Raul J Mendez’s work is an attempt at assessing the zeitgeist of the American Condition at this juncture of the early 21st century. It is a dialogue with current events and intercepted psychic transmissions as much as conversations with the work of other artists, authors, filmmakers, etc.
His work is exemplified by painting and drawing on one extreme, and research-based multi media installation works on the other, as well as explorations in music and sound, film, video and performance. These different approaches blend fiction and fact in order to create fragmented narratives that interrogate the psychogeography of the spaces , people and things surrounding us.
Raul was born in Venezuela, received a BFA in Painting & Drawing from PNCA in 1997, live & maintain a studio against a forest in Portland, OR, and support my art habits by working as a 767 cargo pilot
Raul’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and can be found in public and private collections..
To learn more about his work, please visit: https://linktr.ee/. rauljmendez
His work is exemplified by painting and drawing on one extreme, and research-based multi media installation works on the other, as well as explorations in music and sound, film, video and performance. These different approaches blend fiction and fact in order to create fragmented narratives that interrogate the psychogeography of the spaces , people and things surrounding us.
Raul was born in Venezuela, received a BFA in Painting & Drawing from PNCA in 1997, live & maintain a studio against a forest in Portland, OR, and support my art habits by working as a 767 cargo pilot
Raul’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and can be found in public and private collections..
To learn more about his work, please visit: https://linktr.ee/. rauljmendez
Education
1997 BFA Drawing & Painting , PNCA Portland, OR.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI, Oranj Studio, Portland, OR
2019 Lost Plots, Wayward Thoughts SUMgallery, Portland OR
2017 Surveillances & Orthogonals, SUMgallery, Portland, OR
2014 Surplus Space, Portland OR TSFPLTMT presents Draft of a Landscape: IRVING PARK VERTICAL
2012 SUM Gallery, Portland, OR
2010 The Society for the Preservation of Lost Things & Missing Time presents: FLORIDA ARCANE, Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, FL
2008 This is Nowhere, Hollywood Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, FL
(Negative Space), Twenty Twenty Projects, Miami, FL
2007 More Hungry Ghosts, PULSEmiami, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
2006 A Falling Sky, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL2005
Minor Transgressions, Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL
The Failure of Knowing, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
2004 Fictions, Pacific Switchboard Gallery, Portland, OR
2003 The Pull, L&B Gallery, Portland, OR
2000 From the Files of Abulafia, K&F,Portland, OR
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Converge 45 Portland Monuments and Memorial Project
2016 Portland Biennial Salon Exhibit, curated by Michelle Grabner, Disjecta, Portland, OR
2015 Hight Desert Test Site Limited Edition 2015/16 Postcard Series
Holding Sway, PNCA Faculty & Alumni Exhibition, Portland, OR.
2013 Free People, Curated by Victor Maldonado, Hult Center, Oregon
Free People, Gallery Homeland, Portland, Oregon
Pinpoint Curated by Holly Sabine, Indiana Univ. Northwest
2012 Day Job, The Drawing Center traveling show, Curated by Nina Katchadourian (PNCA, Albright College)
2011 Dock 6 Collective Design/Art Series. Curated by Hinge Gallery, Chicago, IL
Broward College, Anything is Possible, Davie, FL
South Florida Biennial, Art&CultureCenter, Hollywood, FL
2010 59th All Florida Juried Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art
New Work Miami 2010:Video, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Selections (“Day Job”, Curated by Nina Katchadourian), The Drawing Center, NY, NY
Recent Requisitions, 2020 Projects, Miami, FL
2009 Hollywood Art & Culture Center Biennial, Hollywood FL
Hollywood Art & Culture Center Time & Temp, Hollywood FL
PNCA at 100, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, PDX, OR
2008 Cha Cha, 2020 Projects, Miami, FL
Islands & Ghettos, Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
Zietgiest, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
SCOPE-NY, New York, NY
2007 Love, Pleasure Emporium, Miami, FL
PULSE-Miami, Miami, FL
IKF-Invitational Auction, CIFO, Miami, FL
PULSE-London, London, GB
SCOPE BASEL, Basel, Switzlerland
Balelatina, Basel, Switzerland
SCOPE NY, Ambrosino Gallery, New York, NY
Hollywood Art & Culture Center Biennial, Hollywood FL
