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Sybil Venegas (March 25, 1950) is a Chicana curator.
Biography[edit]
Venegas began her art historian career as a student of East Los Angeles College.[1] After graduating, she became a professor at her alma mater from 1979 to 2013[1]. During her tenureship, she focused her study of art history in Chicana/o/x art.[2] Since then she has pioneered the historicizing of Chicana art and is considered a scholar in Chicana feminism. [2] Venegas is also a part of UCLA's advisory committee for LA Xicano, which is an organization that dedicates their curation towards Mexican-american artists[3]. She is the curator for her former student and friend Laura Aguilar's retrospective, entitled "Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell"[4].
Notable Works[edit]
Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell[edit]
A retrospective of Chicanx photographer Laura Aguilar's work curated by Sybil Venegas[5]. The exhibition debuted at the Vincent Price Art Museum of East Los Angeles College, and in collaboration with the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center they are the organizing institutions that support the exhibition[6][5]. Since then the exhibition has travelled to various museums across the country, such as Chicago's National Museum of Mexican Art and the Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York[5]. There is also a book of the same title curated by Venegas to accompany the exhibition, published in 2016. [5]
Resurrected Histories: Voices from the Chicano Arts Collectives of Highland Park[edit]
A research project that evolved to an exhibition curated by Venegas in 2012. [7] The exhibition explored the works of Chicanx artists of Highland Park. Artists that were highlighted in the exhibition include Carlos Almaraz, Barbara Carrasco, Leo Limon, Guillermo Bejerano, John Valadez, and Dolores Guerrero. [8]
The Prop 187 Moment: Post-187 and the Artistic Regeneración of a Community[edit]
This short article by Venegas discusses the close of the CARA (Chicano Art Resistance and Affirmation) exhibition ran for three years, and served as an introduction to Chicanx art into the fine art space enhancing exposure and recognition, and the contrast of the soon after passing of Proposition 187 in California, which denied public services such as education and health care to undocumented immigrants[8].
References[edit]
- ^ a b Miranda, Carolina (2020-08-23). "How the Chicano Moratorium shaped a generation of art in L.A." Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
- ^ a b "Sybil Venegas". PBS SoCal. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
- ^ "L.A. Xicano". UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. 2012-08-22. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
- ^ An interview with Sybil Venegas and the art of Laura Aguilar by Gloria Valle & Emilio Gonzalez, retrieved 2023-12-06
- ^ a b c d "National Museum of Mexican Art, Pilsen, Chicago". National Museum of Mexican Art, Pilsen, Chicago. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
- ^ "L.A. Xicano". UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. 2012-08-22. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
- ^ "Sybil Venegas". PBS SoCal. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
- ^ a b Miranda, Carolina (2020-08-23). "How the Chicano Moratorium shaped a generation of art in L.A." Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-12-06.