Resume

Education:
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, Master of Fine Arts, May, 1995

Selected Exhibitions:

2007

• "The Art of Printmaking", Republic Plaza, Denver, Colorado, August – November, invitational exhibit
• "Centers and Borders: Artwork from the United States", The Gallery of the School of Fine Arts, Yinchaun, China and the Ningxia Exhibition Center, Yinchaun, China, September – October, invitational exhibit
• "Crossing Borders/Border Crossing", Norlin Library, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, August – October, Invitational exhibit
• "NEXUS", Salon de Arte, La Universidad de la Amazona, Tabatinga, Brazil, September – October, invitational exhibit
• "Chicano Magic", Business of Art Center, Manitou Springs, CO, September – November, invitational exhibit
• "Snap to Grid: the Un-Juried show", Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA, September 13 – October 4, group exhibit
• "Antiwar exhibit", Galleria Uno & Galleria Blanca, Academia de San Carlos, Essuela Nacional, de Artes Plasticas, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, September 7 - September 29, invitational exhibit
• "Art Harvest: Images of the Farm", Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO, August- September, invitational exhibit
• "American Print", Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO, July-September, group exhibit
• "The Iowa Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Miniature Prints", Arts Iowa City Center & Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa, June – August, group exhibit
• "NEXUS", Sala del Banco Nacional, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellin, Facultad de Arquitectura, Escuela de Artes, Leticia, Colombia, July 12 – August 12, invitational exhibit
• "Lessedra Sixth World Art Print Annual", The National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria, June, group exhibit
• "New Millennial Guernica: Antiwar Art", A Shenere Velt Gallery, Los Ángeles, CA, April- June, invitational exhibit
• "Una Cultura, Tres Voces", William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO. Three person exhibit, April-June,
•  "¡Ay Mexico!", Works from the private collections of George Martinez, Frederick & Jan Mayer, Museo de Las Americas, Espiritu del Artista Galeria and Tony Ortega, Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, Pueblo, CO, February-May, invitational exhibit
• "NEXUS", Biblioteca Efe Gomez, Espacio del Homnbre, Universidad Nacional De Colombia, Sede Medellin, Medellin, Colombia, March 18 – April 14, invitational exhibit

2006

• "Axis: Reflexiones Chicanas", Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin, Medellin, Colombia, July - Aug
• "Serie Project No. 13", Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, TX, August- September 2006
• "Aztec Adventures of Cholo, Vato and Pano" The Dog and Pony Show, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities Arvada, CO, June-November
• "Chain Reaction: Chicano/a and Latino/a Art in Colorado", Vida Ellison Gallery, Denver Public Central Library, June 12 to August 25
• "Summer Group Show", William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO, June-July
• "Deconstruction War", The International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Palestine, June-July
• "New Millennial Guernica:" Art by Chicanos and Latinos, The International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Palestine, June- July
• "Land, People and Identity", Sakakini Center Ramallah, Palestine, June
• Lessedra Fifth World Art Print Annual, The National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria, June, group exhibit
• "Cars, Trucks and Chicano Art", from the collections of the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University, Tempe Public Library Lower Level Gallery, Tempe, AZ
• "Never Leaving Aztlan", Museo de las Americas, Denver, CO, February-May
• "American Impressions: Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition", William Patterson University, Wayne, New Jersey, March-April
• "New Millennial Guernica Antiwar Art by Chicanos and Latinos", Chicano Humanities and Arts Council, Denver, CO, January

2005

• "Land, People and Identity", International Centre of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Palestine, November
• Triumph of Our Communities: Contemporary Mexican American Artists, Gammage Auditorium, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, March-May
• The Border in Visual Language, French Alianza, La Paz, Baja California, Mexico, March, group show
• Perception of Christ/ Images of Faith, O’Sullivan Arts Center, Regis University, Denver, CO
• January – February, Group exhibit

2004

• Encounters/Encuentros, Spanish, Mexican, and Chicano Artists in Dialogue, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO, November-January
• Common Wounds, The International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Palestine, October, group exhibit
• Lessedra Third World Art Print Annual, The National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria, June, group exhibit
• 20th Anniversary exhibit, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO, June-July, two person exhibit
• Chicano Art for Our Millennium, Southwest Musuem, Mesa, AZ, April-September
• Rocky Mountain Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ft Collins, CO, April-June
• Post Paradise: Governors Palace, Tlaxcala, Mexico, January-February, group exhibit
• Chicano Art: from the M.A.R.S. Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, AZ, January-May

2003

• Matrixes: Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, November-December, three person exhibit
• To Be or Not To Be: Images from the United States, Casa Bordas, Excuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Taxco Mexico, October-November, group exhibit
• Death and Other Exits, Governors Palace, Tlaxcala, Mexico, November, group exhibit
• After The Fall, Casa de La Cultura, Oaxaca, Mexico, November, group exhibit
• Arte Chicano una propuesta grafica, Sala de Exposiciones Josep Renau, Universidad Politecnica de a Valencia, Valencia, Spain, group exhibit
• Border Lands, Center for the Visual Arts, Denver, CO September – October, group exhibit
• 6th Annual Contemporary Exhibit, conTEXT: Art & Words, The Art Center, Grand Junction, CO July-August, invitational
• Arte y Ecologia: On the Social Ecology of Place, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO June – August, group exhibit
• 20th Anniversary Exhibit with Maclaren Markowitz Gallery, One person exhibit, Boulder, CO April

Selected Collections:

