| SELECTED MURALS |
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| 2002 | Sowing Culture, 13'x13', Stark County Building, Toulon, IL Artist’s Studio Mural (in progress) as yet untitled, ca. 5,100 square feet, painted on exterior walls of artist’s home and studio, Cullerton and Wolcott Streets, Chicago |
| 2001 | Los secretos del caracol, diptych, 9'x12' each wall, Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Mich., Mexico |
| 2000 | Sufragio efectivo, no reelección, 30'x45', painted two stories above ground, Francisco Madero School, Chicago; with Mariah de Forest. |
| 1999 | Immigrant Christ, 25'x20', acrylic on canvas, painted for the Good Friday Way of the Cross procession organized by the Catholic parishes of Pilsen, Chicago |
| 1998 | A City in Transit, 35'x55', Washington and Chicago Avenues, Naperville, IL; with Mariah de Forest. Competitive selection. |
| 1997 | Alto al desplazamiento, artist’s section is 14'x20', 18th and Bishop Streets, Chicago; with members of Taller Mestizarte. |
| 1996 | Immigrant Heart, 8'x20', acrylic on canvas, commissioned by the Chicago Historical Society for the 1996 collective exhibit Pilsen and La Villita: Our Home, Our Struggle |
| 1995- 1996 |
Awakening of the Americas, painted on all four walls of 9'x30'x20' room, Rafael Cintrón Ortiz Center, University of Illinois at Chicago. Competitive selection. |
| 1993- 1994 |
Loteria, 20'x430' (longest single-theme mural in Chicago), commissioned by Concession Services, Inc., 42nd and Ashland Streets, Chicago; with Mariah de Forest. |
| 1992 | Honor Boricua, 30'x20', Evergreen and Rockwell Streets, Chicago, for LUCHA. In the Fount of Knowledge, 4'x40' and 8'x20', De la Cruz Elementary School, Chicago. By invitation. Shipwreck of the Arts, 14'x35', Highland Park HS, Highland Park, IL. By invitation. La ronda del saber, 12'x40', Luis Muñoz Marin Primary Center, Chicago |
| 1991- 1992 |
Chicago: Everyone’s City, 55'x75', commissioned by Security Federal Savings and Loan, rear wall at Division and Bosworth Streets, Chicago; with Mariah de Forest. Competitive selection. |
| 1991 | ¡Comunidad Sí! (It Takes a Vision), 6'x55', Harold Washington Library Center, 9th floor, Chicago; with Roberto Valadez and John Pitman Weber. Commissioned by the City of Chicago’s Percent for Art program. Competitive selection. |
| 1990 | Chic-Chac, 8'x14', mosaic, Rudy Lozano Library, Chicago; with Cynthia Weiss. Commissioned by the City of Chicago’s Percent for Art program. Competitive selection. Homage to Van Gogh: The Crows Are in Mourning, 8'x24', acrylic on canvas, for group exhibition at N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago Dreams and Realities of the Americas, 9'x14', Inter-American Magnet School, Chicago. Commissioned as part of a three-month teaching project. |
| 1989 | Rituales de curación, 30'x4', Clínica Santa Fe, Zamora, Michoacán, Mexico Peace, 25'x14', 18th and Bishop Streets, Chicago; with Roberto Valadez and Luis Montenegro. |
| 1987- 1990 |
Amanecer, Parts I-IV, each 30'x14', Benito Juarez High School, Chicago; with Antonio Desantos, Aurelio Diaz, José Gonzalez, Ray Patlán, Gamaliel Ramirez, Celia Rodriguez, Roberto Valadez, and Salvador Vega. By invitation. |
| 1987 | The Cosmic Race, 9'x16', Lakeview Learning Center, Truman College, Clark and School Streets, Chicago. By invitation. |
| 1986 | Shoot for the Sky, 20'x30', Chicago Boys and Girls Club, 28th and Ridgeway, Chicago; with José Guerrero Gulliver en el país de las maravillas, 12'x50', Bishop Street between 18th and 19th Streets, Chicago (destroyed) |
| 1985 | Our Roots, New Horizons, 16'x45', 26th and Kostner Streets, Chicago; with Aurelio Diaz and Alejandro Nava (destroyed) |
| 1980 | Plan de Ayala, 12'x30', Bordo Grande, Michoacán, Mexico
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2001 | Café Jumping Bean, Chicago Remembering Haymarket, paintings and prints. Also, 47th Street Chamber of Commerce Gallery Hall, Chicago, 2002 |
| 1999 | Taller Mestizarte, Chicago ¿Víctimas o cómplices? paintings, mixed media, and installation |
| 1997 | A.P.O. Building, Chicago Candelaria, installation |
| 1995 | State of Illinois Gallery, State of Illinois Building, Chicago Ritual of the Seven Spaces in the Vital Cycle of Death: A Mexican Offering, room-size installation |
| 1993 | Prospectus Gallery, Chicago Eros is Here (With Heart in Hand), paintings and monoprints Mexican Printmaking Workshop, Chicago Y de tripas corazones, silkscreen monoprints |
| 1992 | Prospectus Gallery, Chicago Offering to Rafael, My Father, paintings and full-gallery installation (utilized paint, mirrors, water, neon, black light, and dance performance) |
| 1987 | Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago Day of the Dead, paintings |
| 1984 | Casa de la Cultura de Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico |
| 1983 | Casa de la Cultura de Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico |
| 1979 | Instituto Tecnológico Regional, San Luis Potosí, Mexico |
