CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
1990 M.F.A. Visual Art/Painting, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
1982 A.B. Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Professional Experience
2005-Present Professor of Art, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
2002-2004 Assistant Professor of Art, National University, San Diego, CA
2000-2002, Adjunct Professor, National University, San Diego, CA
2000-2002, Teaching Assistant/ Interactive Cognition Lab Cognitive Science Department, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
1991-1999, Illustrator, Positive Publishing, La Jolla, CA
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Shifting Perspectives: Cheech Collects, The Cheech Center for Chicano Art and Culture, Riverside, CA
Prospects 2024, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Bay to Park Paseo, World Design Capital Celebration, San Diego, CA
The Last Group Show, Bread and Salt Gallery, San Diego, CA
2023
Some Palms, Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA
Lost in Translation, San Diego Library, San Diego, CA
2022
Herd Immunity, SIP Gallery, San Marcos, CA
Campus Creatives, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
Late October, Cromeans Salon, San Diego
2021
San Diego Art Prize, Bread and Salt Gallery, San Diego, CA
Solo Exhibition, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA
2020
Campus Creatives, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
To Tame a Wild Tongue, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2019
California Connections: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Installed in the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
Intergalactic Dreaming, San Diego Lindbergh Field Airport, San Diego, CA2019
Art Oasis Showcase, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Forces of Nature, San Diego Airport, San Diego, CA
San Diego Surreal, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
2018
Cruel Summer, Basile/CM Curatorial, San Diego, CA
Sensorium, Idea 1, San Diego, CA
We the People, A Ship in the Woods Music Festival, Escondido, CA
Seeing is Believing, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA
You are Here, San Diego Library Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
2017
California Connections: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Installed in the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
Intergalactic Dreaming, San Diego Lindbergh Field Airport, San Diego, CA
2016
Southwestern College Faculty Show, SWC Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA
2015
Open Walls Project, San Diego, CA
2014
Open Walls Project, San Diego, CA
The Gates of Heck, Art San Diego
Attunement, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Object Object!, Helmuth Gallery, San Diego, CA
Borders-Bridges, Neu West Berlin Gallery, Berlin
The Gates of Heck, Canvas Gallery, San Diego, CA
Lure, Mesa College, San Diego, CA
New Works on Paper, MRKT, San Diego, CA
2013
Object! Object!, Helmuth Gallery, San Diego, CA
The Very Large Array, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
The Gates of Heck, San Diego Museum of Art, CA
2012
X-Emanation of the Virgin, Roots Factory, San Diego, CA
The Border Corps Savings & Loan, San Diego Museum of Art, CA
2011
Mexus Sexus Fluxus, University Art Gallery, UCSD La Jolla
Mexus Sexus Fluxus, San Diego Museum of Art, CA
San Diego Museum of Art, CA
The Gates of Heck, San Diego Museum of Art, CA
2010
Here Not There, MCA San Diego
Coatlicue, Mi Amor, Agitprop Space, San Diego
Animal Aktion, New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA
La Vida Drawing Aktion, San Diego Museum of Art, CA
La Vida Drawing Aktion, Self-Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Controverse, Southwestern, Chula Vista, CA
Homing In, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2008
TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art*, Weatherspoon Museum, UNC Greensboro
The Future of Nations, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica
P.L.A.T.O, El Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego
2007
TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art*, Memorial Gallery, University of Rochester
Delirium Fronterium, Sweeney Art Gallery, UC-Riverside, Riverside
Espacifico, Voz Alta Project, San Diego, CA
The Human Age, Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista
RE:UNION C/S, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego
2006
TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art*, MCA San Diego
Keep on Crossin’, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
2005
Southern Exposure, MCA San Diego
Borderless Dreams, Oceanside Museum of Art
What's Not to Love?, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco
2004
Trienial Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe,* San Juan, Puerto Rico
The O.C., 2004 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art
Dialogue: The Art of Conversation,* Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica Community College
Chicana/o,* University of California San Diego
