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Miguel Aragón

Six dead in 20 minutes / Matan a 6 en 20 Minutos 
Color linocut / Linograbado a color

 

Miguel A. Aragón (Juárez, México) lives and works in New York City (USA) and Berlin (Germany); he is an Associate Professor in Printmaking at CUNY College of Staten Island. Aragón has exhibited internationally at venues including the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany and the Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, Canada to name a few. His awards and residences include NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship; KALA Art Institute fellowship and residency, Berkeley, CA; Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH; East London Printmakers Keyholder Residency, London UK; and Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen, Germany among many others. His work is held in collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago; and Minneapolis Institute of Art. Aragón’s work has been published in A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking (Greenville, NC: Wellington B. Gray Gallery, 2012), Peenemünde Project: Geschichte wird Kunst / Imprinting History (Berlin: Edition Braus, 2017) and ¡Printing the Revolution!: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now (Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum; Princeton: in association with Princeton University Press, 2020). Most recently, in 2022 he was nominated for The Queen Sonja Print Award, Oslo


Miguel A. Aragón (Juárez, México) vive y trabaja en Nueva York ( Estados Unidos) y Berlín (Alemania); es profesor adjunto de Grabado en el CUNY College de Staten Island. Aragón ha expuesto internacionalmente en lugares como el Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, en Saratoga Springs, NY; Uferhallen, en Berlín, Alemania, y la Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, en Canadá, entre otros. Sus premios y residencias incluyen la beca NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship; la beca y residencia KALA Art Institute, Berkeley (California); Zygote Press, Cleveland (Ohio); la residencia East London Printmakers Keyholder, Londres (Reino Unido); y Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen (Alemania), entre muchos otros. Su obra es parte de colecciones como las del Museum of Fine Arts de Boston, el National Museum of Mexican Art de Chicago y el Minneapolis Institute of Art. La obra de Aragón ha sido publicada en A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking (Greenville, NC: Wellington B. Gray Gallery, 2012), Peenemünde Project: Geschichte wird Kunst / Imprinting History (Berlín: Edition Braus, 2017) y ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now (Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum; Princeton: en asociación con Princeton University Press, 2020). Más recientemente, en 2022 fue nominado para el premio de grabado Queen Sonja, en Oslo, Noruega; y recibió el premio 2022 SGC International Mid-career Printmaker.