- Basic Information
- Publications
- Professional Affiliations
- Pedagogy
- Professional Experience
Basic Information
Education
- M.F.A., The New York Academy of Art
- B.A., Macalester College
Courses Taught
- Painting I
- Drawing I
- Painting II
- Drawing II
- The Contemporary Portrait
- The Uncanny
- Symbolic Archetypes
- Senior Seminar
Personal website: www.rafaelsalas.com
Publications
- Article in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November, 13 2017.
- Article in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August, 3 2017.
- Article in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 5, 2016.
- Review in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 15, 2016.
- Review in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 30, 2016.
- Review in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 10, 2016.
- Review in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 14, 2016.
- Review in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 18, 2016.
- Review in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 11, 2016.
- Review in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 11, 2016.
- Review in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 19, 2016.
- Cover article for Wisconsin People and Ideas, Winter 2016.
- Review in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 15, 2015.
- Review in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 14, 2015.
Professional/Scholarly Affiliations
- Board of Directors of the Museum of Wisconsin Art
Pedagogy
- Guest Lecture, The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, 11/27/17
Professional Experience
Exhibits
Solo Exhibits
2018 Ballads of the Middle St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin, 1/22-2/16
2017 Ballads Elms College, Chicopee, MA, 11/1-11/15
2015
World Without End, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin, 10/15
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, Portrait Society Gallery and Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 3/15
Wasted Days & Wasted Nights, James Watrous Gallery in Madison, Wisconsin.
2013 Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, 3/13
2012 Lucid Dreams, Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1/12
2009 Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 9/09
2009 Paintings by Rafael Francisco Salas, Neville Public Museum,
Green Bay, Wisconsin, 4/09
2009 Rafael Francisco Salas: Recent Paintings and Drawings, Edgewood College,
Madison, Wisconsin, 2/09
2007 Substituting Emptiness, Latino Arts, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 9/07
2007 Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin, 6/07
2006 Weary Memory, Caestecker Gallery, Ripon, Wisconsin, 2/06
2004 The University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, 11/04
2003 Interiors (Dwellings), Chashama Gallery, New York, New York, 10/03
Selected Group Exhibits
2017 NOW Figuration , Portrait Society Gallery, 7/21
2016 Indiana Green, UW-Sheboygan
2016 Super Natural, John Michael Kohler Art Center, on view until 9/11
2016 Luck of the Draw, The Bubbler Gallery, Madison Public Library, 1/08-2/26
2015 Group exhibit, Thelma, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
2012 The Academy Strikes Back, Mohawk Valley Community College: Utica, New York, 4/12
Daychola Gallery, Green Lake, Wisconsin
Indiana Green, EffJay Projekts, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 4/12
Obscura, EffJay Projekts, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 3/12
2011 67th Art Annual, Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin, 11/11-2/12
2011 Wisconsin Artists Biennial, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, Wisconsin, summer 2011
2011 Crossroads: Art on 27th and Wells, Presented by Avenues West
Association and the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University;
featuring Hans Gindlesberger, Rafael Francisco Salas, Michael Velliquette, Rina Yoon, 06/11
2010 Revisiting Landscape: The Natural and the Artificial, Horicon Marsh International
Education Center, Horicon, Wisconsin, 12/10-2/11
2010 Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 10/10
2010 Art Perchance, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 8/10
2010 New Bedford Art Museum Vault Series, New Bedford, Massachusetts, summer 2010
2010 Eight Counties, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 1/10
2009 The Intimate Page, Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 11/09
2009 Skin: Drawings, Community College of Vermont, Burlington, 6/09
2009 Big Big Bangs, Small Small Bucks, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1/09
2009 Personal Culture: New Art From Latin Americans,
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1/09
2008 Magic and Power: Eddy Dominguez and Rafael Francisco Salas
Carlston Art Gallery, UW Stevens Point, Wisconsin, 10/08
2008 Reforming US: Immigration Through Art, Crown Center Gallery of Loyola
University, Chicago, Illinois, 6/08
2007 Submission Show, Sarah Bowen Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 6/07