Roberto Juarez

Born in Chicago in 1952, Roberto Juarez earned a BFA in 1975 from the San Francisco Art Institute and then did graduate work in film and television at the University of California, Los Angeles.  His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and El Museo del Barrio in New York, the Denver Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, among others.  Juarez’s museum exhibitions include solo shows at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri, the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, the Miami Art Museum, and the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.  In addition to his GSA Art in Architecture commission, Juarez has also completed public art commissions for the Miami International Airport, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Grand Central Terminal in New York.  He is a recipient of the Rome Prize (1997) and a Guggenheim Fellowship in painting (2001).