Gala 2025 Auction Lot 6: Enrique Chagoya

Enrique Chagoya
Born Mexico City, Mexico 1953

Expresses Nothing but the Self, 2009
Color lithograph, 20 ½ × 24 inches

Edition WP 3/3 | Publisher: Shark’s Ink

Value: $3,025

Courtesy of the artist and Shark’s Ink

Framing courtesy of Frugal Framer

Drawing from his experiences living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border in the late1970s, and Europe in the late 1990s, Enrique Chagoya juxtaposes secular, popular, and religious symbols fashioning a cross-cultural dialogue among the United States and Latin America. He uses familiar pop icons to create deceptively friendly points of entry for the discussion of complex issues. Born and raised in Mexico City, Chagoya studied political economy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He received his BFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute before pursuing his MA and MFA at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1987. His work has been exhibited internationally including a major retrospective organized by the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa in 2007. He is currently Full Professor at Stanford University’s department of Art and Art History and his work can be found in numerous public collections including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Metropolitan Museum; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art.