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Frank Blazquez
(b. Chicago, IL)
Education
BA - History, magna cum laude, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 2018
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Nothing to Lose, by Frank Blazquez, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Regional Gallery, Pueblo, CO, 2021
MEXICAN SUBURBS, Zalma-Lofton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2019
Barrios de Nuevo Mexico: Southwest Stories of Vindication, Salon El Zaguán, Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM, 2019
Barrios de Nuevo Mexico: Southwest Stories of Vindication, 505 Central Avenue, Albuquerque, NM, 2019
MEXICAN SUBURBS by Frank Blazquez, VITRINE, Albuquerque, NM, 2019 (called off by gallery)
Selected Group & Two-Person Exhibitions
The Outwin: American Portraiture Today, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, 2024
The Outwin: American Portraiture Today, Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA, 2024
The Outwin: American Portraiture Today, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC, 2024
The Outwin: American Portraiture Today, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, 2023
State of The Art: Locate, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, 2023
The Outwin 2022, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 2022
State of The Art: Locate, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, 2022
State of The Art: Locate, MOCA Jacksonville, UNF, Jacksonville, FL, 2022
Tempo y Tiempo, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM, 2021
State of The Art 2020, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2020
Windows on the Future, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM, 2020
Nuevo: Frank Blazquez and Jodie Herrera, Secret Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2020
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020 Exhibition, Southwest Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, 2020
Salina Biennial: Contemporary Art from the Mountain-Plains Region, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS, 2020
Western Sky Community Care Night, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, 2019
Representing the West: A New Frontier, White Gallery, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO, 2019 (best of show)
Without Borders, History Colorado Center, Denver, CO, 2019
Sign of The Times, Zalma-Lofton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2019
Debtfair by Occupy Museums, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM, 2018
GenNext: Future So Bright, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, Santa Fe, NM, 2018
From Here on Out, Object Space Gallery, Spokane, WA, 2018
Eye of the Beholder, Zalma-Lofton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2018
Selected Publications/Press
Hyperallergic, “An Artist’s Opiate Addiction Recovery Through Photography”
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, “The Outwin 2022 American Portraiture Today” - Official Exhibit Catalog
El Palacio: The Magazine of the Museum of New Mexico, “A New Mexican Love Story”
Santa Fe New Mexican, Pasatiempo, “The Roots of Central Avenue, Frank Blazquez’s Burqueños” - (cover story)
Humble Arts Foundation, “Frank Blazquez Photographs Resilience, Survival and Humanity in New Mexico”
mitú, “A Photographer is Capturing New Mexico’s Chicanx Community Through Portraits”
The Guardian, “I Have Nothing to Lose: Forgotten Survivors of the New Wild West - by Frank Blazquez”
Hyperallergic, “12 New Mexico Artists Defy Southwestern Stereotypes”
Southwest Contemporary, “12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now” - (cover story)
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, “State of the Art 2020” - Official Exhibit Catalog
Art Fix Daily, “Six Artists to See in State of the Art 2020 at Crystal Bridges and The Momentary”
Artsy, “How Artists are Weathering the Student Debt Crisis”
Santa Fe Trend - 20th Anniversary Issue, “Kicking it”
Videomaker, “How to Find Your Artistic Voice According to New Mexico Artist, Frank Blazquez”
Santa Fe New Mexican, Pasatiempo, “Frank Blazquez at Zalma Lofton Gallery”
The Guardian, “Escape from New Mexico’s ‘War Zone’: My Fight Against Addiction - by Frank Blazquez”
Street Photography Magazine, “Interview with Frank Blazquez”
Museum of Spanish Colonial Arts, “GenNext Unofficial Catalogue”
GRAIN Street and Documentary Photography Magazine, “Albuquerque War Zone Photo Essay by Frank Blazquez"
Huffington Post, "Some Days Just Are with Frank Blazquez and Matthew J. Brown"
Collections
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM
Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, Santa Fe, NM
Historic Santa Fe Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
Workshops & Artist Talks
The RAiR Foundation, Artist Lecture with Frank Blazquez hosted by Larry Bob Phillips
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Momentary, Reflecting Communities
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Gale Memorial Speaker Series” hosted by Dr. Ray Hernández-Durán
Meow Wolf, Studio Workshop in the House of Eternal Return with Frank Blazquez
Meow Wolf, Meow Wolf Photography Skill Share
ASMP of New Mexico and The Historic Santa Fe Foundation, “Photography Workshop and Artist Talk”
CNM, “Artist Talk with Frank Blazquez” hosted by Dr. Rafael Martinez
Awards & Grants
Artists Bureau, Art & Krimes by Krimes
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Outwin 2022, Finalist
The Soze Agency and Open Philanthropy, Right of Return USA Fellowship
Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant
Artist Relief Project, Artist Relief Grant
University of New Mexico Foundation, Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize - Career Achievement Award
University of New Mexico Department of History, Commencement Speaker - Class of 2019'
Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Representing the West: A New Frontier, Best of Show
Central Features Contemporary Art, Visiting Curator Series: Selected Studio Visit
University of New Mexico, Figge Nilson Award in European History
University of New Mexico, Graham Browne Award in History