Alondra Garza

Alondra M Garza is a Tejana/Tex-Mex artist, educator, and curator. She was born on the Mexican side at the Rio Grande Valley borderlands of Mexico and South Texas and obtained dual citizenship as a Mexican American. Garza received a BFA at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and an MFA at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Her work has been exhibited internationally across the U.S., Mexico, and Italy. This includes a Solo Exhibition at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Group exhibitions at YAG/Garage in Italy, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN, The Museum of Fine Arts in Brownsville, TX, and mural commissions in Mexico.

Her work is part of the private collection of The University of Minnesota Chicano and Latino Studies after being awarded an emerging artist grant. She is the Sr. Coordinator of Latino Arts & Culture at Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES) non-profit in St. Paul. Garza was awarded the 2022 Visual Arts Fund grant through Midway and the Warhol foundation to inaugurate a non-conventional Latine gallery.