Biography

Born

San Antonio, Texas 1983

Education

University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, M.F.A
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, B.F.A.

Exhibitions

2021
Seguir Al Polvo | Follow The Dust, Art At a Time Like This (online)

2019
2nd International Encounter of Objects and Walls, Tlaxcala3 CDMX, MX and The Institute for Endotic Research Berlin, DE

2018
Rituales del Caos, Casa Lu, CDMX, MX

2014
DumbSun, SME Visual Arts Gallery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA (solo)
1st Annual Festival Del Bosque Germinal, Casa del Lago, Mexico City (catalog)
Crater, Alternativa Once Galería, Monterrey, Mexico
Elective Affinities, University Art Gallery at the University of California, San Diego, CA(catalog)

2013
Para No Salir del Laberinto, Lugar a Dudas, Cali Colombia
Stop and Go, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA (solo)

2012
A Fist Full of Air, University California San Diego, San Diego, CA (solo)
SOMA Summer 2012, Mexico City MX (catalog)

2010
Abandoned Mystery of the Conjunction, Capitol Studios Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)

2011
8/29/70, Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Chasing Shadows The Onion, Los Angeles, CA

2009
Love it or leave it, 111 Minna, San Francisco, CA

2008
Conventions and Attitudes, Exchange Rate, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY
Just how does a patriot act: A response to US policy at home and abroad, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA (catalog)
Audacity of Desperation, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA Urbana Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, IL

2007
Deconstructed Reality, Lime Gallery, CalArts, Valencia CA (solo)
ID 517: Special Topics in Art and Politics: A Not So Simple Case for Torture, D301 Gallery, Cal Arts Valencia CA

Bibliography

Bolívar, C. “El Muro Como Objeto Desde Perspectivas Latinoamericanas / "The Wall As an Object from Latin-American Perspectives”. Borders in Globalization Review, Vol. 3, no. 2, June 2022.
Seguir Al Polvo, https://chiquillaelectronica.com.mx/, April 2021
Seguir Al Polvo, https://artishockrevista.com, April, 28, 2021
Bolivar, Clara, El muro como objeto desde perspectivas Latinoamericanas. Relatoría 2do Encuentro Internacional de objetos y muros, CECLIREVISTA, junio 30, 2020
Kraus, Chris. “2. Social Practices.” Social Practices, Semiotext(e), 2018, p112
Martin Deborah, San Antonio playwrights’ ‘Paradise City’ finally hits the stage after 30 years, Oct,17th, 2017
1st Annual Festival Del Bosque Germinal Casa Del Lago, Catalogue 2015
Sensitive Boys, Issue 2 “The Cult of Crying” Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair 2014
SOMA Summer 2012 Open Studios catalogue curated by Szu-Han Ho, August 2012
Cheh, Carol "Chasing Shadows", December 11, 2010 Another Righteous Transfer 2010
Art Monster Drawing Rally Catalogue. Outpost for Contemporary Art, 2008
Just How Does A Patriot Act? Exhibition Catalogue. “Tomas Moreno” 2008
“Human Nature vs Technology” Published in ID 517: Special Topics in Art and Society: A Not So Simple Case for Torture, Nancy Buchanan and Sam Durant eds., onestar press, 2007

Grants and Awards

2014 UCIRA Graduate Grant
2013 UCSD Russell Grant
2012 UC MEXUS Small Grant
2007 Cal Arts Undergraduate Fellowship

Panels, Seminars, Workshops, and Conferences

2021 The Global Cener for Advanced Sudies LatinoAmerica, Zoom
2012 SOMA Summer 2012, Mexico City
2008 Artist lecture at Self-Help Graphics, East Los Angeles, CA
2008 Monster Drawing Rally, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Biography

Tomás Villalobos Moreno is a cultural composer-archeologist mining the space of history exploring various themes including music, sub-culture, currency, linguistics, architecture, and bodily presence.

Moreno’s Mexican and Jewish upbringing influences his subject matter. His father was a jazz musician, composer and Chicano rights activist working with Cesar Chavez in California and later Tomás Atencio out of Dixon New Mexico and San Antonio TX as a co-founder of La Academia de la Nueva La Raza. His mother grew up in Japan and Thailand as her father, Albert Seligmann served as a Japanese Language Officer during the Occupation of WWII.

Moreno utilizes the archive as an apparatus to explore narrative making, which ultimately manifest in installation format including sculpture, drawing, performance, and video. His interdisciplinary work aims to address the materiality of the spectral and psychological, while tracing the symbolic complexities imbued within the materials.

Tomas Villalobos Moreno was a SOMA Summer 2012 resident, Mexico City. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally at venues including the 1st Festival Del Bosque Germinal, Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Lugar a Dudas, Cali Colombia, and The Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Writings published on Onestar press and Festina Publicaciones. He is the recipient of UCIRA and UC MEXUS awards.