Lupe Galván Selected Works

About Me/ Artist Statement
BFA Illustration Boise State University 2006
MFA The New York Academy of Art 2009

I was born in 1981, and grew up in rural Idaho among the farm lands of the Snake River valley, the historic land of the Shoshone people. I earned a BFA in Illustration from Boise State in 2006 and an MFA from The New York Academy of Art in 2009.

Artist Statement

My research revolves around the investigation of personal history, inheritance, memory, Identity, Post Colonialism and Indigeniety. I investigate Postcolonial notions about culture and representation of culture; it stems from my experiences of being of mixed race Hispano-Indigenous person. In many ways I am responding to the isolation of growing up in rural Idaho and being an English Language Learner. The

isolation provided a kind of binary opposition, one of preservation of traditional cultural practices while simultaneously creating more distance between dominant culture and myself. The experience becomes a liminal one, what it means to be “Hispanic” in White Geography.

These processes are explored through juxtaposition and re-contextualizing of images. Personal histories can be a product of inheritance and those, which are not necessarily experienced first hand, but imposed upon by society, roles, categories and language. One of my primary interests is with European art, its techniques and compositional strategies. However, I aim to tell a non European story, one where history is reevaluated or even re-imagined. My work revolves around the exploration and expression of experiences of Indigenous roots, Mexican culture and American life. It often encompasses depictions of modern life with aspects of traditional practices. The combination of the two is what I see as Past meets Present. I ask the viewer who relishes European art to also consider “are our stories not beautiful ones as well”? “What if these stories were those of BIPOC Bodies, would you still find them important or beautiful?”

J Lupe Galvan

EDUCATION

MFA Painting May 2009

The New York Academy of Art

MFA Thesis Memory Paintings

BFA Illustration May 2006

Boise State University

TEACHING

Drawing August 2021-Present

Boise State University

Intro to 2D Spring 2022-Present

The College of Idaho

Drawing & Composition Spring 2022-Present

The College of Idaho

Undergraduate Seminar, Spring 2022

Boise State University

Instructor In Studio Art, Spring 2019

Southern Oregon University

Instructor Of Artistic Anatomy Workshop Summer 2018

Yavapai College

Instructor of Drawing, Painting & Watercolor 2016-2018

Yavapai College

Instructor of Studio Art & Art History (Modernism) 2014-2015

Neumann University

Bilingual Art Instructor of Drawing - Dibujo Basico 2014-2015

Fleisher Art Memorial (Philadelphia Museum Of Art)

Instructor in Drawing/Painting 2010-2012

Boise State University

Honors and Awards

The Alexa Rose Foundation Grant 2022

Idaho Commission on the Arts Grant 2020 & 2019

Mills Pond Gallery Award 2020

The Alexa Rose Foundation Grant 2020

The Pennsylvania Watercolor Society Award 2018

Casa Ibañez Antonio Lopez Workshop 2012

NY Academy of Art Academic Scholarship 2007

Community Involvement

Vice President of Vivo Latino Non profit group aimed at raising awareness of minority artists and the promotion of art created by underrepresented groups.

Treefort Music Fest: Via Tropico 208, I Arranged for the assembly of LatinX Artists as well as the arrangement and display of the artwork.

Student Mentorship: Helped students identify a plan of action, courses of study and educational supplementation outside of college studies to further their advancement.

Languages

Fluent Spanish, English, Basic French.

Exhibitions

Eight, College of Idaho Faculty show 2022 Caldwell, ID

Beyond Art, Schneider Museum Of Art 2021 Ashland, OR

Allied Artist 108th Annual Exhibit 2021 New York, NY

Hand Drawn, Mills Pond Gallery, 2020 St James , NY

Radio Boise 2020 Alaska Building Center Boise ID

Pennsylvania Watercolor Society The Lancaster Museum of Art 2019 Lancaster, PA

We Carry Inside Ourselves, Boise State Student Union Gallery 2019 Boise, ID

HCCI Two Person Show Hispanic Cultural Center of Idaho 2019Nampa, ID

2018 White Spar Collective 2018 Prescott AZ

Art Faculty & Alumni Exhibition Yavapai College 2018 Prescott, AZ


Fourth Thursday Prescott Art Walk Solo show 2018 Prescott AZ

Lore Degenstein Gallery 2017 Selinsgrove, PA

9th Annual Juried Figurative Drawing & Painting Exhibition

Art Faculty Exhibition Yavapai College 2017 Prescott Art Gallery

Prescott, AZ

Nepantla: Spaces of Transformation 2016 Lady Base Gallery San Antonio, TX -

“Here We Have Idaho” 2015
 Moscow ID Conference Moscow,ID

Small Oil Paintings Philadelphia Sketch Club 2015 Philadelphia, PA

151st Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings 2014 Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia PA

The Green Chutes Plein Air Competition 2013 Boise, ID

August Group Show 2013 The Crux

Boise , ID

Silent Auction, Red Circle Press, Payette Brewing Company 2011 Garden City, ID

“Faculty Biennial” Visual Arts Gallery 2011 Boise State University

Boise, ID

“Winter Exhibition,” Gallery 109 2011 Fairbanks Studio, Murray, KY

“Lots of Pulp” 2010 Fast Forward Gallery Pittsburg, PA