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malaquias_montoya

Offset Litho, 30" x 22" - 1973

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Credited by social historians as one of the founders of a "social serigraphy" movement in the San Francisco Bay Area in the mid-1960's, Malaquias Montoya has inspired generations of artists. He has dedicated his life to informing and educating those neglected and exploited peoples whose lives are at risk in milieus of racism, sexism and cultural oppression. He continues to exhibit extensively and has widespread appeal demonstrated by the variety of locations where he shows his work. The group exhibitions have been important to him in that they put him in touch with artists whose political and artistic philosophies are in agreement with his own. They have enabled him to collaborate on issues relevant to those communities and seek ways of resolving problems that impact them.


Selected Exhibitions
One Person Exhibitions

  • 2006 "Works by Malaquias Montoya," University of California, Washington DC Center, Washington, D.C. January - June.

  • "PreMeditated, Meditations on Capital Punishment, Works by Malaquias Montoya,"
    • 2006 Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA, April-May
    • 2005 Together for Justice: Art & Activism; Benefit for Death Penalty Focus, San Francisco, CA, October 23
    • 2005 Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA, July-August
    • 2005 Instituto de Mexico, San Antonio, Texas, February
    • 2005 Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, Texas, January
    • 2004 Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL, August-November
    • 2004 National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Annual Conference, Washington D.C., October
    • 2004 Mestrovic Studio Gallery, The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, January - February
    • 2003 Asian Resource Gallery, Oakland, CA, Preview exhibition, April-June

  • 2005 "Works by Malaquias Montoya; A Voice for the Voiceless," Kellogg Library, California State University, San Marcos, September - December.

  • 1998 "Malaquias Montoya," Mexic-Arte Museum, 5th & Austin, TX, July 31 - August

  • 1998 "LuchARTE, a one person exhibit by Malaquias Montoya," Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX, March 19 - April 24

  • 1997 "The Art of Protest: The Posters of Malaquias Montoya," MACLA, San Josˇ Center for Latino Arts, San Jose, CA; July 19 - August 23

  • 1997 "Malaquias Montoya: 1997 Adaline Kent Award Exhibition," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; June 5 - July 13

  • 1996 "Malaquias Montoya: Prints and Drawings," Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, November 10, 1995 - January

Group Exhibitions

  • 2006 "The African Presence in Mexico: From yanga to the Present," The Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL, January - September.

  • 2006 "Poetas y Pintores: Artists Conversing with Verse," Institute for Latino Studies, Notre Dame in partership with the Center for Women's InterCultural Leadership at St. Mary's College, & sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Notre Dame, Indiana, January
    Taller Boricua, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, 1680 Lexington Ave. & 106th St., New York, NY 10029, March 17 - April 29, 2006

  • 2005 "Bienvenida & Serie XII, Inaugural Art Exhibition," University of Texas @ Austin, the Center for Mexican American Studies, Austin, TX, September - November

  • 2004 "Chicano Art for Our Millennium," Mesa Southwest Museum, Mesa, AZ, May 1 - September 19

  • 2004 "Re-Affirming Our Principles of Community," Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, Davis, CA, February

  • 2003 "One Struggle, Two Communities: Late 20th Century Political Posters of Havana, and the San Francisco Bay Area," Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, Sept. - Dec.

  • 2001 "S.O.S. ARTE!" Arte Americas Plaza Inaugural Opening, Fresno, CA, June - July

  • "Made in California: 1900 -2000,"
    • 2000-2001 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, October 22, 2000 - February 25
    • 2000-2001 Galeria Posada, Sacramento, CA, Dec. 2000 - February

  • "Just Another Poster? Chicano Graphic Arts in California," Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
    • UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, June-Dec. 2001
    • La Raza Galeria Posada, Sacramento, CA
    • Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

  • 2000 "Vecinos: Two Organizations, One Community," Plaza de la Raza, Los Angeles, CA, Self-Help Graphics, Exhibition Print Program, May-August

  • 2000 "Pressing the Point: Parallel Expressions in the Graphic Arts of the Chicano and Puerto Rican Movements," El Museo del Barrio, 5th Avenue, NY

  • 1999 Capital Art: dedicated to Mumia Abu-Jamal; Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

  • "The Role Of Paper, El Papel del Papel," Affirmation and Identity in Chicano and Boricua Art:
    1998 Sala Central of the Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Espanola; La Puntilla, San Juan Puerto Rico, November
    1999 Taller Puertorriqueno, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, March
    1999 Carribbean Cultural Center & Taller Boricua , New York, NY, July
    2000 Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Visual Arts Annex, San Antonio, TX

  • 1990 CARA: Chicano Art, Resistance and Affirmation, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

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