1. Carlos Villa was a Filipino-American visual artist, curator and faculty member in the Painting Department at the San Francisco Art Institute.
14 Facts About Carlos Villa
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Carlos Villa was born on December 11,1936, in San Francisco, California, to immigrant parents in the Tenderloin District.
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Carlos Villa was introduced to art when taking lessons with Leo Valledor, who taught him to study etchings by Matisse.
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Valledor and Villa were close friends and often referred to each other as "cousins" even though they were not related.
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Carlos Villa studied under Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, Frank Lobdell, and Ralph DuCasse.
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Carlos Villa moved back to San Francisco in 1969, ready to approach his work in a new manner.
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In 1976, Carlos Villa curated a multidisciplinary, multiethnic exhibition entitled Other Sources: An American Essay, that showcased work by Bay Area artists of color.
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In 1995, Carlos Villa published Worlds in Collision, a book on multiculturalism in the arts.
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In 2010, Carlos Villa organized Rehistoricizing Abstract Expressionism in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1950s-1960s, a web project, symposium and exhibition at the Luggage Store Gallery that focused attention on contributions by women and artists of color that were overlooked by art history.
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In 2011, Carlos Villa had a solo retrospective of his work entitled Manongs, Some Doors and a Bouquet of Crates at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco.
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In 2020, Carlos Villa was part of the group exhibition Prospect.
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Carlos Villa was the subject of the book Carlos Villa and the Integrity of Spaces an anthology of essays about his work and influence edited by Theodore S Gonzalves, featuring essays and poetry by Bill Berkson, David AM Goldberg, Theodore S Gonzalves, Mark Dean Johnson, Margo Machida, and Moira Roth.
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Carlos Villa was a faculty member in the Painting Department at the San Francisco Art Institute where he started teaching in 1969.
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Carlos Villa died March 23,2013, in San Francisco, from cancer and is survived by his wife, Mary Valledor, daughter Sydney and stepson Rio Valledor.