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EDUCATION
The School of the Art Institute of Art of Chicago
2007-2009 Master of Fine Arts, Painting/Drawing.
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque N.M.
2001-2006 Summa Cum Laude, Bachelors of Fine Arts.
*Major: Art Studio (Painting Emphasis)
*Minor: Chicano Studies
Mural Apprenticeship
1995-1997 Apprenticed with muralist Joe Stephenson.
*In conjunction with “Working Classroom” a non-profit youth organization for the Arts. Abq. NM
AWARDS
2022 Pablita Velarde Award for illustration: A Journey Through New Mexico, sponsored by The Historical Society of New Mexico
2020 McKnight Visual Art Fellowship Sponsored by the McKnight Foundation, Minneapolis, MN
2018 Sangre de Cristo Art Center Best of Show- Representing the West exhibition. Pueblo, CO
2017 Make A Wave 3Arts Award Sponsored by the 3Arts Chicago
2017 Chicago Art Coalition: Maker Grant
2015 South Bend Heritage Foundation Art and Social Justice Award, Colfax Campus Gallery. South Bend, IN
2014 Vermont Marshall Frankel Fellowship Fully funded month-long residency for SAIC Alumni at the Vermont Studio Center.
2014 National Alliance of Artists Communities and The Joyce Foundation Midwest Voices and Visions Fellowship
2012 South Bend Heritage Foundation Art and Social Justice Award, Colfax Campus Gallery. South Bend, IN
2008 Jacob Javits Fellowship
2008 Illinois College Associated Press 1st Place College Cartoonist Award for editorial cartoon in FNews
2007 Madonna Daniel Award Harwood Art Center, Emerging Artist. Albuquerque, NM
2005 New Mexico Associated Press Award Best Graphic Illustrator for a College Newspaper: The Daily Lobo. University of New Mexico
RESIDENCIES
2023 Ogden Contemporary Arts, Ogden, Utah
2022 Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York
2021 RAiR: Roswell Art in Residency, Roswell, New Mexico
2019 Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, Montana
2018 Core Residency at the Chicago Art Department In collaboration with Plug-In Studio, Chicago, IL
Haystack Mountain School of Craft: Frontline Arts, Veterans Artist Week. Deer Island, Maine.
2015 Hyde Park Art Center: Jackman Goldwasser Residency. Sponsored by the Joyce Foundation. Chicago, IL
2014 Vermont Studio Center: Vermont Marshall Frankel Fellowship
2013 Kohler Center for the Arts: Arts/Industry Program, Kohler, WI
2009 National Museum of Mexican Art, Artist in-Residence. Chicago, IL
PUBLICATION
2021 A Journey Through New Mexico a collaboration between my sister Judy Garcia.
2018 Drawing On Anger: Portraits of U.S. Hypocrisy Published through the Latino Graphix series at Ohio State University Press
Tales from la Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology Edited By Frederick Luis Aldama, Latinographix series published by Ohio State
University Press
2016 Organize You Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements Catalog edited by Anthony Romero, Soberscove
Press
2004- El Machete Illustrated Nationally published weekly political cartoon, ongoing
2013 Between the Chac Mool and the Chalice: An Art Exhibit at DePaul University Diálogo (bilingual journal) Volume 16, Number 1,
Spring. Center for Latino Research at DePaul University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Ogden Contemporary Arts, Ogden, Utah
2022 Roswell Museum Space Invaders, Roswell, NM
2019 DePaul Art Museum The Bald Eagle’s Toupee, Chicago, IL
2018 Arts+Literature Laboratory Cutting Down The Cottonwood, Madison, WI
2017 University of Arkansas Anne Katrell Gallery Drawings from the Phantom Limb. AK
2016 National Veterans Art Museum Operation Mom’s Couch. Chicago, IL
2015 University of Illinois Springfield Background, Springfield, IL
2014 Multi Culti Gallery/Performance Space El Machete Illustrated, Chicago, IL
2012 DePaul University Between the Chac Mol and the Chalice, Chicago, IL
2010 Prospectus Gallery The Santa Fe Railroad, Chicago, IL
2009 Art on Armitage We Paint the World, Chicago, IL
Illinois State University Critical History, University Galleries at. Normal, IL
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Cultural Conflicts, LG Gallery
2006 Espacio Municipal Solidaridad Contra el Imperialismo, Cochabamba, Boliva
University of New Mexico Chicano Propaganda, Sommers Gallery, Albq. NM
2005 El Centro de la Raza Debujos Politicos, University of New Mexico, Albq. NM
