CODY VANCE
ARTIST CV/Resume
@vanceartsudio.com
1606 W Woodlawn Ave, San Antonio, TX 78201
(210)723-4875
Summary
- 24 years of professional military experience, U.S. Air Force, 12 years as Graphic Artist
- 13 years as a full-time practicing and exhibiting artist
- Co-founder and Steering Committee Chair of Forward, Arts! San Antonio, Texas
- Vance Art Studio
- Medical Illustrator, Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center
- Member of the Texas Sculpture Group, Texas Society of Sculptors, San Antonio Art League & Museum, and Air Force Art Program.
Education
- 2018 Printmaking – Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
- 2012 Digital Multimedia Course, Defense Information School , Ft. Meade, MD
- 2008 Intro to Stone Carving, Inspire Fine Art Center, San Antonio, TX
- 2001 Advance Digital Imaging Course, Defense Information School , Ft. Meade, MD
- 1997 Basic Graphic Arts Technical School, Defense Information School, Ft. Meade, MD
Residences, Workshops
2022/2023 - Instructor, Southwest Stone Carving Hobbs, NM
2010-2013/2017 - 2Sculpt, Stone carving workshop, Lawrence, Kansas
Supporting Skillsets
- Stone Carving
- Bronze Sculpting
- Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor Painting
- Welding
- Ceramics
- Stained Glass
- Pyrography
- Drawing/Illustration
Solo Shows
2020 “Texas Talent” Southwest Art Magazine
2018 Conversations on Science and Art, UT Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX
2015 Thirty-Two or 18 to 50; solo art show, 3rd Art Space, San Antonio, TX
Public Art
2022 Seeling Channel Phase I – Poet’s Point, San Antonio, TX, Office of Arts & Culture San
Antonio
2019 City of Service, Center for the Intrepid illustrations, San Antonio, TX
2018 Co-created Forward, Arts! Art immersion program for veterans with PTSD, and depression, sponsored by Bihl Haus Arts in partnership with Vet TRIIP (Veterans Team Recovery Integrative Immersion Process)
2017 “Open The Door Pilot Program” artist, program manager, sponsored by the Texan French Alliance For The Arts, facilitator of artwork for veterans with PTSD
2016 “Aim High” Co-designer and fabricator with James Wyatt Hendricks, Reid Clinic, Lackland
AFB, San Antonio, TX
Exhibits
2022 90TH San Antonio Art league and Museum membership show, San Antonio, TX
2020 Beyond Service, Bihl Haus Arts, San Antonio, TX
89TH San Antonio Art league and Museum membership show, San Antonio, TX
2019 88TH San Antonio Art league and Museum membership show, San Antonio, TX
2018/2019 Arts & Platters, Center for Autism Gala, San Antonio, TX
2018 87TH San Antonio Art league and Museum membership show, San Antonio, TX
On and Off Fredricksburg Road Studio Tour, San Antonio, TX
2018 Common Currents Celebrating the City of San Antonio’s Tricentennial, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
2016 Open the Door, San Antonio Veterans program, San Antonio, Tx
9th Annual TSOS Sculpture Show, Georgetown, TX
86th San Antonio Art league and Museum membership show, San Antonio, TX
Low-Vision Reading Room, Central Library, San Antonio, TX
2015 Color Of Blind, San Antonio, TX
85th San Antonio Art league and Museum membership show, San Antonio, TX
2014 On and Off Fredricksburg Road Studio Tour, San Antonio, TX
Color Of Blind, San Antonio, TX
84th San Antonio Art league and Museum membership show, San Antonio, TX
Texas Folklife Festival, San Antonio, TX
Texas Sculpture Group membership show, Houston, TX
Take 190 West, Killeen, TX
Art At The Jalapeno, Highwire Arts, San Antonio, TX
2013 Take 190 West, Killeen, TX
Color Of Blind, San Antonio, TX
Texas Folklife Festival, San Antonio, TX
Vive La Difference; 13 Artists, 13 Visions, Weston Centre, San Antonio, TX
J R Mooney Gallery, Boerne, TX
Texas Sculpture Association membership show, Grapevine, TX
83rd San Antonio Art league and Museum membership show, San Antonio, TX
Texas Sculpture Group membership show, Austin, TX
2012 Galeria 19, Fredricksburg, TX
The Gallery Josephine, San Antonio, TX
Texas Sculpture Association membership show, Dallas, TX
2011 New Braunfels Art League, New Braunfels, TX
Peculiar Taste, Highwire Arts, San Antonio, TX
La Casa Rosa, San Antonio, TX
2010 Air Force Art Program, 33 original pieces in inventory, Pentagon, Washington DC
Corporate and Private Commissions
2023 Veterans Day promotional graphic collage, ARCA Continental/Coca Cola SW Beverages, Dallas, TX
2020 Texas Landscape with Longhorns painting, San Antonio, TX
Publications & Honors
- 2018 Jesse Treviño Legacy Award
- 2011 One Piece At A Time illustration, cover art for July’s Airman’s Magazine
One Piece At A Time illustration, cover art USO On Patrol Magazine
- 2009 Department of Defense Military Graphic Artist of the Year
- 2008 Department of Defense Military Graphic Artist of the Year
- 2007 Department of Defense Military Graphic Artist of the Year