• Boulder Community Hospital Foothills, Boulder, Colorado
• Colorado Council on the Arts, Denver, Colorado
• Centennial Campus of Pikes Peak Community College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Center for the American West, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado
• City and County of Denver, Colorado
• Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, Denver, Colorado
• Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado
• City of Greenwood Village, Colorado
• City of Phoenix, Arizona
• City of Seattle, Seattle, Washington
• City of Westminster, Colorado
• Denver Convention Center Hotel, Denver, Colorado
• Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
• Northern Colorado Medical Center, Greeley, CO
• University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
• Western History Department of the Denver Public Library, Denver, CO
• Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
• Student Union Building, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
• William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ

Museum Collections:

• Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
• Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian & Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
• Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, California
• Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
• Mexican Fine Art Center Museum, Chicago, Illinois
• Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California
• Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico
• Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
• Museo Estudio Diego Rivera, Mexico City, Mexico
• Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Publications:

2007

•  "Messages Loud and Clear", by Mary Voelz Chandler, Rocky Mountain News, Friday April 27, 07 Review
• "Latin Jazz", by Michael Paglia, Westword, May 3-9, 07, review
•  "Triumph of Our Communities: Four Decades of Mexican American Art electronic component" (CD-ROM, DVD and or Web site) augmenting the 2005 hardbound book publication of the same name and further celebrating Mexican American art and the community art organizations.
• "Art Harvest, Images of the Farm", Loveland Museum/Gallery, catalog
• "6th Lessedra World Art Print Annual mini print", catalog
• "Centers and Borders: Artwork from the United States" catalog

2006

• "Crossing Borders" Exhibiting Borders, Fourteen Annual, International Juried Exhibition
• "5th Lessedra World Art Print Annual mini print", catalog
• "Deconstruction War", catalog
• "New Millennial Guernica Antiwar Art by Chicanos and Latinos", catalog
• "La Alma de la Raza", Denver Public Schools, Volume 10, Issue 2 December 2005/January 2006 Brochure
• "Chain Reaction, Chicano/a and Latino/a in Colorado" The Denver Public Central Library, June 2006 Brochure
• "La Denuncia Hecha Arte" El Mundo, Palabra y Obra, Medellín, Colombia, August 11, 2006, article
• "The Hyatt Regency Denver Art Collection", Brochure
• "Border Dispute, Chicano and Post-Chicano art mix it up in an elegant offering at the Central Library", Westword, by Michael Paglia, August 3-9, review
• "Dogs, Ponies have their Day" Rocky Mountain News, May Voelz Chandler, August 11, 2006, review
•  "An Eye for Colors: Up Close with Tony Ortega" The Urban Spectrum, Jan McNutt, May 2006, article

2005

• "Eighteenth Parkside National Small Print Exhibition Catalog", University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin
• "The Drawing Show", review in the Boulder Daily Camera, Friday January 28.
• "Encuentros/Encounters", catalog
• "Drawing on the past/ At home with printmaking", Denver Post, 7 Days Weekly entertainment guide, text and photo by Cyrus McCrimmons, page 2FF
• "Women of the West Murals", Museum of the Outdoor Arts, Englewood, CO November, informational pamphlet.
• "The Business of Art", CORE Colorado’s Business Resource, page 18, by Charles Emmons, July-August
• "4th Lessedra World Art Print Annual mini print", catalog

2004

• Who Am I Family Adventures of Cholo, Vato and Pano, Denver, CO, Children’s book
• Third Lessedra World Art Print Annual, Sofia, Bulgaria, Catalog
• A Twenty Year Anniversary 1984 - 2004, William Havu Gallery, Catalog
• Colorado Modern Ignited by the Sun an interview with Tony Ortega, article, May
• Chicano Art for Our Millennium, Bilingual Press, Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University, Book
• Art News, Reaching New Heights, City Focus/Denver, article by Kyle Macmillan, January

2003

• Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art, Bilingual Press, Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University
• New Art of the West 8, catalog, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art

1998

• Art in Public Places, Colorado Council on the Arts, 1977-l998, Catalog
• Crisis, Catalog
• View from Denver, Catalog, by the Denver Art Museum
• Leading the West: One Hundred Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, by Donald Hagerty, Northland Publishing, 1997

Awards and Commissions:

• Mural Commission, Gilpin Elementary school, Denver, CO, October 2007
• Best Silkscreen, American Print exhibit, Foothills Art Center, August 2007
• Mural Commission, Broomwell Elementary school, Denver, CO May 2007
• Best of Show, Crossing Borders, International Juried Exhibition, Laredo Center for the Arts, Laredo, TX, 2006
• Mural Commission, La Mariposa Clinic, Denver Health, January and March 2006
• Mural Commission, Clinica Campesina, Westminster CO, July 2006
• Mural Commission, Idelia High school, Idelia, Colorado, January March 2005
• Mural Commission, Foster Elementary school, Arvada, CO June 2005
• Purchase Award, American Impressions National Juried Printmaking Exhibit, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ, February 2004
• Mural Commission, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN, September, 2002
• Public Commission: Sandstone Ranch Park, entrée arch baseball fields, Longmont, CO 2002
• Artist in Residence at Rocky Mountain National Park, July-August
• Public Commission: North Side Park, City and County of Denver, 2000 - 2002
• Women of the West LODO mural Commissioned by Women of the West Museum, 2000
• 1999 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts
• 1998 Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts
• Director’s Grant, Colorado Council on the Arts, 1998
• 1998 Artist Fellowship, Colorado Council on the Arts
• Colorado 100 Certificate of Recognition, awarded for Contribution and Lasting Impact on the Arts in Colorado 
• Celebration of the Denver Art Museum Centennial; Awarded by Historic Denver, Inc. and the Denver Post, 1993