BORN
1966 Madeira Island, Portugal
EDUCATION
1997 MFA, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1991 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2018 Rigo 23: Ripples Become Waves, The Main Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Rigo 23: Autonomous InterGalactic Space Program, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San
Francisco, CA.
2014 Rigo 23: From the Heart of Santa Madera, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Rigo 23: Autonomous InterGalactic Space Program, Guangdong Times Museum,
China
2012 Rigo 23: Autonomous Intergalactic Space Program, Redcat, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Achivhírak (Place of the Birds), Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
2009 New Museum, New York, NY
2007 Backtracking 199485, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Rigo 23, Museu de Arte Contemporânea , Niteroi, Brazil
2006 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Centro Das Artes, Madeira Island, Portugal
ZDB, Lisbon, Portugal Movimentos
Dos Atingidos por Barragens , Brasília, Brazil
2002 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2001 Artists Space, New York, NY
Making Made in Taiwan 3, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2000 Tate Wikikuwa (The Wind Follows the Sun), Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago,Chile
1999 SECA Art Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Rigo ’99\MATRIX 179, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Making Made in Taiwan 2, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1998 O Carro do Sabao azul, Galeria Porta 33, Project Room, Arco '98, Madrid, Spain
Making Made in Taiwan, Gallery 54, Gotheborg, Sweden
1997 Chance Birds, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
In Justice to Geronimo and the Thousands, WLCAC, Watts, Los Angeles, CA
Ohlone Prayers, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
1996 Time and Time Again, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Enquanto Os Golfinhos Nao Voltam Ao Tejo:, Galeria Graca Fonseca, Lisboa, Portugal
1995 American Landscapes, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1994 Largo do Canto do Muro, Galeria Porta 33, Madeira Island, Portugal
Westward, The Living Room, San Francisco, CA
Black and White Drawings, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA
Eagles, The LAB Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 AdProp-One Dream Come Two, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Retratos Y Situaciones, Pancho Villa Taqueria, San Francisco, CA
1987 Some People In a Visual Environment, Artist’s Television Access, San Francisco, CA
1986 Primeira Impressão, Espaco Poligrupo-Renascena, Lisboa, Portugal
1985 First Print, Martin-Weber Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2017 Entre Terra e Mar. Between Land and Sea. Transatlantic Art. An exhibition with Ayrson Heráclito (Salvador da Bahia, Brazil) and Rigo 23 (Madeira, Portugal, and Los Angeles, USA), Weltkulturen, Frankfurt, Germany
2017 Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times, diRosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
2017 Entre Terra e Mar. Between Earth and Sea. Transatlantic Art, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Mundos Alternos; Art and science fiction in the Americas, UCR ARTSblock, Riverside, CA
Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, UK
2015 Retrospective, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Left Coast: California Political Art, The James Gallery, The Graduate Center,
CUNY, New York, NY
Anthems for the Mother Earth Goddess, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California, Oakland Museum of California,
Oakland, CA, with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2013 Brazilian Customs Snafu, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
2010 To the Arts, Citizens!, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
ACM, Mansaray, Rigo 23 & Volyazlovsky, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture
Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
2008 Rare Art,Berkeley Art Museum/South Atlantic Virgin Forest, Brazil
Birdwatch, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
2007 Sign Language, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
2006-
2007 No Reservations: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art, The
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2006 4th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England
Monuments for the USA,”White Columns, New York, NY
2005 Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco,CA
Touch of Evil, Tijuana Station, Tijuana, Mexico
Found: Everyday Objects in Bay Area Art, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
Unfurled in Estonia, MoKS Center for Art and Social Practice, Gallerii Y, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
2004 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
REBUS, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Topographies, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Topographies, Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
Global Priority, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA [catalog]
2003 Revealing Influences: Conversations with Bay Area Artists, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
2002 No War, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
2002 Fast Forward, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2001 Widely Unknown: Margaret Kilgallen and Her Circle, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Marked: Bay Area Drawings, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA; traveled to Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY [catalog]
2000 democracy!, Royal College of Art, London [catalog]
Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Juvenilia, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1998 pFORMative Acts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Anti-Pesszimizmus, San Francisco-i Muveszek, Budapest
A Collaborative Show, 2nd Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 In Justice To Geronimp Ji Jaga and The Thousands, The Center, Los Angeles, CA
Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA [catalog]
San Francisco - Taiwan Exchange, Secession Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Abnormal Flow, Zu Wei Bamboo Curtain Studios, Taipei, Taiwan
1997 Masters of Fine Arts, Stanford University Museum Gallery, Stanford, CA
Art Against the Death Penalty, New College of California, San Francisco, CA
1996 Redstone Labor Temple Murals, Lab, San Francisco, CA
SFAI 125th Anniversary Tribute Exhibition, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Old Glory/New Story, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Criminal Minded, 848 Community Space, San Francisco, CA
1995 Radical Ink, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio
Homeland "Please Pray the Home Ground, w/Brian D. Tripp LEF Foundation, St.
