DOUG WELSH
b. 1991, Miami, FL
Lives in Houston
EDUCATION
2022 MFA, University of Houston
2014 BA, Bates College, Lewiston, ME
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 re-rite, Art League Houston, Houston
Shifting Systems (with Garrett Griffin), Jardín, Houston
2021 Life Raft, Elgin Street Studios, Houston
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 a memes to cope with reality, Wonder Like Wander, Houston
2023 Crossroads, Big Medium, Austin, TX
Angel Dust, Pablo Cardoza Gallery, Houston
Ignition, The Jung Center, Houston
HARRY SMITH’S SHIRT, F, Houston
Before Apollo, Before the Sun, Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
2022 You don’t remember me, but I remember you, Studio Nine Dee, New York
Hey Young World, Sanman Studios, Houston
The Abstract Art Show, Hardy & Nance Studios, Houston
Texas Emerging: Volume 3, Foltz Fine Art, Houston
The Process of Healing, Elgin Street Studios, Houston
Bearing Witness, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston
Whole in Pieces, Monterroso Gallery, Houston
For Ellen, Hardy & Nance Studios, Houston
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston
This Mortal Coil, Elgin Street Studios, Houston
2021 The Abstract Art Show, Hardy & Nance Studios, Houston
Unconquerable Texas Women, Martha’s Contemporary, Austin, TX
Alexa, Take me Home, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston
Emergence, Elgin Street Studios, Houston
Loop; New Non-Objective Painting, Box 13, Houston
Rise and Fall / Rise and Fall, Hardy & Nance Studios, Houston
2020 JJ Baker Presents Portraits and Artists, Hardy & Nance Studios, Houston
Preserved, Third Space Gallery, Houston
2018 BLOCK XVI, MFAH Glassell School of Art, Houston
2017 BLOCK, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston
BLOCK XVI, Interspace Gallery, MFAH Glassell School of Art, Houston
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2024 leftovers, landSPACE: a kunsthalle, Austin, TX
It's OK To Feel This, LRT Gallery, Houston
Orbit, ESS Gallery 1, Houston
2023 The Transformation Is, ESS Gallery 1 + 2, Houston
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 Editorial. "Glasstire Top 5, leftovers, landSPACE : a kunsthalle, Austin, TX"
Welsh, Doug. ""This Side Up" at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft," Glasstire
Welsh, Doug. "Tony Feher's "Drawn from Life" at Josh Pazda Hiram Butler, Houston," Glasstire
2023 Welsh, Doug. "Cast-offs Come Together in "Bookends" at Basket Books & Art, Houston," Glasstire
Welsh, Doug. “Rekindling Collaboration: The University of Houston and ‘The Orange Show Show,’” Glasstire, October 2
Cole, Chloe. “Elgin Street Summer Intensive – How MFA Students Build Community through Art,” UA Stories, University of Houston, September
Tennant, Donna. “Review: G5 Collective’s “Ignition” at the Jung Center, Houston,” Glasstire, September 17
Welsh, Doug. “Patrick Renner: Once & Future Architecture at Architecture Center Houston,” Glasstire, August 11
Welsh, Doug. “Jonathan Faber’s ‘Alluvial Plane’ at David Shelton Gallery” Glasstire, May 5
Welsh, Doug. “Mara Held and Julia Kunin: Kaleidoscope Eyes at McClain Gallery,” Glasstire, March 13
Welsh, Doug. “Like No One Else: Alexis Pye at Lawndale Art Center,” Glasstire, March 5
2022 Blackwell, Tyler. New American Paintings, juried, Issue 162, October
Editorial. “Glasstire Top 5, Texas Emerging: Volume 3, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, TX,” Glasstire, September 22
Becker, Chris. “Curators select artists who don’t have ‘egos’ for new group show,” Houston City Book Magazine, online, September 9
Powers, Chris. “UH MFA candidates launch G5 Collective to give back to the Houston Arts Community,” UH Shorthand, May 22
2021 Editorial. “Glasstire Top 5, Alexa Take me Home, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, TX,” Glasstire, August 5