Richard "Ricky" Armendariz American, b. 1969
Richard “Ricky” Armendariz was born in El Paso, Texas. He received his BFA from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 1995 and MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1999. In 2008, he received the Artpace Supplemental Travel Grant for travel to Mexico City, Mexico, and in 2013 he was selected to participate as an artist in residence Berlin Residency Program by Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum in partnership with Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.
Being raised on the U.S.-Mexico border heavily influences his artistic, aesthetic and conceptual ideas. Images that have cultural, biographical and art historical references are carved and burned into the surface of his paintings, drawings, and prints. “Growing up in El Paso, Texas with Juarez, Mexico in my backyard, I was saturated with a mix of romanticism for the new and old West, American culture, and the iconography of my ancestral past. I am influenced by the mystique of the border region, including mesas, honky-tonks and big skies reaching as far as the eye can see.” – Ricky Armendariz
Armendariz’s artworks can be found in museum collections, including, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; and Ruby City, San Antonio, TX.
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San Antonio’s arts community reflects on the milestones of another challenging year
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Ruiz-Healy Art Celebrates its Quinceañera
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Artists Richard Armendariz and Andrés Ferrandis find unlikely common ground in ‘Manos’
Bryan Rindfuss, San Antonio Current, October 7, 2020
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McNay Print Fair
San Antonio April 29 - May 1, 2022 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art is thrilled to participate in the 26th edition of the McNay Print Fair, the only major print fair in the Southwestern United States. Ruiz-Healy Art is delighted to feature prints by Marta Sánchez, Richard Armendariz, Juan de Dios Mora, Ethel Shipton, and Celia Álvarez Muñoz, among others.Read more -
Ruiz-Healy Art: Quinceañera
November 18, 2021 - January 29, 2022 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art is pleased to announce Ruiz-Healy Art: Quinceañera, an exhibition commemorating the fifteen-year anniversary of Ruiz-Healy Art in San Antonio, Texas. The exhibition features work by artists that have...Read more -
E La Nave Va
June 9 - August 14, 2021 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art is delighted to present E La Nave Va at our San Antonio gallery featuring works by Fernando Andrade, Richard Armendariz, Cecilia Biagini, Nate Cassie, Ana Fernandez, Leigh Anne Lester, César A. Martínez, Cristina Muñiz, and Mark Schlesinger. The exhibition opens on Wednesday, June 9th at 6PM and will be on view until Saturday, August 14th.Read more -
IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair
October 7 - November 1, 2020Ruiz-Healy Art is pleased to announce the gallery's seventh year of participation in the prestigious IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair taking place, this year, in a hybrid online / in-person...Read more -
Richard Armendariz & Andrés Ferrandis: Manos (Hands)
September 23 - October 31, 2020 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art presents Manos (Hands) featuring works by Richard Armendariz and Andrés Ferrandis, on view through October 21, 2020.Read more -
CON (TEXT)
September 17, 2020 - January 16, 2021 New YorkRuiz-Healy Art presents CON (TEXT) featuring works by Richard Armendariz, Cecilia Biagini, Nate Cassie, Andrés Ferrandis, Leon Ferrari, Cecilia Paredes, Katie Pell, and Ethel Shipton, on view through January 9, 2021Read more -
More Than Words: Text-Based Artworks II
March 25 - August 29, 2020 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art presents More Than Words: Text-Based Artworks II featuring works by Richard Armendariz, Nate Cassie, Andrés Ferrandis, Cisco Jímenez, Katie Pell, Ethel Shipton, and Gary Sweeney, on view through August 29, 2020.Read more -
IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair
New York City October 23 - 27, 2019 New YorkRuiz-Healy Art is pleased to announce the gallery's participation in the prestigious IFPDA Print Fair at the new location in the Javits Center. RHA represents an international roster of artists and places emphasis on a Latin American, borderland, and Texas discourse. Featuring artists Ricky Armendariz, Margarita Cabrera, Patssi Valdez, Pedro Friedeberg, Ethel Shipton, Nate Cassie, Andres Ferrandis, and Cisco Jimenez.Read more -
Latinx Art: Transcending Borders
Houston April 3 - May 11, 2019Collaborating with Octavia Art Gallery (Houston, Texas), Latinx Art: Transcending Borders celebrates Latinx visual arts in the United States, predominantly Texas. Featuring artists: Jesse Amado, Richard Armendariz, Margarita Cabrera, Michael Menchaca, Cecilia Paredes, Chuck Ramirez, and Ethel ShiptonRead more -
23rd Annual McNay Print Fair
McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio March 2 - 3, 2019 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art presents works at the McNay's 23rd annual Print Fair.Artists featured at the McNay Print Fair will include: Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Ethel Shipton, Rufino Tamayo, Nate Cassie, Graciela Iturbide, Chuck Ramirez, Pedro Friedeberg, Pedro Diego Alvarado, Mark Schlesinger, and Richard Armendariz.Read more -
IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair
New York City October 25 - 28, 2018 New YorkRuiz-Healy Art participates in their fourth consecutive year of the IFPDA, International Fine Print Dealers Association. Artists selected for this year’s fair are: Richard Armendariz, Margarita Cabrera, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Pedro Friedeberg, Kelly O’Connor, and Michael Menchaca.Read more -
