| BORN |
1941-1989, Mexico City, Mexico |
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| EDUCATION |
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| 1964 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1969 |
New School of Social Research, New York |
| 1974 |
MFA, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles |
| 1975 |
Graduate Work in Psychology, Cal-State, Los Angeles |
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
| 2017 |
Carlos Almaraz and Elsa Flores Almaraz: Domestic, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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Axis Mundo - Queer Networks in Chicano L.A., MOCA Los Angeles, CA |
| 2015 |
Journal Drawings and Poems 1969-1972, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2012 |
Carlos Almaraz: A Life Recalled, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, California |
| 2011 |
Paintings, Pastels and Drawings, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2010 |
Legacy, Fremont Gallery, South Pasadena, CA |
2007 |
Early Drawings, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2005 |
Carlos Almaraz: Paintings and Pastels from the Artist’s Estate, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2002 |
Paintings and Pastels, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1999 |
Pastels, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1998 |
Channing, Dale, and Throckmorton, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| 1996 |
Echo Park, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1992 |
A Tribute to Carlos Almaraz, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles |
| 1991 |
The Car Crash, Turner Krull Gallery, West Hollywood, CA |
| 1991 |
Moonlight Theater: Prints and Related Works by Carlos Almaraz, U.C.L.A. Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, LA |
| 1990 |
Carlos Almaraz, A Survey of Works on Paper: 1967 – 1989, Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles |
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Persons and Liddell Gallery, Helinski, Finland |
| 1989 |
Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1987 |
Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1986 |
Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1985 |
Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco |
| 1984 |
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles |
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Janus Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1983 |
Jeremy Stone Gallery, Los Angeles |
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La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla |
| 1982 |
Urban Myths: Paintings, ARCO Center For Visual Art, Los Angeles |
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Janus Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1981 |
Pastel Drawings, Malibu Art and Design, Malibu |
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Pastel Drawings 1969 – 1981, Adrienne Simard Gallery, Los Angeles |
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The Mexican Museum, San Francisco |
| 1972 |
Mechicano Art Gallery, East Los Angeles |
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Rasjad Hopkins Gallery, Beverly Hills |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2016–18 |
Papel Chicano Dos: Works on Paper from the Collection of Cheech Marin. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Riverside Art Museum - California, El Paso Museum of Art - Texas, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art - Oklahoma |
| 2016 |
A Generosity of Spirit: Celebrating the Gift of Eugene Rogolsky MD, USC Fisher Art Museum, Los Angeles, California |
| 2014 |
Chicano Dream - Chicano Artists from the Cheech Marin Collection (1980-2010), Musée d'Aquitaine - Bordeaux , France |
| 2013-14 |
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. |
| 2011-12 |
Mapping Another L.A.: The Chicano Art Movement, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California |
| 2006–07 |
Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl, The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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Voces Latinas, The Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada |
| 2002–08 |
Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge, Next appearing at: Museum of Fine Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Past Venues: The Alameda/Museo Americano, San Antonio, Texas; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas; Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas; Insights El Paso Museum of Science, El Paso, Texas; Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana; Museum of Contemporary Art-La Jolla, California; Museum of Contemporary Art-San Diego, California; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, Minnesota; Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, Illinois; O’Kane Gallery, Houston, Texas; Saint Louis Science Center, Saint Louis, Missouri; de Young Museum, San Francisco, California; The MUZEO - Anaheim California |
| 2006 |
Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2005 |
The First 80 Years, Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA |
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Nepantla Dreams: Cal-Mex State L.A.,” Fine Arts Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles |
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The Chicano Collection, presented by Cheech Marin, Plaza de la Raza Cultural Center for the Arts & Education, Los Angeles and traveling |
| 2004-05 |
Hombres: A Group Art Exhibit, Patricia Correa Gallery, Santa Monica, |
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Cities of Promise-Imaging Urban California, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA |
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L.A.: light/motion/dreams, Natural History Museum, Los Angeles |
| 2003 |
Lisa Cosino Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA |
| 2002 |
Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA |
| 2001 |
Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2000 |
East of the River – Chicano Art Collectors Anonymous, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
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Hispanic Art in the United States Revisited and Expanded, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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An American Leader – Cesar E. Chavez, The Latino Museum of History, Art, and Culture, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1994 |
Significant Losses: Artists Who Have Died From AIDS, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, Maryland |
| 1991 |
Painting of the Eighties in America, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico |
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Individual Realities in the California Art Scene, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Seibu Tsukashin Hall, Amagasaki, Japan |
| 1993 |
Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
| 1990-93 |
Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., Denver Art Museum, Albuquerque Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Tucson Art Museum |
| 1990 |
Carlos Almaraz and Elsa Flores, Persons and Liddell Gallery, Helsinki, Finland |
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Raging at the Visible: AIDS in the City of Angels, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles |
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New Visions: Carlos Almaraz, Arnaldo Roche-Rabell and Rafael Vadia, Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, Florida. |
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Le Demon des Anges/Chicanos of Los Angeles, Nantes, France, Barcelona, Spain, Lund, Sweden, and Lyons, France |
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Visions of the Volcano, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; Stones Gallery, Kauai, Hawaii; Volcano Arts Center, Hilo, Hawaii |
| 1989 |
Hispanic Works on Paper, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles |
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Carlos Almaraz: Recent Monotypes & Serigraphs, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii Five Contemporary Painters, La Agencia, New York Landscape: A Travelogue Painted from Memory, Imagination, or Reality, Ruth Siegel Gallery Ltd., New York Paintings/Elsa Flores & Carlos Almaraz, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, California L.A./L.A., Pico House, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1988 |
Landscape Painting in Los Angeles, The Transamerica Galleries, Los Angeles |
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Fifth Annual Day of the Dead Celebration & Exhibition, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles |
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Art for the Record: Issues of Documentation and Contemporary Art, Smithsonian Institution, San Marino, California |
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Coast to Coast, Stones Gallery, Kauai, Hawaii |
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Hispanic Art in the United States, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C.; Museum of Art, Santa Fe; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum, New York |
| 1987 |
Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles |
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Contemporary Hispanic Art, Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Scottsdale, Arizona |
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Contemporary Southern California Art, presented by the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1985 |
Struve Gallery, Chicago |
| 1984 |
Aqui, USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles |
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Automobile and Culture, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |
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Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. |
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Janus Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1983 |
L.A. Seen, University Galleries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles |
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California Current, Part II, L.A. Louver/Market Street, Venice, California |
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Painters: Carlos Almaraz, Gary Hall, Vivian Kerstein, Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
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Miles Above, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design Gallery, Los Angeles |
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The Official Fine Art Posters of the 1984 Olympic Games, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, L.A. |
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On Paper, Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, California |
| 1982 |
Janus Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1981 |
Murals of Aztlan, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles |
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Elegant Night, presented by Security Pacific National Bank, Security Pacific Plaza, Los Angeles |
| 1980 |
New Talent, Alan Stone Gallery, New York |
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L.A. Seen By L.A. Artists, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles |
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Espinas, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, California, Los Angeles |
| 1979 |
L.A. Parks and Wrecks: Reflections on Urban Life, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles |
| 1978 |
The Aesthetic of Graffiti, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco |
| 1977 |
Chicanarte, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles |
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Los Four, Cal-State Los Angeles, Oakland Museum, SelfHelp Graphics, Los Angeles, UC Santa Barbara, Cal-State Sacramento, L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, UC Irvine |
| 1975 |
Los Angeles on the Road: California Coalition of Artists, Galleria de la Raza, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1973 |
Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1972 |
Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1971 |
Group Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery |
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Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1970 |
Four Chicano Artists, Cal-State L.A. |
| 1968 |
Terrain Gallery, New York |
| 1967 |
Group Exhibition, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles |
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Mixed Media Show, University of Iowa Art Gallery, Iowa City |
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