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Josiah Lee Lopez

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Murals, Illustration, Fine Art

Josiah Lee Lopez was born in Denver Colorado, and graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with an MFA in Studio Arts. Lopez has shown his artwork since 1998, across the United States and Internationally. His works have elements of graffiti, fine arts and graphic design. Lopez uses the street as inspiration in much of his work that touches on the complicated narratives of urban identity.

"My work is a combination of graffiti urban street works, illustration and painting. My process as an artist is to utilize and interpret information I gather through observations from my surroundings. I draw these ideas from personal experiences as a Latino living in the urban setting of modern day society."

- Josiah Lee Lopez

Education 

2014

MFA University of Colorado at Boulder, Department Of Art And Art History

Graduate Program, Interdisciplinary Media Art Practices, Boulder, CO.

2002

MFA San Francisco Art Institute, Master of Fine Arts Program, Graduate Painting

San Francisco, CA.

2001

BFA Metropolitan State College Of Denver, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Painting

Denver, CO

Exhibitions 

Solo

2019

Loveland Museum, Foote Gallery, Loveland, CO

2015

CHAC Gallery, Los Solodados of Santa Fe Drive, Denver CO

2013

Black Vulture Gallery, The Art Show , Denver, CO

2011

VSA Access Gallery, Graphically Speaking, Denver CO

2010

Fringe Collective, Carbamazepine Holidays On The Moon , Denver, CO

2009

Locals Art Gallery, Invention , Denver, CO

2007

Stripes Gallery, Skullduggery , Denver, CO

2006

Paintura Fine Art, Stingrays and Poems , Denver, CO

2005

Revoluciones Collective Art Space, The Green Machine , Denver, CO

2005

Remmi Fine Art, ERATIC , Denver, CO

2001

ILK- Pirate, Solo Cholo , Denver, CO

1999

KUVO Five Points Media Center, SOLO , Denver, CO

1999

CHAC Gallery, The Kriminal Artist , Denver, CO

Group

2020

Colorado History Museum, Hencho En Colorado, Denver CO

2019

CauseART Google, Invisible Experiences, Boulder, CO

2019

McNichols Civic Center Building, Para mi Pueblo: Chicano Muralists of Colorado

2018

Museo De Las Americas, Pachucos Y Sirenas, Denver, CO

2018

Century Link Tower, Graffiti Gives Back, Denver CO

2017

Arts Student League, Biennial of The Americas, Denver, CO

2016

Vicki Myhren Gallery, The Wall / La Pared, Denver CO

2016

Arts Santa Monica, IDENTITY, Barcelona, Spain

2015

Museo De Las Americas, CHICANO , Denver, CO

2015

Unicom Capital, Graffiti Gives Back, Denver, CO

2014

Museo De Las Americas, Outside In 303 Denver, CO

2014

Center Of Visual Arts, Metropolitan State University, In Lak’ech San Diego to

Denver You Are My Other, Denver, CO, San Diego, CA

2014

CU Art Museum, Fall Thesis Exhibition Boulder, CO

2014

Sangre de Christo Arts Center, Los Phantasmas, Pueblo, CO

2013

VSA Colorado, Little Piece Of Picaso, Denver, CO

2013

CHAC NORTH, Unrelated Issues, Denver, CO

2013

Black Vulture Tattoo The Art Show Denver, CO

2010

Republic Plaza, 14 th Annual Corporate Collections

2010

VSA Arts of Colorado/ Access Gallery, 99 Pieces of Art On The Wall, Denver CO

2010

CVA Center For Visual Art, MERGE, Denver, CO

2009

CHAC Norte, Artistes “Super” Estrellas , Denver, CO

2009

Next Gallery, Group Show, Denver, CO

2009

VSA Arts of Colorado/ Access Gallery + Studio, Outside The Wall, Denver CO

2008

CHAC Norte, Group Show, Denver, CO

2007

University Of New Mexico, One Night Stand, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2007

West Nebraska Arts Center, Los Animales, Scottsbluff, Nebraska

2006

Galeria Jose Maria Velasco, Guerilla Pop, Peralvillo # 55 Col. Morelos, Mexico

2006

Vida Ellison Gallery, Denver Public Library, Chain Reaction, Denver, CO

2006

Andenken Gallery, Friends, Denver, CO

2006

Front Range Community College, Exhibicion de Arte Hispano, Westminister, CO

2005

Lakewood Museum Of Outdoor Arts, Day Of The Dead, Lakewood, CO

2005

Metropolitan Center for Visual Art, Metro Effect, Denver, CO

2005

Chicano Humanities Art Council, Los Animales Collective, Denver, CO

2004

The Den Gallery, Kelaberative, Denver CO

2004

RC Art Space, Inferno Graffiti Group Show, Denver, CO

2003

Chicano Humanities Arts Council, Chucas y Chucos, Denver, CO

2003

The Wheelbarrow Art Space, PROtest America, Commerce City, CO

2002

Z Gallery, Slack Jaw , Fundraiser For Juvenile Diabetes, San Francisco, CA

2001

Metropolitan CVA, Senior Honors Exhibition, Juried Show, Denver, CO

2001

Museo De Las Americas, RDA Five Hundred Years, LA CAUSA, Denver, CO

2000

Archlite Studio Network, Art Pimps, Brighton, CO

2000

Urban Art Space, Outside 2000, Denver, CO

2000

RC Art Space, Third Annual Calaveras Ball, Denver, CO

1999

Buell Theatre Denver Performing Arts Complex, Auraria COOL, Denver, CO

1998

The Pot Boiler, 2 Men Enter 1 Man Leave, Denver, CO

1998

Leaping Lizard Gallery, Comic Storms, Denver, CO

Work History

2006-08

Graduate Teaching Instructor, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder CO

2013

Graduate Part time Instructor, University of Colorado at Boulder

2009-17

Urban Arts Fund City and County Of Denver Mural Art Projects

2010-18

VSA Colorado, Access Gallery, Lead Artist, Studio projects artist

Publications

Murals in the McNichols Building Celebrate Denver’s Chicano/A Culture

303 Magazine.com 2019

Cori Anderson

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"Para Mi Pueblo Showcases Five Decades of Local Color"

Westword 2019

Michael Paglia

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“The 21 Best Events in Denver Febuary 6-12”

Westword 2018

Sonia Gutierrez

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100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Josiah Lee Lopez

Westword 2018

Susan Froyd

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"Outside in 303"

Westword 2014

Michael Paglia

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