Antonio Lechuga (b. 1985) is a multidisciplinary artist who was born in Dallas, TX where he currently lives and works. He attended Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles, California.
Antonio’s practice focuses on the intersection of storytelling, found materials and personal histories to create painterly compositions that emerge through an unlikely form of collage.
His ecclectic choice of materials and processes discuss his American experience as a Tejano living in a constant battle with ancestry erasure. Using research and new technologies Antonio begins to piece together new narratives of a future for the Mexican-American Tejana.o.x while emphasizing and highlighting its rich, deep and turbulent past.
He has exhibited work both nationally and internationally but most previously at Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, Blaffer Art Museum as apart of the Texas Biennial, Various Small Fires – Dallas, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas and Condo Satellite with Harlesden High Street, London, UK. He has had solo exhibitions in 2022 at Love Texas Art Gallery, Fort Worth, TX, in 2023 at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, TX, early 2024 at Daisha Board Gallery, Dallas, TX and Various Small Fires - Dallas, TX (2024). Antonio’s work is part of the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art and private collections across the United States and Mexico.
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