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Santiago Vaca
Education:
Master of Fine Arts in Painting, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 1988
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Business Administration with a Minor in Art, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, North Carolina, 1983
Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor (August 1990 to Present)
Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL. Full-time tenured professor.
Responsibilities include teaching Introduction, Intermediate and Advanced Painting, Introduction, Intermediate and Advanced Drawing, Mural Painting and Professional Practices as well as student advising.
Assistant Professor (August 1988 to June 1990)
Cerro Coso Community College, Ridgecrest, CA. Full-time tenured professor.
Teaching responsibilities included Basic and Advanced Drawing, 2D Design, Basic and Advanced Painting and Gallery Technology
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Organica II: Works on Paper, Schiavone Fine Art, Baltimore, Maryland. 2006
Paintings, Drawings and Mixed Media, Elizabeth Holden Gallery, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, North Carolina. 2001
Organica, Jewett Hall Gallery, University of Maine at Augusta. 1998
Images, Thoughts, Surfaces. Dorothea Thiel Gallery, South Suburban College, South Holland, IL. 1995
Latino Visions from Chicago, Illini Union Art Gallery, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. 1993
Drawings and Paintings, Northeastern Illinois University Art Gallery. Chicago. 1993
Terra Incognita. Chicago Cultural Center. 1992
New Work, The Student Union Art Gallery, San Francisco State University. 1991
Paintings. University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA. 1991
Recent Works, Centro Cultural La Raza, San Diego, CA. 1991
Symbols, Myth and Metaphors, A+D 11th Street Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago 1993
Selected Group Exhibitions
Symbols, Myths, and Metaphors, A+D 11th Street Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, 2003
Faculty Exhibition. Northeastern Illinois University Art Gallery, Chicago, 2003, 2001 and 2000
Mascaras/Mas Cara. Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago, 1998
Monster Press Prints, Monoprint Exhibition, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA, 1996
Audrey Goldstein and Santiago Vaca. Gallery 2B, New England School of Art and Design, Boston, MA, 1995
Latino Diversity, Diversidad Latina. Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago, 1995
The End Show. Contemporary Artists Center Gallery, North Adams, MA, 1995
Bearing Witness. Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL and Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL, 1995
Recent Paintings; Santiago Vaca and Antonio Rodriguez. Halcyon Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 1995
Chicago Heritage of Latino Art. Dorothea Theal Gallery, South Suburban College, South Holland, IL, 1994
Four Directions and Four Artists. Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA, 1993
Face of the Soul, Exhibition of Masks. 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA 1992
Urban Worship. NNWAC Gallery, Chicago, 1991
Expressions of Sociometry. Artlink Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN, 1991
Three Artists Exhibition. Galeria Sin Fronteras, Austin, TX, 1991
Dia de los Muertos/The Homeless. Alternative Museum, New York, NY, 1990
Art as Social Commentary. Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1990
Gallery Artists, Artwalk. David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA, 1990
Social Terrorism. Blue Gallery, Portland, OR, 1990
Arte Politico, Two person Exhibit, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA, 1990
Paintings and Drawings. Rotunda Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1987
Contemporary Ecuadorian Art. Galeria de la Municipalidad de Miraflores, Lima, Peru, 1985
Articles & Reviews
The Art of Santiago Vaca, by David Hopes, Asheville Citizen - Times, 2001
Latin American Artists Depict Native Oppression, by John Dorsey, Baltimore Sun, 1995
Two Shows, Two Entirely Different Methods of Criticism, by Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, San Diego edition, 1991
Art as Social Commentary, by Alejo Sierra, Arriba, Austin, TX, 1991
Latino Show Offers Honest Cross Section, by Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, San Diego edition, 1989
A Heritage of Art, by Judith Christensen, San Diego Reader, 1989
Hispanic Art, An Act of Identity, by Charlotte Lowe, Tucson Citizen, 1988 |
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