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 The National Museum of Mexican Art Carlos Cortéz 100 AÑOS, Chicago, IL
National Hispanic Cultural Center Into the Hourglass: Paño Arte from the Rudy Padilla Collection, Albuquerque, NM
Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center Son de Allá Son de Acá, San Diego, CA
Moonlight Adobe Hall, Print Pachanga, El Paso, TX
2022 Smithsonian: National Museum of the American Latino ¡Presente! Washington, DC
NMSU Art Museum Contemporary Ex-Votos, Las Cruces, NM
Amp Gallery Moving Pictures, Contemporary art and Animation, LA Mission College, Los Angeles, CA
National Hispanic Cultural Center Fronteras de Futuro, Albuquerque, NM
Plains Art Museum LA LINEA: 22 Years of Grupo Soap del Corazón, Fargo, ND
Tamarind Institute Turning Points, Albuquerque, NM
2021 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Revolution, Resistance, and Activism, New York, NY
The Minnesota Museum of Art Many Waters Minnesota Biannual, St. Paul, MN
Whatcom Museum El Zodíaco Familiar, Bellingham, WA
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Comics: 1960S to Now, Chicago, IL
MexicArte Museum The Border and Beyond: Selections from the Juan Antonio Sandoval Jr. Collection, Austin, TX
2020 Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES) ¡Presente!: 50 Years of Chicano & Latino Studies, St. Paul, MN
Smithsonian American Art Museum ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now, Washington, DC
The Jewish Museum We fight To Build A New World, New York, NY
National Hispanic Cultural Center Aqui Estamos New Selections from the Permanent Collection Albuquerque NM
Centro de Artes Galleries XicanX: New Visions, San Antonio, TX
Keep Contemporary Gallery The New Vanguard, Santa Fe, NM
The Lincoln Center Under Pressure: National Printmaking Exhibit, Fort Collins, CO
Sangre de Cristo Arts Center Representing the West: A New Frontier, Pueblo, CO
2019 Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory & Educational Foundation PRINTMAKING AS RESISTANCE EXHIBITION + ZINE LIBRARY
Northern Illinois University Art Museum EXPLORING ASPECTS OF WAR IN AND THROUGH THE VISUAL ARTS
The National Museum of Mexican Art A MATTER OF LIFE’s annual Dia de los Muertos exhibition.
New Monuments For New Cities - High Line Network Joint Art initiative, Austin, Chicago, Houston, New York and Toronto, Canada
2018 Art Expo Chicago Terra Firma, Hyde Park Art Center booth installation and collaboration with Frances Lightbound.
Billy Ireland Library and Museum Tales From LA Vida, Columbus, OH
UriEichen Gallery Poor Peoples Campaign, Print portfolio Exhibition. Chicago, IL
Art In These Times The Long Term, Print portfolio Exhibition. Chicago, IL
National Hispanic Cultural Center Aqui Estamos: Because It’s Time: Unraveling Race and Place in NM
MACLA-Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana Latino Art Now Art Auction, San Jose, CA
Burro Press Contra, IGC portfolio. Oaxaca, Mexico
National Hispanic Cultural Center La Ultima Exhibicion, Albuquerque, NM
DePaul Art Museum Jose Guerrero Presente: A memorial print portfolio Chicago, IL
Sangre de Cristo Arts Center Representing the West, Pueblo, CO.
Hairpin Art Center Do Not Resist: 100 years of Chicago Police Violence, Chicago, IL
2017 Billy Ireland Library and Museum “Looking Backward, Looking Forward: U.S. Immigration in Cartoons and Comics.”
Columbus, Ohio
Hyde Park Art Center Virtue of the Vicious, Chicago, IL
The National Museum of Mexican Art Memoria Presente, Chicago, IL
Open Center for the Arts. Montoneros. Political cartoon exhibit. Chicago, IL
DePaul University, Jose Guerrero Print Portfolio. Chicago, IL
2016 Chicano/a Biennial MACLA, San Jose, CA
Towne Art Gallery at Wheelock College Flayed, Boston, MA
Gallery F, Social Justice Exhibition, Chicago, IL
Uri-Eichen Gallery Income Inequality(A Cartoon Exhibit) Chicago, IL
Puffin Cultural Forum, Envisioning Election and Politics in 2016,Teaneck, NJ
Hyde Park Art Center, New Business, Chicago, IL
National Hispanic Cultural Center, “The Art of Acquisition: New New Mexican Works at the NHCC” Albuquerque, NM
Museum of Latin American Art Artists Assemble (Empowerment and Inspiration in Contemporary Comics), Long Beach, CA
Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery Chicano Voice, Kansas City, Missouri.
Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture ARTE PAÑO CONTEMPORANEO: A TRADITION REVIVED, South Bend, Indiana.
Carlos & Dominguez Gallery Latitude, Chicago, IL
Uri-Eichen Gallery (In)Justice For All, Chicago, IL
University of Dayton Latino Art of the Midwest: Into the 21st Century, Dayton, Ohio.
St Ambrose University Justice: Alternative Voices and Progressive Themes in Comics, Davenport, Iowa.
2015 Zhou Brothers Art Center Flayed, 3 person installation with Gabriel Villa, Salvador Jimenez. Chicago, IL.
National Museum of Mexican Art Co-directed with Carina Yepez Dia de los Muertos celebration/installation. Chicago, IL.
Creative Alliance at The Patterson Después de la Frontera / After the Border, Baltimore, MD
Colfax Campus Gallery Art and Social Justice Exhibition, South Bend, IN
The Studio Door Strip: Caricatures, Satire and The Funnies, San Diego, CA
Hyde Park Free Theatre The Barack Obama Presidential Library; a community of, for, and by the people. Chicago, IL
American Friends Service Committee All of Us or None: Responses and Resistance to Militarism! AFSC touring exhibit.
Art Space-Flatfile Heads Will Roll, New Haven, CT
South Broadway Cultural Center The Bomb, Albq. NM
2014 Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit Midwestern Voices and Visions, Detroit, MI
Southwestern College Labor-Migrant-Gulf. College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
Mexic-Arte Museum Illustrating Anarchy, Austin, TX
La Catrina Gallery ACE, Chicago, IL
2013 Urban Institute of Contemporary Art Pulso, Grand Rapids, MI
Gallery 19 Art, Objects and Politics, Chicago, IL
UNAM Posada Presente, International print portfolio, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Chicago and traveling
exhibition
2012 F. Lewis College State of the Art: Political Humor, FLC Art Gallery, Durango, CO
The Holland Area Arts Council. Obiter Dicta, Holland, MI
Colfax Campus Gallery Art and Social Justice Exhibition, South Bend, IN
Movimiento de Art y Cultura Latino Americana Chicano/a Biennial, San Jose, CA
2011 Calaca Press Calacas International Print exchange and traveling exhibition
Cobalt Gallery Action Figures, Chicago, IL
Carlos and Dominguez Fine Art Gallery Dual Exhibition, Chicago, IL
Arc Gallery Sequential Art: Comics and Beyond, Chicago, IL
2010 Casa de la Cultura Imágenes Religiosas, Jamay Jalisco, Mexico
Urban Institute of Contemporary Art (S)edition, Grand Rapids, MI
2009 The National Museum of Mexican Art Millas y Kilometros, Chicago, IL
Jaime Sabines Cultural Center Millas y Kilometros, Tuxtla Guiterrez, Mexico
Elmhurst College Dual Exhibition, Elmhurst, IL
Sullivan Gallery Pan America, at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
KiMo Gallery and 105 Studios Saints & Sinners, Albq. NM
Arc Gallery Money, Money, Money, Chicago, IL
2008 The Chicago Artists’ Coalition(CAC) Chicago Art Open 2008,Chicago, IL
The National Museum of Mexican Art Declaration of Immigration, Chicago, IL
Devening Projects and Editions Gallery Paper Love, Chicago, IL
South Side Community Art Center Word Play, Chicago, IL
Public Art projects
2023 “Sower, Healer, Protector” W100’ x H20’ Sponsored by Ogden Contemporary Arts, Ogden, Utah
2022 “White Lines on Brown Space” W24’ x H8’ White chalk on brown acrylic. Wassiac Project, NY
2021 “Free Them All” W20.5’ x H6.5’ billboard, Fronteristex Billboard project. Moriarty, NM
2019 “Frontier Justice” W38’8” x H19’6” Acrylic mural. Chroma Zone mural festival. St Paul MN.
“Lucy Gonzales Parsons” monument design for the New Monuments for New Cities project. Traveling exhibition.
