Enrique Chagoya

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Enrique Chagoya
The Pastoral or Arcadian State: Illegal Alien’s Guide to Greater America
2006
Color lithograph
23 3/4 x 39 in.
Enrique Chagoya
Yesterday is Never Again, Today is Still Forever/Ayer es nunca jamas, hoy es siempre todavia
2006
Acrylic and water-based oil on canvas
60 x 80 in.
Enrique Chagoya
Liberty Club 2: Illegal Alien's Guide to Assimilation Translation for text: Amani's Sports Club (Sign in Afghanistan)
2006-12
Acrylic and water mixable oil on canvas
Enrique Chagoya
The Enlightened Savage’s Guide to Economic Theory
2010
acrylic and water based oils, decals, and transfers on Amate paper
12” x 105” (uf), 16” x 112” (fr)
Enrique Chagoya
My Cat Santos had a Nightmare
2010
Intaglio in 2 colors with hand-coloring on Revere Suede Warm White
Hand torn to 20 x 21 7/8 in., 22 1/2 x 24 1/4 in. framed
Enrique Chagoya
Untitled (there is no narrative)
2010
India ink, acrylic on archival vintage paper with the ghost of an etching
16 x 11 in., 18 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. framed
Enrique Chagoya
Untitled (this is the here and now)
2010
India ink, acrylic on archival vintage paper with the ghost of an etching
16 x 11 in., 18 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. framed
Enrique Chagoya
Ghostly Meditations (cocos locos)
2011
Acrylic and india ink on de-acidified 19th century paper (facing pages of etchings from 19th century book)
16 x 11 in., 18 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. framed
Enrique Chagoya
Ghostly Meditations (consciousness relaxed by its own lucidity)
2011
Acrylic and india ink on de-acidified 19th century paper (facing pages of etchings from 19th century book)
11 x 16 in., 13 3/4 x 18 3/4 in. framed
Enrique Chagoya
Ghostly Meditations (the intuitive revelation of universal ephemera)
2011
Mixed media
16 x 11 in., 18 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. framed
Enrique Chagoya
La Bestia’s Guide to the Birth of Cool
2014
Lithograph with chine colle and gold metallic powder on handmade Amate paper
8 1/4 x 92 in.
Enrique Chagoya
Utopías Coloniales
2020
Acrylic, water mixable oil, photo transfers, wood sheet collage, paint blob collage, glass eyes collaged, and color pencil on handmade Amate paper.
11½ × 108 inches
Enrique Chagoya
The Seven Deadly Sins: Envy
2020
Acrylic and water mixable oil, with glass eyes collaged on canvas.
12 × 16 inches
Enrique Chagoya
The Seven Deadly Sins: Anger
2020
Acrylic and water mixable oil, with glass eyes collaged on canvas.
12 × 16 inches
Enrique Chagoya
The Seven Deadly Sins: Greed
2020
Acrylic and water mixable oil, with glass eyes collaged on canvas.
12 × 16 inches
Enrique Chagoya
The Seven Deadly Sins: Lust
2020
Acrylic and water mixable oil, with glass eyes collaged on canvas.
12 × 16 inches
Enrique Chagoya
The Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony
2020
Acrylic and water mixable oil, with glass eyes collaged on canvas.
12 × 16 inches
Enrique Chagoya
The Seven Deadly Sins: Pride
2020
Acrylic and water mixable oil, with glass eyes collaged on canvas.
12 × 16 inches
Enrique Chagoya
The Seven Deadly Sins: Sloth
2020
Acrylic and water mixable oil, with glass eyes collaged on canvas.
12 × 16 inches
Enrique Chagoya
The Waters of Oblivion in Mictlán
2021
Layered acrylic ink, gold leaf, and varnish ona mate paper
12 1/2 x 87 in.
Enrique Chagoya
Popol Vuh de la Abuelita del AHUIZOTE/Codex
2021`
Layered acrylic ink and lacquer on Amate paper
8 1/2h x 21 1/2w in
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Education


1987 

MFA, University of California, Berkeley


1986

MA, University of California, Berkeley


1984

BFA, San Francisco Art Institute


1972 -75

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México


Select Solo Exhibitions


2023

Borderless, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY


2022

Detention at the Border of Language, Edgewood College Gallery, Madison, WI

Enrique Chagoya: Selections from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Pendleton Center for the Arts, Pendleton, OR


2021

Borderless: Artist’s Books by Enrique Chagoya, Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco, CA

Enrique Chagoya: The Seven Deadly Sins and Utopiàs Coloniales, Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco, CA


2020

Aliens, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA


2019

Enrique Chagoya: Detention at the Border of Language, Coulter Art Gallery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Everyone is an Alienígeno: Enrique Chagoya, Florida Gulf Coast University Art Galleries, Fort Myers, FL


2018

Enrique Chagoya: Reverse Anthropology,” Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR

Enrique Chagoya: Reimagining the New World,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

Then and Now: Aliens Sans Frontières, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

Enrique Chagoya: Aliens Sans Frontières, Rockefeller Arts Center, Fredonia, NY


2016

Mindful Savage’s Guide to Reverse Modernism, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA


2015

Enrique Chagoya: Cannibal Palimpsest, Artium Museum, Centro Atleantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands


2014

Enrique Chagoya: Cannibal Palimpsest, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain Recurrent Histories:  Enrique Chagoya’s Editioned Work,  Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

The Thing Itself, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY


2013

Freedom of Expression:  The Work of Enrique Chagoya,  Kala Art Institute,

Berkeley, CA

Enrique Chagoya: New Work, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

Read Between the Lines: Enrique Chagoya’s Codex Prints, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI


Select Group Exhibitions


2023

La Onda Chicana, Mattatuck Museum of Art, Waterbury, CT

Positively Charged: Copier Art in the Bay Area Since the 1960s, San Francisco Center for the Book and San Francisco’s Main Library, San Francisco, CA

Refined Reflections into the Formidable: Contemporary Latino Art from the Zoe Diaz Collection, Russell Hill Rogers Galleries, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX


2022

Printmaking in the Twenty-First Century, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI


2021

Double Trouble: Enrique Chagoya and Kara Maria, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA

Arrivals, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundations, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

Goya, Posada, Chagoya: Three Generations of Satirists, Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT

LatinXAmerican, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL

The Incorrect Museum: Vignettes from the di Rosa Collection, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA

Protest and Promise, Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT


2020

Sweet Land of Funk, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Person of Interest, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

We Fight to Build a Free World, organized by Jonathan Horowitz, Jewish Museum, New York, NY

(Re)Print: FiVe Projects, International Print Center, New York, NY

Binh Dahn: C.A.R.S. Online Virtual Exhibition, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO


Ancient History of the Distant Future, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Beyond the Cape! Comics and Contemporary Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL

What is an edition, anyway?, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 


2018

Who RU2 Day: Mass Media and the Fine Art Print, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

40 by 40, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA

Califas: Art of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

Graphic Revolution: American Prints 1960 to Now,” Saint Louis Art Museum, MO

Images of Social Justice from Segura Arts Studios,” Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Roanoke, VA

Culture Catalyst, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Way Bay, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA


2017

How to Read Pato Pascual: Disney's Latin America and Latin America's Disney,” MAK Center for Art + Architecture, West Hollywood, CA


2015

Left Coast: California Political Art, The James Gallery, The Graduate Center,

CUNY, New York, NY

Retrospective, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA


2014

Inherit: Latino Artists in California, Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA

California Dreamin': Thirty Years of Collecting, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm

Springs, CA

The Skull Show, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA


2013

Pre-Columbian Remix: the Art of Enrique Chagoya, Demián Flores, Rubén Ortiz-

Torres, and Nadín Ospina, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College,

Purchase, NY

Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC


Select Collections


Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

Museum of Art, Bates College, Lewiston, ME 

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA

California Palace of the Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco, CA

Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

CU Art Museum, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 

The de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

Di Rosa Foundation, Napa, CA

Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC

Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

Grinnell College Art Collection, Grinnell, IA

Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

LEF Foundation, St. Helena, CA

Library of Congress Print Collection, Washington, DC

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA 

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

The New School, New York, NY

Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA

Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO

San Francisco International Airport, International Terminal, San Francisco, CA 

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA

Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC

Stanford University Library, Stanford, CA

Swigg Foundation, Honolulu, HI

Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT