Javier Carrillo

Javier Carrillo is a Chicano artist who currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He plays with scale and religious and personal iconography to explore the complex layers of cultural identity—his paintings depict close friends, family members, and his own life experience. Many images take the form of the playing cards used in a Mexican game of chance that is similar to Bingo, La Lotería; others showcase the lives of working people in his community, including his own father, a taco vendor. A former student of Art Division in Los Angeles, Javier Carrillo now runs the school’s printmaking program.