“El Abrazo (phase 2)” W122’xH20’ In collaboration with Diana Solis and Katia Perez. Sponsored by El Paseo Community Garden.
Chicago, IL
“The Bald Eagle’s Toupee” at the DePaul Art Museum. W72’xH15’ Chicago, IL
2018 “The Creator and the Destroyer” Sponsored by Working Classroom. Albuquerque, NM
“A Splash of Unity” mosaic mural at Corkery Elementary school in Chicago. Sponsored by the National Museum of Mexican Art.
Chicago IL.
2017 “Patriotic Vomit” Projection/Animation 10'x80' Collaboration with Luis Mayorga at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.
“60 in 60” 60 political cartoons projected and spoken about in 60 minutes. Projected on to the National Museum of Mexican Art.
“El Abrazo (phase 1)” In collaboration with Diana Solis and Katia Perez. 50×50 DCASE Grant Coordinated by El Paseo Community
Garden. Chicago IL
"Bienvinidos” mosaic. Corkery Elementary school in Chicago. Sponsored by theNational Museum of Mexican Art Chicago IL
2016 "Respect" W25’xH3′ Acrylic mural. Corkery Elementary school in Chicago. Chicago IL
"TeamWork" W9 1/2’xH9 1/2′ Acrylic mural. Annie Keller Regional Gifted Center. Chicago IL
2015 “Dia de los Muertos” Animation/projection. 3 story tall, 152ft wide projections onto the National Museum of Mexican Art during the
Dia de los Muertos outdoor festival. Collaboration with animator Luis Mayorga and projectionist Mark Anderson.
"Two Histories, One School" W4’ x H12’ Mosaic mural. Corkery Elementary School, Chicago, IL
2014 "The Sky’s the Limit and Reach for the Stars" Two murals each W16’ x H8’ acrylic on wood. Columbia Explorers
Academy, Chicago, IL
"Exercising Peace" W11’ x H34’ Acrylic mural. Corkery Elementary School, Chicago, IL
"Urban Institute Contemporary Art"
2013 "The Condensed History of the U.S. Invasion of Mexico" W95’ x H22’ Acrylic mural. Grand Rapids, MI
2013 "El Ritmo del Agua" W84’ x H5’ Acrylic mural. Gateway Park Mural, in conjunction with Bernalillo County and Working Classroom,
Albq. NM
"The Embrace of La Villita" W21’ xH7’ Acrylic mural. Corkery Elementary School, Chicago, IL
2012 "Knowledge Is The Power To Your Future" W21’ x H12’ Hammond Elementary School, Chicago, IL
"St. Frances of Rome" W20.5’ x H10’ Acrylic mural. St. Frances of Rome Elementary School, Chicago, IL
"(Hear) by the River" Digital mural with Mark Anderson and Michael Lorenso Lopez. Sponsored by Working Classroom,
in conjunction with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Albuquerque Convention Center, NM
2011 "Creative Currents" W75’ x H15.5’ Acrylic mural. Working Classroom new building: Barelas neighborhood. Albq. NM
1997 "Portrait of Parkdale" W60’ x H10’ Acrylic mural. In conjunction with Working Classroom and Parkdale Community Center, Toronto,
Canada
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
2023 Denver Art Museum The Visual Language of Chicano Codices
University of Texas El Paso, TALES FROM THE CHIHUAHUAN DESERT: NEH Summer Institute
University of Urbana Champaign Poltical Cartoon Panel discussion with Keef Knight, and Ann Telnaels