Chicano Visions FotoAktion, MCA San Diego
2003
Crossings, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
The Keep on Crossin Awards, ICE Gallery, San Diego
Up Our Sleeves, Insallah Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (traveling)
Keep on Crossin’, Voz Alta Gallery, San Diego, CA
2000
Off Broadway: New Art from Downtown San Diego, MCA San Diego
1999
Space Invaders, Sushi Performance Space, San Diego
Plan Nine from Aztlan II, Calles y Suenos, Chicago, Il
Seventh Annual Juried Exhibition, Athenaeum Art and Music Library, La Jolla, CA First Prize
1997
Are We Touched? Identities from Outer Space,* Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
1996
Alien Attack: Outer Visions in Popular, Virus Gallery, San Diego, CA
1995
Plan 9 from Aztlan, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA
1994
Third Annual Juried Exhibition, Athenaeum Art and Music Library, La Jolla, CA First Prize
1993
Peculiar Painting, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA
1992
El Mestizaje, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA
Performances/Presentations
2013
The Gates of Heck, Summer Break: Double Portraits, San Diego Museum of Art, CA
Mass Creativity Day, the New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA
An Artist’s Perspective, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
2012
Border Corps Savings & Loan: Come and Get It! Summer Salon: Beyond the Banner, San Diego Museum of Art, CA
Perspectives: Mexican-American Art Today, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
2011
Mexus Sexus Fluxus, University Art Gallery, UC San Diego, CA
Ex-Emanation of the Virgin, Roots Factory, San Diego, CA
2010
Roque the Belle Epoque, Summer Salon, San Diego Museum of Art
Coatlicue, Mi Amor, Agitprop Space, San Diego, CA
2007
Best of TNT Fotoaktion, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
2003
Keep on Crossin’ Awards, ICE Gallery, San Diego, CA
Publications
2013 Summer Break 2013: Double Portraits, catalogue published by the San Diego Museum of Art
2011 – 2013 Agitprop Blog, contributing editor
2012 Other Ideas Zine, published by Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
2010 Art is Dead/Art is Alive Zine, published by The Border Corps Press
2007 Drift, San Diego City Works Press
2007 Transactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, catalogue published by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
2007 Ten Days Inside Guillermo Gomez-Pena’s Performance Art Boot Camp, self-published
2006 Hobart: Another Literary Journal, Vol 6.
2003 Sunshine Noir/ Writing from San Diego and Tijuana, San Diego City Works Press
1997 Are We Touched? Identities From Outer Space, catalogue published by Huntington Beach Art Center
1982 Nihl: The Magazine of Neo-Negativity in a Post-Positive World, Publisher, Stanford University
1979-1981 1979-1981 Stanford Chaparral, Art Director
Selected Curatorial Credits
Neil Shigley: Invisible People, Southwestern College Art Gallery, 2012, Chula Vista, CA
Silfredo La O Vigo: New Paintings, Southwestern College Art Gallery, 2011 , Chula Vista, CA
CONTROverse: Contemporary Visions of the U.S./Mexico Border, Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA, 2010
Alien Attack: Outer Visions in Popular Art, Virus Gallery, San Diego, 1996
Plan 9 From Aztlan, El Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA, 1995
Selected Bibliography
“Behind the Scenes with Perry Vasquez” by Leah Peterson, UT San Diego, March 7, 2012
“A Case for Recruiting Artist Board Members” by Shawnee Barton, UT San Diego, December 4, 2012
“Coatlicue, Mi Amor” by Richard Gleaves, Agitprop Blog, March 8, 2010
“The Image Collector”, by Katherine Sweetman, San Diego Citybeat, February 24, 2009
"Keep on Crossin’: A Meditation on Cultural Miscegenation” by Philip Auslander, The Art Section, May 2008
“Bordering on Politics”, by Robert Pincus, UT San Diego, September 17, 2006
“Spotlight on Perry Vasquez”, by Daniel Olivas, November 13, 2006
“Perry Vasquez: A Local Artist Maintaining Outside the Box” by Geneva Gamez, La Prensa, May 21, 2004
Filmography
2008 Fotoaktion! Producer of a documentary film about the life and work of Austrian-American photographer Doris Boris Berman,
Professional Development
2012-2017 NCM Strategic Planning Retreat
2007 La Pocha Nostra Performance Art Workshop
2003 National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, Leadership Institute
Community Engagement and Volunteerism
2018-present Art in Public Places Committee, Liberty Station, San Diego, CA
2011-2017 Board of Trustees, New Children’s Museum, San Diego
2011-20123 Museum School, Board of Directors, San Diego
2011-2022 Director of the Museum School Annual Art Auction
1993-1995 Arts Advisory Committee, El Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego
1993-1995 Assistant Curator, El Centro Cultural de la Raza
Grants and Awards
2008 NALAC Grant Recipient
2012 Irvine Foundation Grant for Mass Creativity Day at the New Children’s Museum
1990 Russell Grant, UCSD
Permanent Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside
Laguna Beach Art Museum
The Cheech Museum