About
(b. El Paso, Texas) lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Ismael de Anda III received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.
Using mutant practices including digital photo-collage, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and interactive, site-specific projects, de Anda’s work is inspired by his pluralistic upbringing on the U.S./Mexico border and living in Los Angeles.
De Anda’s personal concept of the mutant, a condition of unexpected evolution, was born from his adolescent reading of X-Men comics that featured mutant outsiders/anti-heroes whose special abilities set them apart, as well as de Anda’s own Mexican-American ethnicity. The mutant refers to mixing of artistic processes and the potential of the multi-ethnic existence of those living in the U.S. in exchange with diverse world cultures as a blend of developing culture not yet forecasted.
De Anda’s works are often site-specific, inspired by the communities in which they are created, using locally sourced materials.
De Anda was awarded the 2010 Japan-United States Arts Program Fellowship by the Asian Cultural Council and the 2017 Ryla T. & John F. lott Endownment for Excellence in the Visual Arts Artist in Residence. Texas Tech Universtiy School of Art/Department of Human Sciences. He received a 2019 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists.
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De Anda is a member of
Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
& is represented by
La Estación Arte Contemporáneo, Chihuahua, Mexico.
His selected exhibitions include:
- AOC F58 Galleria Bruno Lisi, Rome, Italy.
- Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA.
- Texas Tech School of Art Satellite Gallery at C.A.S.P, Lubbock, Texas, U.S.A.
- Breezeway, Dept. of Human Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock Texas, U.S.A.
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Agua Fuerte, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México.
- Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, U.S.A.
- Sala Subterranéo, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México.
- La Estación Arte Contemporáneo, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México.
- Museo de Arte de Sonora MUSAS, Hermosillo, México.
- El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, U.S.A.
- Museo de Arte Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, México.
- Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan.
- Las Cienegas Projects, Culver City, CA, U.S.A.
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The Marfa Book Company, Marfa, Texas, U.S.A.
- Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Group exhibitions:
- Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
- Kellogg Art Gallery, Cal State Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA.
- Church of the Epiphany, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
- Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
- San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
- Shoshona Wayne, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
- Sumida Riverside Hall Gallery, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan.
- Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
- Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
- Wintergarten, Vienna, Austria.
Email: ideanda.three@gmail.com