EDUCATION

University of Iowa

School of Art and Art History and Design, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

MA/MFA, expected 2027

University of Iowa

Center for the Book, Graduate College

Graduate Certificate in Book Arts and Book Studies, expected 2027

Washington University in St. Louis

Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

BFA, 2018

Valedictorian, Suma Cum Laude

Concentration in Printmaking, Second major in Anthropology with completed Latin Honors Thesis, Minor in Art History

GROUP SHOWS

2025

Futuros Posibles, White Bear Center for the Arts, White Bear Lake, MN, forthcoming

2024

Multiple Signatures, Marker Gallery, University of Iowa’s Center for the Book, Iowa City, IA

Latina and Latinx MN: Re/claiming Space in Times of Change, The Catherine Murphy Gallery, St. Catherine’s University, St. Paul, MN

2023

CONVEYANCE, NE Sculpture Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

NEW ART, Normandale Fine Arts Gallery, Normandale Community College, Bloomington, MN

Albuquerque Academy Alumni Art Show, Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque, NM

2022

Jerome Early Career Printmakers Exhibition, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN

JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2024

Anything That Moves: MFA Exhibition Online, University of Montana, https://mfaexhibitiononline.org/anything-that-moves/

The 2024 MCBA Prize, MCBA Main Gallery, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN

CELEBRATED: Selections from the 2023 North American Print Biennial, Maxwell Mays Gallery, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI

2023

Boston Printmaker’s 2023 North American Biennial, forthcoming

2023 North of the 45th, DeVos Art Museum, Northern Michigan University, MI

Optical Impermanence III, Iowa State University, Iowa City, IA

Optical Impermanence III, Frogman’s Print Workshops, Council Bluffs, IA

19th Regional Juried Exhibition, Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL

Friedli Gallery’s Book Arts Exhibition, Friedli Gallery, St. Paul, MN

2022

Daily Companion, McClain’s Printmaking Supplies, https://imcclains.com

The 2022 MCBA Prize, MCBA Main Gallery, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN

Textures, Shapes, Patterns, or Forms, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

Optical Impermanence, West Gallery, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

18th Regional Juried Exhibition, Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL

Queer Printmaking and Futurity, SGCI 2022 Conference, Madison, WI

Uncommon Prints x Common Matrices, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

2021

Force: An International Exhibition, IncuArts Gallery, www.incuarts.com

2020
Stand Up Prints, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN

Habitus: Contemplative Manifesto, Lufrano Intercultural Gallery, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL

2019

Shifting Points, Women’s Studio Workshop, Kingston, NY

2019-2021 SGCI Members Traveling Exhibition, University of Texas, Arlington, TX *Exhibition travels internationally

2018

The Fruits of Our Labor, Patton-Malott Gallery, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO

Are you Seeing What I’m Seeing?: Senior Thesis Show, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Slash: A Pop-Up Show, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

Salt City Dozen Show and Portfolio Exchange, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

DNSPE 2018, Bradbury Museum of Art, Arkansas State University, Pawnee, IN

2017

Creator’s Gallery Show, Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship, St. Louis, MO

Small Press Expo, Star Clipper Comic Book Shop, St. Louis, MO

For Play: A Junior Exhibition, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO

A Diamond in Hough, Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory & Educational Foundation, Cleveland, OH

RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS

2025

Finalist, Studio Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2024-2025 Graduate Engagement Corp Cohort, Office of Engagement, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

2023

Classroom Print Residency, Normandale Community College, Bloomington, MN

Finalist, The Anderson Center at Tower View Jerome Emerging Artist Residency, Red Wing, MN

2021

Jerome Early Career Printmaker Resident, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN

2018

Fall Artist Residency, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snow Mass Village, CO

2017

American Alliance of Museums Access Fellowship, St. Louis, MO

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2025

2025 Fine Press Book Association Inclusivity Fund Grant

Selection and participation in the 2025 SGCI portfolio exchange Codes of Conduct, forthcoming

Mobile Event, SGCI 2025 Puertograbando, San Juan, Puerto Rico, forthcoming

2024

2024 MCBA Semifinalist, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN

Elizabeth Catlett Printmaking Award, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Foil Imaging and Frogman’s Print Workshop Scholarship, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

2024 SGCI Emerging Printmaker Award

2023

Selection and participation in the portfolio exchange Optical Impermanence III

2022

2022-2023 Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Next Step Grant Recipient

2022 MCBA Prize Finalist, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN

Selection and participation in the SGCI portfolio exchange Codes of Conduct

Selection and participation in the SGCI portfolio exchange Well-Fed!

