Carlos Estrada-Vega



1955                Born in Chihuahua, México
1993                  Summer Academic Research Internship, UC Santa Barbara, Graduate Studies Division
1993-1995Bachelors in Arts, Art/Religious Studies, CSU Bakersfield
1995-1997Painting, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA
1998-1999City of Los Angeles Cultural Grant
1999-2000Stuart and Niraj Katz, Studio/Residence/Stipend Grant, Paris, France


Solo Exhibitions

2013Painting Compositions, Galerie Lausberg, Dusseldorf, Germany
2012Tanganyika, El Paso Art Museum, El Paso, TX
Building a Painting, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York
New Directions/New Compositions, William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2011África, Museo Casa Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México
2009Malerei, Galerie Sacksofsky, Heidelberg, Germany
New Paintings, William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Galerie Uwe Sacksofsky, Heidelberg, Germany
Compositions, Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2008Compositions, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Compositions and Drawings, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, USA
2007About 4,000 Paintings, d.e.n. contemporary art, Culver City, CA, USA
Paintings, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2006New Paintings, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Compositions, Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Paintings, Ernden Fine Art Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
2005Between 12 and 5,000 Paintings, d.e.n. contemporary art, Culver City, CA, USA
Between 12 and 8,000 Paintings, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, USA
Sculptural Paintings, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, USA
2004Paintings, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
10 Paintings, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
4,000 Paintings/14 Compositions, Galerie Sacksofsky and Bloch, Bern, Switzerland
4,000 Paintings/10 Compositions, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2003Malerei, Museum Katharinenhof, Kranenburg, Germany
Between 10 and 4,000 Paintings, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Squares and Cubes, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA, USA
Between 10 and 4,000 Paintings, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, USA
Malerei 2003, Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2002Malerei, Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Paintings, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2001About 5,000 Paintings, Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany
About 8,000 Paintings, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2000By the Power of Two, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
1999"Cornelio" Expanded Composition 1999, The DA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA, USA
Between 5-10,000 Paintings, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA, USA
1998Between 3-5000 Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
1997Between 1500-3000 Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Between 4-7000 Paintings, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA, USA


Group Exhibitions

2011Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT, USA
White Out, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, USA
2010Capturing Dimensions, Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich, Switzerland
2009Colour Sensation, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2008RIPE, den contemporary art, Culver City, CA, USA
iCandy Current Abstraction in Southern California, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress CA, USA
2007Gallery Artists, Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Gallery Artists, Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf, Germany
2006Mid-Career Artist Competition (Contemporary Latin American Art), Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, CA, USA
2005Inaugural Exhibition, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Portland Museum of Art, OR, USA
Contemporary Latin American Art, Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, CA, USA
Abstraction Pure and Impure, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
Slice of White, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA
2004Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
ICPW 45C Norton, Norton Family Foundation, New York, NY, USA
White on White, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Current Lines, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, USA
Galerie Sacksofsky and Bloch, Bern, Switzerland
2003Mirrors, Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Sueños y Encuentros: Works from the Collection by Latin American Masters, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA, USA
Works on Paper, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Components, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
Returning to Aztlan: A Chicano Retrospective, dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA, USA
Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, USA
2002Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
New in Town, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, USA
Tid Bits, Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Breathing Room, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, USA
2001"booth Xs/01," Raum fur Malerei, Cologne, Germany
Minimal Now, University Art Gallery, California State University, San Francisco, CA, USA
Three Painters, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, USA
2000Art Here and There, Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Summer Exhibition, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA, USA
1999C.O.L.A. 1999, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
ew Voices, New Visions, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Teo Gonzalez/Carlos Estrada-Vega: New Paintings, Earl McGrath Gallery, NY, USA
1997Southern California Open Juried Exhibition, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, USA
1996Embarrassment of Riches, Newport Beach Art Center, Newport Beach, CA, USA
Risk at the Loft, Stuart Katz, Loft, and Laguna Beach, CA, USA
1995Carlos Estrada-Vega/Teo Gonzalez, Tejon Machine Works, Jill Thayer Galleries, Bakersfield, CA, USA
Texas National, Stephen J. Austin University, Juror: Leon Golub, Nacogdoches, TX, USA