EDWIN R. VASQUEZ

A prolific, multifaceted artist who has developed a unique visual language, Edwin Vasquez offers a breath of fresh air with his digital images, photography, poetry, and vibrant mixed-media work. Vasquez’s work is fearless in its social commentary, using rich forms and colors to provoke passionate responses to his ideas about the environment and human nature. Also, he is an experienced curator, photojournalist, published author, and videographer.

Edwin has been the featured artist in several notable shows, including The Arcade of Hypermodernity, Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Brand 52, Brand Library, The Joshua Tree Chronicles, The Main, Santa Clarita, Seven Visions X Seven Artists, at Angels Gate Cultural Center, The Joshua Tree Life Cycle at UCLA Chicano Studies, New Wave collective show. Gallery Western, Exposiciones Artisticas USAC at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala; Refractions at Metro Gallery, Pomona, CA; Day of the Dead at the Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; the January 2023 show at Lakes & Valley Art Guild in Leona Valley, CA; For the Record II at Legacy Commons, Palmdale, CA; and Inkwell, Palmdale's Book & Art Festival.

He has participated in numerous local, national, and international exhibitions and received awards from former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln D. Chafee, the California State Assembly, Edwards Air Force Base, the City of Pomona, and the Brand Library. In 2023, Edwin received the Philip and Muriel Berman grant from the MRH Fund for Artists. Some of the shows he has participated in are Don't Sleep! and Hispanic Heritage at the Latino Art Museum, Pomona; The Light of Space at MOAH; 49th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper at the Brand Library, Glendale, CA; 16th Annual d’Aztlan: El Movimiento at dA Gallery, Pomona; Aviary and Collaborate and Create at the Loft at Liz's in Los Angeles; Currents and Eclectic Retrospective at Antelope Valley College Gallery; and the DIY Knicker Kit Project, as part of a BFA thesis by Valeria Medici at the University of Northampton, UK.

Edwin is a Public Art Commissioner for the City of Palmdale, CA, and he was a juror for the 38th Annual Juried Art Show at MOAH-CEDAR in 2023. He was an Artist in Residence for #CountMeIn at MOAH from 2019-2020, and at Warren's Art Studio and Gallery in Quartz Hill, CA for 5 years. He is a 2019 Kipaipai alumnus.