Blue is Not a Color
July 11 - September 1, 2018 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art presents Blue is Not a Color featuring works by Jesse Amado, Richard Armendariz, Cecilia Biagini, Cecilia Paredes, Cade Bradshaw, Jennifer Ling Datchuk and Deliasofia Zacarias, on view from July 11, 2018 through September 1, 2018.Read more -
22nd Annual McNay Print Fair
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio March 3 - 4, 2018 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art participates in the McNay's 22nd annual print fair. Artists featured include: Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Ethel Shipton, Nate Cassie, Graciela Iturbide, Chuck Ramirez, Pedro Friedeberg, Pedro Diego Alvarado, Mark Schlesinger, Richard Armendariz, among others.Read more -
Richard Armendariz: Tell Me Where It Hurts
December 6, 2017 - January 13, 2018 San AntonioTell Me Where It Hurts includes work featuring illusionistic carved paintings and meticulously carved woodcut prints that incorporates lyrical texts.Read more -
IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair
New York City October 25 - 29, 2017 New YorkRuiz-Healy Art participates in the 2017 IFPDA New York City Print Fair. The Natural and Fantastic are explored through the works of: David Hockney, Jesse Amado, Ricky Armendariz, Nate Cassie, Pedro Friedeberg, Michael Menchaca, Ethel Shipton, Francisco Toledo and Alfredo Zalce.Read more -
21st Annual McNay Print Fair
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio March 4 - 5, 2017 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art participates in the McNay's 21st Annual Print Fair. Featured artists include: César A. Martínez, Ethel Shipton, Nate Cassie, Graciela Iturbide, Chuck Ramirez, Pedro Friedeberg, Pedro Diego Alvarado, Jesse Amado, and Richard Armendariz, among others.Read more -
On the Curve
January 25 - February 25, 2017 San AntonioOn the Curve is a group exhibition exploring curvilinear works by Constance Lowe, Jesse Amado, Andrés Ferrandis, Nicolás Leiva, Nate Cassie, Laura Anderson Barbata, Ricky Armendariz and Ethel Shipton.Read more -
More than Words: Text-Based Artworks
March 5 - April 25, 2015 San AntonioMore than Words: Text Based Artworks features works by the artists: Andrés Ferrandis, Ethel Shipton, Ricky Armendariz, Jesse Amado, Chuck Ramirez, Julie Speed, Nate Cassie, Alejandro Diaz, Marifer Barrero. Text based artwork is a recurring hallmart of modern art. The artists in More than Words: Text Based Artworks create works that run the gamut from subversive social comment to rapturous meditation. Each will give you an unexpected occasion to pause.Read more -
IFPDA Ink Miami Art Fair
Miami December 3 - 7, 2014Ruiz-Healy Art participates in Ink Miami with the work of Graciela Iturbide, Leigh Anne Lester, Connie Lowe, Cecilia Paredes, Ethel Shipton, Cecilia Biagini and Julie Speed, among others. As well as Francisco Toledo, Pedro Friedeberg, Jesse Amado, Ricky Armendariz, Nate Cassie, Vincent Valdez and the late Chuck Ramirez.Read more -
Ricky Armendariz: In the Belly of the Beast
November 6 - December 6, 2014 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art presents Ricky Armendariz: In the Belly of the Beast. Armendariz cuts intricate images of birds, animals, totems of life in the Southwest and emblems of motion and conflict. Text is inscribed in the discourse of the U.S./Mexico border using a dialogue combining both Spanish and English grounding Armendariz in his roots.Read more
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Paper, Pencil & Ink: Prints & Other Works on Paper
July 10 - August 30, 2014 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art presents Paper, Pencil & Ink: Prints & Other Works on Paper. Featuring Artists: Rufino Tamayo, Richard Diebenkorn, Andrés Ferrandis, Ricky Armendariz, Vincent Valdez, Leonora Carrington, Victor Vasarely, Sergio Hernández, Creighton Michael, Robert Motherwell, Benjamín Domínguez, Ione Robinson, Tamara de Lempicka, Francisco Toledo, Joy Laville, Ethel Shipton, Nate Cassie, Constance Lowe, Joan Miró.Read more
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Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists
Editors: Riley Robinson and Nan Cuba 2008 Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595340394
Dimensions: 8.75 x 1 x 10.25 in Read more -
César A. Martínez and Richard Armendariz
Estampas de la Raza: Contemporary Mexican American Prints from the Romo Collection Essays by Lyle W. Williams and Carlos F. Jackson, 2012 Hardcover, 152 pages
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780916677589
Dimensions: 9 x 0.88 x 11 in Read more -
César A. Martínez and Richard Armendariz
Icons & Symbols of the Borderland: Art from the US-Mexico Crossroads Diana Molina, 2020 Hardcover, 192 pages pages
Publisher: Schiffer
ISBN: 0764358936
Dimensions: 10 x 0.9 x 10 in Read more -
Hare & Hound Press + Artpace: The Art of Collaboration
Essay by Amada Cruz Amada Cruz, 2014 Paperback, 120 pages
Publisher: Hare & Hound Press
ISBN: 1888302070
Dimensions: 9 x 11 x 0.5" Read more -
Richard Armendariz, César A. Martínez, Katie Pell and Chuck Ramirez.
Right Here, Right Now: San Antonio Essay by Dean Daderko with an Introduction by Bill Arning, 2018 Hardcover, 115 pages pages
Publisher: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
ISBN: 978-1-933619-72-9
Dimensions: 7.5 X 10 in Read more -
Richard Armendariz: Tell Me Where it Hurts
Essay by John Phillip Santos 2017 Hardcover, 40 pages
Publisher: Ruiz-Healy Art
ISBN: 9781389298813
Dimensions: 8x10 in Read more -
Ricky Armendariz: In the Belly of the Beast
Essay by Scott Andrews 2014 Hardcover, 36 pages
Publisher: Ruiz-Healy Art
ISBN: 1367466261
Dimensions: 8 x 10 in Read more