ROSE MARIE MERCADO Visual Artist
Exhibitions
2017
12th Annual Texas Artist Coalition Juried Exhibit, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX. Juror: Ann Ekstrom.
Texas Artist Coalition Impromptu Invitational, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX.
Texas Artist Coalition Invitational, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX.
Art Studios at 2814 Race Street Exhibition, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX,
2016
3rd Annual Juried Membership Show, Texas Jewish Arts Association, Dallas Jewish Community Center, Dallas, TX. Jurors: Gail Sachson, Diana Pollack, Nancy Cohen Israel.
2015
2nd Annual Juried Membership Show, Texas Jewish Arts Association, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX. Juror: Kenneth Craighead.
Journey To Recovery Through The Artist’s Eye, Group Exhibition in honor of and inspired by MHMR-Tarrant County Pine Street Recovery Center, Fort Worth, TX. I was the recipient of the MHMR-Tarrant/MHMR Visions Foundation Boards’ Selection Award and the Pine Street People’s Choice Award.
2014
2nd Annual Juried Artists’ Books Exhibition, WoCA Projects, Fort Worth, TX
Across the Bridge, Invitational, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
2013
A Seat At the Table: An Exploration in Artists’ Books, Juried, WoCA Projects, Fort Worth, TX
2008
New Works, Solo Exhibition, The Petroleum Club of Fort Worth, TX
2007
You Gotta Have Art, Invitational, Group Exhibition, The Petroleum Club of Fort Worth, TX
2nd Annual Artists’ Roundup, Invitational, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
2006
Shine! 2006 Fire & Ice, Juried Exhibition, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
Artists’ Roundup, Group Invitational, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
2005
21st Annual An Artists’ Christmas, Juried, Fort Worth, TX
43rd Annual Tri-State National, Juried, Beaumont, TX
Unlimited, To Be … or … Not To Be, Group Invitational, Coffee House Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2004
Watercolors, Solo Invitational, Heliotrope Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
Expressions, Group Invitational, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
20th Annual An Artists’ Christmas, Juried, Fort Worth, TX
Bibliography
2014 Swaim, Gary, “Pony Express(ions)” 2014 Edition. Juried. On-line literary journal, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. Two of my art works were selected, Bird of Bosporus and Red Trees Dancing, and one poem was selected, Bearded Man. https://smuponyexpressions.wordpress.com/
2014 What For Sixty Four: Dreams of Sunshine/Dreams of Hyacinths/Dreams on a Winter’s Day Artist’s Book, image of my artist’s book featured as cover of print publicity for 2nd Annual Juried Artists’ Books Exhibition, November 2014
2014 Brown, Edward, “Truly Public Art,” The Fort Worth Weekly, June 2014, vol. 19, number 14, p. 24. http://www.fwweekly.com/2014/06/18/truly-public-art/
2013 I Wanna Be A Whatter Melon, oil on canvas, featured in “Gallery Calendar,” The Fort Worth Weekly, September 2013, vol. 18,number 25, p. 20.
Collections
MHMR Pine Street Recovery Center, Fort Worth, TX.
Private collections in Fort Worth, TX; Minneapolis, MN; Vail, CO; Austin, TX; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Mexico City, Mexico; Cayman Islands