cv of claudia chagoya
EDUCATION
2022: Rozsa Foundation. Rozsa Admin Fundamentals Training (RAFT). Calgary.
2019. University of Calgary. Master of Fine Arts.
2017. Instituto Allende. Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts. San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
RESIDENCIES
2024. Death Bloom Collective Residency. Sparrow Artspace. Calgary, AB.
2023. Santa Muerte Residency. Santa Rosa Arts & Healing, Christina Lake, BC.
2022. Ayatana Artistic Research Program: Mortem. Online.
2022. cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub. Calgary, AB.
2022. Newcomer Artist in Residence. Calgary Central Library. Calgary, AB.
2021-2022. Ledge Gallery, Arts Commons. Calgary, AB.
2020-2021. CAAF Residency, Calgary, AB.
2020. The Women’s Centre Artist in Residence, Calgary, AB.
2018. Royal College of Art, London, UK.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025. Novem. Harcourt House. Edmonton, AB.
2024. Exequias. YYZ Artist Outlet. Toronto, ON.
2024. Lamentations. Tadpole Series at Theatre 1308. Calgary, AB.
2022. Novem. Calgary Central Library. Calgary, AB.
2021. A Rose for Remembrance. Ledge Gallery, Arts Commons. Calgary, AB.
2021. Novem. artsPlace. Canmore, AB.
2021. In Memoriam. Gallery 505 (Calgary Allied Arts Foundation). Calgary, AB.
2019. Novem. Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary, AB.
2018. Unweaving Foundations. Little Gallery, University of Calgary, AB.
2018. Quotidian Patterns. Little Gallery, University of Calgary, AB. (Project carried out during the residency at the Royal College of Art in London).
2017. Inocencia Alterada (Altered Innocence). Estudio Kerlegand, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
2014. Mensajeros (Messengers). Teatro Calderon, Zacatecas, Mexico.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024. Here & Now. Alberta Foundation for the Arts collection at the Royal Alberta Museum. Edmonton, AB.
2023-2024. Xantolo. Mexican Women Artist Collective. Crescent Heights Mini Galleries, Calgary, AB.
2023. F is for Fem. The Fem Assembly. Pop-up exhibition AB Hotel, Calgary, AB.
2022. Portraits: Facing the Image. Western GM Gallery, Drumheller. AB.
2022. Portraits: Facing the Image. AGA Community Gallery, curated by the Alberta Society of Artists. Edmonton, AB.
2022. Many Gardens. Calgary Central Library. Calgary, AB.
2022. Amuse-Bouche. The Fem Assembly. Workshop Studios, Calgary, AB.
2021. Soft Opening. The Fem Assembly. Good Neighbor, Calgary, AB.
2021. Reimagining Mourning. Sur Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2021. Shroud, Crown, Grey Area, Generations. Stride Gallery (Part of the Immigrant Arts Festival (IMAF) In partnership with the Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation and the Chinook Blast Festival), Calgary, AB.
2021. Almas de la Tierra/Souls of the Land. Arts Commons, Calgary, AB.
2020. Protest & Protect. Feminist Art Museum (Online exhibition).
2020. Idols and Merchandise. ARTING (Virtual exhibition). Collective Chundas Locas Mexas (Avril Lopez and Claudia Chagoya).
2019. If nothing is done, no one is seen. U-Hall at TRUCK Gallery, Calgary, AB. In collaboration with Julia Rose Sutherland.
2018. MA1 Print Work-in-Progress. Dyson Gallery and studio at Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2017. Untitled/Unnoticed. Little Gallery, University of Calgary, AB.
2016. El placer de sentir con la mirada y ver con las manos: Favor de Sí Tocar (The pleasure of feeling with the eyes and see through the hands: Please Touch). Artistic Corridor “Tomás Chávez Morado” at Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.
2015. Viceversa: Festival de Cultura Urbana (Viceversa: Urban Culture Festival). San Miguel de Allende Public Library, Mexico.
2015. Arte al aire libre /Art en plein-air (Open-Air Art). Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
2014. Reminiscencias de un lugar (Reminiscences of a place). Galería Pérgola, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
COLLECTIONS
AFA Art Collection. Alberta, Canada.
Royal College of Art. London, UK.
CONFERENCES AND ARTIST TALKS
2024. A Place to Grieve: Honouring Loss. University of Calgary. For Class ART 400: Professional Development.
2023. Nickle at Noon. Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary. Artist Talk.
2022. Symposium: Intersectional gender violence in postcolonial America. Online. Moderator with Equipo Internacional de Investigación Transdisciplinar (EIIT) and the Project on Forced Disappearance in Mexico and Latin America, Autonomous Metropolitan University. Mexico and Canada.
2021. Artist Talk. Central Memorial Highschool, Calgary, AB.
2021. Artist Talk. University of Calgary. For Class LAST 401: Contemporary Mexico.
2021. Visiting Artist Talk. University of Calgary. For Class Art 381-Sculpture: Materials and Processes
2021. Activism through the arts. YWCA Calgary. Artist Talk with the participation of Maryam Ejaz.
2021. Reimagining Mourning: Artist Talk with Laura Barrón and Claudia Chagoya. Sur Gallery, Toronto.
2021. Megaphone Series. Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary.
2020. UAAC – AAUC 2020 Online Conference. “Hidden Within Moments and Places, Memories as Trauma, Silence, and Trust: #MeToo.” Chaired by Heather Leier and Nurgul Rodriguez.
2020. “DesayunArte (Breakfast with Art): Women in the Latin-American artistic context”. Artist Talk with the participation of Gloria Olmedo and SpanicArts.
2019. UAAC – AAUC 2019 Conference. “Asymmetries: Contemporary Art, Activism, and Protest.”- Chaired by Kelsey Perrault.
2019. Nickle at Noon: INSITEM. Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary. Artist Talk.
2018. MFA Graduate Student Conference. “Panel #3: Visibilities and Representations”.
AWARDS
2022. Calgary Catholic Immigration Society’s New Canadian Artist Award.
2022. Exhibition of the Year under 10,000. Galeries Ontario/Galleries Ontario Awards for the collective exhibition “Reimagining Mourning.”