EDUCATION

2015 MFA- Painting, University of Texas at San Antonio, TX

2010 BFA- Painting, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, TX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2023 Contracted Project Manager, City of San Antonio: Department of Arts & Culture, Public Arts Division, TX

2021-2022 Contracted Art Handler, Southwest School of Art, The Contemporary at Blue Star, & Ruby City, San Antonio, TX

2021-2022 Independent Instructor, Southwest School of Art & Coppini Fine Arts Academy, San Antonio, TX

2019-2021 Senior Lecturer, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX. Mural Painting, Two-Dimensional Design, Drawing: Basic, Drawing II, & Drawing: Figure

2015-2018 Lecturer II, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX  Drawing I & II, Drawing: Figure, Painting I, Mural Painting, Two-Dimensional Design, Non-Art Majors: Drawing & Painting

2015-2021 Gallery Coordinator, UTSA’s Terminal 136 Gallery & Main Gallery, San Antonio, TX

SELECT AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS

2024 Artist in Residence, Democratizing Racial Justice, University of Texas at San Antonio, TX

2019 George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship in Painting, George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, Rhode Island 

2017 Selected Artist for 2017-2018 Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin Residency Program, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, TX

2016 Friends of Chuck Ramirez Award for Visual Arts, Artist Foundation, San Antonio, TX

2016 Artist Lab Resident, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

2023Group Exhibition, Memorias de Vida y Muerte, Instituto Cultural de México, Vienna, Austria

2023 Group Exhibition, Voces: Discussion on Identity & Society Through the LatinX Perspective, Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery, University of Texas at Permian Basin, Odessa, TX

2023 Solo Exhibition, 2666, Spellberg Projects, Lockhart, TX

2022 Group Exhibition, Drawn in San Antonio-Today, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX

2021 Group Exhibition, A Century of Fine Art in the Big Bend, Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, TX

2020 Solo Exhibition, To Whom It May Concern & Fringes, Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX

2019 Group Exhibition, Funf, Blue Star Contemporary Museum, San Antonio, TX

2018 Group Exhibition, Images of Power, Freight Gallery, San Antonio, TX (curated by Alana Coates and Mark Anthony Martinez) (catalogue)

2017 Group Exhibition, $t@tU.S.? Prints from Puerto Rico to San Antonio, Centro de Artes, San Antonio, TX (curated by Dr. Teresa Eckmann) (catalogue)

2017 Group Exhibition, Young Latino Artists, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX (curated by Alana Coates) (catalogue)

2017 Group Exhibition, 23rd Annual Texas National, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX (juried by Benito Huerta, Director of The Gallery, University of Texas at Arlington)

2017 Group Exhibition, 30th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA (catalogue)

2017 Group Exhibition, Homage, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX

2016 Group Exhibition, Artist Lab 2016, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX)

2016 Group Exhibition, SATX/MX: Un Viaje Lleno de Cultura, Centro de Artes, City of San Antonio’s Department of Arts & Culture San Antonio, TX (curated by Sean Fitzgibbons) (catalogue)

2016 Group Exhibition, Genocide: Man’s Inhumanity to Humankind, Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX (curated by Gus Kopriva, owner of Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX) (juried by Clint Willour, curator of the Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX) (catalogue)

2016 Group Exhibition, New Art/Arte Nuevo 2016, Main Art Gallery, University of Texas at San Antonio, (juried by Kimberly Arp, Professor Emeritus, Louisiana State University) (catalogue)

2013 Group Exhibition, Heterotopia, The Lumberyard, apexart: Marfa, Marfa, TX (curated by Crystal Ann Nelson, Franchise Program Winner, apexart, NY, NY)

SELECT PRESS HIGHLIGHTS

Zacarias, Delia Sofia. “Exploring Socio-Political Issues Beyond Borders International Borders with Andrei Renteria,'' Unfiltered San Antonio. September 3, 2019. 

Tannert, Christoph. “Anklage, Protest, Erinnerung/Accusation, Protest, Memory” Be Magazin #25. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2018 

Del Toro, Marissa. “Andrei Renteria: The Language of Violence and the Battle Against Silence” Latinx Spaces. June 13, 2018. 

Sarkar, Christian. “YLA 22: ¡Ahora! – Activist Art in Austin, Texas” Huffington Post. July 13, 2017.

Cruz, Araceli. “8 Texan Artists Take on Identity and Politics in New Exhibit” We Are Mitú, July 18, 2017.

Silva, Elda “Artists play up their strengths in Artist Lab show: Religion, border violence among issues explored,” San Antonio Express News, December 26, 2016.

Rubin, David. “Los de Abajo: Garbage as an Artistic Source at the Guadalupe,” Rivard Report, June 12, 2016.

Yoland, K. “California artist Crystal Nelson curates Heterotopia in Marfa,” West Texas Talk (blog), KRTSMarfa Public Radio, October 25, 2013.

LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS

2023 “Voces” artist talk, University of Texas at the Permian Basin, Jan. 19

2020 “To Whom It May Concern” artist talk, Palo Alto College, Feb. 27.

2017 “Fringes” Art Talk for YLA22 | ¡Ahora!, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX, July 15.

2017 “Global Migration,” panelist, Artpace, San Antonio, TX, May 25.

2017 “Artist Lab Panel,” panelist, The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX, January 28.

2016 “Los De Abajo: Garbage as an Artistic Source,” curator and panelist; moderated by Dr. Tomas Ybarra Frausto, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX, July 8.

2014 “Withdrawal and Extension,” Verbing Painting, panelist, Mash Up: Navigating Art & Academia in ThisMillennium, Mid-America College Art Association, San Antonio, TX, October 23.

COLLECTIONS

Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX

City of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX