José Lozano
Raised in Mexico and Southern California, José Lozano has a rich history of drawing, painting, printmaking, curation, writing, and illustration. Lozano attended Art Center College of Design and received his MFA from CSUF in 1987, where he studied with Kim Abeles, Pierre Picot and Leo Robinson. He has participated in and curated numerous exhibitions in Los Angeles and Orange County, including Papel Chicano and Chicanitas: Works on Paper from the Cheech Marin Collection and Open Your Eyes/Abre Los Ojos at Fullerton’s Muckenthaler Cultural Center. He has worked on serigraph atelier projects with Self-Help Graphics, and several of the prints completed there are in LACMA’s permanent collection. Lozano is the recipient of a California Community Foundation Fellowship for drawing and painting, and his public art projects include LA Metro Loteria at the La Brea/Jefferson station and Aliso Dreams, a mural for La Plaza Village in Downtown LA. His most recent children’s book, Little Chancla, was named Best Bilingual Picture Book by the Latino Book Awards Association, and well-reviewed by the New York Times.