Enrique Chagoya is a Mexican-born American painter, printmaker and educator. His prints, drawings, collages and multiples offer critical commentary on the global reach of the United States and its cultural, political and historical tensions with Latin America.

Chagoya has received an honorary doctorate from the San Francisco Art Institute and awards and fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, National Academy of Arts and Letters, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and Guggenheim Foundation. He also has received the Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking Award from the Southern Graphics Council International and was inducted into the National Academy of Design in 2021. Chagoya is a professor of art at Stanford University. 

Artist talk: Thursday, January 30 from 4:30 – 6 p.m., Manetti Shrem Museum. The talk is open to the public. Doors open at 4 p.m.

The Thiebaud Endowed Lecture is organized by the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program and co-sponsored by the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.

The Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Lecture in the Theory, Practice and Criticism of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture celebrate the Thiebauds’ longtime commitment to educating the eye and hand, along with the mind. The annual lecture series presents practicing artists, along with critics, curators, writers, historians, and museum professionals.