b. 1975, Lubbock, Texas, USA

Based in Dallas, Texas, Tina Blasa Medina is an interdisciplinary artist who works with fibers, painting, video, and audio to reflect U.S. American history from the point of view of the underrepresented voices in our communities such as women and children of color, immigrants, farmworkers and the undocumented.

Artist Bio

Tina Medina is an artist, educator, and curator based in Dallas, Texas. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Texas Tech University and her Master of Fine Arts from the University of North Texas. Since 2006, Medina has served as a full‑time art professor at Dallas College.

Medina engages in the Dallas arts community through jury panels, lectures, workshops, and public art committees. She was a member of 500X Gallery, a selected artist in the third cohort of the Cedars Union studio program, received a Nasher Sculpture Center Artist Grant, and was awarded the Talley Dunn Gallery Equity in the Arts Fellowship.

She has exhibited nationally, including at Arizona State University, Virginia’s D’Art Center, and North Carolina’s Queens University. Her work has recently traveled in Soy de Tejas, a Texas statewide survey of Latinx art, to The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside, California (2025).

Medina has curated exhibitions such as Contemporary Latino American Artists of the Metroplex and ELLA: Exhibiting Local Latina Artists. She co‑founded Nuestra Artist Collective, which strives to provide exhibition opportunities to Texas BIPOC women artists. Through fibers, painting, video, and audio, Medina centers underrepresented voices in U.S. history.