Tony Ortega
Resume
Education:
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, Master of Fine Arts, May, 1995
Rocky Mountain School of Art, Denver, Colorado Associate of Arts, Fine Art, August, 1982
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, Bachelor of Arts Commercial Spanish, Certificate in Latin American Studies, August, 1980
Employment:
Professor, Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Regis University, Denver, CO, August 2018, to present
Associate Professor, Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Regis University, Denver, CO, August 2010, to July 2018
Assistant Professor, Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Regis University, Denver, CO, August 2004, to July 2010
Selected Exhibitions:
“Desert Rider, Dreaming in Motion", Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, July 6, -Sept. 24, curated group exhibition
“Estampas de la Raza”, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, June 25 – October 1, 2023, curated exhibition
“Rocky Mountain Triennial”, The Museum of Art Fort Collins, Ft. Collins, CO, May 26 – August 6, 2023, juried
exhibition
“Big Draw Colorado”, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities., June 8 - August 27, 2023, juried exhibition
Three Indigenous Chicanos”, Art Gym, Denver, CO, May 11 – June 18, 2023, three-person exhibition
“Breakthroughs: A Celebration of Redline at 15”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, February 24 – May
28, 2023, curated group exhibition
“Night Light Denver”, Digitally projected on the Daniels and Fisher Tower, March 1 - March 31, group exhibition.
“Storied: Portraits in Photography”, Art Students League of Denver, March 3 -27, group exhibition.
“La Onda Chicana”, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury CT, March 5-May 28, 2023, curated group exhibition
“The Elastic Mind”, Broward College, South Campus Art Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL, April 20th - Sept 28, 2023, Group exhibition
“Chicanarte de Aztlán," William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO, December 9 -January 21, 2021, one-person exhibition
Altepmeh: Chicano/a Art Exhibition”, Colorado State University Pueblo Fine Arts Gallery, Pueblo, CO, November 26,
January 2023, invitational exhibition
“FlexSpace Speaker Series: Building Community in Printmaking”, Pop-up exhibition and talk, CU Museum of Art
University of Colorado Boulder, November 12 – December 16, 2022, solo exhibition
“Mexico City 2022” Art in the Embassy, US Department of State, US Embassy, Mexico City, 2022 -2024
"Transcending the West", Artworks Center for Contemporary Art, Loveland, CO, October 14, - December 23, 2022, Group
Exhibition
“Café con Leche, Amantes y Artistas, Off Broadway Art Gallery, Pine Street Church, Boulder, CO, May, 2022, two-person
exhibition
“Fronters del Futuro: Art in New Mexico and Beyond”, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM March 11, through March 12, 2023, invitational
“Surrounding Kahlo: Works from the Permanent Collection”, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL, March 5,
2022– January 15, 2023, group exhibition.
“Print Educators of Colorado 2022”, The Lincoln Center Art Gallery, Ft. Collins, CO, February 26-April 9. 2022
Invitational exhibition
“Art of the State”, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO, January 20 – March 27, 2022
“Eye of the Camera Space for Wonder Exhibition”, Littleton Museum, Littleton, CO, January 21- March 12, 2022
“Chromatic Cogitations: Rhythm Reboot: Annual Resident Artist Exhibition”, RedLine Contemporary Art Center
Denver, CO, November 12- February 13, 2022, Curated by Rosie Gordon-Wallace, group exhibition
"Smoking Mirrors, Paths of Resistance and Resilience", Museo de las Americas, Denver, CO, October 2021- February 26,
2022, group exhibition
"Pink Progression, In Skin", Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design Denver, CO, October 21 – November 18, 2022,
group exhibition
“The Regis College Art Faculty Exhibition”, O’Sullivan Art Gallery, Regis University, Denver, CO August 24 – September 24,
2022, group exhibition
"El Poder de la Familia/Power of Family", Children's Hospital, Colorado in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Aurora, CO,
August 27- November 5, 2022, group exhibition
"Magia Chicana", Loveland Museum, Loveland, Colorado, July 24 - November 13, 2021, one-person exhibition
“Viral Influence: Art in the Time of Coronavirus”, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO, May 20 - August 22, 2021juried exhibition
“La Nueva Cara/ The New Face”, Museo de las Américas, Denver, CO, March 26 – April 17, juried photography, exhibition, April, 2021
“Eye of the Camera-Myths and Legends”, Littleton Museum, Littleton, CO, March – April, juried photography exhibition
“Doble Sentido, Double Meaning”, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO, March 6 – April 25, 2020, one-person exhibition
"Estampas Comunes y Corrientes", Chicano Humanities and Arts Council, Denver, CO, March 1 - 29, 2020, curated print exhibition
“In Process”, Center for the Visual Art, Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO, March 6 – 21, 2020, invitational exhibition
“Process and Print”, Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art, Denver, CO, February 29 –April 5, 2020, group exhibition
“Globalocation II”, A.D. Gallery, University of North Carolina, Pembroke, NC, February 12 - March 5, 2020, invitational exhibition