Selection and participation in the SGCI portfolio exchange Chimera

Selection and participation in the SGCI portfolio exchange Optical Impermanence

2020

Selection and participation in the SGCI portfolio exchange Habitus: Contemplative Manifesto

2018

Belle Cramer Printmaking Award, Washington University in St. Louis, MO

Newman Exploration Travel Fund Grant Recipient, Washington University in St. Louis, MO

2017

Marsha Hertzman Blasingame Award in Printmaking, Washington University in St. Louis, MO

Art History & Archaeology Travel Scholarship, Washington University in St. Louis, MO

Tab Rasmussen Scholarship, Field Projects International, CICRA Field Site, Amazon Rainforest, Southeast Peru

2016

Summer Undergraduate Research Award, Washington University in St. Louis, MO

2014

First Year Reading Program Award - 1st Place, Washington University in St. Louis, MO

2013

Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Summer Seminar Scholarship Recipient

LECTURES AND TEACHING

“Basic Boxes” Workshop, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA, 2025

Selection and participation in the 2025 SGCI Graduate Student Lightning Talks, forthcoming

Visiting Artist, Family Day Art-Making, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, 2024

Artist Panel, 2024 SGCI Print Awards, Zoom, 2024

Visiting Artist, Letterpress Demos, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, 2024

Grant Panelist, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Minneapolis, MN, 2024

Artist Panel, NE Sculpture Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2023

Advisor for BIPOC Artist Adult Teaching Program, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN, 2023

Visiting Artist Lecture and Critic, Teen Access/Print Program, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN, 2023

Visiting Artist Lecture and Critic, Normandale Community College, Bloomington, MN, 2023

Visiting Artist Lecture, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN, 2023

“Community Critiques” Workshop, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN, 2023

Grant Panelist, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Minneapolis, MN, 2023

Visiting Artist Lecture, Walker Teen Art Council, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2022

Printmaking Workshop Teacher, Fireweed Community Woodshop, Minneapolis, MN, 2022-2024

Grant Panelist, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Minneapolis, MN, 2021

Visiting Artist Lecture, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, 2021

Book Arts/Printmaking Workshop Teacher, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 2021- ongoing

Visiting Artist Lecture, Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque, NM, 2018

Screen printing Workshop Teacher, Carbondale Arts Center, Carbondale, CO, 2018

CURATORIAL WORK

Curator, Print show from the University of Iowa’s Print Archives, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, forthcoming

Curator, Multiple Signatures, Marker Gallery, University of Iowa’s Center for the Book, Iowa City, IA, 2024

Curator, TBD, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, 2017

EXPERIENCE

Secretary, Iowa Print Group, University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA, 2024-2025

Research Assistant, Iowa Print Archive, Office of Visual Materials

Iowa City, IA, 2024-2025

Printmaking Lab Monitor, University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA, 2024-ongoing

Educator, Walker Art Center

Minneapolis, MN, 2021- 2023

Program Coordinator, Project Success, an arts programming non-profit for Minneapolis Public School students

Minneapolis, MN | 2020 – 2021

Studio Assistant in Printmaking, Papermaking, and Book Arts, Women’s Studio Workshop

Kingston, NY | April 2019 – September 2019

Printmaking and Painting Assistant, Anderson Ranch Arts Center

Snowmass Village, CO | 2018

Co-Founder/ President of Print Club, a group to teach printmaking, book arts, and works on paper to students, Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO | 2017 – 2018 

Research Assistant and Data Analyst in Cultural Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO | 2017 – 2018

Printmaking, Papermaking, and Book Arts Studio Assistant, The Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory & Educational Foundation

