CANDE AGUILAR
SELECTED WORKS:
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2021 It’s only barrioPOP but I like it, GrayDuck Gallery, Austin, TX
2021 In the Flesh, Produce, Corpus Christi, TX
2020 The Last TACO, virtual reality exhibition, D EmptySpace
2019 barrioPOP, 81 Leonard Gallery, New York, NY
2019 barrioPOP, UTRGC Art Gallery, Brownsville, TX
2019 barrioPOP, Louis Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX
2018 barrioPOP, Presa Art House, San Antonio, TX
2018 barrioPOP, McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX
2018 barrioPOP, San Benito Cultural Heritage Museum, San Benito, TX
2017 Feedback, The Office of Useless Art, Tamines, Belgium
2017 barrioPOP, Beyond Arts Gallery, Harlingen, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2021 MX 21, Mexic-Aerte Museum, Austin, TX
2021 Se Ha Dicho, Austin Central Public Library, Austin, TX
2020 During Lockdown, Rusteberg Art Gallery, UTRGV, Brownsville, TX
2020 Between Two Worlds, Visual Arts Center, UT Austin
2020 Way Out, La Grange Gallery, Cernay-Les-Reims, France
2020 GIFC Traveling Drawing Show, The Hole, New York, NY
2019 New Concepts in Figurative and Portrait Works, North American Art Gallery, McAllen, TX
2019 Castilian Roses in December, San Benito Cultural Heritage Museum
2018 Crazy and Foolish Ambitious, Center of Tamines & Auvelais, Belgium
2018 1,954 Miles, Wave Pool Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2017 Black Box, Boecker Contemporary, Heidelburg, Germany
2017 Texas Biennial, Austin, TX
2016 Un/Provincial, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, TX
2015 The Writing on the Wall, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Born and raised in Brownsville, Texas, Cande Aguilar is a self-taught artist who reflects on border culture through his BarrioPOP distinctive style.
Aguilar defines his BarrioPOP distinctive style as an amalgamation sprung by characters, colors and street phenomena. Aguilar’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions across the country, including at The Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, The International Museum of Arts & Science (McAllen, TX), The Alexandria Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA), and The Painting Center (New York, NY). Aguilar has also exhibited internationally including in Cyprus, Germany, Spain, and Belgium.
“HaHaHa”
Multimedia painting with collage on multiple
96″x204″ inches