“Chicano/a/x Printmaking: Making Prints and Making History – 50 Years of Art Activism”, San Diego State, University Downtown Gallery, San Diego, CA, February 8 – April 5, 2020, print exhibition
"Near in the Distance", Annual Resident Artist Exhibition, Redline Art Center, Denver, CO, January 24 – March 28, 2020, invitational exhibition
“The Colors of Community”, Lincoln Center, Ft, Collins, CO, January 18 – February 22, 2020, invitational exhibition
528.0 Regional Juried Printmaking Exhibition" Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO January 16 – March 29, 2020
"Imprint: Print Educators of Colorado", Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO January 16 – March 29, 2020
"Pertenecer: Chicanx Artists on Belonging" at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center Museum, Colorado Springs, CO, November 23, 2019 -June 28, 2020
“Para Mi Pueblo: Chicana/o Murals of Colorado”, McNichols Events Center, Denver, CO, September 21- December 22, 2019, invitational exhibition
“Lights Out/On”, Redline Art Center, Denver, CO, June 14, 2019, group exhibition
“A New Media Exhibit”, Indiana University Downtown Gallery, Kokomo, IN. May 24 -June 22, 2019, juried exhibition
“Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas”, Queens Museum, Queens, NY, invitational exhibition, April 7 -
August 18, 2019
“Studio 238: Doble Sentido”, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM, March 1- April 28, 2019, one-person exhibit
“Art of the State 2019”, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO, January 17-March 31, 2019, group exhibition
“Doble Sentido” Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, Pueblo, CO, February 1- May 26, 2019, one-person exhibit
“Time for Self-Reflection”, Art Gym, Denver, CO April 19, –May 11, 2018 one-person exhibition
“Photographs of La Habana Vieja, Cuba”, Dayton Memorial Library, Denver, CO, February 1– 28, 2018 one-person exhibition
“Colorado Master Printers and Educators Exhibition”, McNichols Civic Center Building, Denver, CO, January 13 – April 8, 2018, invitational exhibition
“Representing the West: A New Frontier”, Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, Pueblo, Colorado, February 2 – May 6, Juried exhibition
“Spiritual Dimensions”, Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO, October 27 – December 3, 2017, invitational exhibition
“Rebels without a Pause”, Greg Moon Art Gallery, Taos, NM, October 7 – 28, 2017, invitational exhibition
"Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas", UCR ARTSblock, University of California Riverside, September 16, 2017-February 4, 2018, invitational exhibition
“Art and Conflict”, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO, September 14, - November 12, 2017, Juried exhibition
“Inclusion: Diverse Voices of the Modern West”, McNichols Civic Center Building, Denver, CO, May 20, to August 27, 2017, invitational exhibition
“Alone and Together”, Art Gym, Denver, CO, April 27- May 20, 2017 invitational exhibition
“Globalocation: Celebrating 20 Years of Artnauts!”, Benson Latin American Collection Library at University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, March 28-August 31, 2017 invitational exhibition
“Del Corazon”, Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO, September 1- October 10, 2016, two-person exhibition
“Looking Back: 40 Years/40 Artist”, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, September 15- November 13, invitational exhibition
“Border Crossings: Immigration in Contemporary Prints”, La Salle University Art Museum in Philadelphia, PA. March 16 - June 9, 2016, group exhibition
“Encounters 2016: 14 Amazing Print-makers”, Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO, Curated by: Melanie Yazzie, Feb 29- April 8, 2016. group exhibition
“Representing the West Art”, Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, Pueblo, Colorado. February 5 - May 15, 2016 Group exhibition
“Art of the State 2016”, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado, January 21 - March 27, 2016, Group exhibition
“Latino Expressions”, Lincoln Center, Ft. Collins, CO, January 15- February 27, 2016, group exhibition
“Estampas de la Raza: Contemporary Prints from the Romo Collection”, Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College, Monterrey Park, CA, February 7 to May 23, 2015, group exhibition
“rePOPulated”, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO, January 22 – March 29, 2015, invitational exhibition
“WHERE DO WE COME FROM? WHAT ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? ”, Galerija Atelje Kunik Sanski Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina, November 24-30, invitational exhibition
“A BETTER WORLD”, Eighth International Conference on the Arts in Society, Eotvos Lorand University, Golyavar , Conference Center, Budapest, Hungary, June 24-26, 2013
“Diptych America: Private Spaces & Public Places”, Central Academy of Fine Arts, (CAFA), Building 7, Seventh Floor Gallery, Beijing, China, April- May, 2013, group exhibition
“ART OF The STATE, A Juried Exhibition of Colorado” Arvada Center, Arvada, CO, January 24- March 31, 2013
“Fuera de la Frontera/Outside the Border”, McNichols Building, City and County of Denver, Denver, CO, November – January 2013, invitational exhibit
“Mextizo Hybridity”, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State University, Alamosa, CO, November 19 – December 14, 2013, One person exhibit
