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September Issue 2003
Biography of Richard A. Lou
Richard Alexander Lou was born in San Diego, CA. and raised in both San Diego and Tijuana. Lou grew up in a biracial family which was spiritually and intellectually guided by an anti-colonialist Chinese father and a culturally affirming Mexicana mother. Educated in the public schools of the Southbay area in Chula Vista and Imperial Beach, Lou would go on to receive his AA in Fine Art from Southwestern College, BA in Fine Art from California State University at Fullerton and finally an MFA in Fine Art from Clemson University in South Carolina.
As a chicano artist the reverberating themes he has explored are the subjugation of his community by the dominant culture and white privilege. Lou has exhibited extensively in venues that would include: the Centro Cultural De La Raza, San Diego; List Gallery at MIT in Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Nexus Art Center in Atlanta; and with his frequent collaborator and friend, Robert J. Sanchez, the Grey Gallery at NYU, the Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach; Cornerhouse Art Gallery, Manchester, England; Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul Turkey, and as a member of the BAW/TAF, Artistspace, NY,NY, Aperto Section. Venice Bienali, Venice, Italy.
His art work has been documented and published in various newspapers, magazines, catalogs and books that would include: American Visions/Visiones de Las Americas: Artistic and Cultural Identity in the Western Hemisphere, coedited by Mary Jane Jacob and Ivo Mesquita; Mapping the Terrain: new Genre Public Art, edited by Suzanne Lacy; English is Broken here: Notes of Cultural fusion in the Americas, by Coco Fusco.
Married to Maricela Rodriguez Ayala they have
four children: Gloria Marisol age 14, Maricela Alexandra age 12,
Magda Alexa age 10 and Ming Alexander Yet age 9. Richard continues
to produce and exhibit art while teaching and chairing the Art
Department at Georgia College & State University.
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