Cristian Muñoz Jiménez
Albany, CA
510-302-8838
E-mail: kilimunoz@gmail.com
EDUCATION
1989-1993 Studies for a B.A. in Fine Arts, Universidad de Artes y Ciencias Sociales, ARCIS, Santiago, Chile
2009 Ceramics, University of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
1993 Graphic Design, Balmaceda 1215, Santiago, Chile
1989 High School Education, Colegio Experimental Andacollo, Santiago, Chile.
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WORK EXPERIENCE
2017 Muralist of Ghost Ship Mural, Headquarters Art Gallery
Designed and painted a mural to honor the victims of the Ghost Ship artist collective in Oakland
2016- to present Muralist at The Pobres Artistas Collective
Works in several mural projects throughout the Bay Area.
2016- to present Muralist at the Olhone Greenway Path
In Collaboration with the community, has developed 5 murals along the Olhone Greenway in Albany
2014- to present Self-Owned business
Works as an independent contractor in interior and exterior decorative paint
2016 Bay Area Mural Festival
Worked in the plan and execution of the first Bay Area Mural Festival, which engaged more than 20 national and international muralists and 20 at risk youth from Youth Spirit
2016 Casa Ubuntu Mural Project
Designed and painted a series of three murals at a dual diagnosis center directed by Bonita House
2016 Mural at La Escuela Fratney
Designed and painted a mural for the community of La Escuela Fratney in Milwaukee Wisconsin
2016 Mural at Colonia La Romita, Mexico City
Designed and painted a mural for the community at this iconic neighborhood of Mexico City
2015 Mural Seal for Eduardo Pineda’s Mural series
Sealed murals for muralist Eduardo Pineda
2015 Mural for Day of the Dead, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Designed and painted a mural as part of the annual MCCLA Day of the Dead exhibit
2013 Mural project at Headquarters art gallery, Berkeley
2012- 2013 La Peña Cultural Center Mural Commission
Works in the new face of La Peña’s 30 years old mural “The Song of Unity”
2012- 2013 Japainters Restoration and Construction Company
Worked in house painting throughout The Bay Area
2009-2011 Zanoni S.A Restoration and Construction Company
Worked in various home and institutional construction, remodeling and restoration projects throughout Wisconsin.
2008-2009 Art Assistant of Professor Raoul Deal at University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin, Milwaukee Wisconsin, USA.
Worked with the artist and professor Raoul Deal in different art projects, such as Implousion.
and My Vote Performs.
2008 Art Instructor of community workshops
Taught art workshops for the community at Fratney Street School and the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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2007-2008 Milwaukee Public Theater, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Worked for the Milwaukee Public Theater in different theater projects in collaboration with the Latino Health Organization and The Medical College of Wisconsin using the Augosto Boal’s technique Theater of the Oppressed.
2004 Visual Arts and Photography and Printing Techniques instructor
Worked in different youth organizations, sponsored by La Municipalidad de Independencia, Santiago, Chile
2003 Graphic Arts instructor, Guias y Scouts de Chile Santiago, Chile.
Taught Graphic arts to children and teenagers
1995-2007 Bechtel Chile Limitada, Santiago, Chile; Worked in different engineering projects, in administrative positions, being uncharged of the telephonic system and the digital library of all projects executed in Latina America by Bechtel Chile. Some of the projects include; Radomiro Tomic, Cerro Matoso, Montelibano Colombia, Escondida3.5, Escondida 4 and the expansion of Collahuasi.
1993–1995 Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad ARCIS, Santiago, Chile;
Teacher Assistant in the Analytic Drawing class
Other information...
Cristian Munoz’s art pieces are part of different private and institutional collections such as The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Pielsen Alliense and Growing Together INC in Chicago Illinois, USA
Backdrop Designer of several organizations and performances, such as Pielsen Alliance in Chicago, Father Groppi’s 40 years commemoration in Milwaukee, University of San Francisco’s’ The Serpent of the Four Seasons theater department play in san Francisco, and La Peña´s Victor Jara Festival in Berkeley
EXHIBITS
Tejidos, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco-California, 2016
Two artist show
Pobres Artistas, Trieste Café, 2016
Collective artist show
La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley-California, 2015
40th Aniversary (Collective Exhibit)
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UW Milwaukee
Watershed public interventions show, 2010
Riverwest Artist Association
Iluminate, Collective art exhibit, 2010
Riverwest Artist Association
Memories of the Forgotten, two artist exhibit, 2009
Walker’s Point Center for the Arts Latinos Emergentes. 2008
Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Day of the death Ofrendas, Milwaukee-Wisconsin 2005-2006, 2007, 2008,2009,2010,2011
Union gallery UWM, Day of the death Ofrendas, Milwaukee-Wisconsin 2006,2008
Latino Arts, Day of the death Ofrendas, Milwaukee-Wisconsin 2005, 2008, 2009,2010, 2011
Univercidad Arcis Student Show, Santiago Chile, 1994
Festival Cortometrajes Universitarios, Santiago, Chile 1993
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PERFORMANCE
2009 MIAD, 9-9-09, Showcase multimedia performance, Milwaukee-Wisconsin.
2005-2009 Teatro Maquis multiple theater of the oppressed presentations in hospitals and community centers, co-founded by Milwaukee public Theater and Medical College of Wisconsin.
References available upon request.