RESUME
EDUCATION
1997 – 1998 Alden Engraving, San Francisco, CA
Digital art design and laser engraving
1992 – 1996 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Sponsored by California Arts Council (CAC)
1989 – 1990 Centro de Documentación e Investigación Cultural de El Salvador (CODICES)
San Francisco, CA
1984 – 1988 Centro de enseñanza técnica ENSETEC
San Salvador, El Salvador, C.A.
GRANTS & RESIDENCES
2006 Artist residence and workshop
How to create your own music box (mixed media)
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2005 Artist residence and workshop
How to do printmaking without a press machine
Taller de Artes Plásticas René Girón, San Miguel, El Salvador, C.A.
2002 Artist residence
Proyecto Batiscafo, Gasworks, London, England
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
2006 Belle Foundation
Individual grant
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Between Worlds Catalog
by Michael Yochum, Arc Gallery, 2016
LÍNEAS: Artistas salvadoreños en San Francisco
by Sala Nacional de Exposiciones Salarrué, 2016
Demarcando Siluetas, Propias y Transculturales
Article celebrating the 25th anniversary of the professional artistic career in the USA
in: magazine La Neta Neta.net
by Edgar Ayala, 2014
Arte Contemporáneo de El Salvador
Catalog about Salvadoran artists
by Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de El Salvador (ADAPES), 2006
The New Americans. The Salvadoran Americans
by Carlos B. Cordova, professor at San Francisco State University, 2005
Catálogo, Proyecto Batiscafo
Catalog about artists in residence June-July 2002
by Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba, 2003
When the Dogs Ate Candles (cover art)
Book about human rights in El Salvador during the Civil War
by Bill Hutchinson, 1998
The Spiritual in Art
in: Artweek magazine January 1997
by Terri Cohn, 1997
Carlos Cartagena
A sampling of the work of a Tamoanchán Artist
in: ReVista by Galería de la Raza, 1996
Hispanics in Philanthropy’s Annual Report
Illustrations by Tamoanchán, 1995
Coming Across: Art by Recent Immigrants
by Jan Rindfleisch, Euphrat Museum of Art, 1994
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Hermanos Lejanos. El Gran Despecho
Conversational exchange in collaboration with Victor Cartagena
California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
2015 17th Annual Latino Art Festival Floricanto. Special Guest
Blackbox Theater, Holy Names University, Oakland, CA
2012 Arte en la Memoria. Exhibition and conversatorium (Music Boxes)
Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen, San Salvador, El Salvador, C.A.
2011 Grabados
Galería Nacional de El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador, C.A.
2010 Territorios. Installation Memoria en los Huesos
La Frabri-K, San Salvador, El Salvador, C.A.
2008 Día de los Muertos / Day of the Dead. Installation La Cenicienta de la Catedral
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA
2006 Music Boxes
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2005 Silhouettes. First installation for a traveling show
ArtsChange, Richmond, CA
2001 Music Boxes
Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA
1999 Sin Casa
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1998 Ser ó no Ser / To Be or Not To Be
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), San Jose, CA
1998 Fantasmas del Pasado
Teatro Presidente, San Salvador, El Salvador, C.A.
1996 (Im)migrant identities: Critical Theory Program, 12th Annual Conference
Alumni Center, University of California, Davis, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS TAMOANCHÁN
1999 Artists in Escape
Washington Square Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Tamoanchán y Taller del Sur
Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
1996 Arts and Healing Network
Arts and Healing Network, Sausalito, CA
1996 Andando Lejos
Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
1994 Night Train to Bolina
Magic Theatre, Fort Mason, San Francisco. CA
1994 Tamoanchán
Union Gallery, San Jose University, San Jose, CA
1993 Memories in the Tips of Our Fingers
San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
1993 Our Voices, the Visual Truth
Gallery Atelier, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Between Worlds. Related to the Syrian refugee crisis.
Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 LÍNEAS: Artistas salvadoreños en San Francisco
Sala Temporal Excapres, San Salvador, El Salvador, C.A.
2015 Silhouettes. Presenting the 5th sculpture Migrant Children
The Art Gallery, César Chávez Student Center, SFSU, San Francisco, CA
2015 Illusion Show 8. Carnival Dream: Libertad de cuerpo y mente
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA
2010 Las Expresiones. Celebrating Latino Artists of the Bay Area
Marin Arts Council, San Rafael, CA
2009 TERRITORIOS: New Visual Currents from El Salvador and the Diaspora
SOMArts Main Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Shifting Dreams, Migrating Realities
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), San Jose, CA
2006 Es Arte 06 Rompiendo Fronteras. 1st exhibition of photography and digital art
Museo Nacional de Antropología Dr. David J. Guzman, San Salvador, El Salvador
2006 Todos Somos Migrantes. Part of the project Silhouettes
Curated by French sociologist Yvon Le Bot
Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico
2006 Contemporary Art from El Salvador
In collaboration with ADAPES
SOMArts Bay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 State of the Nation
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005 Holiday Sale
The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA
2005 CaliVera. Days of the Dead Altars Remixed. Interactive installation
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2005 Latin Spirit
SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
2005 artLA
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA
2005 International Exhibition of Etching
Galería Nacional de El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador, C.A.
2004 Day of the Dead. Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya
Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
2004 Occupied Space. Sculpture show (Music Boxes)
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), San Jose, CA
2003 Santos
SOMArts Bay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 -273.15°C: Inmovilidad Molecular. Proyecto Batiscafo
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
2002 4th Annual Latino Art Auction Exhibition
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), San Jose, CA
2001 3rd Annual Latino Art Auction Exhibition
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), San Jose, CA
1999 VISIONS 2000. Featuring New Artists
Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 Re-Creating America
New College of California, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
1997 When the World Was Green. A Chef’s Fable
Magic Theatre, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
1997 The Bare Bones (Día de los Muertos)
Gallery Luscombe, San Francisco, CA
1996 Art Show for the Cancer Support Community
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA
1996 Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition
Kala Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1996 Kala’s 22nd Anniversary Art and Wine Auction
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1996 Go Unnoticed: Images of (Re)Generation
Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
1996 Eighth Biennial Pacific Prints
Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA
1996 In the Light of Goya
University Art Gallery, California State University, Hayward, CA
1996 In the Light of Goya
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
1995 Art of the Americas. Ten Latin American Artists
Gallery On The Rim, San Francisco, CA
1995 País mío Vení. Four Salvadoran artists
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA
1995 Kala’s 21st Anniversary Exhibition
J.J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 The Persistence of Hope. With Claudia Bernardi
World Peace Center, Hiroshima, Japan
1995 From Hiroshima to the World. Photographs and Statements Exhibition
World Peace Center, Hiroshima, Japan
1994 Printmaking Possibilities: A 20-Year Retrospective of the Kala Art Institute
University of California’s Museum at Blackhawk, Danville, CA
1994 Coming Across. Traveling exhibit
Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
1994 New World Border
Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
1994 Kala’s 20th Anniversary Exhibition
Butterfield and Butterfield, San Francisco, CA
1993 Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition
Kala Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1993 Hidden History of Latin America
Jeanne Brewer Gallery, UC Extension Center, San Francisco, CA