ENRIQUE CHAGOYA b. 1953, Mexico City, Mexico. Education: University of California, Berkeley (MFA, 1987; MA, 1986); San Francisco Art Institute (BFA, 1984); Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Political Economy, 1972-1975). Selected Solo Exhibitions: Utopian Cannibal: Adventures in Reverse, Forum for Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, MO (2001); Enrique Chagoya: Locked in Paradise, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, in collaboration with Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco (2000); Borders of the Spirit, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco (1994); Re-Inventing America, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis (1993); When Paradise Arrived, The Work of Enrique Chagoya, Alternative Museum, New York City (1989). Selected Group Exhibitions: Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2000); Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (2000); Other Narratives, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (1999); Art from Around the Bay, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1998); Singular Impressions, The Monotype in America, National Museum of American Art, The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC (1997); Awards Exhibition, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY (1997); The Mythic Presence of Chagoya, Valdez and Gronk, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (1996); Here and Now – Masterworks from the di Rosa Collection, Oakland Museum of California (1995); Ante America / Regarding America, traveling exhibition through major museums in Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica and US (1994). Selected Awards and Honors: Biennial Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY (1997); Artist fellowship and residency at Giverny, France, Lila Wallace Foundation / Foundation Monet (1995); National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for works on paper (1993). Selected Collections: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; The Mexican Museum, San Francisco; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; di Rosa Preserve, Napa.

Donated by Enrique Chagoya, Courtesy Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco