Justo Cisneros (b. 1986, Brownsville, Texas, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in San Antonio, Texas. Through sculpture, performance and music, he creates immersive zones where the interplay between liberation and control can be examined and experienced. Guided by movement, collaboration and intuition, Cisneros produces work that engages with charged histories embedded in material, place and the body. These materials are treated as vessels of meaning which hold narrative weight and speak to cycles of use, memory and reclamation. Mythmaking functions as a central methodology in his practice, inspiring the formation of alternate realities that open space for dreaming and remembering.
Justo Cisneros has been featured in exhibitions and collaborations with Contemporary at Blue Star (San Antonio), Co-Lab Projects (Austin), guadalajara90210 (CDMX), MASS Gallery (Austin), and San Antonio Public Library. His contributions also include Wild Ruins, Wild Orientations, an independent residency and pop-up sculpture park in Adkins, Texas, and Bodybuilder, a performance exploring the internalized nature of conformity through dance and experimental sound. These efforts reflect his commitment to site-responsive, collaborative practices that engage with place, process and transformation.
Photo by Chelsea Von Peacock
2025
MASS Ambient, MASS Gallery x Pease Park Conservancy, Austin, Texas
Mosh Now, Cry Later, Contemporary at Blue Star, San Antonio, Texas
2024
Collective Tales in a Concrete Garden, guadalajara90210 x Co-Lab Projects, Austin, Texas
Bodybuilder, Ranch Apocalypse, Austin, Texas
2023
The Abortion Postcard Project: Texans for Abortion, Brick at Blue Star, San Antonio, Texas
December #bitres Artist: Justo Cisneros, Co-Lab Projects (Online Residency), Austin, Texas
The Silk Flower and The Honey Bee, Wild Ruins Wild Orientations, Adkins, Texas
Show Me A Dawn, Co-Lab Projects, Austin, Texas
Wild Ruins Wild Orientations, A Pop-Up Sculpture Park, Adkins, Texas
Mix ‘N Mash, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas
Stupid Cupid, Bright, San Antonio, Texas
2022
No Mames Distro/B.A.E.S.H.I.P/Frontera Ignota, The Orange Noir, San Antonio, Texas
Bewitched, The Bonham Exchange at The Rainbow Ballroom, San Antonio, Texas
VLM’s Video Art Social, Big Medium & Hyper Real Film Club, The LINE Hotel, Austin, Texas
2021
Howdy, Stranger, Austin Studio Tours, Concept Animals/Crit Nites, Perkins & Will, Austin, Texas
F/W Residents 2021-22, Shared Frequencies Radio, Austin, Texas
Powdered Wig Machine Episode X Premiere Party, Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Hexadecimal Format X03, Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio, Texas
Hexadecimal Format X02, Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio, Texas
Paroxysm, Xico Arte y Cultura, Phoenix, Arizona
¡Viva! Uno Más: Presented by Luminaria, Texas Public Radio and Nelco Media, The Carlos and Malú Alvarez Theater, San Antonio, Texas
High On Love, Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio, Texas
2020
¡VIVA! A Live Telethon Supporting the Arts & Artists in San Antonio, Luminaria & The Luminaria Artist Foundation, San Antonio, Texas
Chance to Dance, Friends of Sound/Dead Wax Collective, San Antonio, Texas
Powdered Wig Machine Experimental Film Party, Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Essentials Mask Show, San Antonio Central Library, San Antonio, Texas
2019
Photons / A Film Experiment, Richter Goods, San Antonio, Texas
W - I - P Fest Fundraiser, Brick At Blue Star, San Antonio, Texas
Sticky Nylon Latex Lucifer, San Antonio, Texas
Powdered Wig Machine Experimental Film Party, Monkies Vintage, San Marcos, Texas
Powdered Wig Machine Experimental Film Party, Brick At Blue Star, San Antonio, Texas
Fantasy 1, 523 Thompson, Austin, Texas
Ctrl + A, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, Texas
2018
Through Rose Colored Glasses, Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Common Currents, The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas
2017
Nite of the Creeps III, Paper Tiger, San Antonio, Texas
Flatlines, Flatlines Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Art to the Power of 10, The McNay, San Antonio, Texas
Nine Lives Vol. 4, Studio One Zero 3, San Antonio, Texas
Marching Church & Bernardino Femminieli, 1906 Complex, San Antonio, Texas
2016
Novemeber Spawned A Moz Show, Presa House, San Antonio, Texas
Night of the Creeps II, Paper Tiger, San Antonio, Texas
Second Saturday, Smart Projectspace, San Antonio, Texas
Terraforms, R Gallery/Plazmo Contemporary, San Antonio, Texas
Amexican@, Mexic-Arte Museum/Gravelmouth, Austin, Texas
Outsiders, Studio Fantomas, San Antonio, Texas
2015
Blow It Out Your Year!, Fl!ght Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Gary Wilson & The Blind Dates, K23 Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Mix ‘N Mash, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas
Fun Fun Fun Fest Spill Over Show, Paper Tiger, San Antonio, Texas
Halloween Show, Paper Tiger, San Antonio, Texas
Richter Goods Grand Opening, Richter Goods, San Antonio, Texas
Second Saturday, Silkworm Studio, San Antonio, Texas
Black Out, K23 Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Nine Lives, Silkworm Studio, San Antonio, Texas
Mondo Nation Presents Institute, K23 Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2014
Mix ‘N Mash, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas
A Strange Odyssey, Silkworm Studio, San Antonio, Texas
Contemporary Art Month, 1906 Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2013
Cold Waves, Plazmo Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Palette Overlaps, Silkworm Studio, San Antonio, Texas
Naturally Unnatural, Silkworm Studio, San Antonio, Texas
2012
Afterlife, Afterlife Shop, San Antonio, Texas
SELECTED PRESS
• Glasstire, “Review: Justo Cisneros’ “Bodybuilder”, Neil Fauerso, August 17, 2024