Born 1964, Lutcher, Louisiana
Lives and works in Oakland, California

EDUCATION

Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026
Título Salvaje ⇄ Salvaged Title, Stanislaus State University, Turlock, California (as Tropeycalia Club) (catalog)

Upcoming
Título Salvaje ⇄ Salvaged Title, University Galleries, California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, California (as Tropeycalia Club)

2023
Devil’s Paradise, Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, California

2020
Decadent Decades: Oakland / Albisola Years, The Fourth Wall, Oakland, California (catalog)

2017
Hoodwink by Didactix, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, California

2015
Retrospectives, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, California

2014
Parochial Beacon, Paolo Mejia Gallery, San Francisco, California (as Izuuk Rigor)

2012
Solace From the Wild Side, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, California

2010
Don’t Waste My Time, Oberpfalzer Künstlerhaus II, Schwandorf, Germany

Gone Adrift, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany

2009
Splendor of Indulgence Nothingness, Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts (as Miju)

Compota, Pablo Gallery, Metro Manila, Philippines (as Miju)

Mambo Without Swing: The Forgotten Pictorial History of the Etiology of Power, SFMOMA Artist Gallery at Fort Mason, San Francisco, California

2008
Gristle Pays Homage to the Benevolent Sausage, Mag:net Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines (as Miju, with Manuel Ocampo)

Denizens of Happylandia, Taylor Bercier Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana (catalog)

Effigies and Demagogues, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, California (as Miju) (catalog)

2006
American Lullaby Series, Djerassi Resident Artists Program Open House, Woodside, California

2004
Blinded by Omnipotence, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California

2003
Choque Cultural, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba

Misadventures of a Sidestepping Idealist, Babilonia 1808, Berkeley, California

2001
Gozar Con La Patria, Mario Villa Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana

2000
Ahi Na’ Ma, 1078 Gallery, Chico, California

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025
Plastics, The New Coal, Apexart International Exhibition, The Descendent Project, Vacherie, Louisiana

Printed Matter’s Los Angeles Art Book Fair, with Manila-based Artery Art Space, Los Angeles, California

2024–25
A Nation Takes Place, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, Minnesota (catalog)

2024
Odd, Inspired & Sublime: A 2024 Culmination, Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, California

2023
Insurgent Ecologies, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University and Antenna, New Orleans, Louisiana

2021
Very Good in Spurts, Golden Cargo, Manila, Philippines

2020
Quarantine Copy, Kunstverein Miagao, Iloilo, Philippines

Passages, Fontecchio International Airport, Fontecchio, Italy

2019
Our Thoughts and Prayers Are with You, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, California

Statements of Accounts, Mono8, Manila, Philippines

Pulp: Works Involving Paper, Jen Tough Gallery, Benicia, California

Arte Extraordinario: Recent Acquisitions, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

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, California

All That You Have Is Your Soul, Faction Art Projects, New York, New York

2016
PULSE Miami Beach 2016, Jack Fischer Gallery, Miami, Florida

Tropical Convergence Zone, Viva Excon 2016, Iloilo City, Philippines

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, California

The Human Spirit, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California

2015
Miami Project 2015, Jack Fischer Gallery, Miami, Florida

Tropes of Expectations, Vinyl on Vinyl, Manila, Philippines

Mirage, XII Havana Biennial Collateral Exhibitions, Havana, Cuba

2014
Paint Plethora, Studio Grand, Oakland, California

Oakland Music Festival, Local Artist Exhibit, Era Bar, Oakland, California (as Izuuk Rigor)

2013
Paradox Maintenance Technician, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California (catalog)

DEFILE, Galleria Duemila, Metro Manila, Philippines (catalog)

2012
Corresponding Views, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, California

La Espina, Alley Cat Bookstore, San Francisco, California

Man, Myth and Monsters, LeMieux Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana

2011
Cuban Collection, MACLA, San Jose, California

Agarra Juicio: The Ghost Poo of Painting, Edelo, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico (as AFKAF)

Social Commentary, Space 301, Mobile, Alabama

2010
Diluvial Hood, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany (as Miju and Club S&S)

Free-Range Aesthetics: Pussyfooting Through the Detritus Mind Field of Reality, Skyline College, San Bruno, California (as AFKAF)

Amor Fati, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, California (as Miju)

2009
Sorry Friend, This Is No Hemorrhoids ;-{o>, A440 Gallery, San Francisco, California, and Finale Art File, Manila, Philippines (as AFKAF)

Strange Hope, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, California (as Miju)

Opening Salvo for Suite 418, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, California

2008
Room for Big Ideas, Bay Area Now 5, Red Poppy Art House / Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California

