Malaquias Montoya

Offset Litho, 30" x 22" - 1973

Credited by social historians as one of the founders of a "social serigraphy" movement in the San Francisco Bay Area in the mid-1960's, Malaquias Montoya has inspired generations of artists. He has dedicated his life to informing and educating those neglected and exploited peoples whose lives are at risk in milieus of racism, sexism and cultural oppression. He continues to exhibit extensively and has widespread appeal demonstrated by the variety of locations where he shows his work. The group exhibitions have been important to him in that they put him in touch with artists whose political and artistic philosophies are in agreement with his own. They have enabled him to collaborate on issues relevant to those communities and seek ways of resolving problems that impact them.

Selected Exhibitions
One Person Exhibitions

2009 -- 2007 Globalization & War - The Aftermath, works by Malaquias Montoya
- Crystal Cove Auditorium Lobby, UC Irvine Student Center, Irvine, CA November - December, 2007
- Nehring Center Gallery, sponsored by the Latino Resource Center, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL September 15th - October 15th, 2008
- Pence Gallery, Davis, CA, November 5th - December 21, 2008
- Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC) Austin, Texas, summer 2009
- University of Texas at San Antonio, winter 2010
- Kellogg Library California State University, San Marcos, CA, fall 2010
- Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA TBD
2009 -- 2003 PreMeditated, Meditations on Capital Punishment, new works by Malaquias Montoya,
- Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, Jan/Feb 2004
- Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL, August-November 2004
- National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Annual Conference Washington D.C., October 2004
- Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, Texas, January 2005
- Instituto de Mexico, San Antonio, Texas, February 2005
- Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA, July-August 2005
- Together for Justice: Art & Activism; Benefit for Death Penalty Focus, San Francisco, CA, October 23, 2005
- Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA, April-May, 2006
- Jesuit High School, Sacramento, CA, spring 2008
- Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA, October-November, 2008
- California Attorneys for Criminal Justice fall Seminar/35th Anniversary, San Francisco, CA, December 2008
- Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, February-September, 2009
- Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, 2010
- *Asian Resource Gallery, Oakland, CA (preview exhibition; April-June, 2003)
2006 A Voice for the Voiceless, Works by Malaquias Montoya Kellogg Library, California State University, San Marcos, September - December.
- San Diego City College, San Diego, CA January/February
- Delhi Center Gallery, Santa Ana, CA March/April
1998 Malaquias Montoya, Mexic-Arte Museum, 5th & Austin, TX, July 31 - August
1998 LuchARTE, a one person exhibit by Malaquias Montoya, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX, March 19 - April 24
1997 The Art of Protest: The Posters of Malaquias Montoya, MACLA, San JosŽ Center for Latino Arts, San Jose, CA; July 19 - August 23
1997 Malaquias Montoya: 1997 Adaline Kent Award Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; June 5 - July 13
1996 Malaquias Montoya: Prints and Drawings, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, November 10, 1995 - January

Group Exhibitions

2010 The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present, The Mexican Fine Arts 2006 Center Museum, Chicago, IL, January - September, 2006
- Museo de Historia, Monterrey, Mexico, Nov-Feb, 2007
- National Hispanic Cultural Center, March Ð August, 2007
- Instituto Veracurzano de Cultura, Orizaba, Mexico, Sept Ð Nov, 2007 & Veracruz: Nov. '07 Ð Jan, 2008
- CA African American Museum, Jan-June, 2008
- The African American Museum in Philadelphia, June-October, 2008
- Museo Alameda, San Antonio, TX Nov '08-Feb, 2009
- Oakland Museum of CA, April-Aug, 2009
- Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Community Museum, Washington DC, Nov '09- July 2010
- DuSable African American Museum, Chicago, IL, Fall 2010
2009 Dos Vistas un Camino al Rumbo de la Humanidad, works by Malaquias & Maceo Montoya, The Mexican American Cultural Center, Austin, Texas, June--August
2009 -- CARAS VEMOS, CORAZONES NO SABEMOS, The Human Landscape of
2006 Mexican Migration to the United States, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, January 2006/07
- Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April/July, 2008
- Fowler Museum of Art, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, October 5th Ð December, 2008
2008 A Declaration of Immigration, National Museum of Mexican Art, July - September
2008 The Art Of Democracy - War and Empire Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA, September Ð November
2008 Poetas y Pintores: Artists Conversing with Verse, Institute for Latino Studies, University 2006- of Notre Dame in partership with the Center for Women's Inter-Cultural Leadership at St. Mary's College, National Endowment for the Arts, spons. Notre Dame, Indiana, January
- Taller Boricua, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, NY, March/April 2006
- Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA, June/July 2006
- Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA, August/Sept 2006
- Lubeznik Center, Michigan City, IN, March/April 2007
- National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM, May/July 2007
- Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, April/May, 2008
2005 Bienvenida & Serie XII, Inaugural Art Exhibition, University of Texas @ Austin, the Center for Mexican American Studies, Austin, TX, September - November
2004 Chicano Art for Our Millennium, Mesa Southwest Museum, Mesa, AZ, May/September
2004 Re-Affirming Our Principles of Community, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, Davis, CA, February
2003 One Struggle, Two Communities: Late 20th Century Political Posters of Havana, and the San Francisco Bay Area, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, Sept. - Dec.
2001 S.O.S. ARTE! Arte Americas Plaza, Inaugural Opening, Fresno, CA, June - July
2001 Made in California: 1900--2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, October, 2000 - 2001
- Galeria Posada, Sacramento, CA, Dec. 2000 - February 2001
2001 Just Another Poster? Chicano Graphic Arts in California, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
- UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, June-Dec. 2001
- La Raza Galeria Posada, Sacramento, CA
- Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2000 Vecinos: Two Organizations, One Community, Plaza de la Raza, Los Angeles, CA, Self- Help Graphics, Exhibition Print Program, May-August
2000 Pressing the Point: Parallel Expressions in the Graphic Arts of the Chicano and Puerto Rican Movements, El Museo del Barrio, 5th Avenue, NY
1999 Capital Art: dedicated to Mumia Abu-Jamal; Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999 The Role Of Paper, El Papel del Papel, Affirmation and Identity in Chicano and Boricua Art , Sala Central of the Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Espanola; La Puntilla, San Juan Puerto Rico, November 1999
- Taller Puertorriqueno, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, March 1999
- Carribbean Cultural Center & Taller Boricua, New York, NY, July 2000
- Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Visual Arts Annex, San Antonio, TX 1990
1990 CARA: Chicano Art, Resistance and Affirmation, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

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