Marc Trujillo

Education

1994
MFA from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

1991
BA from University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009
Drive-Thru, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007
You Are Here: New Work by Marc Trujillo, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Minor Works, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA

2003
The Plainness of Plain Things, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2000
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1998
Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997
Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1995
Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1994
Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tim Gleason Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Take Five, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

2008
2008 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 
A View From Here: A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Landscapes, The Judson Gallery of Contemporary and Traditional Art, Los Angeles, CA

2005
California New Old Masters, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA

2004
Seeing and Reading; Paintings by Marc Trujillo and Cartoon Drawings by Chris Ware, Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Speculative Terrain, Recent Views of the Southern California Landscape from San Diego to Santa Barbara, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA

2003
Sprawl: New Suburban Landscapes, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA

2001
New Work, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000
Hackett-Freedman Gallery Artists, Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA
Art 2000: Applauding Revolutionary Talent, Millard Sheets Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Gallery Artists, Earl McGarth Gallery, New York, NY

1999
Earl McGarth Gallery, New York, NY
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1998
Earl McGrath Gallery, New York, NY
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1997
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1996
Contemporary American Realist Painters, Halls Crown Center, Kansas City, MO
Five Painters, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD

1995
Faculty Exhibition, Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, TX

1994
New Haven Landscapes, Munson Gallery, New Haven, CT
Selected Gallery Artists, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
College Art Association Exhibition, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Munson Gallery, New Haven, CT

1993
Figure Show, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY
Norfolk Faculty, Norfolk, CT
Choices 93, Guilford, CT
Small Works Invitational, New Haven, CT
Yale Graduate Student Show, New Haven, CT

1991
Galleria Sin Fronteras, Austin, TX

1990
Flood Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX

1989
Mexicarte, Austin, TX

Awards
2008
Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Painting, American Academy of Arts and Letters
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship

2001
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation

1994
Ely Harwood Schless Memorial Fund Prize, Yale University

1993
First place painting award, Choices 93
Ellen Battell Stoeckel Trust Fellowship, Yale University Summer School of Music and Art

1990
First Place Merit Award in Painting, University of Texas, Austin, TX.

Selected Bibliography
2009
Maleshefski, Tiffany, “Evocative art spills out of ‘Drive-Thru’”, San FranciscoExaminer, March 19, p. 24
Rose, Joshua, “Purgatorio”, American Art Collector, April, pp. 148-149

2008
“4504 Van Nuys Boulevard (reproduction),” Harper’s Magazine, November.
Mohseni, Yasmine, “Marc Trujillo,” ARTWORKS, Carmel, CA, Summer, pp. 36–43.
2007
Ware, Chris, Marc Trujillo: You Are Here, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Frank, Peter. “Achille Perilli/Marc Trujillo,” LA Weekly.
Rose, Joshua, “Ordinary Into Extraordinary,” American Art Collector, May, pp. 210–215.
Huston, Johnny, “Picks,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 2, p. 22.
Leaverton, Michael, “Suburban Slumber,” SF Weekly, May 2, p. 20.
Buckley, Annie, “Marc Trujillo,” ARTFORUM, New York, NY, October.
Frank, Peter, “Marc Trujillo: “Not Narrative Enough”,” art ltd, Los Angeles, CA, November.
Korenblat, Joshua, “Marc Trujillo: Painting Everday Purgatories,” Articulations, Smithsonian.Com, December 4.

2005
Kuspit, Donald. “California New Old Masters,” Literary Press.
Ollman, Leah. “Art, Not Attitude,” Los Angeles Times, March.

2004
Trujillo, Marc. “6400 Laurel Canyon Boulevard,” Harper’s Magazine, March.
Pagel, David. “Odd Pairing Provokes Thought,” LA TIMES, October.

2003
Pagel, David. The Plainness of Plain Things: Recent Paintings by Marc Trujillo, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San
Francisco, CA.
Gangelhoff, Bonnie. “Go Figure,” Southwest art, November.
Knaff, Devorah L “Amid the Asphalt, Suburbs Find Green,” The Press-Enterprise, February.
Douglas Bullis, “100 Artists of the West Coast,” Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA.

2002
Eileen, Tabios. “Marc Trujillo: A Wisely Prudent Vision,” MyRomance, Giraffe Books, Philippines.

2001
Frank, Peter. Marc Trujillo: On The Ground, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Cebulski, Frank. “Marc Trujillo,” Artweek, May.
Sheets, Hillary. “Paradise Lost? Artists Reinvent the Landscape,” ARTnews, March.
Tabios, Eileen. “Mark Trujillo: A Wisely Prudent Vision,” ReviewWest.com, March.
Ollman, Leah. ““Only the Lonely,” The Los Angeles Times, April 28.

2000
Art 2000: Applauding Revolutionary Talent, Millard Sheets Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Carly Berwick, LA Confidential, FoxNews.com.

1999
New American Paintings, No. 25, Pacific Coast Competition, Juried by Lowery Sims, Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA, pp. 178-181.
Zevitas, Steven. “Marc Trujillo,” New American Paintings,

1998
Trujillo, Marc. The Life and Times of Robert Crumb, Contributory Essay, St. Martin’s Press, Chicago, IL.
Forge, Andrew. Marc Trujillo, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Trujillo, Marc. Contributory essay, The Life and Times of Robert Crumb, St. Martin’s Press, Chicago, IL.

1997
Hackett-Freedman Gallery, 1987-1997, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francicso, CA.

1993
Fressola, Michael J. “Art Lab Extends ‘Figure Show’,” Staten Island Advance, November 9.
Birke, Judy. “Exhibition’s Striking Pieces Get Oomph From Quirky Humor,” New Haven Register, August 15.

Related Professional Activities

Present
Professor of Drawing and Painting at Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA (Since 1999)

2004
Guest Speaker, Artforum at Pacific Art Foundation, The Pacific Club, Newport Beach, CA

2003
Instructor in Painting at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Visiting Artist at University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA

2000
Drawing Instructor at Pierce College, Woodland Hills, CA

1999
Painting Instructor at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

1997–98
Printmaking and 2D Design Instructor. at Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ

1995
Instructor in Drawing and Painting at Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, TX (summer)

1992
Composed and performed music for the film “El Mariachi,” Columbia Pictures

1989
Cartoonist, numerous publications including: National Lampoon, The Austin Chronicle, Images Magazine, Yale Daily News, BLAB, The Daily Texan