Isaac Tapia
B. Mexico City, Mexico, Lives and works in Kansas City
Education
Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts
Exhibitions
2026 The waiting Room-TRYST “Lattice Work”
2026 Leedy Voulkos “Semi-Lucid”
2026 Albrecht Kemper Museum “Annual Juried Exhibition”
2025 Tube Factory Artspace “SOMA”
2025 Rice Gallery Juried Exhibition “ S m a l l W o r k s”
2025 University of Central Missouri ” L o s t a n d F o u n d”
2024 Mexico City ” M e m o r i a s d e u n p a s a d o o l v i d a d o”
2024 Charlotte Street “ S a n a S a n a”
2024 Leedy Voulkos “ W e a r e e n o u g h”
2023 Nelson Atkins Museum of Art “ A L a y e r e d P r e s e n c e”
2023 Featured Artist, Mattie Rhodes ” D i a d e M u e r t o s”
2023 MASA Collective Presenting “ M A S A E x h i b i t i o n”
2023 MASA Exhibition “ L o s t a n d F o u n d”
2023 Mexican Consulate Traveling Exhibition
2023 H&R Block art Space “ F l a t fi l e”
2022 Centerpiece ”T a n g l e d R o o t s”
2021 21c Museum Hotel
2021 H&R Block art Space “F l a t fi l e s”
2020 18th and Vine Gallery ” F a c e s”
2020 Beco Gallery “G r o u p s h o w”
Honors and Recognition
2026 Kc Chamber of Commerce Luminary Arts Award
2026 Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art juried Exhibition First place oil painting
2025 Rice Gallery “ S m a l l W o r k s” juried exhibition Honorable mention
2024 Charlotte Street Studio Residency
2024 Casa de Lu Art Residency, Mexico City Mexico
2022 Juror for KCKCC Art Competition
2020 Inspiration Grant finalist-ArtsKc
2019 NEA Scholarship Recipient through Inter Urban Art House
2019 Judge for Overland Park Congressional Art Competition
2019 Rocket grant community mural finalist
Press
KC Star-How life under DACA shapes 3 Latino artists in Kansas City
PBS- We Are Latinos II
Voyage Magazine-Meet Isaac Tapia and Rodrigo Alvarez
Northeast News-Faces Of Northeast: Isaac Tapia
KSHB 41-Hispanic, Latino culture on display as Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art…
Dos Mundos-Muralists fill KC streets with art