She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008. In 2009, she and four like-minded artists founded the Mas Rudas collective. Through Mas Rudas, Buentello’s work has evolved to explore socio-cultural examinations of Chican@ identity and cultural representations of gender. In 2010, she received an Artist Travel Grant from ArtPace to study the art of Nikki de Saint Phalle in Italy and France. In 2011, she was chosen to participate in the Young Latino Artists 16 Thought Cloud Exhibition at Mexic-Arte Museum. Buentello’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at venues including Southwest School of the Arts, The University of Texas at San Antonio Fine Arts Gallery, Unit B Gallery, and the Museo Alameda in San Antonio, TX; the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; the Slanguage Studio in Los Angeles, CA; and Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, TX.