Recent Paintings, 2020 Projects, Miami FL
2006 Recent Drawings, 2020 Projects, Miami, FL
ArteAmericas, Miami, FL
RxArt Ball, Curated by Susan Delehanty, New York, NY
PULSE Art Fair, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
2005 MANIFESTO(one), Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
Pink Is For Miami, World Arts Building, Miami, FL
Aerial / Terrestrial, Miami-Dade College, Miami, FL
International Kids Fund Invitational, Miami Art Central, Miami, FLOccurrences: Artists Crossroads, Sydiart Studio, Chicago, IL
ArtBasel Miami Beach, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2004 Picante, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA
There’s Nothing Wrong With Being Beautiful, Ambrosino Gallery,
Miami, FL
ArtBasel Miami Beach, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2003 Foot by Foot , Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, ORRACC
wallWORKS: PDX (collaborative mural at the Portland Int'l Airport with Ed King)
Drawing for Drawings, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, OR
2002 WALLPATCH, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI,
Bipolar?, Eagerwally Gallery,Portland, OR
Climate Control, Eagerwally Gallery,Portland, OR
2001 The Hardest Thing Ever, The Portland Building/RACC,Portland, ORPerception and Perspective, L&B Gallery,Portland, OR
Paper Invitational, L&B Gallery,Portland,Performance Piece, REBUT, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
1998 Group Show, e-state gallery,Portland, OR
1997 The Simplest Solution to a Puzzling Notion, PNCA Thesis Exhibit. Portland, OR
1996 The Museum of Reconstituted History, Boyd Gallery, Portland, OR
1995 Group Show, Boyd Gallery,Portland, OR
Awards
2013 Finalist - Rutsch Painting Award
2007 Hollywood Art & Culture Center Biennial, Honorary Mention
Finalist- LegalArt Grant
2006 New American Paintings, Southern Edition
Advisory Boards
2022/24 Port of Portland Portland International Airport Terminal
Core Redevelopment: Art Selection Committee Member
2004 The Drawing Center, Viewing Program and Slide Registry, New York, NY 2002
RACC WALLworks: PDX Project Honorarium, Portland, OR 2000
RACC Installation Series Project Honorarium, Portland, OR 1996
Voorhees Memorial Scholarship, PNCA, Portland, OR
William Jamison Memorial Scholarship, PNCA, Portland, OR 1994
Foundation Department Award, PNCA, Portland, OR
Related Experience
2011 Guest Lecturer, Broward College
Trilogy of Music Videos for Los Angeles band P a p i l l o n
Published 1st Edition of THE SAMIZDAT
2009 Guest Lecturer, Florida Atlantic University (FAU)
2005 Curator (as Trista Dix), MANIFESTO(one), Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL 2004
Guest Lecturer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1998 Asst. Executive Producer, Asst. Director, Asst. Art Director, SoundEngineer, Musician, Lead Actor, and Still Photographer
for an independent film, " THE CAB".
Wrote and recorded score for an independent film “BUS”
Selected Bibliography
Variable West Cliff Notes Oregon Picks, June 2023
The Drawing Center, “DAY JOB” exhibition catalog, February 2011
Drysdale, Rebekah “Summer of Utopia: FLORIDA ARCANE from the Society for the Preservation of Lost Things and Missing Time”, The Daily Serving 07.24.10
Dunlop, Beth “FLORIDA ARCANE”, The Miami Herald, 07.04.10
Holten, Johan “Islands&Ghettos”, Book for exhibit at Heidelberg Kunstverein ‘08
Row, D.K., “Portland’s Changing Landscape”, The Oregonian, 05.01.08
Triff, Alfredo, “Pepe Mar y Raul Mendez, Reciclaje Totemico e instalacion fantasmagorica”, El Nuevo Herald 04.26.08
Burklin, Von Heidi, “Aus dem Zoo in die Akademie”, Der Welt, 10.27.07
Florida International Magazine, “All About Art”, 11.07
Mills, Michael,, “Stop at X”, The New Times Palm Beach, 04.26.07
The Art Newspaper-International Edition, “Dutch Treats”, 06.14.07
Florida International Magazine, “All About Art”, 11.06
New American Paintings, Southern Edition, Issue # 63, 2006
Suarez de Jesus, Carlos, “The Human Condition”, Miami New Times, 10.27.05
Occurences: Artists Crossroads, Catalog for show.
International Kids Fund Auction, Catalog 2005
ArtBasel Miami Beach, Catalog 2004, 2005
Tshida, Anne, “New Work, New Faces- and Some Surprises”, The Miami Herald 11.28.04
Row, D.K., “DK’s Hot Picks”, Oregonian A&E, 01.16.04
ARTSTAR Radio Show, KPSU, March 2003
Row, D.K., “Gallery Guide”, Oregonian A&E, 9.05.03
Regional Arts and Culture Council, “Here and Gone: A Compilation of Temporary Projects”, 2003
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, “Drawing for Drawings: Catalog”, 2003
Lambert, Lisa “WW Picks”, The Willamette Week, 12.12.01
Lambert, Lisa, “Two Reviews”, The Willamette Week, 12.05.01
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