Enrique Chagoya
: Born in 1953
, Mexico D.F
: Lives in San Francisco
Enrique Chagoya makes paintings and prints about the changing nature of culture. "My artwork is a conceptual fusion of opposite cultural realities that I have experienced in my lifetime. I integrate diverse elements: from pre-Columbian mythology, western religious iconography and American popular culture."
Enrique Chagoya’s newest print, “Illegal Alien's Guide to the Concept of Relative Surplus Value” continues his ongoing examination of cultural realities and the current economic situation with satire and humor. With an historical lexicon of ideas, beliefs, and myths, Chagoya’s imagery combines disparate and incongruent elements. Cartoon balloons filled with bewildering and amusing ‘artspeak’ quotes hover above character’s heads, uniting his actors in conversation. In this context the quotes become a surreal and satirical self-criticism.
A 25 year survey of Chagoya’s work titled “Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia” organized by the Des Moines Art Center traveled to the Berkeley Art Museum and Palm Springs Art Museum in 2008.
Enrique Chagoya is currently Associate Professor of Art at Stanford University, where he received the Dean's Award in the Humanities in 1998. His work is shown widely and is in the collections of The LA County Museum, The National Museum of American Art, and The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library among others.
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