino channel, televisa productora ciudad de mexico, mexico.