Allen After Hours / Enrique Chagoya: Encounter at the Border of Language

Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Enrique Chagoya, professor of art at Stanford University, will talk about his different bodies of work (paintings, drawings, prints, and multiples) that critically comment on the changing nature of culture. Chagoya frequently uses satirical imagery, appropriations of Western art, and Mesoamerican icons to convey multiple narratives in his art. He addresses historical issues of immigration and colonialist ideology in what he humorously calls "Reverse Anthropology" and "Reverse Modernism."

Image: Enrique Chagoya (American, born in Mexico, 1953). Das Tausendjährige Reich, 1995. Acrylic and oil on amate paper. Gift of Driek (OC 1965) and Michael (OC 1964) Zirinsky, 2013.48.4.

Access Statement:

This event will be held in a wheelchair- and rolling walker-accessible building. The lecture space is wheelchair accessible, with moveable seating, and near wheelchair-accessible restrooms. Restrooms are gender-specific; visitors are invited to use the restroom of their preference. Listening devices will be available for use during the presentation, but ASL interpretation is currently not scheduled for this event. Most talks will be recorded and available with closed captions on the museum’s Vimeo page after the event. Please email access questions to Jill Greenwood, jgreenwo@oberlin.edu.