• White Minority, 2005
    acrylic and flocking on canvas,
    96 x 81 x 1.75 in.

  • Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want The Truth?, 2007
    photocopies of found and altered images on paper,
    111 x 186.5 in.

  • What Makes a Man Start Fires, 2007
    altered photograph for proposed mural,
    13 x 17 in.

  • The Breaks Billboard, 2008
    print on vinyl,
    126 x 432 in.

  • N.W.A. (Brothers Gonna Work it Out), 2009
    acrylic mural,
    10 x 20 ft.

  • I'm So Bored With the U.S.A., 2009
    acrylic on wood over metal,
    24 x 60 in.

Juan Capistran

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Artist's Website

Emerging Artist Fellow, 2009

Artist's Statement

"Don't do PT for other artist, do it for people who will not realize (at least for a few moments) that what you have done is art."
--Kakim Bey, Poetic Terrorism

Using strategies of conceptualism, appropriation, photography and painting, my work investigates socio-political issues. To create a discourse on agency and structure, I investigate the rejection, assimilation and mutation created from the collision of singular or multiple systems of ideology by creating multidisciplinary projects that question notions of class, identity, power and revolution.

Biography

Education

M.F.A.
2002
University of California at Irvine, Irvine, Calif.

B.F.A.
1999
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles

Awards

1998
J. Paul Getty Multicultural Internship

1994
California State Arts Scholar

Select Group Shows

2009
The 2nd San Juan Triennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2008
In The Round, Andrewshire Gallery, Los Angeles
Read This, Various Locations, including LAX ART, Los Angeles
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

2006
Eject, Primer Festival Internacional de Video Performance de la Ciudad de México, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
Been there, done that..., La Mano Press, Los Angeles

2005
Brown on Brown, Slanguage, Los Angeles
16:1 Anniversary Exhibition, 16:1, Santa Monica, Calif.

2004
Tar Pit Tales, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles
The O.C., Class-C Gallery, Los Angeles
The Devil's In the Details, La Mano Press, Los Angeles

2003
I Am A Curator, Chisenhale Gallery, London
The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection - A Retrospective, The New Museum, New York
First Annual Alumni Invitational, Claire Trevor School of the Arts Gallery at University of California Irvine, Irvine, Calif.

2002
Show That Will Show That a Show Is Not Only A Show, The Project, Los Angeles
Storefront Live, Korean American Museum, Los Angeles
The End, Deep River, Los Angeles

2001
One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, N.Y.
Irrational Exhibits, Track 16, Santa Monica, Calif.
Indomitable, Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, Calif.

Select Performances

2003
Below the Belt, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles

2001
Working Classics, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles