Oscar Magallanes
Los Angeles, CA
Magallanes was raised in the Azusa Barrio of Los Angeles. His artwork is influenced by the cultural and social elements of his upbringing. At the age of fifteen, he was expelled from high school, but was accepted into the Ryman Arts program at the Otis-Parsons College campus which encouraged him to become a professional artist. The experience of participating in two distinct worlds continues to inform the work.
Since then Magallanes has organized artist, curated, cofounded an arts magazines, spent time in Chiapas, Mexico with the Zapatistas and become a member of Culture Strike. He has also served as a board member for Ryman Arts, Self Help Graphics and Art and is currently a member of the Inner-City Arts Young Professionals Advisory Board.
His work has been exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Museo CEART de Baja California Mexicali, Mexico, the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, Illinois, the McNay Museum in San Antonio, Texas and is part of the permanent collections of the National Museum of Mexican Art and the McNay Museum. In 2014, he participated in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowship Academy.
He continues to create and exhibit his work from his studio in Lincoln Heights.