SELECTED MURALS AND PUBLIC ART

2023-25 More Dangerous Than a Thousand Protestors / Más peligrosa que mil manifestantes, 11.5’ x 13’, ceramic tile affixed to concrete wall; acrylic on concrete columns totaling 12’ x 20’. Installed and painted at the Lucy Gonzalez Parsons Apartments, commissioned by Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation. 

2024 Aromas of cempasuchil for Ray Patlán / Aromas de cempasúchil para Ray Patlán, 12’ x 26’, acrylic on canvas. Installed at the National Museum of Mexican Art for the 38th annual Day of the Dead exhibition: Dia de Muertos, Where the Past is Present; dedicated to Ray Patlán. By invitation. 

2024 The Flight of the Butterflies (sculpture), 2’9” x 6’, acrylic on pre-fabricated aluminum butterfly sculpture. Installed at the Magnificent Mile: 875 N. Michigan Ave. Chicago Academy of Sciences and Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. By invitation. 

2023 Flowering Knowledge / La flor del saber (Learning to Fly / Aprendiendo a Volar), Two panels,16’x27’ each, acrylic on Polytab with handmade ceramic tile, on the exterior east wall of the Budlong Woods Branch Library, Chicago. Competitive Selection.

2022 Fight to Stay, ca 4,000 sq ft, acrylic on brick, painted on two walls of the Pilsen Housing Cooperative, 19th and Wolcott, with Gabriel Villa. Supported by a competitive Artist Response Grant from the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.

2021 Requiem for Two Spirits, Defenders of the Migrant Tümü, (sculpture) 8’ x 5’ (diagonal 15’), mixed media. Installed at Brushwood Center, Riverwoods, IL for the traveling exhibition “Third Coast Disrupted: Artists + Scientists on Climate.”

George Floyd Still Here, 11’ x 10’, acrylic on synthetic paper. Installed on 18th Street historic viaduct wall of murals, between Oakley and Western Ave.

2020 There’s No Place Like Home, 3’8” x 11’, ceramic tile mosaic, installed at the corner of Humboldt Blvd. and Wabansia, Chicago, Commissioned by Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation. 

Requiem for Two Spirits, Defenders of the Migrant Tümü, (sculpture) 13’ x 6’ (diagonal 15’), mixed media. Installed at the Glass Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL for the exhibition “Third Coast Disrupted: Artists + Scientists on Climate.”

2019 La visión del migrante, 10’ x 13’, acrylic on canvas (transportable), with Victor Flores. Commissioned by the National Museum of Mexico and the State Government of Guanajuato for the International Cervantino Festival 2019.

2018 The Dance of the Lightning Bugs, 30' x 100', acrylic on interfacing (affixed to brick and cement), Commissioned by ComEd for an exterior wall at the ComEd Tech Center in Maywood, IL. 

2017 Unraveling Borders II, 6’x 60’, acrylic on pellon (affixed to brick), 11th Street near Michigan Ave., Chicago, Commissioned by Columbia College as part of the Wabash Arts Corridor

2016 La Ronda Parakata (sculpture and “Gathering Space”), 10’ high sculptural ring of interlocking butterflies, 30’ diameter, rebar and bamboo. Installed in the Burnham Wildlife Corridor on Chicago’s lakefront at approx. 34th Street; with sculptor Alfonso “Piloto” Nieves. Commissioned by The Field Museum and the Chicago Park District. Competitive selection.

2011 Quetzalcoatl Returns to Look at Himself in the Mirror, 8’ x 180’, acrylic paint on pellon (affixed to cement), mirror. Canal and West streets (on the Canal Walk), Indianapolis. Competitive selection.

2009 Unraveling Borders/ Desenredando fronteras, approximately 10’ x 150’, acrylic paint on canvas and drywall. Painted on all four walls of the gallery and finished on-site at the National Museum of Mexican Art for the solo show Muralla sobre lienzo

2008 Somos Regalado, roughly 16’ x 82’ (total of 1368 sq. ft.), acrylic paint, locally produced clay tile, and slate on stucco. Created on a public wall in the town of Atacheo de Regalado, Michoacán. Supported by a grant from the Michoacán Secretary of Culture, with assistance from Chicago Public Art Group.

2007 Compass Rose, 12' x 34', acrylic on cement, Ridgeland Ave. south of Lake Street on north wall of train viaduct, Oak Park, IL. Competitive selection.

2006 Migrant Butterflies, mural encompasses the entire town of Caurio de Guadalupe, Michoacán. Main wall is 20 ft. x 425 ft., acrylic on adobe, on the town plaza. Scattered butterflies painted throughout the town. Supported by a competitive grant from Michoacán Secretary of Culture, with assistance from Chicago Public Art Group 

2005 Gulliver in Wonderland, ca. 3,500 total square feet, acrylic on aluminum siding painted on exterior walls of artist’s studio, Cullerton and Wolcott Streets, Chicago. Frequently included on Chicago architectural and art tours.

Nuestro Amigo Carlos, 10’ x 13’, acrylic on canvas. Exhibited at the National Museum of Mexican Art on various occasions. The museum holds this work in its collection.

2004 Ice Cream Dream, 8.5'x25.5', glass tile mosaic, Chicago Transit Authority's Western Avenue station, Pink Line. Commissioned by the Chicago Transit Authority. Competitive selection.

2002 Sowing Culture, 13'x13', Stark County Building, Toulon, IL

2001 Los secretos del caracol, diptych, 9'x12' each wall, Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Mich., Mexico

2000 Sufragio efectivo, no reelección, 30'x60', 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

1997-98 A City in Transit, 35'x55', Washington and Chicago Avenues, Naperville, IL; with Mariah de Forest. Competitive selection. Commissioned for the Century Walk public art initiative.

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

1995-96 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.

1993-94 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, 10'x14', 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

1991-92 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, 4'x30', Clínica Santa Fe, Zamora, Michoacán, Mexico

Peace, 25'x14', 18th and Bishop Streets, Chicago; with Roberto Valadez and Luis Montenegro.

1987-90 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. 

1980 Plan de Ayala, 12'x30', Bordo Grande, Michoacán, Mexico