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RAUL BALTAZAR raulpbaltazar@gmail.com 1972 BORN Los Angeles California
2013 MFA Otis College of Art and Design Fine Art/ Public Practice 2009 BFA Otis College of Art and Design Sculpture and New Genres
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 WELCOME TO THE BUNNYHOUSE Guggenheim Gallery Chapman University 2015 HOUSE DEER RABBIT COYOTE Selecto Planta Baja LA CA 2008 LOVE UNDER LUST G727 LA CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS *selected 2024 Seeing Chicanx Monterey Museum of Art, CA 2023 House of Seiko, San Francisco, CA 2023 VETA by Fer Frances, Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A. Madrid, Spain 2022 Meshed Realism LAST gallery Los Angeles CA 2020 Manifesta 13 Les Parallèles du Sud HMHM movie 2019 A DECOLONIAL ATLAS STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE AMERICAS Union College 2018 CALAFIA: Manifesting the Terrestrial Paradise at RAFFMA
2018 REGENERACIÓN, THREE GENERATIONS OF REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGY Vincent Price Art Museum LA CA 2018 Sisyphus, Ver.20.18 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts - Digiark in Taichung, Taiwan 2018 A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INFAMY Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA at LACMA; 2017 A DECOLONIAL ATLAS STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE AMERICAS Off Biennale Cairo, Le Caire, Egypt, Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, Tufts University, Boston.
Raul Baltazar
"Raul Baltazar (b. 1972, Los Angeles) is a transdisciplinary artist and educator whose work delves into aesthetic notions, particularly within Mesoamerican and Western cultures. Baltazar employs a diverse range of disciplines, including performance, painting, sculpture, public, and community-based projects. His artistic practice is deeply rooted in the struggles of Chicano/a and Mesoamerican Indigenous communities, aiming to amplify their revolutionary vision for peaceful and dignified change. Baltazar challenges societal norms by contributing to the creation of contemporary cultural productions grounded in artistic research of ancient cultures, yet innovative while responding to a post-modern culture. His work creates spaces for healing, communication, and reflection, fostering engagement with the public and promoting a self-reflexive identification with indigeneity. Baltazar's work also falls under a concept he names 'Coyote Culture,' a new culture rooted since time immemorial that has used cunning and guile to struggle against those who pervert ideologies and abuse power and authority through sanctioned or unsanctioned forms of violence. This culture refuses to become slaves to captivity, it embraces the wild within and will cross borders in all fashions and forms."