Daniela Koontz CV


Selected Exhibitions

2023

Do-Over, Sabine Street Studios, Houston, TX

Dreamscapes, Winter Street Studio, Houston, TX (cancelled due to fire)

2022 

Third Coast Biennial, kspace contemporary, Corpus Cristi, TX

Power, Corruption, and Lies, Box13ArtSpace, Houston, TX

2019 

Soft Listings, The Art League of Houston, Houston, TX (Solo show)

Sweet Rumpus of Love, Window Installation, Box13ArtSpace, Houston TX

2018 

Boxing the Storm, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX

2017 

Gulf Currents, Ten Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Fall Concert: 12 Soloists in Harmony, Front Gallery, Houston, TX

Aspect 2017: A Regional Drawing Exhibition: Houston Community College Gallery, Houston, TX

2016 

The Origin of Fruit, Box13ArtSpace, Houston, TX

Bayou, By Us, Front Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Well Hung, Snow White Tan, Khon’s Wine Bar, Houston, TX

2000-2015 

White On White, LHUCA, Lubbock, TX 

The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX

Pathwinder/Threadwinder, CSAW, Houston, TX

Alternative Quilts, Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts, Houston, TX

Layered Evidence, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX

Summer Breeze: New Houston Painting, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX

University of Houston MFA Thesis Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX

Domestic Bliss, Raw Space, Houston, TX

Grounded, Small Project Installation, University of Houston, Houston, TX

The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX

Big Dan’s Bowling Show, One Ten Studios, Houston, TX

First Prize Winner, Dishman Competition, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX

New Prints from Texas, Women and their Work Gallery, Austin, TX

Friendly Mart, Convenience Market Installation, Houston, TX

Art by Women in the New Century, Union Gallery, El Paso, TX

Education

2003 MFA in Painting, University of Houston

2000 BFA in Painting and Printmaking, UT El Paso

1990 BA in the History of Art, UC Berkeley

Related Service

2015 - 2021 Box 13 Member

2012 to present: Numerous works donated to fundraisers in Houston, including Box13ArtSpace, Diverse Works, The Art League of Houston, University of Houston, and The Art Car Museum.

2012 Slide Jam, Houston Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX

Archaeological Illustrations in Publication

2011 Koontz, Rex.“El Tajin: El Arte Del Clasico y El Surgimiento De La Elite De Las Tierras Bajas De Veracruz.” In Seis Ciudades Antiguas De Mesoamérica: Sociedad y Medio Ambiente, 235–249. México, D.F.: Insituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.

2009 Koontz, Rex. Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents: The Public Sculpture of El Tajín. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Koontz, Rex. “Social Identity and Cosmology at El Tajin.” In The Art of Urbanism: How Mesoamerican Cities Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery, ed. William Fash and Leonardo Lopez Lujan, 260–289. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection.

2008 Coe, Michael D, and Rex Koontz. Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs. 6th ed. New York: Thames & Hudson.

Koontz, Rex.“Iconographic Interaction Between El Tajín and South-Central Veracruz.” In Classic-Period Cultural Currents in Southern and Central Veracruz, ed. Philip J. Arnold and Christopher A. Pool, 323–359. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. 

2006 Koontz, Rex. “Performing Coatepec: The Raising of the Banners Festival Among the Mexica.” In Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology, ed. Elizabeth Robertson, 371–380. Calgary and Albuquerque: University of Calgary Press and University of New Mexico Press. 

 

Other Publications

2001 Koontz, Daniela. “Boursier-Mougenot,” Artlies

2000 Koontz, Daniela. “Pop Art Codex at the Bridge.” Bridge

 

Bibliography

2003 Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “The Good, the Bad and the Humidity.” Houston Press

2002 Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “The Biggest and the Baddest.” Houston Press