Enrique Chagoya was born and raised in Mexico City. His father, a Banco de México employee by day and artist by night, encouraged his interest in art by teaching Chagoya color theory and how to sketch at a very early age. Chagoya studied political economy at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where he contributed political cartoons to union newsletters. After university he relocated to Veracruz and directed a team focused on rural- development projects. Chagoya moved to Berkeley, California, at age 26, and worked as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. He earned a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, in 1984, his MA and MFA at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987, and an honorary doctorate from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2017. 

Chagoya has been exhibiting his work nationally and internationally for over two decades. A major retrospective, “Borderlandia,” was organized by the Des Moines Art Center in 2007. It traveled to the UC Berkeley Art Museum and to the Palm Springs Art Museum in 2008. In 2013 his first major traveling survey in Europe, “Palimpsesto Canibal/Cannibal Palimpsest,” opened at the Artium Museum in Vitoria-Gasteiz in the Basque Country and, in 2015, at Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) in the Canary Islands. Also that year a traveling print component from the retrospective opened at Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (IAGO); it traveled to the Museo Nacional de la Estampa (MUNAE) in Mexico City in the winter of 2016. The same year Chagoya had a solo exhibition at Anglim Gilbert Gallery in San Francisco. In 2017 he was included in an exhibition of American Pop art that opened in the winter at the British Museum in London. In 2018 he had exhibitions at the Cathy and Jesse Marion Art Gallery at SUNY Fredonia, the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, and the George Adams Gallery in NYC. 

Chagoya is currently Full Professor at Stanford University’s Department of Art and Art History. His work is in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca and Fundación Televisa in Mexico, and Artium Museum in Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain. He is the recipient of two NEA artist fellowships, a fellowship from the National Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, and residencies at Giverny and Cité Internationale des Arts in France. 

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