Esteban Cabeza de Baca b. San Ysidro, CA.
EDUCATION
2014 MFA Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York
2010 BFA The Cooper Union, School of the Arts, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Memories of the Future, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA.
2024 Cesar’s Angels, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2024 West of Federal, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, CO.
2023 Alma, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, NY,
2022 Let Earth Breathe, The Momentary Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas.
2021 Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
2021 Nepantla, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, New York
2019 Life is one Drop in Limitless Oceans…., Kunstfort, Vijfhuizen, NL.
2019 Two Wampum Row, De Nederlandsche Bank (Central Bank of The Netherlands), Amsterdam, NL.
2019 Worlds Without Borders, Boers-Li Gallery, New York, New York
2018 Unlearn, Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 Bluer than a sky weeping bones, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Night and Day Dreams, with Heidi Howard, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2017 Verano, with Heidi Howard, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts
2010 Powers That Be, with Fletcher Williams, 41 Cooper Union Gallery, New York, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Zimmerli Museum, Indigenous Identities: Here, Now and Forever
2024-2025 Museo Del Barrio, Flow States-LA TRIENAL 2024
2023-2022 Denver Art Museum, Gio Ponti 7th Floor expansion
2023-2022 Plein Air, MOCA Tucson, Tucson, Arizona, Curated by Aurora Tang
2022 Dream Life, BB&M Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2021 Foundation for Contemporary Art Benefit Show, Greene Naftali, New York, NY.
2021-2020 Drawn, South East Center for Contemporary Arts, Winston Salem, NC.
2020-2019 Wasteland, The Drawing Center, New York, NY.
2019 Family and Friends, Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, CA.
2019 What’s Love Got to Do With It? The Drawing Center, New York, NY.
2019 zeit-geist-zeit Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA.
2018 Royal Painting Prize, The Dutch Royal Palace, Amsterdam, NL.
2018 LREI Art Auction, Pace Gallery, New York, NY.
2018 New Acquisitions, De Nederlandsche Bank (Central Bank of The Netherlands), Amsterdam, NL. curated by Alexander Strengers
2017 Group exhibition, Gaa Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2017 The Complexities of Unity, Yale University, New Haven, CT. curated by Jon Seals
2016 Home/Not Home, Colorado Convention Center, curated by Edgar Heap of Birds and Robert Warrior
2016 Inside Outside Landscape, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME curated by Breehan James
2016 Summertime-Group Exhibition, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA.
2016 The Narrative Figure, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. curated by Howard Rutkowski
2015 Scent, Dickinson Gallery, New York, NY curated by Young and Starving
2014 I ♥ Paint, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Ontario curated by Kim Dorland
2014 MFA Thesis Exhibit, Fisher Landau Center, Queens, NY. curated by Ruba Katrib
2014 United Against Speculation, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, NY. curated by Tomas Vu and Rirkrit Tiravanija
2013 1st year Show, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, NY. curated by Jenny Jaskey
RESIDENCIES
2024 Harwood Museum Residency
2024 Civitella Ranieri Visual Art Fellowship
2021 Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2020 Artist in Residence University of Tennessee Knoxville
2018-2020 The Drawing Center Open Sessions, New York, New York
2018 The Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018-2019 Carrizozo Artist-In-Residence, Carrizozo, New Mexico
2015-2016 LMCC Workspace Program, New York, New York
2014-2015 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, New York
2014 Byrdcliffe Residency, Woodstock, New York
AWARDS
2021 NYFA Painting Fellowship
2018 Henk en Victoria de Heus fellowship
2017 Rien Meppelink fellowship
2017 Stokroos Foundation
2016 Mayer Foundation
2013 Stern Fellowship, Columbia University
2013 Robert Gamblin Painting Grant
2013 Martin Birnbaum Scholarship, Columbia University
2013 D’Arcy Hayman Scholarship, Columbia University
2007 Full Tuition Scholarship, The Cooper Union
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 Maximiliano Duron, Museo Del Barrio Names Artist List for 2024 Triennial, Artnews
2024 Matt Stromberg, “10 Shows to See in Los Angeles this June”, Hyperallergic
2024 Tarrah Krajnak, Interview of Esteban Cabeza de Baca, BOMB Magazine
2023 Cesar Barba Martinez, “Esteban Cabeza de Baca's Time Travels”, Art21 New York Close Up
2023 Editors, Art21’s First Ever Film Festival, Surface Magazine
2022, Edgington, Colin, Southwest Contemporary, The Internal Place
2022, Green, Tyler, Modern Art Notes, Episode No. 559
2022, Sporn, Stephanie, Cultured Magazine, Meta Curates and Commissions Artists’
2022, Edgington, Colin, Brooklyn Rail, Art in Conversation
2021, MacQuaid, Cate, Boston Globe, Provincetown: Where Gallerists know how to behave in a crisis
2021. MacQuaid, Cate, Boston Globe, Layers of heritage and history in paint
2021, Bourland, Ian, Frieze Magazine, Countering the Fetishization of Indigenous Art
2021 Gluibizzi, Amanda, The Brooklyn Rail, Esteban Cabeza de Baca: Nepantla
2019 Mitter, Siddhartha, The New York Times, Four Artists to Watch
2019 Edgington, Colin, The Brooklyn Rail, Art Seen
2019 Majumdar, Sangram. Two Coats of Paint, An Ocean of Rivers
2018 Keijer, Kees. Het Parool. Nov. 22nd.
2017 Broekers, Debbie. Metropolis M, Nov. 23rd.
2017 Van der Made, Lieke. VICE magazine: Creators, Nov. 24th.
COLLECTIONS
El Espacio 23
Harvard University
Museum of Contemporary Arts San Diego
North Dakota Museum of Art
Parrish Art Museum
Phoenix Art Museum
Tia Collection
The Bunker Artspace
Williams College Museum of Art
LECTURES & TEACHING
2019-Current SUNY Purchase- Part Time Lecturer of Painting and Drawing
2016-Current Columbia University-Painting Adjunct Professor
Fall 2023- Hunter College, Associate Professor
Fall 2021-Yale University, Core Critic
Fall 2020-University of Tennessee Knoxville, Artist in Residence Program
2023-2019 Visiting Artist: Cornell, New York Studio School, RISD, SVA, Columbia University, College of Saint Rose, MICA, Hunter College, Boston University and SUNY Purchase
2018 “Decolonized Art Practices”, Club Solo, Breda, Netherlands + Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 Visiting Artist as part of Pitzer College Art + Environment Mellon Symposium Spring 2016 Travel. My lecture was titled “Decolonized Art Practices”. Organized by Tarrah Krajnak
2014 Artist Talk, The Cooper Union, New York, NY.
