Using his art to comment on social and environmental issues, Enrique Chagoya’s prints, drawings, collages and multiples offer critical commentary on the global reach of the United States and its cultural, political and historical tensions with Latin America. The artist is speaking on Thursday, Jan. 30, for the 2025 Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecture at UC Davis.
Chagoya is a Mexican-born American painter, printmaker and educator. He received an honorary doctorate from the San Francisco Art Institute and has won awards and fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, National Academy of Arts and Letters, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. He received the Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking Award from Southern Graphics Council International and was inducted into the National Academy of Design in 2021. Chagoya is a professor of art at Stanford University.
The January 30th lecture begins at 4:30 p.m. in the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis. The event is free and open to the public.
The Thiebaud Endowed Lecture is organized by the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program and co-sponsored by the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
The Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Lecture in the Theory, Practice and Criticism of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture celebrates the Thiebauds’ longtime commitment to educating the eye and hand, along with the mind. The annual lecture series presents practicing artists, along with critics, curators, writers, historians and museum professionals.
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