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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.
Selected Solo
Exhibitions
Reconfigure: Wire
Drawing Installation, Finestra Art
Space, Chicago, Illinois, 2011
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
Recent Works,
La Raza Graphics Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1991
Selected Group
Exhibitions
Faculty Exhibition,
Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2011,
2009, 2007
Symbols, Myth and
Metaphors, A+D Gallery 11th Street Gallery, Columbia College, 2003
Mascaras/ Mas Cara,
Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago, IL, 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, IL, 1995
The End Show,
Contemporary Artists Center Gallery, North Adams, MA, 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, Galeria Sin Fronteras,
Austin, TX, 1991
Dia de Los Muertos/The Homeless,
Alternative Museum, New York, NY, 1990
Articles and 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
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