Helena, CA
Old Glory/New Story, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
1995 Post-Colonial California, San Francisco State University, CA
1994 20th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
1993 San Francisco Murals, Centre de l’Animation et des Loisirs Valeyre, Paris, France
1992 Introductions ‘92, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Trespassing, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
1991 RIGO ‘91/Scott Williams, Show N’ Tell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Censored Murals Exhibit, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
1991 The Individual Muralists Exhibit, South of Market Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
An Unwanted Animal at the Garden Party for Democracy, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Equations, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Circus, Show N’ Tell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Lo Nuestro En El Exilio, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
1987 15 + 1 at A.T.A., Artist’s Television Access, San Francisco, CA
1984 1984: O Futuro E Ja Hoje?, Modern Art Center of the Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation, Lisboa, Portugal
SELECTED COMMISIONS AND MURALS:
2005 Victory Stand,”San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Jardim Panoramico do Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal
2004 Praça do Dragao, Oporto Soccer Stadium, Oporto, Portugal
Luz, Amistad y Libertad, Alamar, Cuba
Not For Sale, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Birdman of Bali,” Denpasar, Bali
2002 Truth," Mission & 7th Streets, San Francisco, CA
2000 Boneca be Massa, Madeira Island International Airport, Portugal
Children," 22nd & Harrison Streets, San Francisco, CA
1999 Museum Pieces, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Computers/Prisons, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
1998 SKY/GROUND, Third & Mission Streets, San Francisco, CA
Colors II, San Francisco International Airport, sponsored by the San Francisco Art
Commission Longe/Perto, Expo '98, Stone Mosaic pedestrian strip, Lisboa,
Portugal
1997 Ocean, sponsored by IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Birds/Cars, San Francisco, CA, privately sponsored
Approximately 3/4 Water, Sponsored by the Creative Work Fund and CAMP San
Francisco, CA
1995 Extinct, San Francisco, CA
One Tree, Sponsored by Capp Street Project and the Gerbode Foundation, San
Francisco, CA
Indian Water, San Francisco, CA
Time, Sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
1994 Art in the Urban Landscape, A project of Capp Street and the Gerbode Foundation,
San Francisco, CA
Inner City Home, San Francisco, CA
Southern Exposure Mural Project, Collaboration with Barry McGee and Brett Cook,
San Francisco, CA
Jubilee West Thrift Shop, Collaboration with Jubilee West and East Bay Conservation Corps, Oakland, CA
Peace, International Studies Academy High School, Collaboration with school’s art students, San Francisco, CA
Market Street/Art in Transit, San Francisco Art Commission
Muni Fences, San Francisco Art Commission
1993 River, Installed inside Pancho Villa Taqueria, San Francisco, CA
No Smoke Screens/No Color Lines, collaboration with S.Y.T.E.P. youth team, Oakland, CA
Colors, Balmy Avenue Mural Project, San Francisco, CA
1992 500 Years of What?, Installed inside Pancho Villa Taqueria, San Francisco, CA
1990 P. K. Dick, Collaboration with Scott Williams, Installed inside DNA Lounge, San
Francisco, CA
Defaced, Collaboration with Scott Williams, Inside walls, DNA Lounge, San Francisco, CA
1989 Pajaro En La Avenida, Executed at CAVI-Centro de Artes Visuales,
Universidad Autonoma de Nayarit, Installed at the Governors’ palace of Nayarit,
Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico
1986 Richmond Liberty Ferry, Retaining wall, Barret Avenue Underpass at Marina Way,
City of Richmond Arts Commission, Richmond, CA
Who Says What?, Outside, Show and Tell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Comunicacao, Interior wall, CTT Mercado Post Office, Funchal, Maderia Island,
Portugal
1987 Yeah, Sure, Where, Inside wall, DNA Lounge, San Francisco, CA
A Tribute to Rick Grizzly Brown, Installed outside Walter McBean Gallery,
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1986 Tempo, Som, Arte, Outside wall, Club Nine, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED AWARDS:
2009 Public Choice Award, Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture
2006 Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation
1999 Biennial Award, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY
1998 SECA Art Award, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
1997 Stoli, San Francisco Arts Achievement Award for Visual Art Residency Fellowship
Award, Taiwan
1996 One Tree, Best Public Art Project of the Year, San Francisco Bay Guardian
1994 WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship for Visual Artists
1991 Chauncey McKeever Award, San Francisco Art Institute
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2002 Powers, Bill, "Arts," Black Book Magazine, Spring 2002.
2001 Rubinstein, Rhonda, "The Big Picture," ID Magazine, February 2001, pg. 92-3.
2000 Golonu, Berin, Flash Art, March/April 2000.
Van Proyen, Mark, "Museum Pieces," Artweek, January 2000.
1999 Bonetti, David, "Four Deserving Artists Honored," San Francisco Examiner, February 10.
Chin, Bryan, "Not Your Average Pinup Posters," Daily Californian, re:VIEW, May 14.
"Rigo Prefers to Follow His Own Direction," San Francisco Examiner, February 28.
"Rigo 99 Works Address Prisoner's Plight," WestArt, April 23.
Lewallen, Constance, "RIGO 99," Berkeley Art Museum
Scherr, Apollinaire, "Public Art – Who Needs It?," Express, July 2.
1998 Pérez, Miguel von Hafe, "Sobre a Arte de Rigo: do Idiossincrático ao Público/Rigo's Art:
From the Idiosyncratic to the Public," Arte Urbana.
1997 Helfand, Glen, "The 1997 Arts Achievement Awards- Masters of Art," San Francisco
Focus, February.
1997 Scherr, Apollinaire, "Hide and SECA," San Francisco Metropolitan, December 21.
Melo, Alexandre, "Rigo '96," Art Forum, April.
Bonetti, David, "Four au Courant Scenes from Geary Street," San Francisco Examiner, April 17.
"Watts," Los Angeles Times, June 29.
"The Living Arts," New York Times, July 18.
"Best of San Francisco '97," SF Weekly, July 25-July 1.
1996 Lowden, John, "Urban Legend," Speak.
Dyrness, Christina, "Sharp contrast in Art Center shows," West County Times,
February 6.
"Richmond Art Show for Ex-Panther Geronimo Ji Jaga," Sun Reporter,
February 29.
"Visual Arts," East Bay Express, March 1.
1996 "Artbeat," The Channel, March.
Reiter, Artemesia, "Rigo '96-Up Close & Personal," SF Bay Times, March 21.
Hankwitz, Molly, "Rigo '94: Innercity Home," Art Papers, March/April.
Lizarraga, Willy, Once upon a mural," San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 1.
Shahum, Leah, "Does America have a Soul?" Mother Jones, September/October.
1995 Adams, Gerald, "Artist's Mural runs afoul of city ordinance," San Francisco Examiner,
January 13.
Adams, Gerald, "It's official: 5-story 'sign' is art," San Francisco Examiner, January 20.
Gerhard, Susan, "Bill-boreds," San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 8.
Winokur, Scott, "Reclaiming the 'hood with acrylics," San Francisco Examiner, March 21.
Macor, Michael, "A Mural Grows South of Market," San Francisco Chronicle, June 28.
Bonetti, David, "The Flap over Public Art," San Francisco Examiner, August 11.
1994 Snyder, Rebecca, "Power Plays," VISIONS, Winter.
1992 Helfand, Glen, "Night+Day," SF Weekly, January 8.
Watten, Barrett, "Rigo '92," Artweek, February 6.
Kotz, Liz, "Trespassing," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), April 10- May 10.
Reveaux, Tony, "RIGO '92 at Gallery Paule Anglim," Artweek, August 16.