Artist

René Castro

born Viña del Mar, Chile 1943
Also known as
  • Rene Castro
Born
Viña del Mar, Chile

Works by this artist (6 items)

René Castro, The 17th Annual Dia de los Muertos, 1987, screenprint on paper mounted on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, 1995.50.3
The 17th Annual Dia de los Muertos
Date1987
screenprint on paper mounted on paperboard
Not on view
René Castro, Hands off Cuba, 1986, screenprint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2020.45.3
Hands off Cuba
Date1986
screenprint on paper
Not on view
René Castro, Chile Presente, 1980, screenprint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2020.45.4
Chile Presente
Date1980
screenprint on paper
Not on view
René Castro, I Am Ashamed, MLK, 1992, screenprint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2020.45.2
I Am Ashamed, MLK
Date1992
screenprint on paper
Not on view

Exhibitions

Media - 2012.53.1 - SAAM-2012.53.1_1 - 82036
¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now
November 20, 2020August 8, 2021
In the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking that remains vital today.

Related Books

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¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now
Beginning in the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking that remains vital today. Many artists came of age during the civil rights, labor, anti-war, feminist and LGBTQ+ movements, and channeled the period’s social activism into assertive aesthetic statements that announced a new political and cultural consciousness among people of Mexican descent in the United States. The exhibition ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now presents, for the first time, historical civil rights-era prints by Chicano artists alongside works by graphic artists working from the 1980s to today.

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