Arizona Biennial 2013

Over 1,250 works were submitted to Arizona Biennial 2013 and 80 pieces were selected for the exhibition. This is the oldest running juried exhibition featuring exclusively Arizona artists and will be on view at the Tucson Museum of Art July 20 – September 29, 2013.  The work juried into the exhibition were judged by noted guest curator René Paul Barilleaux, Chief Curator/Curator of Art after 1945, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas.

Barilleaux received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1979 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute in 1981. Prior to coming to the McNay Art Museum in 2005, Barilleaux held curatorial positions at the Mississippi Museum of Art (1993-2005); Halsey Gallery at the College of Charleston, South Carolina (1992-1993); the Madison Art Center, Wisconsin (1986-1992); and the Museum of Holography, New York (1983-1986). Since the early 1980s, Barilleaux has organized numerous exhibitions of modern and contemporary art and alternative media. Since joining the staff of the McNay in 2005, Barilleaux organized solo exhibitions of the work of Andy Warhol, Lynda Benglis, Jane Hammond, Joseph Marioni, Ernesto Pujol, and Sandy Skoglund, as well as American Art Since 1945: In a New Light and New Image Sculpture, among other exhibitions.