Ruth Leonela Buentello
American Chicana Artist
Ruth Leonela Buentello (born 1984) is an American Chicana visual artist.
In 2019, she was named as a participant in the Joan Mitchell Foundation residency program. In 2017, she was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors. She was the third Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence sponsored by the University of Michigan.
Early life and education
In 1984, Buentello was born in San Antonio, Texas.
She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in 2008. In 2021, Buentello graduated with a Master in Fine Art degree in painting from the Maine College of Art & Design in Portland.
Her work has focused on immigration, undocumented immigrants, patriarchy, machismo, labor, Chicana/o studies, and chicana art. In 2009, she had co-founded the Más Rudas Chicana Artist Collective (Más Rudas) with Sarah Castillo, Kristin Gamez, and Mari Hernandez.
In 2010, she studied abroad in France and Italy after receiving an Artist Travel Grant from Artpace to study the art of Nikki de Saint Phalle.
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