CV
Select solo and two person exhibitions
2022 Tectonic Reflections, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
2017 Segmented, Spotlight Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 Lucky Strike, Rubén Aguirre and Howard Sherman, Mill Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2016 New Paintings, Rubén Aguirre and Victor Lopez, Matthew Rachman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Linements, Dorothea Thielke Gallery, South Suburban College, South Holland, IL
2012 Between the overlap, Rubén Aguirre and Won Kim, Aisle 1 Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2009 No Such Thing As Separate Events, Anode Gallery, Chicago, IL
Select group exhibitions
2024 Looking, The Trout Museum, Appleton, WI
2024 One Wall At a Time, Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
2023 Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2023 Vandal Futurism, Redline Art Center, Denver, CO
2022 Private Notes, Public Rhythms, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021 Atomic 13, Vertical Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 Subliminally Subjective, Chicago Truborn, Chicago, IL
2019 Sequences, Rubén Aguirre, Daniel Burnett, David Fratau, Chicago Truborn, Chicago, IL
2019 Love Letter, All Star Press, Chicago, IL
2018 Indy Windy/A love story, South Shore Arts Center for Visual and performing Arts, Munster, IN
2017 Geometric Complexions, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
2016 Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2015 Graffiti Imagery in Contemporary Art, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
2014 Artmageddon, Vertical Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 Form: Art+Floral Geometric, Room 1520, Chicago, IL
2014 Practical Geometry, Galerie F, Chicago, IL
2014 Rhythm Nations: Transitional Hip Hop in the gallery, on the street, and on the stage, IDEA Space at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
2013 Paint, Paste, Sticker: Chicago Street Art, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2013 Outside In: The Mexican-American Street Art Movement in Chicago, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
2013 Post Graffiti Abstracts, Primary Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2013 Has Beens and Wannabes, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
2012 Alphabet Soup, Galerie F, Chicago, IL
2012 Medley, Chicago Urban Art Society, Chicago, IL
Mural Commissions
2024 Sabin Dual Language Magnet School, Chicago, IL
2024 Highland Park Bocce Club, Highland Park, IL
2023 Starbucks, various locations, Chicago, IL
2022 City of Chicago 10th Ward mural, Chicago, IL
2021 Janesville Performing Arts Center, Janesville, WI
2021 Google, Mountain View, CA
2021 Starbucks, 5300 N. Clark, Chicago, IL
2021 Starbucks, 3356 N. Lincoln, Chicago, IL
2020 820 Davis, Evanston Mural Arts Program, Evanston, IL
2020 Murals and More, Cedar Rapids, IA
2019 EQ Office, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago, IL
2019 Southbank Park, Chicago, IL
2019 President’s Plaza, Chicago, IL
2018 McGraw Hill, Chicago, IL
2018 City of Aurora, Aurora, IL
2018 PSOT, Chicago Public Art Group, Chicago, IL
2018 Adidas Originals Chicago, IL
2017 Year of Public Art, 1200 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL
2017 Linked IN Chicago, Chicago, IL
2017 Evanston Mural Arts Program, Evanston, IL
2017 Viva Eastbank, Des Moines, IA
2017 Heartland Alliance 712 W. Diversey, Chicago, IL
2016 Columbia College Chicago, 1104 S. Wabash, Chicago, IL
2016 Wabash Arts Corridor, 525 S. Wabash, Chicago, IL
2016 Active Campaign, 1 N. State, Chicago, IL
2016 Xavier, 625 W. Division, Chicago, IL
2016 Active Campaign, 222 S. Riverside, Chicago, IL
2016 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2015 Accent Minded, Chicago, IL
2015 World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, MO
2014 Denver Housing Authority, Denver, CO
2014 IDEA Space at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
2012 1871, Chicago IL
Speaking engagements
2022 College Art Association Annual Conference, Mentoring Beyond the Classroom: The continuing relationship Over Time, Chicago, IL
2020 Stirring the Soul and Shaping the Community: Celebrating Pilsen’s original muralists, Cliffdweller’s Club, Chicago, IL
2017 Chicago Design Week, Intersection of Art & Place, Chicago, IL
2017 Columbia College Chicago, Hispanic Heritage Month Latinx Alumni Panel, Chicago, IL
2016 Big Walls Confab panel discussion:The future of street art and how it’s transforming Chicago’s urban landscape, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
2014 Rhythm Nations: Transitional Hip Hop in the gallery, on the street, and on the stage, IDEA at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
2014 National Communication Association 100th Annual convention: The presence of our pasts: Right to the creative city: Theory and practice in Pilsen public art spaces, Chicago, IL
2013 Street Arts As Public Pedagogy: Learning From The Margins, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
2011 Polymetric: The future of street art culture and capitalism, Murphy Hill Gallery, Chicago, IL
Teaching experience
2017 Lyric Opera Chicago, Empower Youth visual arts instructor, Chicago, IL
2017 Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Growing young Artists’ artist in residence, Saugatuck, MI
2016 Place Lab/Arts in public life, St. Laurence board up mural workshop leader, Chicago, IL
2015-16 After School Matters, Assistant mural Instructor, Chicago, IL
2003-04 The M.I.L.L., Residential Treatment Facility: Art Counselor, Rockford, IL
2002 UMOJA/Summer of Service, Mural Instructor, Chicago, IL
2002 Little Black Pearl, Mural Instructor, Chicago, IL
Education
2002 Columbia College Chicago, B.A. Art and Design: concentration in painting
Notable achievements
2022 Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Foundation achievement award recipient
2022 Feature in New American Paintings #161 Midwest Issue
2022 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards juror
2020-2022 City of Chicago Public Art Prequalified List
2021 Featured in the Chicago Design Museum #ProtectChicago vaccination campaign in collaboration with the Chicago Department of Public Health.
2019 City of Chicago Individual Artist Program grant recipient
Clients/partnerships
Linked IN, Google, Adidas Originals, Starbucks, City of Chicago, Bon Appetit, Equinox, McGraw Hill, REI, Heartland Alliance, 1871, World Chess Hall of Fame, Pepsi, and more.
Collections
Northwestern University, BMO Harris, Prudential, Willis Tower, and the Trout Museum.