​Rex Hausmann was born in San Antonio, Texas where he began painting and drawing as a young child. He graduated from The Savannah College of Art & Design with a full scholarship and has now shown and lectured nationally and internationally, appearing in many speaking functions including TEDx, Trinity University and The San Antonio Museum of Art, McNay Art Museum, and The University of Texas at San Antonio. He has shown work at The Smithsonian in Washington DC, The Institute of Texan Cultures, Neiman Marcus San Antonio, The Lawrence Art Center, The Cloister at Sea Island, the Savannah College of Art & Design and in several private and public galleries and not for profit spaces. 

  Rex has organized many national and international art events at venues such as The San Antonio Museum of Art, The University of Texas at San Antonio, and The Spencer Museum of Art, and has worked with worked with many public and private galleries and not for profit spaces. He has spoken on National Public Radio many times across the United States.  His home remains in San Antonio Texas, and he splits most of his time between San Antonio and New York City, which he calls "his two homes". 

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Rex's Artist Statement:

My work is Colorful, Accessible, and Autobiographical. The work talks to everyday people as well as the art world. Think Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Akira Kurosawa, George Melies, Tom Sachs, and Daniel Buren all meeting in a coffee shop to discuss their favorite works. (In a perfect world they would be eating donuts and sipping coffee on a New York fire escape or at a Missions baseball game on dollar hotdog night.) The subjects of discussion would be their books, films, and museum pieces.

 

Everyday things are my inspiration, like a morning cup of coffee or something as simple as sharing a donut with a friend. Re-channel that simplicity of daily living into a work of art and then you have something. Take for instance The Donut Tires. A black, worn out tire doesn’t look like much, right? Add some paint and multicolored wooden dowels with a little time and care - you have a giant donut! Reading influences my work, both critical discussion on art and the classics. Reading Hemingway, Twain, Plato and art history books and adding to this films by people like George Melies and Akira Kurosawa and there you have it!