The Jewish Museum Virtual Summer Institute
2022 Roswell Museum Artist talk in conjunction with “Space Invaders” exhibition.
2020 The Jewish Museum We Fight to Build a Free World political poster exhibition, discussion with Kay Rosen. New York, NY
2019 Northern Illinois University Art Museum Artist Talk “Shinning the Bald Eagle’s Head: Creative Critiques from Occupied America”
DePaul Art Museum “The Bald Eagle’s Toupee” gallery talk. In conjunction with the National Veterans Art Museum’s Veteran Triennial
Truman College Drawing On Anger book unveiling
UIC Latino Cultural Center Drawing On Anger book unveiling
University of Illinois Urban-Champaign Drawing On Anger book unveiling
2018 The National Museum of Mexican Art Drawing On Anger book unveiling
2017 The School of the Art Institute guest lecturer Foundations Class Kerry Richardson
Beverly Art Center “Public Art” Panel discussion
National Museum of Mexican Art 60 in 60 performance
St Norbert College, Visiting artist and lecturer, Greenbay WI
YMCA Headquarters Mural workshop
Ohio State University Keynote speaker for Latino Role Models Day
Hyde Park Art Center in conjunction with the Virtue of the Vicious exhibition
Truman College Guest lecturer at Ben Ortiz Journalism Class Spring
The Art Institute of Chicago Artist Talk in conjunction with the Alexander Zhitomirsky exhibition
2016 Latino Art Now Conference: Paño Arte panel & IGC panel. Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art Presented in association with the exhibition and event series Organize Your Own: The Politics and
Poetics of Self-Determination Movements at Columbia College, Speakers include artists Eric J. Garcia, Nicole Marroquin, Maria
Gaspar, and Anthony Romero
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Diversity Advisory Group Here + Now Lecture: Tim Jackson and Eric J.
Garcia. In conversation with faculty member Anne Elizabeth Moore, VCS
2015 National Veterans Art Museum: Guest lecturer and printmaking workshop. Chicago, IL
Spudnik Press, Guest Lecturer on Activism in Latin American Printmaking, in conjunction with the Panel discussion on Instituto
Grafico de Chicago
2014 DePaul University: Guest Speaker for LSP 200 Multiculturalism Seminar. “The Politics of Race and Gender Identity in the Visual
Contemporary Arts” Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Guest speaker for Graduate course “Cultural Approaches and Productions”
The Art Institute of Chicago: Art Institute Colloquium Panel “Legacy of the TGP”
The Art Institute of Chicago: Artist Talk, Fulerton Hall
2013 Kendall College of Art and Design: Grabadolandia: Jose Guadalupe Posada lecture and class critique, Grand Rapids, MI
The Cigar Society of Chicago: El Machete Illustrated, lecture. Chicago, IL
2012 Truman College: El Machete Illustrated: lecture. Chicago, IL
University of Madison Wisconsin: MECHA: Political Cartoons:workshop
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies: Art and Activism: Panelist. Chicago, IL
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americano: Chicano Biennial: Artist talk. San Jose, CA
DePaul University Center for Intercultural Affairs Between the Chac Mool and the Chalice
http://studentaffairs.depaul.edu/cip/videos.html
2010 DePaul University: Iraq History Project. Exhibition, panel discussion, Chicago, IL
University of Illinois Chicago: La Tierra Prometida. Panel discussion with artists: Gabriel Villa, Nicole Marroquin, Salvador Jimenez
Arizona State University: Annual Spanish Graduate Conference. Tempe, AZ
2009 Elmhurst College: Dual Exhibition: Artist talk with artist Alvaro Ramirez.. Elmhurst, IL
Illinois State University College of Fine Arts: One week of lectures and critiques. Normal, IL
National Museum of Mexican Art and Chicago Arts Coalition: Artist to Watch: lectures with Tamasha Williamsom and
Javiar Chavira, Chicago, IL
REVIEWS/ARTICLES
2020 The New Mexico Magazine Close Encounters of the Satirical Kind
2019 Albuquerque Journal Drawing on Anger Interview
Santa Fe New Mexican Pasatiempo Drawing on Anger review
2018 Santa Fe New Mexican Pasatiempo Drawing on Murieta’s Legend for Inspiration
2016 Chicago Magazine Operation Mom’s Couch by Nissa Rhee
2014 Art Prize Exhibition review by Kevin Buist. www.artprize.org/blog/kcad-and-uica-showcase-latino-art-with-pulso
2013 Art Prize Pulso, Art of the Americas, by Kevin Buist
Art Education Journal Artist in focus and teacher curriculum by Dr. Judith Briggs
Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy Featured artist
Albuquerque Journal Press coverage of “El Ritmo del Agua” mural unveiling
2012 Art Education Journal Artist reference by Dr. Judith Briggs
2010 Chicago Reader Morning Art
Time Out Chicago Millas y Kilometros at the National Museum of Mexican Art
2010 NewCity Magazine The Santa Fe Railroad at Prospectus Gallery
Justseeds Eric Garcia: Activist Printmaker
2009 The Leader Dual Show with artist Alvaro Ramirez. October 6, Vol 44
GRIID Grand Rapids Institute for Information and Democracy
http://griid.org/2009/12/13/art-exhibit-explores-activism-through-printmaking/
Change.org Eric Garcia Weighs In on Immigration Debate by Dave Bennion
Fnews Magazine Cultural Conflicts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2008 Diario de Chiapas (Chiapas daily news) Millas y Kilometros, exhibit
USA Today Blurb in the upcoming events for the “Declaration of Immigration” Exhibition at the National Museum of Mexican Art
Associated Press Declaration of Immigration at the National Museum of Mexican Art
Time Out Chicago Paper Love, Devening Projects and Editions Gallery. Chicago, IL
INTERVIEWS
2022 Hyperallergic, The Real Space Invaders
Mplsarts.com by Russ White McKnight Visual Artist Fellow: Eric J. García
PBS New Mexico, Colores Eric Garcia Political Cartoonist
Roswell Artist in Residence Space Invaders exhibition
2019 Artaxis My experience at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center - Arts/Industry Program
Monuments Lab Podcast by Paul Farber about the New Monuments for New Cities project.
