Enrique Chagoya (born 1953) is a Mexican-born American painter, printmaker, and educator. The subject of his artwork is the changing nature of culture. Chagoya teaches at Stanford University, in the department of Art and Art History. He lives in San Francisco.

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Enrique Chagoya was born in Mexico City in 1953. He was partly raised by an

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nurse who helped him to respect the indigenous people of his country and their history. He studied

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at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City from 1971 to 1974. As a student, he was sent to work on rural development projects with a focus on economics, an experience that strengthened his interest in political and social activism. While attending a rural development program he married an American sociologist working on the same program, Jeanine Kramer. In 1977, Chagoya and his first wife Jeanine Kramer visited

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. In 1979, Chagoya immigrated to the United States to

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, where he worked as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. In 1984, he earned a BFA degree at the San Francisco Art Institute; and in 1987 a MFA degree at the

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. He received the Stanford University's the Dean's Award in the Humanities in 1998. In 2000, Chagoya became a citizen of the

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. His controversial artwork "The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals", which portrays Jesus, and possibly other religious figures, in a context of ambiguous sexual content, is part of a ten-artist exhibit called "The Legend of Bud Shark and His Indelible Ink" which is on display in a city-run art museum in Loveland, Colorado. The copy on exhibit in Loveland, one of a limited edition of 30 lithographs, was destroyed by a woman wielding a crowbar on October 6, 2010. According to the artist the work is a commentary on the

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. The woman is set to go to court on October 15, 2010."Mont. woman takes crowbar to disputed artwork in Loveland"
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'' 10/06/2010, accessed October 7, 2010 In 2021, Chagoya was awarded the

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