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Enrique Chagoya

17th Biennale of Sydney | Newsletter Essay, 2004/2005

Drawing on both contemporary and ancient aesthetics and playing with the viewer’s understanding and expectations of the past and present, Enrique Chagoya’s work is a mordant and mischievous critique of the cultural, social, and political struggles raging across the two American continents. He often uses amate, a type of bark paper that has been manufactured in his native Mexico since before the arrival of the Spanish. It is associated with the ancient tradition of codices—book-like pictorial works that illustrate the histories of pre-colonial Central America.

As Chagoya has remarked, “I integrate diverse elements: from pre-Columbian mythology, Western religious iconography, ethnic stereotypes, ideological propaganda from various times and places, American popular culture, etc. Often, the result is a non-linear narrative with many possible interpretations.”

Chagoya holds a BFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. A professor at Stanford University, he shows nationally and internationally, including a 2007 retrospective organized by the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa which travelled to the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Palm Springs Art Museum, the 17th Biennale of Sydney, and a 2013 exhibition at the Centro Museum ARTIUM in the Basque capital of Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain) which went to the CAAM in the Canary Islands. His work is held in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, De Young Museum, LACMA, National Museum of American Art, Des Moines Art Center, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and New York Public Library.

Enrique Chagoya - The Enlightened Savage, 2002, digital print on 10 tin cans with sand, screen printed box dimensions variable Edition of 40, AP 3/5
Enrique Chagoya - The Enlightened Savage, 2002, digital print on 10 tin cans with sand, screen printed box dimensions variable Edition of 40, AP 3/5
Enrique Chagoya - Detention at the Border of Language, 2019, color lithograph, 22 by 30 inches, edition of 30
Enrique Chagoya - Detention at the Border of Language
Enrique Chagoya - Aliens in Borderlandia (SOLD), 2019, acrylic and water based oil paint, glass eyes, pencil, solvent transfers, decals, acrylic varnish, and wood on handmade Amate paper, 11.5 by 108.5 inches unframed
Enrique Chagoya - Aliens in Borderlandia (SOLD)
Enrique Chagoya - The Ghosts of Borderlandia, 2017, color lithograph with chine colle, 15 by 80 inches, edition of 30
Enrique Chagoya - The Ghosts of Borderlandia
Enrique Chagoya - Illegal Alien's Guide to Mindfulness, 2015, acrylic and water based oil paint on de-acidified vintage paper, 15 by 97 inches framed
Enrique Chagoya - Illegal Alien's Guide to Mindfulness
Enrique Chagoya - Aliens Sans Frontiers, 2016, color lithograph on handmade Amate paper, 24 by 28 inches
Enrique Chagoya - Aliens Sans Frontiers
Enrique Chagoya - La Bestia's Guide to the Birth of Cool, 2014, color lithograph with chine colle and gold metallic powder, 8.25 by 92 inches, edition of 6
Enrique Chagoya - La Bestia's Guide to the Birth of Cool
Enrique Chagoya - Ghost of Liberty, 2004, lithograph, edition of 30, 11.5 by 84.5 inches
Enrique Chagoya - Ghost of Liberty
Enrique Chagoya - Recurrent Goya (Suite of 8 prints) (detail), 2012, intaglio with letterpress, 14.5 by 11 inches each, edition of 8
Enrique Chagoya - Recurrent Goya (Suite of 8 prints) (detail)
Enrique Chagoya - Recurrent Goya (Suite of 8 prints) (detail), 2012, intaglio with letterpress, 14.5 by 11 inches each, edition of 8
