The artist's mother, Lucia Saiz Montoya.

1st Grade

1949

1949

Montoya in the 3rd grade

Montoya (center), with his brothers, Santiago (Jimmy) on the left, and José on the right.

First communion

8th grade

Montoya as a senior in high school, 1957

Montoya played football at Reedley College, 1961

Marine Corp, 1958-1961

1959

Group Exhibition Poster, 1969

Photo by the artist's second wife, Lezlie Salkowitz-Montoya. They were married in 1976.

1976

1976

1977

Late 70s

The artist with the mural design for La Fonda Market in Oakland, 1980.

Montoya and CCAC colleague, Michael Wright, 1980.

Montoya, his wife Lezlie, and their first child, Macario, 1979.

Working on the Child Development Center Mural in Oakland, CA, 1980

Working on the Child Development Center Mural with students in Oakland, CA, 1980

Montoya, late 70s

Montoya in his studio, late 70s

Montoya with CCAC students, early 80s

Malaquias in 1980 with his five children: (from left) Andrés, Malaquias III, Maceo (baby), Marcela, and Macario

The artist's family with Cuban artists, Nelson Dominguez and Choco.

Montoya posing with a mural at the Alcohol & Drug Prevention Center in Oakland, CA, 1980

Stanford Mural dedication, 1981.

Mural at CCAC, 1983.

Montoya at the Califas conference, 1982. Tomas Ybarra-Frausto is on the far left.

Califas conference attendees, UC Santa Cruz, 1982

Montoya in the screen printing room at CCAC, early 1980s

Montoya in the screen printing room at CCAC, early 1980s

Montoya with mural documenter, Jim Prigoff

Montoya at an exhibition opening in 1987

Montoya with Texas artist Cesar Martinez at an exhibition in Austin, TX

Montoya at work in his studio, late 80s

Malaquias Montoya with his brother José Montoya at the opening of the CARA exhibition, 1990

Montoya with art historian Amelia Malagamba-Ansótegui

Montoya working on a mural at Will C. Wood High School, 1994

Montoya with his UC Davis Chicano Studies Mural Workshop students, 1994

Montoya in his studio, 2002

Montoya with former student, Carlos Jackson, in 2003. The two would co-found Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer (TANA) in Woodland, CA in 2009.

Montoya with Gilberto Cardenas, founding director of the Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame and one of the most important collectors of Latino Art.

Montoya with Texas artist Sam Coronado at Coronado Studies in Austin, TX, 2005

Montoya with friends, educator Manuel Gomez and artist Manuel Hernandez, at the exhibition opening for Voice for the Voiceless at UC Irvine.

Montoya with his wife Lezlie at the opening of his exhibition, Globalization & War - The Aftermath

Montoya in 2006 at the Snite Museum at Notre Dame in front of his silkscreen Undocumented

Montoya at the Montgomery Elementary School Mural in Davis, CA

Montoya with art historian Terezita Romo, who wrote a monograph on Montoya as part of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Aver Series

Montoya in his studio, 2016