Omar Chacón

b. Bogotá, Colombia

 

Education

2004      MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

2002      BFA, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL

 

Awards and Residencies

2008      NYFA Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY

2007      The Miami University National Young Painters Competition for the William & Dorothy Yeck, FL

                Award, Miami University, Oxford, OH, Juror: Jerry Saltz, Village Voice

2005      SECA Award Nominee, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

2004      Tournesol Award and Residency Finalist, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

                MFA Studio Award Nominee, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

2002      Merit Scholarship and Grant, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

                Teaching Assistantship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC

                Jurors' Award, Best of Ringling, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL

 

Solo Exhibitions

2024      NIMBA, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

                Chromatic Echoes, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL

2023      Cirio Totale, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

               Sin Seine, Fouladi Projects, San Francisco, CA

2022      Variaciones Chuecas, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

2021      Fluid Borders, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

2020     Mesalinas Operaticas, Foulandi Projects, San Francisco, CA

               Summer Selections, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

2019      Omar Chacon|Ohio Criollo, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

2016      Mesalinas Operaticas, Fouladi Projects, San Francisco, CA

2015      Las Mesalinas y Otros Ensayos, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

2013      Ensayos, Fouladi Projects, San Francisco, CA

2012      Bacanales Tropicales, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

2011       Bacaneria Tropical, Magrorocca Gallery, Milan, IT

2010      Bacanales, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

               Pictures at an Exhibition, Lincart, San Francisco, CA

2009     Sancocho Vitae “Tata” Greene Contemporary, New York, NY

2008      Mostra Personale, Magrorocca, Milan, Italy

                Sancochos a la Cimabue, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY

2007      New Works, Lincart, San Francisco, CA

                Busy at War and Love (with Jose Sarinana), Greene Contemporary, Sarasota, FL

2005      New Works, Lincart, San Francisco, CA

2004      The Unified South Part 1 (Venezuela, Ecuador, Uruguay), Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

                 New Works, Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford, CA

 

Group Exhibitions

2026      OSTINATOS, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

2024      Chaotic Precisions, Gaston Bertin & Omar Chacón, Margaret Thatcher Project, New York, NY

2023      45 + Anniversary Exhibition Series PART II, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

2022      The World Develops Blank Spots, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

2021      APPLIED MATTER, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

               Picnic, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

               Shift, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

               Kunstsalon Linz, Schloss Museum, Linz, Austria

2020     Summer Selections, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

               ADAPT (Iteration 2) Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

2019      Material Color, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

               Future Tense, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

2018      Light Years, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

2017      Hybrid Forms, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

2016      Summer Breeze, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

2015      Hotspots, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

               Pixelated: Sum of its Pieces, The Children’s Museum of Art, New York, NY

2014      Turn Up the Heat, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

               Discernible Regularities, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY

2013      Catch as Catch Can, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

2012      Yi, Dos, Drei, Four, Fouladi Projects, San Francisco, CA

               Today’s Visual Language: Southern Abstraction, a Fresh Look, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL

2011      The Working Title, Bronx River Art Center, NY

               w h i t e-h o t, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

2010      Stratigraphic, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA

2009     Sunny Side Up, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

               Material Color, Hunterdon County Art Museum, Clinton, NJ

               Rolling and Ruling, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2008     Queens Museum of Art, New York

                Sancochos Casiquenos a la Cimabue, Heistand Galleries, Miami University, Oxford, OH

                Albright Knox Collector’s Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2007     Assemblage, Greene Contemporary, Sarasota, FL

                Miami University Young Painters Exhibition, Heistand Galleries,

                Miami University, Oxford, OH

2006      Uneasy Marriage, Motel Gallery, Portland, OR

2005      Painting in the '00s, Freefall, Online exhibition

                Ad Infinitum: The Aesthetics of Repetition II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

                First Class, Lincart at Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

                Macomexico Arte Contemporaneo, Lincart, Mexico Lindo

                Close Calls, Headlands Center For The Arts, Sausalito, CA

2004      CREAM from the top, Arts Benicia Center Gallery, Benicia, CA

                # 1 The South, Ft Mason MFA Exhibit at Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, CA

                505 Sansome Trans-American Tower Project, Trans-American Pyramid, San Francisco, CA

2003      Glad to be Unhappy, The Tahoe Gallery, Sierra, NV

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Public Commissions

2017      NYU Langone Art Program and Collection, New York, NY

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Bibliography

2014      Griffin, Amy, “Artists Explore Patterns” Times Union, July 16

2012       “ARTIST WE LIKE: Omar Chacon” 8020nyc.com, October 9

                The Worley Gail “Omar Chacon’s Bacanales Tropicales at Margaret Thatcher Projects”, September 10

                Toselli, Lorna, “Un Viaje al Color/ A Trip to Color”, Arte al Limite, January/February

2011        Menéndez-Conde, Ernesto, Omar Chacon, “Bacanales,” Art Experience NY, Winter

2010       Cheng, Dewitt, “Stratigraphic Aggregates”, East Bay Express, October 27

                “The Colorful Layers of Omar Chacon”, Juxtapoz, March 28, 2010

2009      Queens International 4, Exhibition Catalogue

2007      Jacobs, Joseph, “Emerging Artists”, Art & Antiques, March

2006      Cash, Stephanie, “Report From San Francisco I”, Art In America, January

2005      Ormond, Mark, “Variety of new works on view in area galleries”, Pelican Press, December

                Costello, Kevin, “Ringling grad devises ingenious technique with paint”, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, December

                Van Proyen, Mark, “Different Strokes”, Artnet, November

                Berry, Colin, “Omar Chacon and Jose Sarinana at Lincart”, Artweek Magazine, November

 

Last Updated: August 2026