Hi, my name is Eric Acuña, I like to go by E. Currently, I am a Master’s student, studying as a research assistant for New Media and sculpture at the University of Texas in San Antonio, where I currently live and work. My work engages the audience in dialogue about their perception of art and uses conceptual sculpture, and installations to explore the process of creation. My interest are in kinetic energy, electronic sound, or anything that transmits frequency. My studies like to research the rhythms, systems, and metaphysics from an array of explorations and experimentations with electronics, light, and sound, to build responsive systems that engage with how we perceive and sense the world — and how those senses are entangled with our environments that seemly feedback into itself.

 

My practice begins through an investigation of light phenomena in soft materials through a multidisciplinary practice that ​brings together scientific, cultural, and Indigenous ways of knowing, treating technology as a tool, and as a kind of instrumentation of "memory" — one that helps us register time in an extravagant and exaggerated material form

 

I earned my BFA with a focus in Expanded Media studies from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. I currently live and work in San Antonio Texas where I enjoy venturing out into the dark skies, tracking radio signals, and observing the force in nature. I actively engage in the community astronomy club's sky-watching groups, and learning everything I can about satellite systems. In my free time, I love adventuring, I love discovering interesting books to read, and I enjoy capturing light refractions with my camera.

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For a more in-depth biography, feel free to read my more about me here.

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EDUCATION

University of Texas, San Antonio, TX

MFA Candidate – New Media

Current – 2026

 

Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

BFA Studio Art – Expanded Media

2020

 

San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX

AA Liberal Arts, Arts

2017

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2024–Present

Research Assistant of Art in New Media and Sculpture, UTSA, San Antonio, TX

 

2023

Preparator, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX

 

2018–2021

Gallery Tech, Texas State Galleries, San Marcos, TX

 

2022

Video and Projection Design, Texas State Dance Department at Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

 

2021

Exhibitions Photographer, Texas State Dance Department at Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

 

2019

Intern for Collections Registrar, The Contemporary, Austin, TX

 

RESIDENCIES

2020

Unlisted Projects, Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX

 

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2022

SELF.START(TIME=(0,0)*INFTY), FLEX Gallery at Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

 

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Some Kind of Feeling, ICOSA Open Space, Austin, TX

Voyager III, Carver Cultural Center, San Antonio, TX

IM\MATERIAL CONCERNS\, SMART projectspace, Gallery 1906, San Antonio, TX

HiveMind, CUBE Project Space, UTSA Arts, San Antonio, TX

 

2022

Overnight Sound, Mercury Projects, San Antonio, TX — Curated by Pamela Martinez

 

2020

Conversations with the Void, BFA Thesis Exhibition, TX State Galleries, San Marcos, TX

Youhadtobethere: Online Group Exhibition, Youhadtobethere.art

School of Art and Design Student Juried Exhibition, TX State Galleries, San Marcos, TX — Juror: Ed Schad

 

2019

Alumni Drawing Exhibition, SAC Visual Arts Center, San Antonio, TX — Curator: Alfonso Cantu

Pollination, The Parish Gallery, San Antonio, TX — Curator: Mauro De La Tierra

 

2018

Concentric, FLEX Gallery, San Marcos, TX — Curator: Taffari Robinson

Opposing Speculation, R Space Gallery, San Antonio, TX — Curator: Justin Mendez

Vivification, Rubio Space South, San Antonio, TX — Curator: Alex Rubio

 

SCREENINGS, TALKS, & PRESENTATIONS

2024

Science Talk and a2RU Presentation, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

 

2021

Artist Talk, Dance BFA Program, TXST University Theatre and Dance, San Marcos, TX

 

2020

Artist Talk: Sensorium, BFA Dance Concert, TXST University Theatre and Dance, San Marcos, TX

Artist Talk, Unlisted Projects, Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX

Screening: Parallel Synchronized Randomness, Powdered Wig Machine, Presa House, San Antonio, TX

Artist Talk and Presentation: Simulation Fever, Spellerberg Projects, Masur Building, Lockhart, TX

 

DANCE AND SOUND PERFORMANCES

2025

L2Ork Tweeter Hackathon Awardee for Sound Performance, Virginia Tech Creative Technologies in Music, Blacksburg, VA

 

2024

Floating Points, Dance choreography and Performance, UTSA School of Data Science, San Antonio, TX

 

2020

BFA Dance Concert: Distorted Reality, TX State University Theatre and Dance, San Marcos, TX — Curator: Ana Baer Carrillo

 

2019

BLUE: Sound performance, Group Exhibition, Blacksheep III, E.V.A Gallery, San Antonio, TX — Curator: Mauro De La Tierra

 

PROJECTION AND SOUND DESIGNS

2022

Projection Design: States and Waves, Merge Dance Company, Harrison Theatre, San Marcos, TX

 

2021

Sound Design: Retratos Migrantes, Angela Arteritano, Studio 210, San Francisco, CA

Video Design: Hostile Terrain 94 Inclusive Excellence Showcase, TX State Galleries, San Marcos, TX

 

SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS, AND RECOGNITION

Graduate School Professional Development (GSPD) Award (2024)

Expressive Interfaces Scholarship, DadaGeek (2021)

Art and Design Thesis Scholarship, Texas State University (2021)

College of Fine Arts Scholarship, Texas State University (2019)

Distinguished Honors Graduate, San Antonio College (2017)

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