René Treviño (Baltimore, MD) is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, fibers and installation. He received his BFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in 2003 and his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2005. He has exhibited at the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, CT; the Baltimore Museum of Art; White Box in New York, NY; the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art in Wilmington, DE; the Arlington Arts Center in Arlington, VA; The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD, and the Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas, TX. He was awarded a 2009 Baltimore Creative Fund Individual Artist Grant and won the 2009 Trawick Prize and a 2016 Rubys Artists Project Grant. Additionally, he has been an Artist in Residence at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA; AIR Serenbe in Chattahoochee Hills, GA; Creative Alliance in Baltimore, MD; The Studios of Key West in Key West, FL; and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Amherst, VA. In 2019 he received a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Art Works grant in collaboration with the Old Jail Art Center in Albany, TX. Recent projects include solo exhibitions at the Kentucky College of Art and Design in Louisville, KY and at the Wellin Museum of Art in Clinton, NY. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Glasstire, Hyperallergic, ARTnews, Art Papers, New American Painters, Baltimore Sun, Baltimore City Paper, BmoreArt, Philadelphia Enquirer, Washington Blade, Washington Post, Dallas Observer, and D Magazine.

Alumni Affiliation 

Mount Royal School of Art MFA, '05