Victor D. Cartagena

Salvadoran-born Victor D. Cartagena is based in San Francisco and is a multi-disciplinary visual artist. Cartagena has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and internationally, including Intersection for the Arts, Ampersand International Arts, Catharine Clark Gallery, University Art Museum at UC Berkeley, Sonoma Museum of Visual Arts, Oakland Museum, MACLA/Center for Latino Arts, 18th Street Arts Complex, Art LA, San Francisco Photo and New York Photo, and at Stephen Cohen Gallery in L.A. Internationally his work has been seen in Mexico, Japan, El Salvador, Belarus, Ecuador and Greece. Cartagena received a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation 2001 Visual Arts Purchase Award, the competitive Art Council (ARTADIA) award in the year 2000, 1996 and 2000 Pacific Prints awards, a Rockefeller grant with Octavio Solis and Larry Reed, a Visions from the New California Residency Grant (2004) and a Cultural Arts Equity grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission (2005).  Cartagena is represented by Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles, CA and TinT Gallery in Thessaloniki, Greece.