Samantha Jo Manion-Chavez

(b. 1994 Denver, Colorado)

Education:

Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Colorado Denver, Emphasis in Painting and Drawing

Mentored by Annette Gutiérrez Turk, Master Bordadora and member of EGA

Member of Embroiderers’ Guild of America, Sandia Mountains Chapter

Residencies and Fellowships:

2023 Fellow in Residence, Acequia Madre House: Women’s International Study Center, Santa Fe, NM (upcoming)

2022 Revolution Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute Santa Fe, NM

2019 Create Award Residency, Art Gym Denver, Denver CO

Awards/Grants:

2021 First Place Winner, The Oveja Project Convention, Abiquiu, NM

2021 Fulcrum Fund Grant, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM

2019 Create Award, Art Gym Denver, Denver CO

2019 Best of Show: Cluberation (Juror Mai Wyn Schantz), Pirate Contemporary, Lakewood

2018 Eureca! Grant, University of Colorado, Denver

2016 3rd Place Short Story Southwestern Region, "Things That Burn" 2016 Literary Magazine Competition, Community College Humanities Association.

2013-19 Pinnacol Foundation Scholarship, Pinnacol Foundation, Denver, CO

Selected Exhibitions:

2022 Jeffrey Gibson’s Solo Exhibition: The Body Electric: featured as a performance artist in the piece

“To Name An Other” SITE, Santa Fe, NM

2022 I will carry it for you, solo exhibition, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM

2021 The Oveja Project Convention, Abiquiu, NM

2020 Diverging Paths, two person exhibition, Art Gym, Denver, CO

2019 Upcoming, CU Denver Thesis Exhibition, Redline Gallery, Denver, CO

Cluberation, group exhibition, Pirate Contemporary, Lakewood, CO

Practices, Gallery ONE CU Building Foyer, University of Colorado, Denver, CO

2018 Performance Art Week (PAW), group exhibition, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO

Guilty, group exhibition, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO

Ink, group exhibition, Glasscase Gallery, Denver, CO

Special Guest: Manifest Fluxhibition, group interactive exhibition, Next Stage

Gallery in association with Meow Wolf and Denver Arts & Venues, Denver, CO

CU Denver Student Show, Juried by Ralph Nagel, Emmanuel

Gallery, Denver, CO

2017 Current, group exhibition, Denver Art Society Denver, CO

CU Student Show, group exhibition, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO

2016 Opening, group exhibition, Gallery 1874, Arvada, CO

World’s AIDs Day Exhibition, group exhibition, Tivoli Multicultural Lounge, Denver, CO

Performances:

2022 To Name An Other by Jeffrey Gibson, featured in Jeffrey Gibson’s solo exhibition:

The Body Electric, SITE, Santa Fe, NM

2018 Reading of Manifesto: Special Guest: Manifest Fluxhibition, group interactive exhibition, Next Stage Gallery in association with Meow Wolf and Denver Arts & Venues, Denver, Colorado.

2018 Folding Inward: Performance Art Week (PAW), group exhibition, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, Colorado.

2019 “...” Michael Gadlin Solo Exhibition, K Contemporary, Denver, Colorado.

Professional Work:

2021 - Current Docent Weaver, Dye Artisan and Colcha Demonstrator, El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, Santa Fe, NM

2020 - 2023 Associate Director, Abend Gallery, Denver, CO

2020 - 2023 Associate Director, Gallery 1261, Denver, CO

2019 Studio Assistant to Suchitra Mattai for the production of “Isoperfect Symmetry” for 8th Annual Sharjah Biennial, Denver, CO

2018 - 2020 Gallery Assistant, K Contemporary, Denver, CO

Reviews/Publications:

2018 Froyd, Susan. “Fifteen Ways for Art Lovers to Kick Off Denver Arts Week”, Westword (2018): 15 pars., 1 Nov. 2018 <https://www.westword.com/arts/sarah-bowling-honored-as-a-colorado-creative-10974176>.

2013 "Raise Rebel" The America Library of Poetry: Discovered. 2013 Poetry Collection.

Samantha Manion-Chavez

Samantha Manion-Chavez