Bio / CV
Anthony Vasquez
db 1981. Painter -
Anthony Vasquez is a Chicano-American multidisciplinary artist born 1981 in Las Cruces, New Mexico, currently based in Budapest, Hungary. He received a BA in Studio Art with an emphasis in painting and printmaking from Adams State University in Southern Colorado. Vasquez has exhibited his work throughout the US, in Colorado, Michigan, Arizona, and Massachusetts, as well as internationally in India, and most recently in Budapest, Hungary, where he is represented by Horizont Gallery. Most recently, Vasquez has shown his new body of works with his first solo show in Europe, Light Necessities in the fall of 2022 with Horizont. Sixteen of his works are in the collection of the Central Bank of Hungary, MNB. Vasquez continues to maintain his practice at Budapest Art Factory.
Within the objects I am constructing with wood and acrylic paint, there is a certain life that comes from the material itself. I am intentional in treating the natural surface of wood as it is its own skin, and integral to the visual outcome as a new contemporary object.
The 3-dimensionality of Anthony’s objects, with reflective light and color gradations harmonize with the visual elements of the natural material, and illuminate the interactive potential between the object and the viewer. Perhaps with a bit of rebellious cutting into the hierarchies of material and disciplines. Anthony is interested in the ways building with wood is viewed as craft and not fine art.
With the series titled We Share the Same Sky and New Objects Same Sky, Anthony continues to investigate the combination of his different cultural and social contexts and his family of origin were formative to his identity as an artist.
His choice of natural wood as material is influenced by a rich heritage of his father and grandfathers vocation as carpenters and his growing up in that working environment. Learning alongside them, he grew up working with power tools used in the building trade. Since 2020, Anthony has been exploring the intersection between contemporary art and wood as a material to construct new abstract objects.
CV
2011 - Adams State University,
Education
2023 Transformative Craft. Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2022 Everything Don’t Need To Be Addressed, Horizont Gallery, Budapest HU
2022 Solo Show. Horizont Gallery , Budapest, HU.
2022 Finding A Memory Piano Craft Gallery, Boston MA
2021 New Works/ New Season, Budapest Art Factory.
2021 Magyar Mühely Galéria, Budapest Hungary.
2021 Resident Art Fair, Budapest, HU
2021 Garten Balaton, Budapest, HU
2020 Resident Art Fair, Budapest, HU
2018 Simplicity of Being, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi. India
2017 The Beauty of Who I Am. NIV Art Centre. New Delhi, India.
2016 Small. NIV Art Centre. New Delhi, India
2015 The Many Faces of Abundance, Art For Change Foundation. New Delhi, India.
2014 Perceived Reality: The Art of the Self-Portrait. New City Studios Phoenix, AZ.
2013 Thermal Phx. MonOchid Gallery Phoenix, AZ.
2013 Solo Show, Icehouse of Phoenix
2009 Grand Rapids Art Prize, Michigan
2009 B.B.A.C, Birmigham-bloomfield
2007 SceneMetrospace, E. Lansing, MI
2003 San Luis Valley Invitational, Business of Art Center, Manitou Springs, Co
2003 Third Front Range Student Art Exhibit, The College Advisory Committee of the Denver Art Museum, Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Exhibitions
Friend Of The Artist. Vol 16.