Arthur Peña is a painter, writer and art educator. He is the founder/director of roving curatorial music project VICE PALACE and co-founder of Deadbolt Studios in West Dallas. Peña has shown throughout New York and extensively in Texas, including the Dallas Museum of Art and his 2014 solo show slight shift/ steady hand at Dallas Contemporary. Peña received his MFA from RISD in 2012 and currently works and lives in Dallas, TX.