Natalia Anciso

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT NATALIA ANCISO

Natalia Anciso, MFA, MA, is a Chicana-Tejana visual artist and educator. Born in Weslaco and raised in Mercedes, small towns in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Deep South Texas, she received her BA in Studio Art from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008. In 2011, Anciso earned an MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Additionally, Anciso was awarded a Berkeley Distinguished Graduate Fellowship and earned her MA in Education at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education in 2015. She has taught art to a diverse array of youth through non-profit organizations, ranging from the Oakland Leaf Foundation\'s Urban Arts Program in the Fruitvale District of East Oakland to the Summer Institute for the Gifted at the University of California, Berkeley. She worked as the Art Director for the Mission Clubhouse of the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco. Anciso\'s art has been included in exhibitions throughout the country and internationally. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the San Jose Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the Vincent Price Art Museum of Los Angeles, the Mexic-Arte Museum of Austin, the Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago, Centro Cultural de la Raza of San Diego, Galeria de la Raza of San Francisco, and Recyclart in Brussels, Belgium. Her contributions as an Artist have been acknowledged by The Huffington Post, who identified her as one of \"13 Latina Artists Under 35 You Should Know,\" as well as Latina Magazine, which has named her as an Innovator in their Latina 30 Under 30 list of Celebrities, Style Stars, Innovators, and Influencers. She was featured in ELLE Magazine\'s 30th Anniversary Portfolio, titled,\"This is 30.\" The portfolio highlights 35 women who are recognized as \"outstanding musicians, comedians, politicians, artists, activists, novelists, athletes, and actors\" who turned 30 in 2015. Anciso currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.