Enrique Chagoya

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Enrique Chagoya
Ghostly Meditations (the intuitive revelation of universal ephemera)
2011
Mixed media
16” x 11”, (Fr) 18.75” x 13.75”
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” uf, 18 3/4” x 13 3/4” fr
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”, (Fr) 13.75” x 18.75”
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
Enrique Chagoya
Untitled (there is no narrative)
2010
India ink, acrylic on archival vintage paper with the ghost of an etching
16” x 11” uf, 18 3/4” x 13 3/4” fr
Enrique Chagoya
La Bestia’s Guide to the Birth of Cool
2014
Lithograph with chine colle and gold metallic powder on handmade Amate paper
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” , 22 1/2” x 24 1/4” frame
Enrique Chagoya
The Pastoral or Arcadian State: Illegal Alien’s Guide to Greater America
2006
Color lithograph
23 3/4” x 39”
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”, (Fr) 18.75” x 13.75”
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
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
Mindful Savage’s Guide to Reverse Modernism
2016
Acrylic and water based oil on de-acidified vintage paper
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 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: Lust
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: Gluttony
2020
Acrylic and water mixable oil, with glass eyes collaged on canvas.
12 × 16 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
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
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BORN


1953 Mexico City, Mexico


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


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 


2016 “Mindful Savage’s Guide to Reverse Modernism”, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2014 “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

2012 “The Portentious Life of Death in Mayalandia”, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo

Alto, CA

2011 “New Works on Paper,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

“Enrique Chagoya: Surviving Paradise/Sobreviviendo el Paraíso,” di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA

2010 “YTREBIL: Prints and Drawings by Enrique Chagoya,” Galaría de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

2009 “Liberty Club: The Prints of Enrique Chagoya,” Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA

2008 San Jose Museum of Art.  Upcoming Retrospective with Catalog.  National and International traveling show, San Jose, CA

“Illegal Alien’s Guide to Critical Theory,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2008 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2007/08 “Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia,” Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (September 21, 2007 – January 6, 2008). Catalog.

traveling to:

Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (February 13 – May 18, 2008)

Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA (September 12 – December 7, 2008)

2006 “Enrique Chagoya: Double Trouble Anthropology of the Clone,” b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA

George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

2005 “Strange Devotion: Enrique Chagoya’s America,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA

2004 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA 

George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

2003        "Enrique Chagoya: Contemporary Hybrids," Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA 

2002 “The Prints of Enrique Chagoya,” Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

“The Enlightened Savage,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

2001 “Utopian Cannibal: Adventures in Reverse Anthropology,” Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

“Utopian Cannibal: Adventures in Reverse Anthropology: Recent Paintings by Enrique Chagoya,” Main Gallery, Department of Art, University of Texas at El Paso, TX 

“Utopian Cannibal: Adventures in Reverse Anthropology,” Forum for Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, MO   [catalog]

2000 “utopiancannibal.com,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

“Enrique Chagoya: Locked in Paradise,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, in collaboration with Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA  [catalog]

“utopiancannibal.org,” Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

“An American Primitive in Paris,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1998 "Recent Work," San Marco Gallery at Dominican College, San Rafael, CA  

1997 "Recent Paintings," Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA 

"Recent Works," David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

"Insula Canibalium," Stanford University, Stanford, CA

1996 “The Big Little Book Series," Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

“Beyond Boundaries," Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

1995 "Inner Borders/Fronteras Internas," Sun Gallery, University of California, 

Hayward, CA

1995 "Enrique Chagoya, Drawings and Paintings," Smith Center for the Arts, Ohlone College, Fremont, CA

1994 “Borders of the Spirit," M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA

"Insulae Canivalium," Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1993 "Power - Paradigm," Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

"Works on Paper-Installation," Arizona State University Art Museum, Nelson Art Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1992 "Paintings and Works on Paper," Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1990 "Recent Work," Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1989 "When Paradise Arrived, The Work of Enrique Chagoya," Alternative Museum,

New York, NY

"Enrique Chagoya, Installation," Artspace, San Francisco, CA

1985 "Political Works," Martin/Weber Gallery,  San Francisco, CA

"Etchings," ASUC Studio, University of California, Berkeley, CA

1984 "Drawings," Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

1983 "Obra Grafica," Galería del Fonapas, Oaxaca, Mexico



TWO AND THREE PERSONS EXHIBITIONS: 

