LIVE & WORK
Oakland, CA.
EDUCATION
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Decadent Decades, Oakland/ Albisola Years, The Fourth Wall, Oakland,CA(catalog).
2017 Hoodwink By Didactix, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2015 Retrospectives, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2014 Parochial Beacon, Paolo Mejia Gallery, San Francisco, CA. (as IZUUK RIGOR)
2012 Solace From The Wild Side, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2010 Don’t Waste My Time, Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus II, Schwandorf, Germany.
Gone Adrift, Freies -Museum, Berlin, Germany.
2009 Splendor of Indulgence Nothingness, Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA. (Miju).
Compota, Pablo Gallery, Manila Metro area, Philippines. (Miju)
Mambo Without Swing, The Forgotten Pictorial History of The Etiology of Power, SFMOMA Artist Gallery at Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA.
2008 Denizens of Happylandia, Taylor Bercier Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA. (catalog).
Effigies and Demagogues, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA. (Miju) (catalog).
2006 American Lullaby Series, Djerassi Resident Artist Program Open House,
Woodside, CA.
2004 Blinded By Omnipotence, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2003 Choque Cultural, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba.
Misadventures of a Sidestepping Idealist, Babilonia 1808 Berkeley, CA.
2001 Gozar Con La Patria, Mario Villa Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
2000 Ahi Na' Ma, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Very Good In Spurts, Golden Cargo, Manila, Philippines
2020 Quarantine Copy, Kunstverein Miagao, Iloilo, Philippines.
2019 Our Thoughts and Prayers Are with You, The Carl Cherry Center For the Arts, Carmel, CA.
Statements of Accounts, Mono8, Manila, Philippines.
Pulp: Works Involving Paper, Jen Tough Gallery, Benicia CA.
Arte Extraordinario Recent Acquisitions, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA.
2018 Bastards of Misrepresentation - Planet Merde, Galerie Melike Bilir, Hamburg, Germany.
Compulsory Contradiction, Vinyl on Vinyl Gallery, Manila, Philippines.
Tropeycalia Club, Skyline College Art Gallery, San Bruno, CA.
All That You Have Is Your Soul, Faction Art Projects, New York, NY.
2016 PULSE Miami Beach 2016, Jack Fischer Gallery, Miami, Fl.
Abortion of Cute, 8 Salon, Hamburg, Germany.
Electric Bulalo: Painting in Exile,Vinyl On Vinyl, Manila, Philippines.
Topsy Turvy, Finale Art File, Manila, Philippines.
Krowsworkerswork, Krowswork, Oakland, CA.
The Human Spirit, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA.
2015 Miami Project 2015, Jack Fischer Gallery, Miami, FL.
Tropes of Expectations, Vinyl On Vinyl , Manila, Philippines.
Mirage, XII Habana Bienal Collateral Exhibitions, Habana, Cuba.
2014 Paint Plethora, Studio Grand, Oakland, CA.
Oakland Music Festival, Local Artist Exhibit, Era Bar, Oakland, CA. (as IZUUK RIGOR)
2013 Paradox Maintenance Technician, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA. (catalog)
DEFILE, Galleria Duemila, Metro Manila, Philippines. (catalog)
2012 Corresponding Views, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA.
La Espina, Alley Cat Bookstore, San Francisco, CA.
Man, Myth and Monsters, LeMieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
2011 Cuban Collection, MACLA, San Jose, CA.
Agarra Juicio, The Ghost Poo of Painting, Edelo, San Cristóbal De La Casas, Chiapas, México (with AFKAF)
Social Commentary, Space 301, Mobile, AL.
2010 Diluvial Hood, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany, (with Miju and Club S&S)
Free -Range Aesthetics, Pussyfooting Through the Detritus Mind field Of Reality”, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA.(with AFKAF)
Amor Fati, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA. (with Miju)
2009 Sorry Friend, This is No Hemorrhoids;-{o>, A440 Gallery, San Francisco, CA and Finale Art File, Manila, PH. (with AFKAF)
Strange Hope, Galeria De LA Raza, San Francisco, CA. (with Miju)
Opening Salvo for Suite 418, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008 Gristle Pays Homage to the Benevolent Sausage, Mag:net Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines,(with Miju)
Room for Big Ideas, Bay Area Now 5, Red Poppy Art House, Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Politique Poetique, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA.
Insider/Outsider, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
Miju, Red Dot art fair, Jack Fischer Gallery, New York, NY.
Paper Works, SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Beyond Child Play, MACLA, San Jose, CA.
2007 Miju, Red Dot art fair, Jack Fischer Gallery, Miami, FL.
Painted Dreams, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA.
Alienated Mass Historia, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
Pistolitas de Azucar: Cultura, Pop, and Whimsy, Galería De La Raza, San Francisco, CA.
