Artist Talk with El Mundo de Gabriel Villa
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, July 26th, from 2PM - 3PM
Gabriel Villa has been focused on painting, drawing, ceramics, and public art for over three decades. He earned his BFA at Corpus Christi State University and his MFA at the University of Delaware. Born and raised in the border region of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, he’s been living in Chicago since 1997. Villa’s work fuses his Mexican American experience and observations from Chicago’s Southside.
His work has been featured extensively in group and solo exhibitions, including the National Museum of Mexican Art, Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Centro De Artes Museum in San Antonio, Texas, and School of Architecture, Art, and Design at American University, Dubai.
Villa has been the recipient of the Elena Diaz-Verson Amos Eminent Scholar in Latin American Studies at Columbus State University and the Artist Response Program, and Individual Artist Grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events in Chicago. He has completed residencies with Jackman Goldwasser Artist in Residency at Hyde Park Art Center, Ox Bow School of Art, among others nationally and internationally.
Gabriel Villa is a core member of Pilsen Housing Cooperative (PIHCO), an anti-displacement effort started by Latino artists and longtime community residents in response to gentrification.
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