| 1978 | Casa de la Cultura de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2001 | Boise State University, Boise, ID, Chicano/Chicana Juried Exhibition Casa Guanajuato de Chicago, Chicago, Nuestras Raices Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL, De Raices Mexicanas (Of Mexican Roots) Café Jumping Bean, Chicago, Día de los muertos Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, Día de Muertos XV |
| 2000 | Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, Mexico City, Fe, arte y cultura Galería Arte de México (gallery run by the Mexican consulate), Chicago. Same Origin, Different Paths Taller Mestizarte, Chicago, ¿El Arte Para Qué? Hot House, Chicago, Homage to Guayasamin Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL, Cuarteto Centro Cultural Ruiz Belviz, Chicago, Around the Coyote 2000 |
| 1999 | Chicago Athenaeum at Schaumburg, Schaumburg, IL, Portraits of Life and Death: New Art by Latin American Artists of Chicago Mexican Cultural and Educational Institute of Chicago (cultural arm of the Mexican consulate in Chicago), Cristos del mundo. Also, Latino Arts, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, |
| 1998 | Taller Mestizarte, Chicago, 1968-1998: Remembrance, Commitment, Change |
| 1997 | Taller Mestizarte, Chicago, Siqueiros 100 Roberto Lopez Gallery, Chicago, Around the Coyote James R. Thompson Center, Chicago, Hispanic Month Prospectus Gallery, Chicago, Tribute |
| 1996 | Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Pilsen and La Villita: Our Home, Our Struggle. Also, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, 1997 Montgomery Ward Gallery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Art of Iberoamerica. Also, Chicago Cultural Center. |
| 1995 | Betty Rymer Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Imaging Aztlan State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago and Springfield, IL, Healing Walls: Murals and Community, A Chicago History Mexican Printmaking Workshop, Chicago, Calaveras del Taller |
| 1994 | International Art Expo, Navy Pier, Chicago (installation: Che-ca-gou: Heart of Wild Onions) Dorothea Thiel Gallery, South Suburban College, South Holland, IL, Chicago Heritage of Latino Art |
| 1993 | Centro Cultural Tijuana, Identidades fronterizas, for the Ninth International Festival of la Raza. Also, Museo de la Ex-Aduana, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and La Casa de la Cultura de Nuevo Laredo, Mexico Athenaeum Gallery, Chicago, Designs from Four Murals Rockford College Art Gallery, Rockford College, Rockford, IL, Day of the Dead |
| 1992 | Prospectus Art Gallery, Chicago, Sun/Expressions |
| 1991 | Chicago Cultural Center, In the Heart of the Country / En el corazón del país University of Minnesota, Día de los Muertos South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago, Mes de Hispanidad Truman College, Chicago, Homenage a la Hispanidad McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL, Day of the Dead / Día de los Muertos |
| 1990 | Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, Día de los muertos University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Latino Contemporaries (two-person exhibit with Jesus Acuña) Daley Civic Center, Chicago, Latin Artists Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Hispanic Arts Festival |
| 1989 | Loyola University, Chicago, Imágenes Latinas Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, Day of the Dead |
| 1988 | Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, Adivina! Chicago Latino Expressions. Also, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City. Montgomery Ward Gallery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Vale Gas Prairie Gallery, Chicago, Day of the Dead |
| 1987 | Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, The Barrio Murals Community Gallery of Art, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL, Nuestras Imágenes: Our Images Latino Arts Coalition Art Gallery, Chicago, Contemporary Latino Artists |
| 1986 | Chicago International Art Expo, Navy Pier, Chicago Kalpulli Gallery, Chicago, Day of the Dead Lawndale Bank, Chicago, Latino Art Festival ’86 Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Hispanic Arts Festival Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City, Salón Nacional de Dibujo |
| 1985 | Villa Joya, Madrid, Spain, Bienal de Pintura Senado de la República, Mexico City, Presencia Plástica de Zacatecas |
| 1983 | Casa de la Cultura de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico, III Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven. Also, el Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City |
| 1980 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Morelia, Mexico Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Hispanic Festival of the Arts ’80 |
| 1979 | Museo San Agustín, Zacatecas, Mexico |
| 1977 | Siqueiros Mural Workshop, Cuernavaca, Mexico, Cartel |
| 1976 | Casa de la Cultura de Sahuayo, Sahuayo, Michoacán, Mexico |
| 1974 | Edificio de Cristal, Zamora, Mexico, 400th Anniversary of the Founding of Zamora; sponsored by the Municipality of Zamora.
