Description
Enrique Chagoya was a painter, Printmaker Director of Dalleria de la Raza from 1987 to 1990 and Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Art and Art History from 1995 to the present (2020). Chagoya first visited the SFMOMA in 1977 on a tour of the city and was primarily interested in local artists like Robert Arneson and Richard Shaw. He was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute and was influenced by the Kara Walker and William Kentridge exhibition at the museum. In this interview, Chagoya discusses his first interactions with SFMOMA, favorite artists, thoughts on contemporary arts, influences in the Bay Area on his works, integrating the museum into university teaching, political and cultural art, Mexican artists, and his impressions of the museum directors.