Enrique Chagoya - Recurrent Goya (Suite of 8 prints) (detail)
Enrique Chagoya - Recurrent Goya (Suite of 8 prints) (detail), 2012, intaglio with letterpress, 14.5 by 11 inches each, edition of 8
Enrique Chagoya - Recurrent Goya (Suite of 8 prints) (detail)
Enrique Chagoya - Recurrent Goya (Suite of 8 prints) (detail), 2012, intaglio with letterpress, 14.5 by 11 inches each, edition of 8
Enrique Chagoya - Recurrent Goya (Suite of 8 prints) (detail)
Enrique Chagoya - Recurrent Goya (Suite of 8 prints) (detail), 2012, intaglio with letterpress, 14.5 by 11 inches each, edition of 8
Enrique Chagoya - Recurrent Goya (Suite of 8 prints) (detail)
Enrique Chagoya - Recurrent Goya (Suite of 8 prints) (detail), 2012, intaglio with letterpress, 14.5 by 11 inches each, edition of 8
Enrique Chagoya - Recurrent Goya (Suite of 8 prints) (detail)
Enrique Chagoya - Recurrent Goya (Suite of 8 prints) (detail), 2012, intaglio with letterpress, 14.5 by 11 inches each, edition of 8
Enrique Chagoya - Recurrent Goya (Suite of 8 prints) (detail)
Enrique Chagoya - Recurrent Goya (Suite of 8 prints) (detail), 2012, intaglio with letterpress, 14.5 by 11 inches each, edition of 8
Enrique Chagoya - Recurrent Goya (Suite of 8 prints) (detail)
Enrique Chagoya - Pyramid Scheme, 2009, archival pigment print on ten cans with silkscreened box, variable, box size 4.75 by 16.25 by 6.5 inches, edition of 40
Enrique Chagoya - Pyramid Scheme
Enrique Chagoya - Ghostly Meditations (meditations on el ser y la nada), 2012, acrylic and India ink on de-acidified 19th century paper (facing pages of etchings from a 19th century book), 18.75 by 13.75 inches
Enrique Chagoya - Ghostly Meditations (meditations on el ser y la nada)
Enrique Chagoya - Ghostly Meditations (waltzing with the forgotten), 2010, acrylic and India ink on de-acidified 19th century paper (facing pages of etchings from a 19th century book), 18.75 by 13.75 inches
Enrique Chagoya - Ghostly Meditations (waltzing with the forgotten)
Enrique Chagoya - Ghostly Meditations (the barbwire of success), 2012, acrylic and India ink on de-acidified 19th century paper (facing pages of etchings from a 19th century book), 13.75 by 18.75 inches
Enrique Chagoya - Ghostly Meditations (the barbwire of success)
Enrique Chagoya - Ghostly Meditations (memories of oblivion), 2012, acrylic and India ink on de-acidified 19th century paper (facing pages of etchings from a 19th century book), 18.75 by 13.75 inches
Enrique Chagoya - Ghostly Meditations (memories of oblivion)
Enrique Chagoya - Ghostly Meditations (brain police department), 2012, acrylic and India ink on de-acidified 19th century paper (facing pages of etchings from a 19th century book), 18.75 by 13.75 inches
Enrique Chagoya - Ghostly Meditations (brain police department)
Enrique Chagoya - Ghostly Meditations (martyrs of the arts academy), 2012, acrylic and India ink on de-acidified 19th century paper (facing pages of etchings from a 19th century book), 18.75 by 13.75 inches
Enrique Chagoya - Ghostly Meditations (martyrs of the arts academy)
Enrique Chagoya - Ghostly Meditations (perpetual anarchist church), 2012, acrylic and India ink on de-acidified 19th century paper (facing pages of etchings from a 19th century book), 13.75 by 18.75 inches
Enrique Chagoya - Ghostly Meditations (perpetual anarchist church)
Enrique Chagoya - The Pastoral or Arcadian State, Illegal Alien's Guide to Greater America, 2006, color lithograph, 24 by 39 inches
Enrique Chagoya - The Pastoral or Arcadian State, Illegal Alien's Guide to Greater America
Enrique Chagoya - Two Origins of the World, 2000, acrylic and waterbased oil on Amate on linen, 48 by 48 inches
Enrique Chagoya - Two Origins of the World

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