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Enrique Chagoya

(American/Mexican, born 1953)

Enrique Chagoya

Everyone is an Alien, 2023

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Enrique Chagoya

Codex Ytrebil, 2022

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Enrique Chagoya

El Popol Vuh de la Abuelita del Ahuizote (The Community Book of King Ahuizote's Granny) , 2021

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Enrique Chagoya

The Waters of Oblivion in Mictlán , 2021

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Biography

Timeline

1953: Born in Mexico City, Mexico
1972 - 1975: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
1984: BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
: Bronze Roller, Outstanding Printmaking Student, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1985: Distinguished Alumni, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1986: MA, University of California, Berkeley, CA
: Eisner Prize in Art, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1987: MFA, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1992: WESTAF/NEA Fellowship for works on paper
1993: NEA Fellowship for works on paper
1995: Artist fellowship and residency at Giverny, France, Lila Wallace Foundation/Foundation Monet
1996: Eureka Fellowship, Fleishacker Foundation, San Francisco, 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
1998: Dean’s Award in the Humanities, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1999: Artist residency, May-December, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2002: Paul DeMarinis, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2005: Artadia Foundation Grant
2006: Elliot Medal, and Award, National Academy of Art, Biennial Exhibition, New York, NY
: Lives in San Francisco, CA

Exhibitions

2013 - 2014: Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
2013: Enrique Chagoya: New Work, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Read Between the Lines: Enrique Chagoya’s Codex Prints, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI (solo)
: The Hogarth Project, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
: "Pre-Columbian Remix: The Art of Enrique Chagoya, Demián Flores, Rubén Ortiz-Torres, and Nadín Ospina." Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY,
: Party Headquarters: Art in the Age of Political Absurdity, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
: Mexicanisimo, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: Renegade Humor, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: The Portentious Life of Death in Mayalandia, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA (solo)
: Mexicanisimo Through Artists’ Eyes, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: Enrique Chagoya: Death and Taxes in Fantasylandia” Sonoma County Museum, Sonoma, CA (solo)
: “Artists’ Ink,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2012: “Reanimating the Dead with Living Arts: Painting Thrives in the 21st Century,” John Natsoulas Center for the Arts, Davis, CA
: Digital Mixed Media: Bay Area Artists Take Digital Photography to a New Level, Petaluma Arts Center, Petaluma, CA
2011: Surviving Paradise/Sobreviviendo el Paraíso, di Rosa, Napa, CA (solo)
: New Works on Paper, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Crossing the Invisible Line: The Art of Immigration, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
: The Satirical Edge in Contemporary Prints and Graphics, Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, University, Evanston, IL
: The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
: Different Strokes: 20th Century Drawing, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Re-Imagining Orozco, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
: Summer Group Show: New and Classic, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Collisions Between Historical Visions: The Art of Enrique Chagoya, The Bing Stanford in Washington Art Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
2010: YTREBIL: Prints and Drawings by Enrique Chagoya, Galaría de la Raza, SanFrancisco, CA (solo)
2009 - 2010: The Legend of Bud Shark and His Indelible Ink, MCA Denver, CO
2009: Liberty Club: The Prints of Enrique Chagoya, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA (solo)
: Enrique Chagoya: Adventures and Misadventures – Prints and Multiples 2002-2008, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo, New York, NY (solo)
: Internally Displaced: Jane Hammond and Enrique Chagoya, A+D Gallery, Chicago, IL
: “The Surplus + Plus: An Illegal Alien’s Guide to Economic Theory,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Freedom of Expression, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert
: Artist as Social Critic Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
: San Jose Museum of Art, Retrospective with Catalog, San Jose, CA (solo)
2008: Enrique Chagoya: Illegal Alien's Guide to Critical Theory, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Memory and Location, California State University, Fullerton, CA
2007 - 2008: Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (solo)
: Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; Traveled to: Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA and Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA. (solo)
: Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Landscape of War, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
: Lisa Sette Gallery, Illegal Alien’s Guide to Greater America, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
: New Images of Identity, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
: Drawings: Visions, Surfaces, and Beyond, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
: Mr. President, University Art Museum at Albany, Albany, New York
: Figure It! The Human Factor in Contemporary Art, Clay Center for Arts and Sciences, Charleston, WV
2007: Inside/Outside, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: La Presencia: Latin American Art in the United States, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
2006 - 2007: Making a Mark: Four Contemporary Artists in Print, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
: TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2006: Enrique Chagoya: Double Trouble Anthropology of the Clone, b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA (solo)
: “Enrique Chagoya: Illegal Alien’s Guide to Greater America,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: The 2005 Artadia Awards San Francisco, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
: A Group A Part, Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Pasadena, CA
: 135th Anniversary Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
: Who’s Afraid of San Francisco?, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: National Academy of Art, Biennial Exhibition, New York, NY
: What’s Not to Love?, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
: Safety-Kleen Gallery, Elgin Communtiy College, Elgin, IL (solo)
: Drawings from the Modern, 1975-2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Mills College Art Gallery, “Keys to the Koop: Humor and Contemporary Printmaking,” Oakland, CA
: Strange Devotion: Enrique Chagoya’s America, Mueum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA (solo)
: San Jose Museum of Art, “Art of Engagement,” with book/catalog, San Jose, CA
: Wesleyan University, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, The Disasters of War: From Goya to Golub, Middletown, CT
2005: The Corcoran Gallery, print exhibition, Washington, DC
: The Burden of Liberty, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
: San Jose Museum of Art, “Selections”, with catalog. San Jose, CA
: University of Nevada, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Reno, NV (solo)
: International Print Biennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico
: Initial Encounters, The Drawing Center/The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
: Comics Stripped, Off the Preserve, Napa, CA
: Juxtapose Magazine 10th Anniversary, 111 Mina Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Community School of Music of Music and Arts, Mountain View, CA (solo)
: Reverse Anthropology Archives: Works on paper, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara Univerity, Santa Clara, CA (solo)
: Saint George the Dragon, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2004: Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Misleading Trails, China Art Archives, Bejing, China
2003: Global Elegies, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
: Road Trip, Nathan Laramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
: Trillium Press, Michael Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Enrique Chagoya: Contemporary Hybrids, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA (solo)
: Codices Canibals: Books and Prints, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA (solo)
: Adventures of the Noble Cannibals, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
2002 - 2003: 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, CA
: Museum of Contemporary Art, “The Legacy of Shark’s Ink,” Boulder, CO
: Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
: In ‘Toon with Time, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
: Children’s Books Press, “Just Like Me”, traveling show, San Francisco, CA
: The Enlightened Savage, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2002: The Prints of Enrique Chagoya, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (solo)
: I-5 Resurfacing: Four Decades of California Art, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
: Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2001: San Jose Museum of Art, “Contemporary Devotion,”San Jose, CA
: Track 16 Gallery, “Capital Punishment”, with catalog, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, CA
: Ewing Gallery of Art, The University of Tennessee, Issues of Identity in Recent American Art, with catalog, Knoxville, TN
: Williams College Museum of Art, Pulling Prints, Modern and Contemporary Works from the Collection, Williamstown, MA
: Magic Vision, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
: Comic Relief, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Utopian Cannibal: Adventures in Reverse Anthropology, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
: Utopian Cannibal: Adventures in Reverse Anthropology: Recent Paintings by Enrique Chagoya, Main Gallery, Department of Art, University of Texas at El Paso, TX (solo)
: Utopian Cannibal: Adventures in Reverse Anthropology, Forum for Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, MO (solo)
: Valle de la Luna: Works by Mexican, Latino, and Chicano Artists, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
: Looking towards the future, SFMOMA Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Tempus Fugit: Time Flies, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
: Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2000: utopiancannibal.com, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: utopiancannibal.org, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
: Enrique Chagoya: Locked in Paradise, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, in collaboration with Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: An American Primitive in Paris, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: When Borders Migrate, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
: Works on Paper, Zolla / Liberman Gallery Inc., Chicago, IL
: Images of Resilience, National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA
: Homage to the San Francisco Art Institute, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Other Narratives, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1999: Día de los Muertos, Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
: Art From Around the Bay, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
: Quartet Editions, New York, NY
: Selections Spring ‘98, Drawing Center, New York, NY
: Mouse: An American Icon, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
: First Decade highlights from the Contemporary Museum’s Collection, Honolulu, HI
: Juvenescence, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
: 20/20:The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
