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Raul Mendia Guerrero
Resume (last updated 4/2006)

EDUCATION

Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, California, BFA, 1970

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 Billy Shire Fine Arts, Culver City, CA

2005 Galleria Ninapi, Ravenna, Italy

2004 Galleria Ninapi, Ravenna, Italy

2002 Raul Guerrero: Drawings Sculpture Prints, Hybrid Gallery, San Diego, CA

2001 Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA

Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA

1999 Molly Barnes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1998 Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA

1995 Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

Linda Moore Gallery, San Diego, CA

1994 Gallery 3770 Park Boulevard, San Diego, CA

1993 Linda Moore Gallery, San Diego, CA

1991 David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA

David Lewinson Gallery, San Diego, CA

1989 David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA

Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Conlon-Moreno Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1988 Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA

1987 Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1986 Boehm Gallery, Palomar Gallery, San Diego, CA

USC Atelier, Santa Monica, CA

1985 Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1984 Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA

Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York, NY

1982 Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA

Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

1981 Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

1979 Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, CA

1978 Thomas/Lewallen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1977 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

1974 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006 Strange New World: Art and Design from Tijuana, Museum of Contemporary

Art, San Diego

2005 Painted Ladies, Cannon Art Gallery, City of Carlsbad

2004 Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990’s, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio

Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990’s, Hood Museum, Dartmouth University

Hanover, New Hampshire

-Hombres; Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2002-2003 Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990’s’, Colorado Spring Fine Arts Center,

2002- 2005 Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge;

Traveling exhibition: San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas,

Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building, Washington D. C.; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas; Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis, MO; Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. Etc. Etc.

2002 "SD'80," Work by 12 artists, Flux Gallery, San Diego, CA

The 3rd Annual Invitational Drawing Show, Earl & Birdie Taylor Library,

San Diego, CA

2001 Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

2000 Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000

Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1998 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, “Chairs, Plazas, Faces, Gardens,

Rooms : Paintings by Robert Burtis, Raul Guerrero, Thomas Lawson,

William Leavitt, Margaret von Biesen, Curated by William Leavitt”,

Los Angeles, CA

1997 Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, “Primarily Paint”,

San Diego, CA

1996 Galleria Spagnolo, “Violencia”, San Diego, CA

1995 -Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, “Common Ground / A

Regional Exhibition ”, San Diego, CA

-Gallery 3770 Park Boulevard, “An exhibition by Raul Guerrero, William

Leavitt, Allen Ruppersberg”, San Diego, CA

1994 -Iturralde Gallery, “La Loteria”, Los Angeles, CA

-Terrain, “Land”, San Francisco, CA

-Museum of Modern Art, “Xicano Ricorso: A Thirty Year Retrospect

from Aztlan”, New York, NY. Catalogue

- San Jose Museum of Art, “La Frontera/The Border: Art About the

  • -Mexico/United States Border Experience”, San Jose, CA

-Neuberger Museum of Art, “La Frontera”, SUNY, NY

-Scottsdale Center for the Arts, “La Frontera”, Scottsdale, AZ

-Frontera/The Border: Art About the Mexico/ United States Border

  • -Museum of Contemporary Art/Centro Cultural de la Raza, “La

-Experience”, San Diego, CA

-Centro Cultural Tijuana, “La Frontera”, Tijuana, BC Mex.

-Tacoma Art Museum, “La Frontera”, Tacoma, WA

1992 The Oakland Museum, “From the Studio: Recent Painting and

Sculpture by 20 California Artists”, Oakland, CA

1990 -David Zapf Gallery, “Gallery Artists 1990”, San Diego, CA

-Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

-Rivikin Gallery, “Border Issues”, Lancaster, OH

1989 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, “Lannan Acquisitions”,

La Jolla, CA

1987 Phoenix Biennale, Phoenix, AZ

1985 -Museum of Natural History, “The Eclectic Cat”, San Diego, CA

-L.A.V.A. Landscape Exhibition, “To the Astonishing Horizons”,

-Curator: Peter Frank, Los Angeles, CA

-La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, “A San Diego Exhibition:

Forty-Two Emerging Artists”, San Diego, CA

1984 -Patty Aande Gallery, “Significant Others”, San Diego, CA

-Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, “Emblem”, Los Angeles, CA

-Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, “Group Show”, Los Angeles, CA

-Patty Aande Gallery, “Drawings”, San Diego, CA

1979 -“Second Annual Tokyo Festival”, Tokyo, Japan

-Security Pacific Bank, “Photographic Directions”, Los Angeles, CA

-P.S. 1, “Invitational Photography Exhibition”, New York, NY

1978 -Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY

-“Sculpture ‘78: Los Angeles Street Scene”, Los Angeles, CA

-Cameraworks Gallery, “Contemporary California Photography”,

San Francisco, CA

1977 -Morgan Thomas, “Raul Guerrero and Doug Metzler”, Santa Monica, CA

-Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, “100 + Current Directions in

