Oscar Magallanes
Born in Duarte. Raised in Azusa. Studio Lincoln Heights. Reside in Pomona, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2021, Master of Fine Arts in Art, University of California, San Diego, California Academic Positions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n University of California, San Diego, California Artist Residencies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2019, SA Street Art Project, San Antonio, Texas Leadership & Board Membership<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2025\u2013Present<\/strong> Executive Director | Institute of Latino Art (ILA), Pomona, CA (Founder and inaugural ED of a new nonprofit dedicated to advancing Latino visual art, advocacy, and cultural preservation)<\/em> Curatorial & Exhibition Production<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Highway Hypnosis, <\/em>Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, California, 2024 Awarded Public Art Commissions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Huntington Elementary Mural, <\/em>El Sereno, Los Angeles, CA Projected Fall 2025 <\/p> Public Art Commission Finalist<\/strong><\/p>Harbor-UCLA Medical, Public Art Alternate, Los Angeles, CA, 2022 Our City Yards, The City of Santa Monica, CA 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3B Collective<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Co-founded in 2016, a collective of artists and designers producing public works and exhibitions that center community, equity, and BIPOC representation in both cultural and institutional spaces.<\/em> 3B Solo Exhibitions<\/strong> Public Art Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Finalist Current Project<\/strong>s<\/strong> Completed<\/strong> Selected Collaborative & Commissioned Projects:<\/strong> Individual Selected Solo Exhibitions<\/strong> Selected Group Exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Collections<\/strong> Fellowships and Grants<\/strong> Panelist and Guest Speaker<\/strong> Award<\/strong>s<\/strong> Workshops, Classes, and Community Volunteer Works<\/strong> Delegations<\/strong> Design Position<\/strong>s<\/strong> Publications and Media<\/strong> Oscar MagallanesBorn in Duarte. Raised in Azusa. Studio Lincoln Heights. Reside in Pomona, California Education 2021, Master of Fine Arts in Art, University of California, San Diego, California2017, Bachelor of Arts in Art, University of California, Los Angeles, California Academic Positions University of California, San Diego, CaliforniaAssociate Instructor, Environmental Studies, Muir College 2021Art in the … <\/p>\n
2017, Bachelor of Arts in Art, University of California, Los Angeles, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Associate Instructor, Environmental Studies, Muir College 2021
Art in the Environment
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Officer, Visual Arts Department, 2020-2021
Teaching Assistant, Visual Arts Department, 2018-2020
Design Communication, Introduction to Digital Photography, Introduction to Art-Making: 3-D Practices<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2013, Serie Project, Austin, Texas<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2016\u2013Present<\/strong> Co-Founder | 3B Collective, Los Angeles, CA (Collaborative artist group committed to decolonial public art, education, and community-based practice)<\/em>
2010-2018 Founding Member, Young Professionals Board, Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles, California
2009-2012 Board Member, Self Help Graphics and Art, Los Angeles, California
2006-2009 Board Member, Ryman Arts, Los Angeles, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amor Hecho Visible: El Mac, <\/em>Residency, Inglewood, California, 2024
Chaz: A Conversation on West Coast Handstyles, <\/em>Co-Curator, UCSD Structural Materials & Engineering Gallery, California. PHD Symposium, University of California, San Diego, February 2020
Barrio Logos: Displacement and Vanishing Iconography, <\/em>Curator, Residency, Inglewood, California
Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA, The Getty, September 2017
Descendants and Dissonance: Cultural Iconography in Contemporary L.A., <\/em>Salt Fine Art, Laguna Beach, California, Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA, The Getty, September 2017
LA\/SA, <\/em>Gravelmouth, San Antonio, Texas, 2013 and 2016
Evolution Revolution, <\/em>2008, Shoot \u2018N\u2019 Burn LA, <\/em>2008, Dia de los Muertos, <\/em>2009
Galeria Rustica, Curator, Pomona, CA 2008-2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lenticular Americana, <\/em>Century City Metro Station, Los Angeles, CA 2021-2027
