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Chagoya, Enrique (b.1953)

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Name
Chagoya, Enrique (b.1953)
Nationality
Mexican
Biography
Chagoya uses a variety of images derived from pop culture, pre-Colombian art, and Western art history to address the subject of colonialism in the U.S. and Latin America. He attended the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, studying political economy and contributing political cartoons to union newsletters there. Chagoya later moved to Berkeley, California, working as an illustrator and graphic designer, eventually attending the San Francisco Art Institute, earning a BFA in printmaking in 1984. He received an MA and MFA at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1987. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Assets (22 in total)

De Que Mal Morira? (What Disease Will He Die Of?) (etching and aquatint)
Se Repulen (They Spruce Themselves Up) (etching and aquatint)
Linda Maestral! (Pretty Teacher) (etching and aquatint)
A Caza De Dientes (Out Hunting For Teeth) (etching and aquatint)
El Sueño De La Razon Produce Monstrous (The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters) (etching and aquatint)
Se Repulen (They Spruce Themselves Up) (etching and aquatint)
Linda Maestral! (Pretty Teacher) (etching and aquatint)
Untitled, from the Set 'Return to Goya's Caprichos', 1999 (litho)
Untitled, from the Set 'Return to Goya's Caprichos', 1999 (litho)
Untitled, from the Set 'Return to Goya's Caprichos', 1999 (litho)
A Caza De Dientes (Out Hunting For Teeth) (etching and aquatint)
Quien Mas Remdido? (Who Is The More Devoted) (etching and aquatint)
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