Malaquias Montoya
Position title: Painter, Printmaker, Muralist. Professor Emeritus, University of California Davis
Website: Malaquias Montoya's website

Malaquias Montoya was born in New Mexico and raised in California’s San Joaquin Valley. His entire family had to work as farm laborers for survival. His art, including acrylic paintings, murals, washes, drawings, and silkscreen prints, was enormously influential during the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and remains so today. He is credited as one of the founders of the social serigraphy movement in the San Francisco Bay Area, and his work has been exhibited worldwide. After graduating form the University of California, Berkeley, he has lectured and taught at numerous colleges and Universities in his home state. He was a Professor at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California for twelve years, serving for five years as chair of the Ethnic Studies Department. During this period, he also directed the Taller de Artes Graficas in East Oakland. From 1989 to 2008, he was a professor at the University of California, Davis. Now a professor emeritus, he continues his artistic work, creating images of empowerment that speak to the disenfranchised.