Drawn From New Orleans, 20th Century Works From Private Collections, Newcomb College Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
2006 Outside- Inside –Out, Space 301, Mobile, AL.
sin miramiento alguno (arte iberoamericano actual), in conjunction with Havana Bienal, Havana, Cuba
Cuentos Caseros, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA.
Virus Show, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA.
2005 Comercielo, Red Poppy Art House, San Francisco, CA.
Latin Spirit, SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
it’s not rocket science, Bayennale, Oakland, CA.
2004 Rogue Nations” Cuban And Chinese Artist, MACLA, San Jose, CA.
2003 Cuba on My Mind, Art Gallery Cesar Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Un/Familiar Territory, San Jose Museum Of Art, San Jose, CA.
2002 Is the Medium in the Message?: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Jose
Museum Of Art, San Jose, CA
2001 Contemporary Devotion, San Jose Museum Of Art, San Jose, CA
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
Miju: collaboration with Michele Muennig
Artist Formerly Known As Friends (AFKAF): collaboration with Arvin Flores, Carlo Ricafort, David Griggs, Gerry Tan, and Manuel Ocampo.
Club S&S: collaboration with Stephen Paul Day and Sibylle Peretti
Izuuk Rigor is collaboration with Carlo Ricafort
CURATORIAL PROJECTS and JUROR
2014 to 2017 Co-Founder of Random Parts, artist run project space, Oakland, CA.
2011 Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Juror, Woodside, CA.
2009 Skyline College, Juror, San Bruno, CA.
2006 Cuentos Caseros, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA.
2005 Port Of Oakland Art Commission, Oakland, CA.
LECTURES and ARTIST TALKS
2019 Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University, Stanford University, CA
2018 California State University Monterey Bay, Visiting Artist,Monterey Bay, CA
2017 Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2015 Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 Hunter College, New York, NY.
U.C. Berkeley, History Department
2011 Macla, San Jose, CA.
**Edelo Intercultural Residency Program, San Cristóbal de la Casas, Chiapas,
México Universidad de Ciencia y Arte De Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutierrez, México
2008 Macla, San Jose, CA.
2007 Galeria De la Raza, San Francisco, CA.
2006 Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA.
Djerassi Resident Artist Program,Woodside, CA.
2003 Babilonia 1808 Emerging Artist Program with Jenifer Wofford, Berkeley,CA
Centro de Desarrollo de Las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba
2000 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA.
AWARDS and RESIDENCIES
2017 Joan Mitchell Center Residency Program (postponed till 2022)
2016 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant Award
2011 **Edelo Intercultural Residency Program, San Cristóbal de la Casas, Chiapas, MX
2010 Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus II Art Residency, Schwandorf, Germany
2006 The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation Fellowship through the Djerassi Resident
Program, Woodside, CA.
2002 Valparaiso Artist Residency, Mojacar, Spain
1998 Amsterdam Art Logan Graphics Award of Excellence in Printmaking,
Berkeley, CA.
1996 Best of Show, Pro Arts Annual Juried Show, Oakland, CA.
1991 First Prize for Sculpture, Newcomb Spring Art Show, New Orleans, LA.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
San Jose Museum Of Art, San Jose, CA
SELECTED REVIEWS, ESSAYS and PUBLICATIONS
Denizens Of Happylandia, Exhibition Catalog, Cabin Fever, essay by Arvin Flores, 2008
*MIJU, Effigies and Demagogues, Exhibition Catalog, “Luminous Umor”, essay by David Coulter, 2008
Pterodactilo Illustrations published for Literary Journal, University of Texas,
Shotgun Review, online review, Alienated Mass Historia, Lian Ladia, August, 4,2007
Stretcher, False Notes, Emily Kunstler (June 2004)
Radio 2050 Latino Art & Culture KPFA interview with DJ Aztec Parrot, 2004
“Rogue Nations” Cuban And Chinese Artist, Exhibition Essay, Anjee Helstrup, Curator, Macla, San Jose, CA 2004
Dédalo, Revista De Arte y Literatura, No. 5, Havana, Cuba: Juan Carlos Quintana, Without Sugar There Is No Country
essay by Antonio Eligio Fernandez (Tonel), written for the exhibition Choque Cultural, in Havana, Cuba (2004)
New American Paintings, number 49, Pacific Coast, 2003
Noticias de Arte Cubano El Plano de la Memoria, by Yamel Perez Tasca, No. 9/10, (September 2003)
La Jiribilla, Entre dos Mundos, by Iris Cepero, (October 2003)
Golden Gate [X] press, Issue 3 volume XXVI Exhibit Given Two Views Of Cuba, Stephanie Mannle, September, 2003
Artweek, Cuba on my mind, David Buuck (November 2003)
La Prensa, Galleries Bring Latin Flair to New Orleans, Katherine Hart, (October, 2001)
The Gambit, Identifying Signs, New Orleans, LA. (October 2001)
Arts Papers, Juan Carlos Quintana / Michele Muennig, Eric Bookhardt (July/August 1992)
The Gambit, New Orleans, LA. (April 1992)