SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL Exhibit Dates Monday May 26-Wednesday June 2 Seeing Peace Billboard Project, Richard Kamler is collaborating with five international visual artists to create five bill-boards in down town San Francisco that depict their unique cultural perspectives of seeing peace. Presented by Richard Kamler and the University of San Francisco, this is a prototype of the full project to be presented at the United Nations in New York 2009. Victor Cartagena's "WARNING:" billboard will be at Mission and 17th Street. PR
The Invisible Nation/Nación Invisible is easily exhibition by Victor Cartagena
At Galeria de la Raza,2857 24th Street, San Francisco, CA
Friday, March 7, 2008 – Friday, May 16, 2008 - Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12 – 6 p.m.
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 26 at 2:00 p.m.
A conversation with Victor Cartagena and Roberto Varea, Director of El Teatro Jornalero and Chair of the Performing Arts Program and Social Justice Center at USF. The Invisible Nation/Nación Invisibleis an evocative large-scale installation by Salvadorian artist, Victor Cartagena. The exhibition includes sculptural works, video and sound installations, as well as a public digital mural, displayed at Galeria's Bryant Street billboard. Reviewed in SFGate March 6, 2008 http://tinywindows.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/invisible-nation/
Con Los Ojos Vendados and Caritas de Azucar are part of a group exhibition at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco (San Francisco, CA), 2008
BANG! BANG! TOY GUN! Mixed Media Installation
Pan American Art Projects
2450 NW 2nd Avenue Miami, FL 33127
April 12-May 3, 2008 6-9 PM
2008 Shows
4th of July "A Declaration of Immigration" at theNational Museum of Mexican Art Opening on the 4th of July, 2008 (10 am to 5 pm) in Chicago, the show runs through September 7, 2008.
A Declaration of Immigration is an exhibition that depicts many of the experiences and viewpoints within U.S. immigrant communities. The works of over 70 artists will help visitors increase their understanding of this complex issue by providing immigrant perspectives that are seldom included in the national debate. Victor's "Labor Tea" installation will be on display.
July 9-29, 2009 SOMArts Main Gallery presents
Territorios: New Visual Currents from El Salvador and the Diaspora curated by Romeo G. Osario, with artists from El Salvador and the Bay Area.
July 9 and 11
Victor is featured in an episode of SPARK on KQED-TV 9 airing locally in the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday, July 9 at 7:30pm and on Friday, July 11 at 11:30pm. Spark goes inside the studio with Victor Cartagena, who draws on memories of El Salvador's bloody civil war to create a haunting body of work with powerful political messages. play video
August 15 – September 12 Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco "Mes Latino Americano Annual Juried Exhibition" an experimental Photography Exhibition Juried by Victor Cartagena will open August 15 – September 12, 2008
September 11-13 "A Body Parted: Border TRIP (tych) II" CounterPulse 1310 Mision & 9th in SF - 8 PM
Performance artist Violeta Luna collaborates with Victor Cartagena, David Molina, and Roberto Vaca to create a movement, sound and media-based performance following an immigrant's journey as she leaves her home in Latin America and Arrives in the US searching for work.
September 5 - December 31
Banned & Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship waspresented at the African American Museum and Library in Oakland, CA 659 14th St. and Center for the Book, at 300 De Haro Street in San Francisco.
Curator, Hanna Regev, invited 60 artists to create works of art inspired by banned and challenged books. The results are a show, titled Banned & Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship, thatunderscores the political climate and points to the vulnerability of guaranteed fundamental rights. Victor created Banner Librarian.
September 13
New Media Festival 80: Hardcore Art Contemporary Space, 3326 North Miami Ave, Miami Florida 33127 BANG! BANG! TOY GUN! installation and video.
September 22 - October 18
MOLAA Awards 80: An invitational juried art competition & exhibition at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach.
November 18 - Februray 6 Cara y Cabezas Comtempory, San Francisco, CA and Kansas City, Mo.
The Voice that Reaches You features three artists: Victor Cartagena, Julio Cesar Morales, and Josue Rojas; and one journalist: Sofia Jarrin-Thomas whose work documents and interprets contemporary immigration and deportation stories. Showcasing video, installation, audio and painted works, this is a show that encourages close study and promotes dialogue.
November 18
Exonome group show at the Mexican Consulate in SF
