Esteban Cabeza de Baca b. San Ysidro, CA.  

esteban.cabezadebaca@gmail.com

info@garthgreenan.com


EDUCATION

2018 The Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2014 MFA Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York

2010 BFA The Cooper Union, School of the Arts, New York

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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

2023 Light From Water, WaveHill public garden & cultural center, Bronx, NY. curated by Gabriel de Guzman

2017 Verano, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts

2010 Powers That Be, 41 Cooper Union Gallery, New York, New York


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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 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

2018-2019 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 Ray Mark Rinaldi, “Three compelling art exhibits, each with a distinctive point of view”, The Denver Post

2024 Tarrah Krajnak, Interview of Esteban Cabeza de Baca, BOMB Magazine

2023 Beth de Woody, Collector’s Diary: Beth Rudin DeWoody Reflects on Jam-Packed Art Journeys in New York and Los Angeles, ArtNews

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, Trimble, Lynn, Southwest Contemporary, REVIEW: Plein Aire Challenges Assumptions and Aesthetics MOCA Tucson

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, Kazanjian, Dodie, Vogue, Many Artists Began Painting Outside During the Pandemic—And They Might Never Go Back

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

De Heus Collection

Beth De Woody Collection

Harvard University

Museum of Contemporary Arts San Diego

Phoenix Art Museum

Williams College




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

2023-2022: Cornell, New York Studio School

2021-2019 Visiting Artist: 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.

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