Contact
albertxaguilar@gmail.com
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2023
Working Title, Depree Art Center and Gallery, Holland, MI
2022
Yo Soy Museo, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
Seeing Thoughts Through, Engage Projects, Chicago, IL
2021
Play Comission- Alberto Aguilar and Alex Bradley Cohen, Compound Yellow, Oak Park, IL
2020
In Flux: Chicago Artists and Immigration, Chicago Cultural Center
2019
Alberto Aguilar moves on human scale, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
2018
Alberto Aguilar and Alex Bradley Cohen, In Place of Rest, Comfort Station, Chicago IL
2016
This wall is work made up of parts, The Art Institute of Chicago
Propaganda Familiar, Antena, Chicago IL
2015
Test/Move/Play/Ability, The Arts Incubator, Chicago IL
2014
Living Arrangement, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston MA
2012
(In) Between Out, The Franklin, Chicago IL
2011
Alberto Aguilar, Roots and Culture, Chicago IL
Group Exhibitions
2022
Making It Work, Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, KS
2021
The Long Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, Nov 7, 2020–Jan 17, 2021
LATINXAMERICAN, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL, January 7 – August 15, 2021
2020
Artist Run Chicago 2.0, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Team Work, The Franklin for NADA art fair, Chicago, IL
2019
Cross Currents: Intercambio Cultural, El Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba and Smart Museum, University of Chicago
2018
Standing Still, Lying Down, As If, The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit MI
Care and Feeding: The Art of Parenthood, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto CA
Día de Muertos: A Spiritual Legacy, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago IL
Living Architecture: Chicago Artists and Immigration, 6018 North, Chicago IL
2017
MCA Hearts Chicago, Alberto Aguilar: Retelling Objects, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Memoria Presente: An Artistic Journey, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
Worldplay, Alberto Aguilar, Alex Bradley Cohen, and Jesse Malmed, Produce Model, Chicago, IL
2016
Wasted Hours (A performance series curated by Matthew Goulish and Lin Hixon), Sector 2337, Chicago IL
Present Standard, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL
State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now, Minneapolis Institute of Art MN
2015
A Sign Only Has to Serve as a Sign, Providence College Galleries, Providence RI
Counterpublic, The Luminary, St. Louis MO
2014
State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now, Crystal Bridges, Bentonville AR
Risk: Empathy, Art and Social Practice, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago
2013
Homebodies, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
Open House, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst IL
2012
duckrabbit, Adds Donna, Chicago IL
This House Is Not A Home, SHoP, Chicago IL
2011
The Dining Room Project, Charlotte Street Foundation/ The Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City MO
2010
Things to be Next to, An exchange exhibition with ThreeWalls, Chicago IL and Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City MO
Curatorial Projects
2023
Amuleto, Co Curated with Allison Peters Quinn, Edra Soto and Madeleine Aguilar at Hyde Park Art Center, the Franklin and Mayfield, Chicago, IL
2017
Regin Igloria: Prompts to Go, President’s Gallery, Harold Washington College, Chicago IL
2016
Home Meant Improv/Uncertainty Makes a Great Show (co-curated w/Jesse Malmed), Compound Yellow, Oak Park IL
This room is a work made up of people, The Art Institute of Chicago
2015
Material Normal Monumental, Riverside Art Center, Riverside IL
2014
Public Expeditions, Sullivan Galleries SAIC, Chicago IL
2013
El Material Normal Monumental, Garcia Squared Contemporary, Kansas City MO
2012
On Making Things Matter: Strategies For Preservation, SHoP, Chicago IL (co-curated with Laura Shaeffer and John Preus)
Home Knowledge Spectacular, North Branch Projects (co-curated with Jorge Lucero) Chicago IL
2011
Hecho en Casa/ Homemade, Cobalt Studio (co-curated with Jorge Lucero) Chicago IL
2010
Center of Multiple Middles, President’s Gallery, Harold Washington College, Chicago IL
Awards, Visiting and Resident Artist
2020
Visiting Artist, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
Visiting Artist, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
Resident Artist, Facebook Artist in Residence Program, Chicago, IL
2018
Visiting Artist, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI
Visiting Artist, College of Fine + Applied Arts University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2017
Cross Currents: Intercambio Cultural, Havana, Cuba, MacArthur Foundation International Connections
2016
The Art Institute of Chicago, Artist in Residence
2015
Crossing Boundaries Residency, Art Incubator, supported by Arts and Public Life and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago
Keynote Speaker, 9th Annual Arts Education Leadership Institute, Art in the Everyday: Social Practice and Lived Experience, University of Northern Colorado
2014
Guest Lecturer, Metropolitan State University of Denver CO
2013
Presenter, Open Engagement, Queens Museum NY
Guest Lecturer, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park KS
Guest Lecturer, Kansas City Art Institute, Painting and Drawing Department, KC MO
2011
3Arts Award
2010
The Anderson Lecture Series, Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA
Collections
National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
The Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville AR
Soho House, Chicago IL
Chicago Cultural Center
Jorge Lucero Study Collection, School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Blackstone Art Collection, Chicago, IL
Facebook, Chicago, IL
Press
Alberto Aguilar Becomes the National Museum of Mexican Art, Lori Waxman, Hyperallergic, Sept., 2022
Alberto Aguilar draws no distinction between art and life, Kerry Cardoza, The Reader, April 2019
Art 50 2018: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists, Elliot Reichert, Newcity, August 2018
17 Visual Artists You Should Know In 2016 by Pricilla Frank, Huffington Post, December 2016
Portrait of a Timely Artist by JB Pravda, Legacy Arts Magazine, July 2017
Art 50 2016: Chicago Artists’ Artist by Elliot J. Reichert, Newcity, September 2016
Takeover or Hijack: Alberto Aguilar on artinstitutechi instagram by Dan Gunn, Bad at Sports May 2016
Art 50 2014: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists by Jason Foumberg, October 2014
An Art Wedding Full of Strangers by Kate Sierzputowski, Hyperallergic, March 28, 2014
Other Visions of Home by Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, March, 2013
Newcity Breakout Artist: Chicago’s next generation of image makers by Jason Foumberg, May 3, 2012
Review: Alberto Aguilar/ The Franklin by Kelly Reeves Newcity, September 4, 2012
The art world needs more children by Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, November 2, 2012
Publications
Yo Soy Museo: Embodying the Museum with Alberto Aguilar, The LatinX Project, NYU, January, 2023
Newcity Art Chicago, Visiting Artist, April 2015
The Aguilar Family on Open Engagement Part 1, May 2014, Cultural Reproducers
The Aguilar Family on Open Engagement Part 2, May 2014, Cultural Reproducers
Alberto Aguilar: Interview, August 2013, Cultural Reproducers,
Studio Expanse”, Studio Chicago, October 2010 Guest Blogger
Teaching
2019-present
University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Art History
2016- present
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2015
University of Chicago, Crossing Boundaries
2006- 2018
Tenured Instructor of Studio Art/Coordinator of Pedestrian Project-Exhibitions, visiting and resident artists, Harold Washington College, Chicago IL
2004-06
Professor of Art History, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake IL
Education
Master of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago