OSCAR LOPEZ
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Pacifica artist Oscar Lopez explores the importance of cultural history and resilience, presenting our complex society through a Mexican immigrant’s lens.
The Pre-Columbian clay figurines in this series of paintings represent centuries of beauty, history, tradition, and culture; as well as members of our community who are viewed as immigrants but not as native peoples, the first inhabitants of these lands.
For centuries, collectors and museums have accumulated artifacts to hold in admiration long after the creators and their cultures have been erased. We admire the evidence of people’s lives through glass exhibits while simultaneously treating their descendants with indifference or worse, while our current politics threaten to erase them again.
Oscar Lopez was born and raised in Mexico City, where he first encountered art through the world of urban graffiti. Lopez received an AA in studio art from Foothill College, a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and an MFA in pictorial arts from San Jose State University/San Francisco Art Institute. Lopez is a 2024 SFMOMA SECA nominee and received the 2019 AXA Art Prize for emerging figurative painters. He received a 2022 Creative Work Fund Grant for Your Food, My Work, Our Land, a monumental scale mural project commissioned by Fort Mason Center for Art & Culture for the FMCAC outdoor campus. His newest mural, Without Them Is Not Us, is on view now at the Institute of Contemporary Art San José. He lives and works in Pacifica.
Del Otro Lado/On the Other Side, 2025, oil on linen mounted on panel, 20 x 20 inches, $2,000
Mas que un Pensamiento (More than a Thought), 2024-2025, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, $3,500
Solo en la Tierra Hay Fronteras Aunuqe Vivamos Debajo del Mismo Sol (Only on Earth Are Borders, Even if We Live Under the Same Sun),
2024-2025, oil on canvas, 9 x 12 inches, $900
Debajo de la Linea de Alambre (Under the Wire Line), 2025, oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches, $1,200
Un Viajero Durmiedo Cobijado por la Luna (A Sleepy Traveler Shelters by the Moon), 2025, oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches, $1,200
Pensando en la Libertad (Thinking About Freedom), 2024-2025, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, $3,000
De Este Lado, Pero Regresare (On This Side, but I Will Return), 2025, oil on linen, 20 x 20 inches, $2,000
Nos Pusieron de Caveza pero… (They Put Us on the Spot but...), 2024-2025, oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches, $900
Entre Dos Realidades (Between Two Realities), 2025, oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches, $1,200
Mucho que Cargar (A Lot to Carry), 2024-2025, oil on canvas, 9 x 12 inches, $900
Nos Moviamos, Creiamos, y Valorabamos (We Moved, Believed, and Valued), 2025, oil on linen, 24 x 36 inches, $4,000
Del Ombligo de la Luna (Belly Button of the Moon), 2024, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches, $2,000