Installations — XOCHI SOLIS

Installation shot from Layer Cake", January 22- March 2, 2024.

University Gallery, Sam Houston State University — Huntsville, TX
Photo by Emily Peacock.

Don’t it make my brown eyes blue, 2024

Gouache, acrylic, house latex paint, colored pencil, Dura-lar film, digitally printed Epson paper, hand-marbled paper, colored paper, and found images from books and magazines

Site-specific installation
Approx. 96 x 100 inches

University Gallery, Sam Houston State University — Huntsville, TX

Don’t it make my brown eyes blue, 2024

Gouache, acrylic, house latex paint, colored pencil, Dura-lar film, digitally printed Epson paper, hand-marbled paper, colored paper, and found images from books and magazines

Site-specific installation (detail)
Approx. 96 x 100 inches

University Gallery, Sam Houston State University — Huntsville, TX

A tourist in a dream, 2022

Gouache, acrylic, house latex paint, colored pencil, Dura-lar film, digitally printed Epson paper, hand-marbled paper, colored paper, handmade paper, found images from books and magazines, artist tape, brad nails and rosary nylon cord.

Site-specific installation

Approx. 95 x 144-168 inches

Photo by Krystal Ramirez. Courtesy of Barrick Museum of Art at The University of Nevada.

Installation shot from "A tourist in a dream", April 19 – November, 2024

Barrick Museum of Art at The University of Nevada – Las Vegas, NV 

Photo by Krystal Ramirez. Courtesy of Barrick Museum of Art at

Installation shot from "A tourist in a dream”, April 19 – November, 2024

Barrick Museum of Art at The University of Nevada – Las Vegas, NV
Photo by Krystal Ramirez. Courtesy of Barrick Museum of Art at The University of Nevada.

Installation shot from "Rooted by invisible means", May 30 – August 16, 2020

Galveston Arts Center – Galveston, TX
Photo by Roxann Grover. Courtesy of Galveston Arts Center.

Installation shot from "Rooted by invisible means", May 30 – August 16, 2020

Galveston Arts Center – Galveston, TX
Photo by Roxann Grover. Courtesy of Galveston Arts Center.

Installation shot from "Rooted by invisible means", May 30 – August 16, 2020

Galveston Arts Center – Galveston, TX
Photo by Roxann Grover. Courtesy of Galveston Arts Center.

Installation shot from "Crawl into the shapes the shadows take", October 5, 2018 - January 11, 2019

Wrong Marfa - Marfa, TX

In the cracks between worlds, 2018

Gouache, house paint, acrylic, spray paint, Dura-lar film, digitally printed vinyl, SolarFast™ shadow prints, colored paper, and found images
Site specific installation (detail)
95 x 136 inches

Wrong Marfa - Marfa, TX

Installation shot from "Crawl into the shapes the shadows take", October 5, 2018 - January 11, 2019

Wrong Marfa - Marfa, TX

We were not always fallen from the mountain, 2017

Gouache, house paint, acrylic, spray paint, Dura-lar film, digitally printed vinyl, SolarFast™ shadow prints, naturally-dyed and handmade paper, colored paper, and found images
Denver Art Museum - Denver, CO
Photography by Jeff Wells. Courtesy of the Denver Art Museum.

Installation shot from "Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place", February 16 – October 22, 2017

Denver Art Museum - Denver, CO
Photography by Jeff Wells. Courtesy of the Denver Art Museum.

Installation shot from "Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place", February 16 – October 22, 2017

Denver Art Museum - Denver, CO
Photography by Jeff Wells. Courtesy of the Denver Art Museum.

Installation shot from "Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place", February 16 – October 22, 2017

Denver Art Museum - Denver, CO
Photography by Jeff Wells. Courtesy of the Denver Art Museum.

Installation shot from "Tribeza Interiors Tour 2017", January 22, 2017

Home of Shalini Ramanathan + Chris Tomlinson - Austin, TX
Photography by Sandy Carson.

Installation shot from "Tribeza Interiors Tour 2017", January 22, 2017

Home of Shalini Ramanathan + Chris Tomlinson - Austin, TX
Photography by Sandy Carson.

Installation shot from "Extended Technique", April 29, 2016 - June 4, 2016

MASS Gallery - Austin, TX

Dancing unafraid, 2016

Gouache, house paint, acrylic, spray paint, Duralar, colored paper, and found images
Site specific installation (detail)
50 x 50 inches

MASS Gallery - Austin, TX

Installation shot from private commission, Spring 2016

Home of Elizabeth + Nathaniel Chapin - Austin, TX
Photography by Sandy Carson.

