ATP welcomes Esteban Cabeza de Baca as part of the Visiting Artist Series.
Cabeza de Baca (b. 1985, San Ysidro, California) is an American painter of Mexican and Native American heritage who lives and works between Queens, New York, and the Southwest United States. He numbers among his influences San Ysidro, the liminal border town of his youth, and his parents, whose intersectional political awareness and respect for human dignity led them to shelter undocumented migrants during his youth. Cabeza de Baca’s work entwines layers of graffiti, landscape, and pre-Columbian pictographs in ways that confound Cartesian single-point perspective. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Art, Cooper Union (2010) and Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University (2014). He has had solo exhibitions at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (2025); Parker Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); Garth Greenan Gallery, New York (2023); Boers-Li Gallery, New York (2019); Gaa Projects, Cologne, Germany (2019); and Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, Amsterdam (2019). He has participated group exhibitions at the Drawing Center, New York (2019); Royal Palace of Amsterdam (2018); Yale Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven (2017), and Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York (2015, 2014). Cabeza de Baca’s works are part of the permanent collections of Harvard University, the North Dakota Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Parrish Art Museum; Phoenix Art Museum; and Williams College Museum of Art. He is represented by Garth Greenan Gallery and Parker Gallery.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, April 8, 4:30pmat FORUM ROOM
KRESGE HALL 1515
1880 CAMPUS DR
EVANSTON, IL 60208