Politique Poetique, Skyline College, San Bruno, California

Insider/Outsider, Root Division, San Francisco, California

Miju, Red Dot Art Fair, Jack Fischer Gallery, New York, New York

Paper Works, SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, California

Beyond Child Play, MACLA, San Jose, California

2007
Miju, Red Dot Art Fair, Jack Fischer Gallery, Miami, Florida

Painted Dreams, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, California

Alienated Mass Historia, Root Division, San Francisco, California

Pistolitas de Azucar: Cultura, Pop, and Whimsy, Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, California

Drawn From New Orleans: 20th Century Works From Private Collections, Newcomb College Art Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana

2006
Outside–Inside–Out, Space 301, Mobile, Alabama

Sin Miramiento Alguno (Arte Iberoamericano Actual), in conjunction with the Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba

Cuentos Caseros, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, California

Virus Show, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, California

2005
Comercielo, Red Poppy Art House, San Francisco, California

Latin Spirit, SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, California

It’s Not Rocket Science, Bayennale, Oakland, California

2004
Rogue Nations: Cuban and Chinese Artists, MACLA, San Jose, California

2003
Cuba on My Mind, Art Gallery, Cesar Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California

Un/Familiar Territory, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California

2002
Is the Medium in the Message?: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California

2001
Contemporary Devotion, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

Tropeycalia Club — Collaboration with John Yoyogi Fortes and Carlo Ricafort, 2018–present

Artist Formerly Known As Friends (AFKAF) / rtst4mrlyknwnasfrnd <0}-:) — Collaboration with Arvin Flores, Carlo Ricafort, David Griggs, Gerry Tan, and Manuel Ocampo, 2009–2011

Izuuk Rigor — Collaboration with Carlo Ricafort, 2014–2015

Miju — Collaboration with Michele Muennig, 2007–2010

Club S&S — Collaboration with Stephen Paul Day and Sibylle Peretti, 2010

CURATORIAL PROJECTS & JURY SERVICE

2014–2017
Co-Founder, Random Parts, artist-run project space, Oakland, California

2011
Juror, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, California

2009
Juror, Skyline College, San Bruno, California

2006
Cuentos Caseros, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, California

2005
Port of Oakland Art Commission, Oakland, California

LECTURES & ARTIST TALKS

2026
Stanislaus State University, Turlock, California

2025
See(d), Artist Series, Oakland, California

2023
Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, California

2022
Laney College, Painting Class, Oakland, California

2020
Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, California

2019
Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, California

2018
California State University Monterey Bay, Visiting Artist, Monterey Bay, California

2017
Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, California

2015
Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, California

2014
Hunter College, New York, New York

University of California, Berkeley, History Department, Berkeley, California

2011
MACLA, San Jose, California

Edelo Intercultural Residency Program, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico

Universidad de Ciencia y Arte de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico

2008
MACLA, San Jose, California

2007
Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, California

2006
Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, California

Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, California

2003
Babilonia 1808 Emerging Artist Program with Jenifer Wofford, Berkeley, California

Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba

2000
1078 Gallery, Chico, California

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2024
A Studio in the Woods Artist Residency, New Orleans, Louisiana, in conjunction with A Nation Takes Place, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, Minnesota

2022
Joan Mitchell Center Residency Program, New Orleans, Louisiana

2016
Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant Award

2011
Edelo Intercultural Residency Program, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico

2010
Oberpfalzer Künstlerhaus II Art Residency, Schwandorf, Germany

2006
Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation Fellowship through the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, California

2002
Valparaiso Artist Residency, Mojácar, Spain

1998
Amsterdam Art Logan Graphics Award of Excellence in Printmaking, Berkeley, California

1996
Best of Show, Pro Arts Annual Juried Show, Oakland, California

1991
First Prize for Sculpture, Newcomb Spring Art Show, New Orleans, Louisiana

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California

SELECTED REVIEWS, ESSAYS & 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 Artists, Exhibition Essay, Anjee Helstrup, Curator, MACLA, San Jose, California, 2004

Dédalo, Revista de Arte y Literatura, No. 5, Havana, Cuba, “Juan Carlos Quintana: Without Sugar There Is No Country,” essay by Antonio Eligio Fernández (Tonel), written for the exhibition Choque Cultural, Havana, Cuba, 2004

New American Paintings, No. 49, Pacific Coast, 2003

Noticias de Arte Cubano, “El Plano de la Memoria,” Yamel Perez Tasca, No. 9/10, September 2003

La Jiribilla, “Entre Dos Mundos,” 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, Louisiana, October 2001

Arts Papers, “Juan Carlos Quintana / Michele Muennig,” Eric Bookhardt, July/August 1992

The Gambit, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1992