Gabriel Basurto

Illustrator/ Graphic Designer/ Sculptor

Work Experience 

-October 2004 to Present: Illustrator / Graphic Designer / Sculptor, Basurto Design (Freelance), El Paso,  

  Texas.

-February 1998 to Present: Independent Contractor, Basurto Home Repair, El Paso, Texas.

-December 2004 to October 2006: Home Inspector, Mike Engelbaum Farmers Insurance, El Paso, Texas.

Education

-August 2003 to May 2012: Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas.

-August 1991 to May 1993: Advertising & Design degree, El Paso Tech Center, El Paso Texas.

Recent Exhibitions

2014

-”The Mechanism”, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas.   

-”Impulse”, Project Trifecta Art Show, Joe Vinny & Bronsons, El Paso, Texas.

-”The Chase, Adobe Dwelling, and The Station”, Hope & Anchor, Project Trifecta Art Show, El Paso,

  Texas.

-” Danny Olivas, Gene Roddenberry, Tim Hardaway,  and John Wesley  Harding”, Southwest Iconica: El

  Paso, 2nd Floor Gallery, El Paso, Texas. 2012

-”Lost Realm No.37”, 17 Ojos Collective, Glasbox Gallery, El Paso, Texas.

-”Lost Realm No. 36 diptych”, 2012 Annual Juried UTEP Student Art Exhibition, Stanlee & Gerald Rubin

  Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas.

-”Lost Realm No. 37”, Graduating Student Exhibition, UTEP Union Gallery, El Paso, Texas. 2011  

-”Lost Realm No. 21, 23, and 24”,Warped Reality and other Oddities Show, The Loft Light Studio, El Paso,

  Texas.

-”Gears”,  Wall Works 3, UTEP Glass Gallery, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas. 2010

-”Look Harder, it is Still a Cover Up,” Peace of Art Poster Exhibition, El Paso, Texas. 2008

-”Untitled”, UTEP Photography Contest, Centennial Museum, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas. 2007

“Untitled”,  Wall Works 1, Glass Gallery at UTEP, El Paso, Texas.

-”Sober”, 2007 Annual Juried UTEP Student Art Exhibition, Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual

  Arts, El Paso, Texas.

-”Sober”, 2007 Annual Juried UTEP Student Art Exhibition, Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual

 Arts, El Paso, Texas. 2002

-”Untitled”, 19th Annual Student Art Exhibition, El Paso Community College, El Paso, Texas.

Publications

-”The Mechanism Art Show”, by Gabriel Basurto, The Artist Catalogue.com, Online, November 2016.

-”Antikythera Island of Machinery” by Takuya Suzuki, Artlogue.org,  Online, July 21, 2013.

-”Illustrators go 'Iconic'“, by Doug Pullen,  El Paso Times, July 2013.

-”El Paso Celebrities, the Subjects of ‘Southwest Iconica”, by  Maggie Asfahani Hajj, What's Up Magazine, May 2013.

-”Southwest Iconica”,  El Paso Opening, Visit El Paso, July 2013.

-”The Lost Realm Series”, El Paso Culture Beat, July 2011.

-”Look Harder, it is Still a Cover Up”, Peace of Art Poster Exhibition: Design for Change, July 2010.

-”Envision the World”,  El Paso Independent School District, book jacket cover, December 1998.

-”Color Outside the Lines”, Columbia Link Healthcare newsletter, January -July 1998.

-”Egyptian Wall”, News Dimensions- Pictorial Edition, El Paso Community College, January - July 1998.

-”The History of Art”, by Annette B., El Paso Community College, Online, July 1998.

Awards

-First Place, Best Drawing, , “Lost Realm No. 36 diptych”.  2012 Annual Juried UTEP Student Art Exhibition, Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, Juried by Cheryl Hartup and Andrew Lewis, 2012.

-Best design, “Envision the World” El Paso Independent School District book cover jacket competition, 1998.

Freelance

-“Post Trauma”, Logo, 2024.

-”Echoes of Thunder”, Logo, 2023.

-”Conquerors of the Frontier”  Author, Novel Series,  2012 - 2020.

-”Baby Friday Pod Cast”, Logo, June 2018.

-”James Hernandez Photography”, Logo and business cards, June 2018.

-”The Ternio Group”, Logo and car wrap for legal consultant group, July 2014.

-”El Paso Illustrator Collective”, Logo and artist, July 2013.                                             

-”Southwest Iconica: El Paso” art show, Art Director and artist, El Paso, Texas, February 17 - July 27,

  2013.

-”Anonymus Beats”, Logo, Music Production Business, El Paso, Texas, January 2013.

-”Double G's Scoop & Sit”, Logo, Dog and cat scoop business, December 2012.

-Judge Advocate General Corps, Illustration, Fort Bliss, Texas, April 2008.

-”El Rancho Escobar Restaurant”, Logo and concept illustrations, December 2007.

-”Envision the World,” Book jacket cover design, El Paso Independent School District, December 1998.

Languages

English and Spanish

GABRIEL BASURTO
El Paso, TX

Email: basurtodesign@yahoo.com

Instagram: gabrielbasurtoart

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