Southern California”, Los Angeles, CA

1977 -San Francisco Art Institute Gallery, “L.A.”, San Francisco, CA

-College of Creative Studies Gallery, University of California,

“Photographs by Southern California Painters and Sculptors”,

Santa Barbara, CA

1976 -Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1975 -Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

  • San Jose State University Art Gallery, “Raul Guerrero and Lyn Horton”,
  • San Jose, CA

AWARDS

1979 National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellow

PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

2000 Maiastra Fountain, Golden Springs Development Co.

Santa Fe Springs, CA

1999 Balboa Park Activity Center, San Diego, CA

Rob Quigley, Architect

1994 Sherman Heights Community Center, San Diego, CA

Rob Quigley, Architect

1993 Community Redevelopment Agency for the City of Los Angeles

Grand Hope Park, Lawrence Halprin, Landscape Architect

1997 City of Carlsbad, CA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ

San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA

Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Pincus, Robert L. “Retrospectives bring century into focus.” The San Diego Union-

Tribune (December 25, 1998)

Pincus, Robert L. “Subtle Connections from Raul Guerrero.” The San Diego Union-

Tribune (August 9, 1998)

Perine, Robert. “A Juxtaposition of Icons*Raul Guerrero Hits the Exhibition Jackpot.”

The Publication (July 1998)

Jimenez, Karleen Pendleton. “Mapping The Territory: Problemas Y Maravillosos de Las

Indias/ Problems and Marvelous Secrets of the Indies.” Uptown Newsmagazine (July

1998)

Pincus, Robert L. “Guerrero goes solo in career overview” The San Diego Union-Tribune

(July 24, 1998)

Kendricks, Neil. “Primarily Paint.” Night& Day (February 6, 1997)

Roletti, Agnes. “Design of sea-wall art project changed.” The San Diego Union-Tribune (January 7, 1997)

Pincus, Robert L. “Show is grounds for looking at locals.” The San Diego Union-Tribune

(November 12, 1995)

Pincus, Robert L. “Museum’s ‘Ground’ rules make for a smaller, locals-only event,” The San Diego Union-Tribune (September 18, 1995)

Pincus, Robert L. “Symbolic journeys to places of intrigue”, The San Diego

Union Tribune (February 12, 1995)

Mantilla, J. Ruiz/Mora, M. “Pinto para los que no podemos levantarnos” El Pais (March, 1994)

Pyne, Lynn. The Phoenix Gazette (February 14, 1994)

Aronson, Steven. “Architectural Digest Visits: Oliver Stone”,

Architectural Digest (March, 1993)

Pincus, Robert L. “Raul Guerrero at David Zapf”, Art in America (September, 1991)

Pincus, Robert L. “Paintings Depict Vitality of Tijuana Night Life”, San Diego

Union Tribune (January 21, 1991)

Ollman, Leah. “Guerrero Captures Tijuana Night Life”, Los Angeles Times

(January 23, 1991)

Butterfield, Virginia/Maribeth Melin, ed. 91 San Diegans to Watch in 91”,

San Diego Magazine (January 1991)

Freudenheim, Susan. Artforum (Summer 1989)

Knight, Christopher. “Exhibit of Works by Raul Guerrero Borders on Being Retrospective”, Los

Angeles Herald Examiner (June 2, 1985)

McKenna, Kristine. “Guerrero: Beguiling, Baffling”, Los Angeles Time

(October 6, 1986)

McManus, Michael. “Emotion Minus Expressionism”, Artweek (1986)

Pincus, Robert L. “Reviews”, Art in America (February 1986)

Knight, Christopher. “Guerrero’s Art Comes Close to B-Movie Mysticism”,

Los Angeles Herald Examiner (June 2, 1985)

Larsen, Susan C. “Reviews”, Artforum (September 1985)

Drohojowska, Hunter. “Obsessions with Symbols, Clichés, and Technology”, L.A.

Weekly (February 3-9, 1984)

Drohojowska, Hunter. “Raul Guerrero, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art”,

Flash Art International (March 1983)

Muchnic, Suzanne. “Art Walk”, Los Angeles Times (March 17, 1978)

Welling, Jim. Artweek (March 11, 1978)

Zimmer, Kathy. Artweek (January 7, 1978)

Trowbridge, David. “Dialogue with Raul Guerrero”, LAICA Journal (October- November 1977)

Owyang, Judy. “Outlook West”, Santa Monica Evening Outlook (March 16, 1974)

Ballatore, Sandy. ST (June-July 1974)

Wilson, William. “Art Walk”, Los Angeles Times (March 8, 1974)

LECTURES/ INTERVIEWS

2001 The Los Angeles Art Scene: 60’s-70’s

San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park

San Diego, CA, March

1998 Raul Guerrero, Otis Art School, Los Angeles, CA

1995 Raul Guerrero, USC Art Department, Los Angeles, CA