Josiah Lee Lopez
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
"Para Mi Pueblo Showcases Five Decades of Local Color"
Westword 2019
Michael Paglia
“The 21 Best Events in Denver Febuary 6-12”
Westword 2018
Sonia Gutierrez
100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Josiah Lee Lopez
Westword 2018
Susan Froyd
Westword 2014
Michael Paglia