1999 "Works on Paper," Zolla / Liberman Gallery Inc., Chicago, IL

1995-96 “The Mythic Presence of Chagoya, Valdez and Gronk,"  (catalog published), 

Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

1994 "Enrique Chagoya and C. Bernardi," Washington State, Pullman, WA

1993 “The Fifth Element," The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA

1989 "E.Chagoya and D. Crumpler," San Jose State University, Art Department, 

San Jose, CA

1988 "Introductions," Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1987 "Social Narratives: An Exploration in Content," E. Chagoya and B. Kano, 

Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

1985 "Three Rounds on Short Notice," Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

1984 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 


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 Dremin’: 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

2012 “Party Headquarters: Art in the Age of Political Absurdity”, Pratt Manhattan

Gallery, New York, Ny

2010 “Re-Imagining Orozco,” The New School, New York, NY

2008 “Memory and Location,” California State University, Fullerton, CA.

“Artist as Social Critic” Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR

“Freedom of Expression,” University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert

Park, CA

2007 "La Presencia: Latin American Art in the United States," Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA

"Drawings: Visions, Surfaces, and Beyond," Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

“New Images of Identity,” Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

“Landscape of War,” San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

2006 “135th Anniversary Exhibition,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

2005 “Drawings from the Modern, 1975-2005,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

“What’s Not to Love?” Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

2004 “Misleading Trails,” China Art Archives, Bejing, China

International Print Biennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2003 “Trillium Press,” Michael Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

“Creatures That Stir: Symbols & Satire in Animals of Imagination,” Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

“Un/Familiar Territory,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, C A

2002 “I-5 Resurfacing: Four Decades of California Art,” San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

“In ‘Toon with Time,” Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

“Comic Relief,” Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000 “Open Ends,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

“Tempus Fugit: Time Flies,” Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO  [catalog]

“Looking towards the future,” SFMOMA Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Valle de la Luna:  Works by Mexican, Latino, and Chicano Artists,” Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA

1999 “Día de los Muertos,” Museo del Barrio, New York, NY

"Other Narratives," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX  (catalog)

1998 "20/20: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition," University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 

“Selections Spring ‘98," Drawing Center, New York, NY  

Quartet Editions, New York, NY

"Art From Around the Bay," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

"First Decade Highlights from the Contemporary Museum's Collection," Honolulu, Hawaii

"Bay Area Survey,"  Mexican Museum,  San Francisco, CA

"Benefit Auction," The Alternative Museum, New York, NY

"Arte Chido," Instituto Nacional de las Bellas Artes,  Mexico City, Mexico

"30th Anniversary Exhibition," Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

"Placazo," Stanford University, Center for Chicano Studies,Tresidder Union 

Building,  Stanford, CA

1997 “The Community Collects: Latin American and Latino Art from Private Bay Area Collections," The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA

“Diversity," Artopia Gallery/Bomani Gallery, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA

"35th Anniversary Exhibition," (three etchings and catalogue published), Crown 

Point Press, San Francisco, CA

"It's Only Rock and Roll," Phoenix Art Museum, traveling through US Museums (catalog ue published), Phoenix, AZ

"Illustrious History," traveling  show New York/San Francisco Art Institute (catalogue published), San Francisco, CA

"Singular Impressions, The Monotype in America," (catalogue published), 

                                                       National Museum of American Art,  The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC

"Awards  Exhibition," American Academy of Arts & Letters,  New York, NY

“Eureka Fellow Awards Exhibition," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

“American Stories," Asashi Foundation,Tokyo, Japan (traveling exhibition)

"Identity in Crisis," M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

"Gallery Artists," Smith-Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

1996 "Bay Area Drawing," Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA

"Selections from the Nisenson Collection," LA County Museum, Los Angeles, CA

"Art from Latin America," Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA

"Selections from the Permanent Collection," M.H. De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

“SFAI 125th Anniversary Tribute Exhibition," Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco,CA

“Out of ‘Toon,'" George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

“Generations," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

“Muertos de Gusto," Mexican Fine arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL

“Powerful Expressions: Recent American Drawings," National Academy of  

  Design, New York, NY

                    "In The Light of Goya,"University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

1995 “Duck,” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

“On Beyond the Book,” Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO

"Here And Now-The Di Rosa Collection," (catalog  published) Oakland Museum,

  Oakland, CA

"Selections from the Permanent  Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

1995 "Post Colonial," San Francisco State University Art Dept. Gallery, 

San Francisco, CA

1994 "New Acquisitions, Works on Paper," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,

   San Francisco, CA

"Ante America/Regarding America," traveling exhibition through major 

museums in Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, USA (catalog published), Bogata, Columbia.