The Early Bird, <\/em>Cantos y Fronteras, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX, 2016
El Movimiento, <\/em>Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, Los Angeles, CA 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Highway Hypnosis, Craft Contemporary Museum, California, 2024
Arte Activista, California Museum, California, 2023
Highways & Byways, Residency, Inglewood, California, 2021
By Way Of, Best Practice, San Diego, California, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>Mathew Street Park, 2022
3rd & Dangler Housing Project, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mesa College Mural, <\/em>San Diego, CA, projected Winter 2026
San Diego City College Mural Expansion<\/em>, San Diego, California, projected Spring 2026
Reseda Skate Facility<\/em>, Reseda, California, projected fall 2025
Student Service Center Installation, <\/em>Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA, Winter 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hilda Solis First Care Village, <\/em>Los Angeles, CA, projected Fall 2023
Ganesha Park Bandshell Lighting<\/em>, Pomona, California, 2025
Hilda Solis First Care Village, <\/em>Los Angeles, CA, 2024
M Building Mural<\/em>, Long Beach, California, 2024
Project Backboard, <\/em>Inglewood, California, 2023
Palomares Skatepark, <\/em>Pomona, California, 2023
Visual Arts Facility Mural, <\/em>University of California, San Diego, California, 2022
Lost In Translation, <\/em>San Diego City College, San Diego, California, 2021
Salt of the Earth, <\/em>California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, California, 2021
Chicano Moratorium 50th Anniversary, <\/em>Whittier Blvd., Whittier, California, 2020
Black Lives Matter, <\/em>Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, 2020
Black Lives Matter, <\/em>University of California, San Diego, California, 2020
Venice, <\/em>UCLA Venice Dental Clinic, Venice, California, 2019
Tejas, <\/em>San Antonio Street Art Initiative, San Antonio, Texas, 2019
50 Years of Resistance, <\/em>UCLA Student Activity Center, Westwood, California, 2018
El Valor, <\/em>El Museo Infantil, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Poem, <\/em>Karl Holmqvist Mural, LAXART, Los Angeles, California 2020
Ser todo Es ser Parte, <\/em>L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, California, 2020
Relax into the Invisible, <\/em>Barbara S. Solomon, LAXART, Los Angeles, California, 2019
Emory Douglas Bold Visual Language, <\/em>L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, California, 2018
Untitled (It), <\/em>Barbara Kruger, LAXART, Los Angeles, California, 2018
El Teatro Campesino(1965-1975), <\/em>L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, California, 2017
Eduardo Sarabia: Drifting on a Dream, <\/em>Mural and installation, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, California, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2021 Criminalized Aesthetics, UCSD, La Jolla, California
2019 Ethnosuicide and Epistemologies of Ignorance, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
2016 A New American Portrait, Uri-Eichen, Chicago, Illinois
2016 El Maleficio, Salt Fine Art, Laguna Beach, California
2014 A Movement in Two Parts, Art\u00e9 Americas, Fresno, California
2012 Papel Y Madera, Crewest, Los Angeles, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perspectivas, Diana Berger Gallery, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA<\/p>\n\n\n\n
De Moda: Fashion, Ceremony, and Symbols of Resilience<\/em>, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Convergence x Crossroads: Street Art from the Southwest<\/em>, National Hispanic Cultural Center, NM
Rasquachismo<\/em>, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA
Desert Highway Hypnosis<\/em>, College of the Desert, Palm Desert, CA
Highway Hypnosis<\/em>, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Collective Memory, Grand Park. Los Angeles, California
La Plaza, The Museum of Social Justice, Los Angeles, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grand Opening Exhibition, The Cheech Center for Chicano Art, Riverside, California
Communal Works, The Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Patriotism in Conflict, La Plaza de Cultura y Arte Museum, Los Angeles, California By Way Of, Best Practice, San Diego, CA
Highways & Byways, Residency, Inglewood, CA
Measurements of Progress, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arte de las Almas, The California Museum, Sacramento, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arte Para La Gente, Chimmaya Gallery, East Los Angeles, California
Black Brown and Beige, Self Help Graphics and Art, Los Angeles, California
30 Visions, Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles, California
Arte de las Almas, The California Museum, Sacramento, California
La Bulla, Plaza de la Raza, Los Angeles, California
WeRise, Los Angeles, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sanctuary: Design for Belonging, Center for Architecture & Design, Seattle, Washington
\u00a1Ya Basta!, La Plaza de Cultura y Arte Museum, Los Angeles, California
Sanctuary, dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, California
Contemporary Codex, Sol Collective, Sacramento, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Descendants and Dissonance: Cultural Iconography in Contemporary L.A., Salt Fine Art, Laguna Beach, California
Arte y Almas, The California Museum, Sacramento, California
Sculptures by Six, Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts, Rancho Cucamonga, California
Reconstitution, LAXART, Los Angeles, California
Cuerpos, Voces Gallery, Los Angeles, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Poderosas Para Siempre, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California
43: From Ayotzinapa to Ferguson, Self Help Graphics, East Los Angeles, California
Sculpture in the Garden, Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts, Rancho Cucamonga, California
Model Migration, Residency, Inglewood, California
Border Crossings, La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Estampas de la Raza, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Illinois
Juried Exhibition, Curator Rita Gonzalez, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
Graphicanos, Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces, New Mexico<\/p>\n\n\n\n
La Muerte Ni\u00f1a, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Illinois
Back to School, Salt Fine Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
Rodin to Warhol, McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Graphicanos, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan
Estampas de la Raza, Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles, California
The Nature of Sculpture, Los Angeles County Arboretum, Arcadia, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n
El Velorio, La Plaza de la Raza, Los Angeles, California
Crossing Borders, California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, California
20 Years, Serie Project, Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, Texas
Rito y Recuerdo, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Illinois
El Nuevo Templo De Huitzilopochtli, CEART Museum, Mexicali, Mexico
Estampas de la Raza, The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Graphicanos, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Texas
Print Provocateur, Gravelmouth, San Antonio, Texas
Estampas de la Raza, The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Biennial, Los Angeles, California
Serie XX, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas
New Works, Ave. 50 Gallery, Los Angeles, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Creaci\u00f3n Artistica, Norco College, Norco, California
Estampas de la Raza, McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Sculpture in the Garden, Maloof Foundation Discovery Garden, Alta Loma, California
Play Me, I\u2019m Yours, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, North Hollywood, California
Hands-On Healing, SEIU\/ULTCW Headquarters, Los Angeles, Californi<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Heuristic LA, La Vida Loca, Los Angeles, California
Crossing The Invisible Line: The Art of Immigration, Sonoma State University, California
An Affair for the Arts, Ryman Arts Foundation, Bel Air, California
Revolutionaries, Pedersen Projects, Pomona, California
Ripe, Crewest Gallery, Los Angeles, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dreams Deferred, Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles, California
Viajes de los Muertos, Arizona Historical Society Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Nacio en Aztlan, DA Center for the Arts, Pomona, California
Faces of Skid Row, Crewest, Los Angeles, California
Zapatista, Center Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California
National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Illinois
La Salle University: Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Special Collections, University Archives at Bucknell University<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2021 Russell Grant, University of California San Diego
