Malia Gomez is a visual artist currently living and working in Houston, TX. She had her first solo exhibition, Ad Astra Per Aspera, at the Museum of the Southwest in Midland, TX. Her work, Wonderland, was selected for inclusion in the Texas Biennial at the McNay Art Museum with the Filipinx Artists of Houston. Apart from being in a group show at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and receiving a commission from Italian gin company, Engine Gin, her work has been featured in various publications including New American Paintings, Create! Magazine, All She Makes Magazine, and The Staff at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Photo by Wilson Parish
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Education
2018 BFA Studio Art, Minor in Art History, Magna Cum Laude, University of Texas at San Antonio
Solo Exhibition
2022 Ad Astra Per Aspera, The Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 MFAH Staff Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
2023 MFAH Staff Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
2021 Pintura, The Philippine Consulate, Houston, TX
2021 Texas Biennial: A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon, The McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX
2021 MFAH Staff Show, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
2020 Juried Exhibition in Social Distance, New American Paintings, Instagram
2019 Artpace Chalk-It-Up Featured Artist, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2019 Sixteen Voices one Language Vol. 2, San Antonio International Airport, San Antonio, TX
2018 Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival, Tricentennial Edition, Hemisfair Park, San Antonio, TX
2018 Sixteen Voices one language, Maestro Entrepreneur Center, San Antonio, TX
2018 BFA Exhibition, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
2018 College of Liberal and Fine Arts 34th Annual Student Exhibition, University of Texas at San Antonio, Main Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2018 13th Annual Collegiate Student Exhibit, San Antonio Art League & Museum, San Antonio, TX
2018 For Auld Lang Syne, Hijole SA, Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio, TX
2017 Print it Up, R Space, San Antonio, TX
2017 Comparative Anatomy, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
2017 College of Liberal and Fine Arts 33rd Annual Student Exhibition, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
2016 Image Underground, Memorial Branch Library, San Antonio, TX
2016 Arte Nuevo, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Press & Publications
2023 Create! Magazine, Issue #34, Featured Artist
2023 Create! Magazine, Feb. 28, 2023, Nostalgic Floral Portraits by Malia Gomez
2021 All She Makes Magazine, Fall 2021, Issue III, Svitlana Martynjuk
2021 Fil-Am Artists to be Showcased in 2021 Texas Biennial, Walter And, USA Inquirer.net
2021 All Staff Catalogue, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Second Issue, Darla Barolini, Houston, TX
2021 Fuel the Dream, Commission made for Engine Gin Advertisment, Barbaresco (CN), Italy
2020 All Staff Catalogue, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, May 1, 2020
2020 Create! Magazine Blog Feature, 'Opalescence', Create! Magazine, April 8, 2020
2020 Pikchur Magazine Blog Feature, 'What Like Its Hoard?', Pikchur Magazine, April 3, 2020
2019 New American Paintings, West Issue #138, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
2018 Luminaria: 'It is San Antonio's Celebration of the Arts', Spectrum News Staff, Nov. 11, 2018
2018 Luminaria Works Deal With San Antonio History, Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express News, Nov. 10, 2018
2018 Arts After Hours: Luminaria 2018, Deliasofia Zacarias, Unfilterd SA, Nov. 8, 2018
2018 Art For The Crowd: Luminaria Layers History in San Antonio, Casey Gregory, Arts and Culture Texas, Oct.11,
2018 Luminaria Promises Spectacle of Light, Sight, and Sound at Hemisfair, Nicholas Frank, The Rivard Report, Oct. 11, 2018
2017 Sagebrush Review Volume XII, University of Texas at San Antonio’s Literary and Arts Journal, San Antonio, TX
2016 Sagebrush Review Volume XI, University of Texas at San Antonio’s Literary and Arts Journal, San Antonio, TX
2016 An Artist’s Perspective, Interview by Alyssa Gonzalez, Paisano Plus, Spring 2016, Issue 1