"The Evolution of a Collection," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

1993 "The Year of the White Bear," traveling show through US Cities, Walker Art

Center, Minneapolis, MN

"West Coast Edition Printmakers Invitational," Claudia Chaplin Gallery,

Stinson Beach, CA

"Six Easy Pieces," Invitational, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA

“Muertos de Gusto!  Day of the Dead:  Memory & Ritual,” Mexican Fine Arts 

Center Museum, Chicago, Illinois

“Icons in Contemporary Art,” California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA

1990-92 “Chicano Figuration,” Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA

“Ante America,” Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia(travels)

"Imagenes de Guerra," (catalog published), Centro Cultural de Arte 

Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico

1992 "Directions in Bay Area Printmaking," (catalog published), Palo Alto Cultural 

Center, Palo Alto, CA

"500 Years After Columbus," (catalog published) Triton Museum, 

Santa Clara, CA 

1991 “Fridomania,” Frida Kahlo/Diego Rivera Museum, Mexico City, Mexico

“Boxes,” San Francisco Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

“Text/Context,” San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

“Critical Reactions,” Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1990 "Body Culture: Chicano Figuration,"  traveling exhibition, originating at Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA

1989-91 "Ceremony of Memory," traveling exhibition originating at the Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe, New Mexico

1989 Steven Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1988 "The Precious Object," Emanuel Walter/Atholl McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1988 "Peter Selz Selects, Seventeen Berkeley Artists," Berkeley Art Center, Berk., CA

1987 “Ceremony of Memory,” Universities and Museums nationwide.  Catalogue published by the 

1987 Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1986 VII Biennale of Latin American Printmaking,Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, San Juan, Puerto Rico

"Lo del Corazon: Heartbeat of a Culture," Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA

Anti-Apartheid Show, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, California

1985 "Chain Reaction," San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1984 “Artist’s Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America,” San Francisco Art Institute, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

1984 “What’s Happening: Contemporary Art from the West Coast,” The Alternative Museum, New York, NY

1983 Casa de la Cultura, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico

1982-84 Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA



HONORS, AWARDS AND COMMISIONS: 


2006 Elliot Medal, and Award, National Academy of Art, Biennial Exhibition, New York, NY

2005 Artadia Award

  1. Stanford Medical Center Parking Garage in collaboration with artist 

Paul DeMarinis, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

1999 Artist residency, May-December, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

1998 Dean’s Award in the Humanities, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

1997 Biennial Award, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY

Academy Award for Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters,

New York, NY

Public art commission for new SFO international terminal, San Francisco Art 

Commission, San Francisco, CA

1996 Eureka Fellowship, Fleishacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA

1995 Artist fellowship and residency at Giverny, France, Lila Wallace Foundation/

Foundation Monet

1993 NEA Fellowship for works on paper

1992 WESTAF/NEA Fellowship for works on paper

1986 Eisner Prize in Art, UC Berkeley

1985 Distinguished Alumni, San Francisco Art Institute

1984 Bronze Roller, outstanding printmaking student, San Francisco Art Institute






SELECTED COLLECTIONS: 


Art in Embassies Program, Embassy of the U.S.A., Luxembourg

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC

Brooklyn Museum, print collection, Brooklyn, NY

The California Legion of Honor Museum, Achenbach Collection, San Francisco, CA

Cantor Center for the Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Centro Cultural De Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico DF, Mexico, Fundacion Televisa

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

Di Rosa Foundation, Sonoma, CA

Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA

Fundación Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico

Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

LEF Foundation, Santa Helena, CA

Library of Congress, print collection, Washington, DC

M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA

Metropolitan Museum, print collection, New York, NY

Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA

Microsoft, print collection, Seattle, WA

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC

Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA

Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, NE

Spencer Art Museum, University of Kansas, KS

Stanford University Library, Stanford, CA

Swigg Foundation, Honolulu, Hawaii

Walker Art Center print collection, Minneapolis, MN

Whitney Museum of American Art, print collection, New York, NY