Narrated Memories

Michael Villarreal is a San Marcos-based visual artist and lecturer at Texas State University. Villarreal works from his personal memories, exploring notions of self, time, and place. He draws inspiration from the mundane elements that shape domestic existence. His expressive approach to painting, sculpture, and installations captures the recollection and re-interpretations of past and present experiences.

Villarreal attended Studio Art and Art History classes at ACC from 2006 to 2011, the first in his family to pursue higher education. He holds a BFA from Texas State University and an MFA from the University of Nebraska. His work has been exhibited nationally, including recent solo and group exhibitions at Spellerberg Projects in Lockhart, Texas, ICOSA Gallery in Austin, Texas, and Piano Craft Gallery in Boston Massachusetts.