Installation shot from private commission, Spring 2016

Home of Elizabeth + Nathaniel Chapin - Austin, TX
Photography by Sandy Carson.

Installation shot from "Flatlander", May 21 – September 13, 2015

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art - Boulder, CO

Installation shot from "Flatlander", May 21 – September 13, 2015

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art - Boulder, CO
Photography by Richard A. Peterson. Courtesy of Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.

A silver tongue for the chosen one, 2015

Gouache, house paint, acrylic, spray paint, acetate, colored paper, naturally dyed paper, vinyl, and found images
Site specific installation
75 x 58 inches

Photography by Richard A. Peterson. Courtesy of Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.

You've been looking good too long to change your color now, 2015

Gouache, house paint, acrylic, spray paint, acetate, colored paper, naturally dyed paper, and found images
Site specific installation
71 x 77 inches

Photography by Richard A. Peterson. Courtesy of Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.

Laughter echoes in your eyes, 2015

Gouache, house paint, acrylic, spray paint, acetate, colored paper, and found images
Site specific installation (detail)
50 x 47 inches

Installation shot from "XOCHI SOLIS @ SHOPCLASS", June 13 – July 4, 2015

Shopclass LA - Los Angeles, LA

Installation shot from "upriseXnorwood", September 2014 – September 2015

The Norwood Club - New York City, NY

Photography by Sam Teich, courtesy of Uprise Art

The moon takes the sun out of the sky, 2014

Gouache, house paint, acrylic, acetate, colored paper, naturally dyed paper and found images
Site specific installation
51 x 41 inches

Photography by Sam Teich. Courtesy of Uprise Art.

The moon takes the sun out of the sky, 2014

Gouache, house paint, acrylic, acetate, colored paper, naturally dyed paper and found images
Site specific installation (detail)
51 x 41 inches

Photography by Sam Teich. Courtesy of Uprise Art.

Installation shot from "Flatland", July 11, 2014 - October 11, 2014

Museo Guadalupe - San Antonio, TX

If only I could remember these dreams, 2014

House paint, acrylic, acetate, colored paper, naturally dyed paper, and found images
Site specific installation
52 x 40 inches

If only I could remember these dreams, 2014

House paint, acrylic, acetate, colored paper, naturally dyed paper, and found images
Site specific installation (detail)
52 x 40 inches

The happiness that attends disaster, 2014

House paint, acrylic, spray paint, acetate, colored paper, naturally dyed paper, wax, and found images
Site specific installation
49.5 x 37 inches

The happiness that attends disaster, 2014

House paint, acrylic, acetate, colored paper, naturally dyed paper, and found images
Site specific installation (detail)
52 x 40 inches

If each day a flower, 2013

Gouache, house paint, acrylic, acetate, colored paper, vinyl, wax and found images
Site specific installation
38 x 39 inches

Installation shot from "Advanced Young Artists 2013 Exhibition", July 14–September 1, 2013

AMOA-Arthouse - Austin, TX

Installation shot from "Rivers of Our Vision" exhibition, January 25 - March 2, 2013

Lawndale Art Center - Houston, TX

Installation shot from "Rivers of Our Vision" exhibition, January 25 - March 2, 2013

Lawndale Art Center - Houston, TX

Installation shot from "Rivers of Our Vision" exhibition, January 25 - March 2, 2013

Lawndale Art Center - Houston, TX

Setting suns and lonely lovers free, 2013

Gouache, house paint, acrylic, acetate, colored paper, vinyl, wax and found images
Site specific installation
38 x 39 inches

You may be a lover (But you ain't no dancer), 2013

Gouache, house paint, acrylic, acetate, colored paper, vinyl and found images
Site specific installation
46 x 48 inches

You said I was a dreamer—that all I did was sit and stare, 2013

Gouache, house paint, acrylic, acetate, colored paper, vinyl and found images
Site specific installation
60 x 48 inches

It's just one in a million hearts that feels the way I do, 2013

Gouache, house paint, acrylic, acetate, colored paper, vinyl and found images
Site specific installation
49 x 49 inches

Take me round again, 2013

Gouache, house paint, acrylic, acetate, colored paper, vinyl and found images
Site specific installation
46 x 48 inches

Installation shot from "Xochi Solis: New Works", September 8 - October 18, 2012

Olive Vintage - Austin, TX

Installation shot from "All the Clouds Turn to Words", August 27 - September 30, 2011

SOFA Gallery - Austin, TX

Installation shot from "All the Clouds Turn to Words", August 27 - September 30, 2011

SOFA Gallery - Austin, TX

Installation shot from "New Art in Austin: 20 To Watch", February 16 – May 11, 2008

Austin Museum of Art - Austin, TX