Cleveland, OH | 2017 

Printmaking, Papermaking, and Book Arts Studio Assistant, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center

Washington D.C | 2016

Design Assistant, Arts on the Block, non-profit that pairs high school students with local businesses to create art

Washington D.C | 2016

Art Ambassador, Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO | 2015 – 2018

Lab monitor for the printmaking shop and book studio, Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO | 2015 – 2018

Docent, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

St. Louis, MO | 2015 – 2018

Printmaking Assistant, Island Press

St. Louis, MO | 2015

Gallery Assistant, Turner Carroll Gallery

Santa Fe, NM | 2015

Printmaking Assistant, Tamarind Institute

Albuquerque, NM | 2014

COLLECTIONS

Special Collections, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

Artist Book Collection, Herron Art Library, Indiana University/Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Special Collections, Fenwick Library, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Special Collections, Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

Special Collections, Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Special Collections, Fleet Library, RISD, Providence, RI

Special Collections, Howard Milton Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Artist Book Collection, Special Collections, Baylor University Libraries, Waco, TX

Special Collections, Denison Library, Scripps College, Claremont, CA

Special Collections, McHenry Library, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

Special Collections, Smathers Library, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Special Collections, Cabal Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Special Collections, Main Library, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Artist Book Collection, Environmental Design Library, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Visual Arts Library, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston, MA

Artist Book Collection, UCLA Arts Library, Los Angeles, CA

Special Collections, Kennedy Library, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA

Special Collections, Young Library, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Special Collections, Marriot Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Special Collections, William & Mary Libraries, Williamsburg, VA

Special Collections, Swarthmore College Libraries, Swarthmore, PA

Permanent Collection, Normandale Community College, Bloomington, MN

Special Collections, Hitt Library, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

Special Collections, Augustana College Library, Rock Island, IL

Book Art Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Special Collections, Shields Library, University of California, Davis, CA

Cynthia Sears Collection, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, WA

Special Collections, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, KS

Special Collections, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL

Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO

SGCI Permanent Collection, Kennesaw, GA

University SUArt Gallery at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

The Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory & Educational Foundation, Cleveland, OH

Bradbury Museum of Art, Arkansas State University, Pawnee, IN

PUBLICATIONS

“Savannah Bustillo,” Latina and Latinx MN: Re/claiming Space in Times of Change, St. Paul, MN, 2024

“Savannah Bustillo, ‘The History of Work,’”  The 2024 MCBA Prize Semi-finalists,

https://mcbaprize.org/savannah-bustillo-the-history-of-work/#more-11205\, 2024

“Interview with Savannah Bustillo, Jerome Resident and Co-op Artist”,  Highpoint Center for Printmaking,

https://www.highpointprintmaking.org/highpoint-news/2022/12/13/interview-with-savannah-bustillo-jerome-resident-and-co-op-artist, 2022

“Savannah Bustillo, ‘The History of Language,’”  The 2022 MCBA Prize Finalists,

https://mcbaprize.org/savannah-bustillo-the-history-of-language/#more-9965, 2022

“Jerome Early Career Printmaking Residency”, Press Time,  Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN, Spring/Summer 2022

“Savannah Bustillo’s Tongue Twisters in Graphite”, Sheila Regan, KFAI Minneculture Interview,

https://kfai.org/minneculture-savannah-bustillos-tongue-twisters-in-graphite/, 2021

“Jerome Early Career Printmaking Residency”, Press Time,  Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN, Fall/Winter 2021

“Anderson Ranch Arts Center exhibition puts interns in the spotlight”, The Aspen Times, Aspen, CO, 2018

Back Cover, Spring 2018 Issue, Spires Magazine, St. Louis, MO, 2018

Various artworks, Fall 2017 Issue, Spires Magazine, St. Louis, MO, 2017

“Ecofeminism Reinterpreted: Covering the Pieces Sunk and Wasted”, Critical Theory of Social Justice: Journal of

Undergraduate Research, Occidental College, L.A, CA, 2016

“Queer Im/pulses” All the Art magazine, St. Louis, MO, 2016