2020 Friends of the International Center Fellowship Award, University of California San Diego Global Education
2020 Institute for Arts and Humanities Graduate Summer Fellowship, IAH University of California San Diego
2014 Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowship Academy, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meet the Artist: Century City Station<\/em>, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Los Angeles, CA, 2025
Keynote Speaker, <\/em>EP\/LA Muralism Exchange, El Paso Museum of Art, 2025
Am\u00e9rica Tropical: The Martyr Mural of Siqueiros<\/em> Premiere and Panel Discussion, LAist\/KCET ARTBOUND, Pasadena, California, 2023
UCLA Art Summer Institute, Los Angeles, California, 2022
UCSD Art 110 Art in Public Spaces, UCSD, La Jolla, California, 2022
Plaza en Casa. La Plaza De Cultura Y Arte, Los Angeles, California, 2022
The California Museum, Sacramento, California, 2020
P\u00e1ramo Galeria, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 2019
Escuela Superior de Arquitectura, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 2019
Legacy of the Chicano Movement: A Discussion with Emerging Los Angeles Artist
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California 2017
Untamed: Cultivating Collaboration in Arts, Activism and Scholarship Symposium
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 2017
Mexican-American Arts in American Culture, East Los Angeles College, California 2012
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2019 Clio Entertainment Silver Award for ‘Mayans M.C. – Key Art 1’ for FX Networks<\/a>
2014 Best UCLA Newsmagazine Visual, The UCLA Communications Board
2013 Certificate of Appreciation, California State Assembly
2009 Certificate of Appreciation, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
2008 Certificate of Appreciation, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
2007 Certificate of Appreciation, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Los Angeles City Council<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Highland Park Youth Council, Mentor, Hathaway-Sycamore, 2016
Art Instructor Assistant, Inner-City Arts, 2012-2013
Silkscreen Classes, Inner-City Arts, 2013-2014
Stencil Workshop, Inner-City Arts, 2013
Stencil & Silkscreen Printing Workshop, SEIU, Los Angeles, California, 2012
Stencil Workshop, LA Vs War, Los Angeles, California, 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2011 Delegate, Culture\/Strike, Tucson, Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona and Nogales, Mexico
2005-2006 Delegate, Zapatista\u2019s Autonomous Communities, Lacandon Jungle, Chiapas, Mexico<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Community Programs Office, Art Director, UCLA, 2014-2017
CHICAN@ Art Magazine, Co-founder and Art Director, 2006-2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Los Angeles Times Image issue 7, \u201cSurvival,\u201d a collective vision for the L.A. of our dreams.<\/em>Dec., 1, 2021<\/a>
UCLA Newsroom Feature, UCLA alumnus Oscar Magallanes honors his Chicano heritage in his art, Oct, 13th, 2021<\/a>
Multiple Marginality and Gangs: Through a Prism Darkly, Book Cover Art, June 15, 2020<\/a>
LA artists commemorate 50th anniversary of Chicano Moratorium with mural in East LA, KABC August 31, 2020<\/a>
Mis \u00c1ngeles: \u2018Ruben Salazar \u00a1Presente!\u2019, KPCC, August 28, 2020
UCLA Magazine Cover Design, January 2019<\/a>
Mayans MC, Season One, Key Art for national and international media campaign, 2018<\/a>
Artist Oscar Magallanes brings the Getty to Inglewood, Article Huffington Post, October 5, 2017<\/a>
La Gente Newsmagazine, Cover Art, University of California, Los Angeles, California
\u2022 Spring 2017, Volume 46, Issue 1
\u2022 Fall 2014, Volume 44, Issue 1
\u2022 Spring 2014, Volume 44, Issue 3
\u2022 Winter 2014, Volume 44, Issue 2
\u2022 Fall 2013, Volume 44, Issue 1
UCLA Magazine, 50 Years of Resistance Mural<\/a>
Artist Feature, UCLA School of Arts and Architecture, Centennial Campaign, December 16, 2015<\/a>
Exhibit makes San Antonio, Los Angeles art connection, The San Antonio Express Newspaper, January 24, 2013
UNTITLED, Interview, North Carolina Art Museum, July 17, 2014<\/a>
Artist Oscar Magallanges\u2019 rough upbringing inspired his career as an artist, Fusion TV, September 23, 2014
Artist Interview, 88.1 KFCF, June 20, 2014
Estampas de la Raza Catalog, McNay Museum, University of Texas Press, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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