Carlos Villa
| Carlos Villa | |
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| Born |
December 11, 1936 San Francisco, California |
| Died | March 23, 2013 (aged 76) San Francisco, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
San Francisco Art Institute (BFA, Education, 1961) Mills College (MFA, Painting, 1963) |
| Awards |
National Endowment for the Arts (1973) American Academy in Rome (1987, 2000), Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award (1997) Guggenheim Fellowship (2012) |
Carlos Villa (December 11, 1936 – March 23, 2013) was a Filipino-American visual artist, curator and faculty member in the Painting Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. His work often explored the meaning of cultural diversity and attempts to expanded our awareness of what we consider as “multicultural.”
Villa was born in San Francisco, California, to immigrant parents in the Tenderloin District. He was introduced to art when taking lessons with his cousin, Leo Valledor, who taught him to study etchings by Matisse. Villa started to display his work in 1958 and went on to receive a BFA in Education in 1961 from the San Francisco Art Institute, and a subsequent MFA in Painting in 1963 from Mills College.
Villa died March 23, 2013 in San Francisco from cancer and is survived by his wife, Mary Valledor; daughter Sydney and stepson Rio Valledor.
Villa created multimedia he called "Actions," often group collaborations which dealt with multicultural topics.
In 1976 curated a multidisciplinary exhibition named Other Sources: An American Essay, and showcased work by artists of color. This exhibitions recontextualization of contemporary Bay Area art (by featured people of color and women), and showcased some of the following artists; Ruth Asawa, Bernice Bing, Rolando Castellon, Claude Clark, Robert Colescott, Frank Day, Rupert Garcia, Mike Henderson, Oliver Jackson, Frank LaPena, Linda Lomahaftewa, George Longfish, Ralph Maradiaga, José Montoya, Manuel Neri, Mary Lovelace O’Neil, Darryl Sapien, Raymond Saunders, James Suzuki, Horace Washington, Al Wong, René Yañez, Leo Valledor,and many more. Live performances by Winston and Mary Tong, Mark Izu and Ray Robles, poetry readings by Janice Mirikitani, Jessica Hagedorn, and Al Robles and numerous others.
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