Enrique Chagoya Art

This print presents a fictitious encounter between contemporary colonial forces and Native Americans who are defenders of immigrant refugees and displaced populations. The artist de...

Color lithograph with plastic eyes, Edition 30. Enrique Chagoya makes paintings and prints about the changing nature of culture. “My artwork is a conceptual fusion of opposite cultu...

The artist describes this project: “In this print, a geographic/physical border, such as the US/Mexico border wall, is a symbol of many other walls that exist between people. These ...

Color lithograph/woodcut, Edition 30. The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals is Chagoya’s fifth codex done at our studio. It is illustrated with comic book characters, religiou...

Color lithograph with chine collé and gold metallic powder, Edition 30. In Illegal Alien's Meditations on el Ser y la Nada Chagoya continues his exploration of the codex format i...

Color lithograph, Edition 25. The artist describes this project: This work is a tribute to the recent Mayan immigrants from Southern Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras (as well as many...

Color lithograph, Edition 30. The artist describes this project: “In this work I defang the stereotypes of Native Americans depicted as primitive savages in the painting by Wimar. The mask and the Mayan head team up with a third character to form a fictitious, original, trans-continental Border Patrol. This work is a humorous reminder that all nations in the Americas were created by undocumented immigrants from Europe. Today, some politicians call refugees from Central America and other countries “illegal aliens” but for me they are no different from the Pilgrims or Daniel Boone...

Color lithograph with collage, Edition 30. The artist describes this project: "This lithograph has been produced keeping in mind the pandemonium sparked by the departing administration and its long-term effects on society. I worked the images during shelter in place without being able to travel to the Shark’s studio in Lyons for the first time in a couple of decades. It has been our first collaboration at a distance, but still in close communication, and very workable. My print focuses on some of these issues (with a sense of humor inspired by James Ensor’s version of The Seven Deadly Sins...

Color lithograph, Edition 25. The artist describes this project: Codex YTREBIL, (liberty backwards), is based on a series of small books by anonymous Ind...

Color lithograph: Edition 30 nrique Chagoya has created a pastoral pastiche based on George Caleb Bingham’s painting “Jolly Flatboatmen” and an Albe...

Color lithograph with collage, Edition 30 Enrique Chagoya makes paintings and prints about the changing nature of culture. “My artwork is a conceptual fusion of opposite cultural re...

Color lithograph, Edition 30. Enrique Chagoya makes paintings and prints about the changing nature of culture. My artwork is a conceptual fusion of opposite cultural realities that I have experienced in my lifetime. I integrate diverse elements: from pre-Columbian mythology, western religious iconography and American popular culture. On the border of this print surrounding the image the following is written: An American tourist is approached by a Mexican kid holding a small human skull in his hand. He asks him: “Hey Mister, do you want to buy Pancho Villa...

Color lithograph, Edition 30. The artist describes this project: In this codex I have made multiple self-portraits as male and female ethnic stereotypes portraying African, Eur...

Color lithograph, Edition 30. Enrique Chagoya’s print, Illegal Alien’s Guide to the Concept of Relative Surplus Value, continues his examination of cultural realities and the curr...

Color lithograph, Edition 30. In Escape from Fantasylandia: An Illegal Alien’s Survival Guide, Chagoya continues his examination of cultural realities with satire and humor. Using a...

Color lithograph with chine collé and gold powder, Edition 30 Enrique Chagoya's print "La Bestia’s Guide to the Birth of the Cool", is the twelft...

Color lithograph with chine collé, Edition 30. Enrique Chagoya makes paintings and prints about the changing nature of culture. “My artwork is a conceptual fusion of opposite cultural realities that I have experienced in my lifetime. I integrate diverse elements: from pre-Columbian mythology, western religious iconography...

Color lithograph, Ed. 30 Chagoya's newest prints, "Invites Into the World of the Eternal Instant" and "Expresses Nothing but the Self", are concerned with the current unsustainabl...

Color lithograph, Edition 30. Enrique Chagoya makes paintings and prints about the changing nature of culture. “My artwork is a conceptual fusion of opposite cultural realities that...

Color lithograph with chine collé, Edition 30. In this map Chagoya depicts a world beset with problems of man-made pollution: environmental, industrial and social. The planet nee...

Color lithograph, Ed. 30 Chagoya's newest prints, "Invites Into the World of the Eternal Instant" and "Expresses Nothing but the Self", are concerned with the current unsustainabl...

Color monotype based on the edition print of "Travels of Fortune": The artist describes this work as follows: “I wanted to focus on the positive cultural heritage these refugees bri...

Color lithograph with chine collé, Edition 30. Enrique Chagoya makes paintings and prints about the changing nature of culture. “My artwork is a conceptual fusion of opposite cul...

Color lithograph, Edition 30. (Irregular shape) The artist states: “2013 is the year of the snake and I am celebrating it in this print to honor the Chinese calendar but with a pre-Columbian twist. In the Chinese horoscope...

Enrique Chagoya is an American-Mexican artist best known for his mixed-media paintings and prints. In his work, the artist combines contemporary cultural icons with Pre-Columbian ima...

Enrique Chagoya is an American-Mexican artist best known for his mixed-media paintings and prints. In his work, the artist combines contemporary cultural icons with Pre-Columbian ima...