CARLOS ESTRADA-VEGA
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BIO

EDUCATION

1995-97 Painting, Claremont Graduate University, CA
1993 Summer Academic Research Internship, University of California, Santa Barbara, Graduate Studies Division
1993-95 B.A., Art/Religious Studies, California State University, Bakersfield

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Compositions and Drawings, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2007 About 4,000 Paintings, d.e.n. contemporary art, Culver City, CA
Paintings, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2006 New Paintings, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Compositions, Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Paintings, Ernden Fine Art Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2005 Between 12 and 5,000 Paintings, d.e.n. contemporary art, Culver City, CA
Between 12 and 8,000 Paintings, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
Sculptural Paintings, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2004 Paintings, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
10 Paintings, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
4,000 Paintings/14 Compositions, Galerie Sacksofsky and Bloch, Bern, Switzerland
4,000 Paintings/10 Compositions, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2003 Malerei, Museum Katharinenhof, Kranenburg, Germany
Between 10 and 4,000 Paintings, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
Squares and Cubes, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
Between 10 and 4,000 Paintings, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
Malerei 2003, Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2002 Malerei, Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Paintings, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 About 5,000 Paintings, Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany
About 8,000 Paintings, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2000 By the Power of Two, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 "Cornelio" Expanded Composition 1999, The DA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA
Between 5-10,000 Paintings, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
1998 Between 3-5000 Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1997 Between 1500-3000 Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Between 4-7000 Paintings, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 RIPE, d.e.n. contemporary art, Culver City, CA
iCandy Current Abstraction in Southern California, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress CA
2007 Gallery Artists, Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Gallery Artists, Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf, Germany
2006 Mid-Career Artist Competition (Contemporary Latin American Art), Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, CA
2005 Inaugural Exhibition, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Portland Museum of Art, OR
Contemporary Latin American Art, Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, CA
Abstraction Pure and Impure, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Slice of White, Hunter College, New York, NY
2004 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
ICPW 45C Norton, Norton Family Foundation, New York, NY
White on White, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Current Lines, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Galerie Sacksofsky and Bloch, Bern, Switzerland
2003 Mirrors, Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Sueños y Encuentros: Works from the Collection by Latin American Masters,
Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
Works on Paper, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Components, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Returning to Aztlan: A Chicano Retrospective, dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA
Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2002 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
New in Town, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Tid Bits, Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Breathing Room, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2001 "booth Xs/01," Raum fur Malerei, Cologne, Germany
Minimal Now, University Art Gallery, California State University, San Francisco, CA
Three Painters, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2000 Art Here and There, Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Summer Exhibition, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
1999 C.O.L.A. 1999, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New Voices, New Visions, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
Teo Gonzalez/Carlos Estrada-Vega: New Paintings, Earl McGrath Gallery, NY
1997 Southern California Open Juried Exhibition, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1996 Embarrassment of Riches, Newport Beach Art Center, Newport Beach, CA
Risk at the Loft, Stuart Katz, Loft, and Laguna Beach, CA
1995 Carlos Estrada-Vega/Teo Gonzalez, Tejon Machine Works, Jill Thayer Galleries, Bakersfield, CA
Texas National, Stephen J. Austin University, Juror: Leon Golub, Nacogdoches, TX

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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AWARDS

1999-00 Mr. And Mrs. Stuart Katz Studio/Residence/Stipend Grant
Paris, France
1998-99 City of Los Angeles Cultural Grant (C.O.L.A.)

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles, CA
Digital Genetechnologies, Inc., La Jolla, CA
Gonda (Goldschmied), Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center, UCLA, CA
Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
Marco Zaninovich Corporation, Central Valley, CA
Mercedes-Benz, Las Vegas, CA
Museum Katharinenhof, Kranenburg, Germany
Neuberger & Berman, New York City, NY
Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Portland Art Museum, OR
The Oakland Museum, CA
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Santa Cruz
Vivendi Universal Interactive Publishing NA, Los Angeles, CA