Illegal Alien's Guide to Greater America

Professor Chagoya will be addressing issues of immigration through different bodies of his artwork (drawings, codices, prints). According to recent census the Latino community has become the largest majority with electoral power in the USA. This has created a Xenophobic wave expressed in extremely tough laws for new immigrants coming from Mexico and Latin America with working class backgrounds. An immigration reform has been derailed many times by political groups who do not include such populations within their constituency. Through Chagoya‘s work, he addresses some of these issues with humor and a critical standpoint, bringing some uncomfortable and important questions to the forefront.

Enrique Chagoya enrolled in the San Francisco Art Institute, where he earned a B.F.A. in printmaking in 1984. He then pursued his M.A. and M.F.A. at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1997. He is currently Full Professor at Stanford University’s department of Art and Art History. His work can be found in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco among others.

Enrique Chagoya, Professor, Department of Art & Art History, Stanford

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