Debra Barrera is an artist based in Houston, Texas. She graduated with an MFA from the University of Houston and has since been included in numerous exhibitions nationally including a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston as well as exhibitions at the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. Her work is in the permanent collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Tyler Museum of Art and has been published in Art in America, New American Paintings, and The Houston Chronicle. In 2015 Barrera was artist-in-residence at Rice University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy where her work is now a part of the public art collection. In 2019 Barrera received a Joan Mitchell Grant. She was recently selected as the Artist Feature for Burnaway's annual Journal Publication in 2026.  

Barrera has over 8 years of experience working in Texas art institutions and museums in Directorial and Managerial positions and has taught artistic best practices classes at the University of Houston since 2020.

Web: www.debrabarrera.com ; IG: @dbdbdbarrera ; Other: LinkedIn Profile

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