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| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS |
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| Art in Chicago: 1945-1995 (book issued in conjunction with exhibition by the same name), published by the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. Chapter on community art discusses artist’s work. Chicago Reader, "Painting Large," by Jeff Huebner, October 29, 1993. Feature story on the painting of "Loteria." Chicago Tribune, "Duarte invokes spirits of the past," by Alan Artner, July 14, 1995. Review of installation at State of Illinois Gallery. Chicago Tribune, "Huge, New Mural Offers a Slice of Mexican Life," by Larry Hartstein, October 14, 1994. Chicago Tribune, "Twelve Artists Go to Heart of Hispanic Culture," by Alan Artner, May 24, 1991. Review of collective exhibit In the Heart of the Country / En el corazón del país. El Otro, "Culpables o inocentes," by Erasmo Salgado, November 1999. Review of solo exhibit ¿Víctimas o cómplices? at Taller Mestizarte. A Guide to Chicago’s Murals, by Mary Lackritz Gray, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2001. High Performance, "Chicago Public Art Group," by Andrew Patner, Spring 1993. Case study of CPAG; article discusses the painting of the mural "Honor Boricua." La Bamba Cultural (book published by the Mexican Cultural and Educational Institute, the cultural arm of the Mexican Consulate), "Cristos del mundo: exposición pictórico en el consulado general," by Tánit Reguera Fernández, 1999. Review of collective exhibit Cristos del mundo. La Raza, "El mural más grande de Chicago," May 27-June 2, 1993. Note on the commissioning of "Loteria." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Religion, radicalism combine at show," by James Auer, April 26, 2000. Review of collective exhibit Cristos del mundo at Latino Arts, Inc., Milwaukee. The New Art Examiner, "Art's Chicago Public: The Mural Movement," by Claire Wolf Krantz, May 1996. Proceso (national news magazine in Mexico), "Del muralismo al chicanismo: Un arte efervescente, asediado, combativo, el de los mexicanos en Chicago," by Roberto Ponce, June 27, 1999. Tema Celeste Art Magazine, "The Day of the Dead," by Craig Adcock, March-April 1991. Review of the 1990 collective exhibit Día de los muertos at the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum. Urban Art Chicago: A Guide to Community Murals, Mosaics, and Sculpture, by Olivia Gude and Jeff Huebner, Ivan R. Dee Publisher, Chicago, 2000.
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| ARTS LEADERSHIP |
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| 1990- 2002 |
Cofounder and active member, Mexican Printmaking Workshop (now Taller Mestizarte), Chicago |
| 1983 | Cofounder, Taller de Gráfica Julio Ruelas, Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico |
| 1982 | Cofounder, Casa de la Cultura del Valle de Zamora, Zamora, Michoacán, Mexico
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| AWARDS AND RECOGNITION |
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| 2000- 2004 |
Illinois Arts Council Arts In Education Residency Program Roster Artist |
| 1996 | Denver International Airport public art competition, finalist (one of three) |
| 1995 | Best Work of Public Art, 1995. From the Chicago Bar Association, for "Loteria" |
| 1994 | National Endowment for the Arts Regional Artists’ Project Grant |
| 1989- 1993 |
Community Arts Assistance Grants, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs |
| 1979- 1980 |
Selected by David Alfaro Siqueiros’s widow to restore Siqueiros murals, Cuernavaca and Mexico City |
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