Enrique Chagoya

Enrique Chagoya is a Mexican-born painter and print-maker. His subject is the changing nature of culture.

He was born Born in Mexico City in 1953. He was partly raised by an Indian nurse who helped him to respect the indigenous people of his country and their history. He studied economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City in 1975. As a student, he was sent to work on rural development projects, an experience that strengthened his interest in political and social activism.

In 1977, Chagoya and his first wife immigrated to the United States, where he worked as a free-lance illustrator and graphic designer and for a time, in 1977, with farm laborers in Texas. In 1984, he earned a BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute and in 1987 an MFA at the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in San Francisco and teaches art at Stanford University, where he received the Dean's Award in the Humanities in 1998.

His works are held in the collections of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City), the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), [ [http://12.172.4.131/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A7480&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1 MoMA online catalogue] ] the National Museum of American Art (Washington, D. C.), the New York Public Library, the San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose, California), the Art Institute of Chicago [ [http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/search/citi/artist_id%3A2180 artic.edu] ] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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Further reading

* Chagoya, Enrique, "Enrique Chagoya, Locked in Paradise", Reno, Nevada, Nevada Museum of Art, 2000.
* Hickson, Patricia et al., "Enrique Chagoya, Borderlandia", Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, 2007.