Malaquías Montoya

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Malaquías Montoya

Born	1938 Albuquerque, New Mexico
Nationality	American
Field	drawing, painting, murals and silkscreen
Training	University of California, Berkeley
Awards	Adaline Kent Award from the San Francisco Art Institute 1997. Special Congressional Recognition, Awarded by Congressman Mike Thompson in recognition of outstanding and invaluable service to the community, Woodland, California 2005.

Malaquías Montoya is an American born Chicano poster artist and a major figure in the Chicano Art Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

1 Early Life and Teaching
2 Art Works
3 External Links
4 References

[edit] Early Life and Teaching

Montoya was raised by a single mother in a family of migrant farm workers (including brother, José Montoya) in California's Central Valley. He joined the U.S. Marines and through the G.I. Bill was able to attend the University of California at Berkeley.^[1] In 1968, Montoya founded the Mexican-American Liberation Art Front and was "arguably the most influential Chicano artist collective in the movement".^[2]

Since then he has taught at University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, California College of Arts and Crafts, University of Notre Dame. He currently teaches in the Chicano studies and Art departments at the University of California, Davis.

[edit] Art Works

Montoya is known for incorporating social justice themes in his work. In 2006 he completed a series of paintings and screenprints on the death penalty which referenced those killed by the death penalty from Ethel and Julius Rosenberg^[3], to Jesus Christ. Other themes include immigration, the zapatista movement, Palestine, and others.