1998: Recent Work, San Marco Gallery at Dominican College, San Rafael, CA (solo)
: Around the Bay, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1997: Recent Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Recent Works, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: The Politics of Humor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (solo)
: Insula Canibalium, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (solo)
: Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
1996: The Big Little Book Series, Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
: Beyond Boundaries, Galeria de La Raza, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1995 - 1996: The Mythic Presence of Chagoya, Valdez and Gronk, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
: Smith Center for the Arts, Ohlone College, Fremont, CA (solo)
1995: Sun Gallery, University of California, Hayward, CA (solo)
: Insulae Cannibalism, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Enrique Cahgoya and C. Bernardi, Washington State, Pullman, WA
1994: Borders of the Spirit, The De Young Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1993: The Fifth Element, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA
: Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: (Re)-Inventing America, C.N. Gorman Museum, U.C. Davis, Davis, CA (solo)
: Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ (solo)
1992: Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: University of California Museum at Danville, Blackhawk Plaza-Behring, CA (solo)
: Critical Reactions, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Freedom Views, Euphrat Gallery, De Anza Gallery, Cupertino, CA
: Do You Hear What I’m Saying? Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
: Rooms for the Dead II, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
: Artists of Conscience: 16 Years of Political and Social Commentary, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY
: Responsive Witness, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
: Text/Context, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
: Boxes, San Francisco Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
1991: Fridomania, Frida Kahlo/Diego Rivera Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
1990: Paintings and Installation, De Saisset Museum,Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA (solo)
: Body Culture: Chicano Figuration, traveling exhibition, originating at Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
: Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Enrique Chagoya: Not Good for Funding, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA (solo)
1989 - 1991: Ceremony of Memory, traveling exhibition originating at the Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe, New Mexico
: Art Against Aids, Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, California
: Steven Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
: Richard H. Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific Art Center, Stockton, CA (solo)
1989: When Paradise Arrived, Alternative Museum, New York, NY (solo)
: Thesis/Antithesis, Artspace, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: E.Chagoya and D. Crumpler, San Jose State University, Art Department, San Jose, CA
1988: The Precious Object, Emanuel Walter/Atholl McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
: Peter Selz Selects, Seventeen Berkeley Artists, Berkeley Art Center, Berk., CA
: Introductions, Gallery Paule Auglim, San Francisco, CA
1987: Social Narratives: An Exploration in Content, E. Chagoya and B. Kano, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
: Ceremony of Memory, Universities and Museums Nationwide. Catalogue published by the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
: Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA
: Lilian Paley Center for the Visual Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
1986: VII Biennale of Latin American Printmaking,Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, San Juan, Puerto Rico
: Anti-Apartheid Show, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
1985: San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Three Rounds on Short Notice, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
: Martin Weber Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: ASUC Studio, University of California, Berkeley, CA (solo)
: The Alternative Museum, New York, NY
1984: Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983: Casa de la Cultura, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
: Obra Grafica, Galería del Fonapas, Oaxaca, Mexico (solo)
: Fonapas Gallery, Oaxaca, Mexico (solo)
1982 - 1984: Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Public Collections

: Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
: Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
: Fundación Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
: Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
: Di Rosa Foundation, Sonoma, CA
: Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
: Cantor Center for the Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
: Art in Embassies Program, Embassy of the U.S.A., Luxembourg
: San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
: Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Microsoft, Seattle, WA
: LA County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA
: M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: The California Legion of Honor Museum, Achenbach Collection
: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC
: Swigg Foundation, Honolulu, HI
: Stanford University Library, Stanford, CA
: Spencer Art Museum, University of Kansas, KS
: Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, NE
: Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
: San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
: Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY
: LEF Foundation, Santa Helena, CA

Enrique Chagoya

(American/Mexican, born 1953)

Enrique Chagoya

Enrique Chagoya

Enrique Chagoya

Enrique Chagoya

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