Education
1983-84 Graduate Study in Design & Photography; University of Texas, Austin, Department of Journalism
1972-74 MA Painting and Photography; California State University, Sacramento, CA
1970-72 BA, Fine Arts ; California State University, Sacramento,California
1968-70 Certificate-Fine Arts; School of Visual Arts, New York City, New York
1967-68 State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
Artist Statement
Barbra Riley has been developing curriculum and teaching classes in photography, design and watercolor painting at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi for over 3 decades as well as curating exhibitions for the Islander and Weil Gallery, conducting workshops in historical photographic processes, bookbinding and watercolor painting and leading classes and workshops abroad.
Riley’s photographs and paintings have been included in exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California. In Texas, she has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Houston Center for Photography, Laguna Gloria Museum in Austin, Abilene Fine Arts Museum, and The Art Museum of South Texas as well as dozens of universities, art galleries and alternative art exhibition spaces. Currently, 18 large painted photographs by Riley are featured in the new AT&T Center Collection of Art in San Antonio.
In Texas, her work resides in numerous permanent collections including the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The Dallas Museum of Art, the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin, the AT&T Center and Republic National Bank, San Antonio and The Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi. Nationally, she is represented in the corporate collections of Chase Bank, New York, Kaiser-Permanente and Price Waterhouse, California.
Artist CV
Museum and Public Collections
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX
Erie Art Center, Erie, Pennsylvania
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California
McAllen International Museum, McAllen, Texas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, Texas
Texas A & M University System, College Station, Texas
University Art Museum, University of Louisiana
University of Texas, San Antonio
Corporate Collections
AT&T Center, San Antonio (SPURS NBA)
TX Atlantic Richfield Co., Dallas, Texas
Bank of America, Corpus Christi, Texas
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York City, New York
Chemical Dependency Unit, Corpus Christi, Texas
Daniel Wolf, Inc., New York City, New York
First Community Bank, Corpus Christi, TX
Frito Lay Corporation, Waco, Texas
Frost Bank, San Antonio, TX
Goldman Sachs, Dallas, Texas
Imperial Sugar, Sugarland, Texas
Jansse Law Firm, San Antonio, TX
Jason's Deli, Corpus Chrtisti
Jason's Deli, McAllen, TX
Jason's Deli, Harlingen, TX
Kaiser Permanente, Vallejo, California
Kaiser Permanente, San Leandro, California
L. K. Jordan, Corpus Christi
L. K. Jordan, San Antonio
L. K. Jordan, Austin
Marks, Crowley and Waltman, Bryan, Texas
Matthews & Branscomb, Corpus Christi, Texas
Merrill Lynch, Houston, Texas
Moody Bank, Houston, Texas
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Folsom, CA
Pearson & Price PLLC, Corpus Christi, Tx
Price Waterhouse, Los Angeles, California
Republic National Bank, San Antonio, Texas
Southwestern Bell, Dallas, Texas
Tejas Oil, Corpus Christi, Texas
Texas Commerce Bank, Corpus Christi, Texas
Texas Instruments, Houston, Texas
The Trust Company, Corpus Christi, TX
Watts Law Firm, San Antonio