Collections and Archives
Tony Ortega's paintings, prints, and works on paper are represented in museum, university, institutional, and archival collections throughout the United States and Mexico. Spanning more than four decades, these collections reflect an artistic practice centered on Chicano identity, cultural memory, community narratives, and the intersections of history, place, and personal experience.
Museum Collections
Blanton Museum of Art—Austin, Texas
Frida y Diego nos Muestran a México — Silkscreen
Los de Abajo — Silkscreen
San Pachuco — Etching and watercolor
Custom Services — Etching and watercolor
Western Union Maid — Etching and watercolor
California Museum — Sacramento, California
La Marcha de Lupe Liberty — Silkscreen
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College — Colorado Springs, Colorado
Aztlán — Acrylic on panel, 1992
Kitchen Help — Monotype silkscreen on poster, 2002
A Racial Profile—Monotype silkscreen on poster, 2001
El Conjunto en Amarillo — Etching, monotype, and acrylic, 2020
Denver Art Museum — Denver, Colorado
Westside Jóvenes — Acrylic and collage on panel
El Jacal (from the Indigenous Portfolio) — Lithograph
Check Out the Lowrider Ese — Oil on panel
El Conjunto del Lago — Pastel
Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art — Denver, Colorado
La Cola de Jóvenes — Etching and chine collé
Una Cumbia para Coyolxauhqui — Pastel on paper
Las Mariposas de la Primavera — Pastel on paper
Cholo — Hand-colored Xerox
La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
La March de los Desvalidos — Silkscreen
Laguna Art Museum — Laguna Beach, California
Frida y Diego nos Muestran a México — Silkscreen
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) — Los Angeles, California
Frida y Diego nos Muestran a México — Silkscreen
McNay Art Museum — San Antonio, Texas
La Marcha de Lupe Liberty — Silkscreen
La March de los Desvalidos — Silkscreen
A la Frontera de Aztlán — Silkscreen
Mexic-Arte Museum—Austin, Texas
La Marcha de Lupe Liberty — Silkscreen
La Marcha de Che Lincoln — Silkscreen
La Marcha de los Desvalidos — Silkscreen
Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo — Mexico City, Mexico
National Hispanic Cultural Center — Albuquerque, New Mexico
A Separation of Church and State — Acrylic and collage on panel
National Museum of Mexican Art — Chicago, Illinois
Frida y Diego nos Muestran a México — Silkscreen
San Antonio Museum of Art — San Antonio, Texas
La Marcha de los Desvalidos — Silkscreen
University & Special Collections
University of Colorado Art Museum — Boulder, Colorado
Bonampak Cholo — Woodblock print
Nuestra Señora de Malinche—Woodblock print
University of California, Santa Barbara — California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) — Santa Barbara, California
Self Help Graphics & Art Archival Collection
Frida y Diego nos Muestran a México — Silkscreen
Los de Abajo — Silkscreen
A la Frontera de Aztlán — Silkscreen
University of Denver Special Collections — Denver, Colorado
Cinco de Mayo: Patriotic Adventures of Cholo, Vato and Pano — Handmade book
University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries — Special Collections — San Antonio, Texas
La Marcha de Lupe Liberty — Silkscreen
Archives
Smithsonian Archives of American Art—Washington, DC
Tony Ortega Papers — Acquired 2015
Additional works by Tony Ortega are held in numerous private, corporate, and public collections throughout the United States and Mexico.