Omar Chacon

EDUCATION

2004
MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

2002
BFA, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009
Greene Contemporary, New York, NY

2008
Magrorocca, Milan, Italy
Sancochos a la Cimabue, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY

2007
New Works, Lincart, San Francisco, CA
Busy at War and Love (with Jose Sarinana), Greene Contemporary, Sarasota, FL

2005
Mostra Personale, Etc., Sarasota, FL
New Works, Lincart, San Francisco, CA

2004
The Unified South Part 1 (Venezuela, Ecuador, Uruguay), Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Works, Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
Material Color, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ

2007
Aqua Wynwood, Lincart, Miami, FL
Bridge Art Fair Miami, Greene Contemporary, Miami, FL
Assemblage, Greene Contemporary, Sarasota, FL
Scope Hamptons, Lincart, East Hampton, NY
Bridge Art Fair Chicago, Greene Contemporary, Chicago, IL

2006
Scope Miami, Lincart, Miami, FL
Scope Hamptons, Greene Contemporary, East Hampton, NY
Scope Hamptons, Lincart, East Hampton, NY
Uneasy Marriage, Motel Gallery, Portland, OR
artLA, Lincart, Los Angeles, CA

2005
Painting in the '00's, Freefall, Online exhibition
Ad Infinitum: The Aesthetics of Repetition II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Scope Hamptons, Lincart, East Hampton, NY
Spacey, Mighty, San Francisco, CA
First Class, Lincart at Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Macomexico Arte Contemporaneo, Lincart, Mexico Lindo
Tres Por Tres Mas Tres, CSS Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
Close Calls, Headlands Center For The Arts, Sausalito, CA

2004
CREAM from the top, Arts Benicia Center Gallery, Benicia, CA
# 1 The South, Ft Mason MFA Exhibit at Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, CA
505 Sansome Trans-American Tower Project, Trans-American Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
The City, Platform Art # 16, San Francisco, CA

2003
Institutionalized, Duplex Space, Los Angeles, CA
Glad to be Unhappy, The Tahoe Gallery, Sierra, NV
Continuing MFA Exhibition, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

AWARDS

2008
NYFA Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY

2007
The Miami University National Young Painters Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Juror: Jerry Saltz, Village Voice

2005
SECA Award Nominee, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

2004
Tournesol Award and Residency Finalist, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
MFA Studio Award Nominee, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

2002
Merit Scholarship and Grant, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Teaching Assistantship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Jurors' Award, Best of Ringling, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL

PUBLICATIONS

2007
Joseph Jacobs, Emerging Artists, Art & Antiques, March

2006
Stephanie Cash, Report From San Francisco I, Art In America, January

2005
Mark Ormond, Variety of new works on view in area galleries, Pelican Press, December
Kevin Costello, Ringling grad devises ingenious technique with paint, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, December
Mark Van Proyen, Different Strokes, Artnet, November
Colin Berry, Omar Chacon and Jose Sarinana at Lincart, Artweek Magazine, November

LINKS

Solo show at Bronx River Art Center, Sancochos a la Cimabue (May 2008)

Solo show (with Jose Sarinana) at Greene Contemporary, Busy at War and Love (January 2007)

Solo show at Greene Contemporary (Etc.), Mostra Personale (December 2005)

Emerging Artists - Art & Antiques - by Joseph Jacobs - March 2007

Ringling grad devises ingenious technique with paint - Sarasota Herald-Tribune - by Kevin Costello - December 16, 2005