“Estampas De La Raza, Cotemporary Prints From the Romo Collection”, the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, group exhibit, September –January 2013
“The Border Project: Soundscapes, Landscapes, and Lifescapes”, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tempe, AZ, group exhibit, November 17, 2011-March 18, 2012, group exhibit
“The Ecological Imperative”, El Museo Contemporáneo de Valdivia, Valdivia, Chile, January –March, 2012 Invitational exhibit
“Chicana/o Biennial” Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana”, San Jose, California, January – March, 2012, group exhibit
Awards:
Regis College, Faculty Lecture of the Year 2018 -2019, March 22, 2019
1999 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts
1998 Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts
Selected Collections:
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian & Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, Denver, CO
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, California
Longmont Museum, Longmont, Colorado
Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Mexican Fine Art Center Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California
Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New México
Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Museo Estudio Diego Rivera, México City, México
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, Pueblo, CO
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kanas, Lawrence, Kansas
Gulch Park Mosaic Mural, City and County of Denver
University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO
Western History Department, Denver Public Library
Publications:
“Paying Homage to Women in Mexican History with Tony Ortega”, In the Studio Museum of Contemporary Art Denver video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6gcmCKwg-E
Southwest Contemporary, profile, Studio Visit, Work in Progress with Tony Ortega
https://southwestcontemporary.com/work-in-progress-with-tony-ortega/
Meet Tony Ortega/Visual and Professor, Shootout Colorado, March 16, 2021
https://shoutoutcolorado.com/meet-tony-ortega-visual-artist-and-professor/
Tony Ortega brings color, and a sense of community, to Denver Botanic Gardens’ new galleries
The Denver artist’s current exhibition saves winter By Ray Mark Rinaldi, Special to The Denver Post Jan 31, 2021
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/01/31/tony-ortega-denver-botanic-gardens-galleries/252516/
“Chicano Hybridity”, Tony Ortega, The California Printmaker, The journal of the California Society of printmakers 2019
http://www.caprintmakers.org/download-the-latest-california-society-of-printmakers-journal/
Chicano artist holds a mirror to society”, by Laura Bulkin, Harwood Museum, exhibition review, Taos News, February 28, 2019,
https://www.taosnews.com/stories/a-chicano-artist-holds-a-mirror-to-society,55285?
“Denver-based artist sought diverse, meaningful, Representing the West, art exhibit as juror”, by Luke Lyons, exhibition review, Pueblo Chieftain, January 29, 2019
https://www.chieftain.com/entertainmentlife/20190125/denver-based-artist-sought-diverse-meaningful-representing-west-art-exhibit-as-juror
“High desert lowbrow: Greg Moon courts nonconformity with The New Dadaists”, exhibition review, Taos News, August 10, 2018
https://www.taosnews.com/stories/high-desertlowbrow,51016?
“In Sight on Site: Murals”, video and interview Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities
https://arvadacenter.org/galleries/in-sight-on-site-tony-ortega
Colorado Creatives 4.0: Tony Ortega, SUSAN FROYD | OCTOBER 30, 2017 | 6:50AM
http://www.westword.com/arts/artist-tony-ortega-on-denvers-arts-community-and-developers-erasing-history-9642577
“Piece Markers” by Michael Paglia, Westword Magazaine, exhibition review, October 12 - 18, 2017
“Rebels without a Pause, Sixth annual ‘New Mexi-Low’ invitational of leading lowbrow/pop surrealist artist opens”, by Virginia L. Clark, Tempo Magazine, Taos, NM, exhibition review, October 5 – 11, 2017
http://www.taosnews.com/stories/rebels-without-a-pause,43527
Tony Ortega's Art Blends His Mexican Heritage, American Identity, on Colorado Matters, by Stephanie Wolf, interview with Ryan Warner, September 7, 2017,
http://www.cpr.org/news/story/the-artwork-of-denvers-tony-ortega-is-a-confluence-of-his-mexican-heritage-and-american
TONY ORTEGA PAINTS THE CHICANO EXPERIENCE IN DENVER, North Denver Tribune, By Laurie Dunklee, August 7, 2017
https://www.northdenvertribune.com/2017/08/07/tony-ortega/
“Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movement, A De-colonial Reader”, cover art, 2017
“Border Crossings: Immigration in Contemporary Prints”, exhibition catalog, 2016
“Art of the State 2016”, exhibition catalog, 2016
“Visualizing Peace”, exhibition catalog, 2015
“Diaspora of Being”, exhibition catalog, 2015
“The Murals of Colorado, Walls that Speak” Mary Motian-Meadows and Georgia Garnesey, Published by Johnson Books, a Big Earth Publishing company, Boulder, CO, 2014
“Estampas de la Raza, Contemporary Prints from the Romo Collection” University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 2014
“The Raven, Terror & Death: (An)Other Artistic Tribute to Edgar Allan Poe”, exhibit catalog, 2012
“Mi Frontera es Su Frontera”, exhibit catalog, 2012 bmoca_ortega_catalog_2010.pdf
“Grafika a la Tex-Mex”, exhibit catalog.2012
“View from Denver, Denver Art Museum”, Catalog 1997
“Leading the West: One Hundred Contemporary Painters and Sculptors” by Donald Hagerty Northland Publishing, Book 1997