Born 1972 in Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Los Angeles-based artist Edgar Arceneaux is a celebrated multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, installation, film, and performance exploring layered histories, language, and identity. Edgar Arceneaux’s work has been shown internationally at renowned institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In Europe, his work has been presented at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Kunstverein Hannover, and Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. His works are part of major public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Deutsche Bank Collection, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. The artist lives in Pasadena and
is Associate Professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is also the co-founder of the Watts House Project.

*Photo by Andrea Katheder