Just Seeds Artist interview by Aaron Hughes
2018 Sixty Inches From Center Drawing On Anger with Jennifer Patiño Cervantes
KUNM Drawing On Anger with Cristina Baccin http://www.kunm.org/post/eric-j-garc-portraits-us-hypocrisy
2017 U of Arkansas Drawings from the Phantom Limb
Veteran Art Movement Eighty One Echo episode-two-eric-garcia
2016 WBEZ Operation Mom’s Couch and the National Veterans Art Museum interview with Jennifer White.
2015 The X Web Cast Broken Sword Publications with Santino Rivera
2014 Every Day Citizen Artist Interview, by Angel Lopez
2013 Northwestern Oklahoma State University: Guest Artist Series
Morning Brew Albuquerque talk show
2012 Chicago Tonight Political Cartoonists, with cartoonist Scott Stantis
Gozamos Artist interview by Corey Nuffer.
Contratiempo Artist interview by Stephanie Manriquez. (in print)
2011 Chicago Noticias, The Chicago Herald Artista Hispano Pinta En Comics by Irene Rodriguez
Fnews Action Figure Exhibit, by Diana Buendia
Remezcla Chicago Eric Garcia’s Ink Show
2010 Fnews Magazine The Santa Fe Railroad
2009 CAC Arts Newspaper Volume XXXVI, Number 1
2008 Posh Magazine New Mexico art and culture magazine
2006 Albuquerque Tribune, daily news by Felicia Fonseca
TEACHING
2020 Minneapolis College of Art and Design: Graduate Art Seminar
2010-18 National Museum of Mexican Art: Arte Ambulante: Workshop Coordinator and Lecturer: public history lectures and hands-on
art-making, all ages
2012 Elevarte Community Studio: Illustration: Calavera, Poetry and Art: Day of the Dead.
All-ages. Chicago, IL
2010 Yollocalli Arts Reach: Printmaking: Posada’s Offspring.Traditional and experimental techniques, ages 14-21, Chicago, IL
2009 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Teaching Assistant: Bookmaking, with Deborah Boardman, Chicago, IL
2008 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Substitute Teacher: Figure Drawing I
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Teaching Assistant: Painting Seminar, for Michele Grabner and Susana Coffey
2008 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Graduate Lecture Series. Chicago, IL
2006 University of New Mexico’s Sommers Gallery: Chicano Propaganda. Honors Thesis exhibition and lecture, Albq. NM
University of New Mexico: Invited Artist lecture: Introduction to Art History, Albq. NM
University of New Mexico: Invited Lecture on political cartoons: Chicano Humor, Humanities course 201. Albq. NM
SCHOLARSHIPS AND RECOGNITION
2009 Chicago Artist Coalition: Artist To Watch
2008 Jacque and Natasha Gelman Award Selected to receive this grant through the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2007 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Merit AwardIncentive Scholarship for Painting and Drawing
Worldstudio Foundation AIAG Scholarship
Center for Regional Studies Fellowship University of New Mexico Graduate Fellowship
2006 De Colores Unsung Student Hero Award Recognition for Hispanics who give back to their communities
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Library of Congress
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art
The Art Institute of Chicago
John Michael Kohler Art Center
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
National Museum of Mexican Art
National Hispanic Cultural Center
Center for the Study of Political Graphics
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art
Tamarind Institute
University of New Mexico Art Museum
New Mexico State University Art Museum
DePaul Art Museum
Elmhurst College
Gilberto Cardenas Private Collection