Jaime Mendoza

Jaime Mendoza

College of Arts and Sciences, Art + Design

Instructor, Drawing and Painting

Office:  Room LWH 0031
Phone:  (773) 442-5474
Email:  j-mendoza@neiu.edu
Office Hours:  By appointment.
Country:  United States

Expertise

Jaime Mendoza鈥檚 paintings and drawings narrate an omnipresent of the self and other who is neither from here nor there. 

Art 170 B Studio Experiences: Painting
Art 170 G Studio Experiences: Drawing
Art 120 Drawing I
Art 220: Drawing II
Art 320: Drawing III
LLAS 109: Latino Art, Thought and Revolution in Chicago

Research Interests

Mendoza鈥檚 current research is rooted in Rasquachismo, an attitude and a sensibility, and secondarily a set of formal art qualities. His use of appropriated materials which are borrowed from a day-to-day context, he presents everyday objects as well as references to texts, paintings and drawings. Pompous writings and Utopian constructivist designs are juxtaposed with the trivial awkwardness of frustration, sexual desires, and archaic tropes that demonstrate how the self and other extend beyond their own subjective limits, cannibal versus civilized selves.

Education

Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, 91Porn, Chicago, IL

Selected Publications

鈥滳rowning the Selfie King鈥�, Alicia Eler,

鈥淢ASTERS of  Today 鈥�117 Contemporary Artists,鈥� p.57, Peter Russu.

鈥淟a Chamba, Drawings by Jaime Mendoza"

鈥淗ola, mi nombre es Jaime Mendoza,鈥� Mercedes Fern谩ndez, La Raza Newspaper.

"Siguiendo Un Sue帽o" Alberto Guzman,  El Otro Newspaper, Volume 1, No. 11.

鈥淢ICA exhibit offers artistic tale of two cities鈥� Glenn McNatt, Baltimore Sun Newspaper.

鈥淟ocal Artists in INTENSE Exhibition at the Hot House" Kari Lydersen, Street Wise, Issue 6.

Selected Exhibitions

Peeling off the Grey, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Illinois

SHIKAAWA, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, Texas

Hot Buns and Blazing Artists, The Texas Theater, Dallas, Texas

Picturing Immigration, Galeria De La Raza, San Francisco, California

Digital Divide, VU Space - Victoria University, Victoria, Australia

Boston/Chicago, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

Additional Information

Visual Artist Award, National Performance Network, New Orleans, LA

Individual Artist Grant, National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, Houston TX

Artist in Residence, Galer铆a de La Raza, San Francisco, CA

Fellowship, ENLACE Leadership Institute, Chicago, IL