Friday, May 13, 2005
San Antonio, Texas USA

Name: George Yepes (Jose Jorge Yepes de Loreto)

Born: Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico 1956

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Museo del Templo Mayor Tenochtitlan - Mexico City D.F. Mexico
Mesoamerican Archive, Princeton University - Princeton, NJ
Mesoamerican Archive, Harvard University - Cambridge, MA
California State Archives Museum - Sacramento, CA
Laguna Art Museum - Laguna Beach, CA
Arizona State University - Tempe, AZ
Los Angeles Latino Museum - Los Angeles, CA
University of Texas - San Antonio, TX
The National Museum of Mexican Art - Chicago, IL
San Antonio Museum of Art - San Antonio, TX
Smithsonian Institution - Washington D.C.
National Hispanic Cultural Center - Albuquerque, NM
El Paso Museum of Art - El Paso, TX
Indiana State Museum - Indianapolis, IN
Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego - San Diego, CA
Weisman Art Museum - Minneapolis, MN
The De Young Museum - San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles, CA





SELECTED AWARDS

The Best of San Antonio, San Antonio Current 2003
City Council of Los Angeles: Resolution 2001
Hispanic Heritage Month JPL/NASA 2001
City Council of Los Angeles: Resolution 1999
State of California: Mural Competition "The Promise" 1998
City of Los Angeles: "Treasure of Los Angeles" 1997
State of California Department of Education: Arts Task Force 1997
City of Los Angeles: Commendation 1997State Assembly of California: Commendation 1997
City of Commerce/City of Montebello: Mural Competition 1996
City of Los Angeles: Commendation 1995
Mayor of Los Angeles: Commendation 1995
United States Congress: Commendation 1995
JPL/NASA: Commendation Award 1995
FAA U.S. Dept. of Transportation: Commendation 1994
St. John Bosco: Award of Excellence 1994
City of Los Angeles: Commendation 1993
County of Los Angeles: Commendation 1993
State Assembly of California: Commendation 1993
California State University, Los Angeles: Presidents Award 1993
Hispanic Support Network, Cal State Alumni: Commendation 1993
Los Angeles Unified School District Award 1993
United States Congress: Commendation 1993
Los Angeles City Council: Resolution 1993
City of Los Angeles: Commendation 1992
County of Los Angeles: Commendation 1992
First AME: Fame Award 1992
California Arts Council: Arts Fellowship 1992
Communication Arts: Award of Excellence 1991
SPARC Great Walls Unlimited: Mural Competition 1989
City of Los Angeles: Commendation 1984
Los Angeles Community College: Presidents Award 1981
National Endowment for the Arts: Visual Fellowship Grant 1981
National Endowment for the Arts: Visual Fellowship Grant 1980



SELECTED MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS



Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale - Fort Lauderdale, FL 2007
Milwaukee Public Museum - Milwaukee, WI 2007
Mexic-Arte Museum - Austin, TX 2006
Riverside Metropolitan Museum Art - Riverside, CA 2006
The De Young Museum - San Francisco, CA 2006
Weisman Art Museum - Minneapolis, MN 2005
The National Museum of Mexican Art - Chicago, IL 2005
The National Museum of Mexican Art - Chicago, IL 2004
Minnesota Museum of American Art - St Paul, MN 2004
San Diego Museum of Art - San Diego, CA 2004
Indiana State Museum - Indianapolis, IN 2004
National Hispanic Cultural Center Albuquerque - Albuquerque, NM 2003
El Paso Museum of Art - El Paso, TX 2003
Smithsonian Museum - Washington D.C. 2002
San Antonio Museum of Art - San Antonio, TX 2001
San Antonio Museum of Art - San Antonio, TX 2000
The National Museum of Mexican Art - Chicago, IL 2000
Le Demon des Anges Centre d’Art Santa Monica - Barcelona, Spain 1989
Le Demon des Anges Halle du Centre de Recherche pour Le Developpement Culturel - Nantes, France 1989
Le Demon des Anges – Brussels, Belguim 1989
Le Demon des Anges Espace Lyonnais d’ Art Contemporain - Lyon, France 1989
Le Demon des Anges - Kulterhuset Stockholm Museum - Stockholm, Sweden 1989
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles, CA 1989





SELECTED GALLERY EXHIBITIONS



La Casa Encendida - Madrid, Spain 2007
Channing Peake Gallery – Santa Barbara, CA 2007
Patricia Correia Gallery - Santa Monica, CA 2006
Downtown Center for the Arts - Oxnard, CA 2006
Blue Star Contemporary Art Gallery - San Antonio, TX 2006
Arte Americas - Frenso, CA 2006
California State University Northridge - Northridge, CA 2006
La Raza Galeria Posada - Sacramento, CA 2006
University of Houston - Houston, TX 2006
O’Kane Gallery - Houston, TX 2005
Plaza de la Raza Cultural Center for the Arts and Education - Los Angeles, CA 2005
Patricia Correia Gallery - Santa Monica, CA 2004
Robert Berman Gallery - Santa Monica, CA 2004
Arizona State University - Tempe, AZ 2004
Bath House Cultural Center Gallery - Dallas, TX 2004
Urban Earth Gallery - Corona del Mar, CA 2003
Lisa Ortiz Gallery - San Antonio, TX 2003
Ice House Cultural Center Gallery - Dallas, TX 2003
Robert Berman Gallery - Santa Monica, CA 2001
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Music Center - Los Angeles, CA 2001
Santa Monica Auctions - Santa Monica, CA 2000
Robert Berman Gallery - Santa Monica, CA 2000Bunker Hill South Gallery - Los Angeles, CA 2000
Princeton University - Princeton, NJ 1997
Galeria Sin Fronteras - Austin, TX 1996
Tamara Baine Gallery - Los Angeles, CA 1991
Artes de Mexico - Los Angeles, CA 1991
B-1 Gallery - Santa Monica, CA 1990
Mark Taper Forum - Los Angeles, CA 1990
University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA 1989
Vincent Price Gallery - Los Angeles, CA 1989
B-1 Gallery - Santa Monica, CA 1989
B-1 Gallery - Santa Monica, CA 1988
Galleria Otra Vez - Los Angeles, CA 1988
Los Angeles Photography Center - Los Angeles, CA 1988
Self Help Graphics - Los Angeles, CA 1988





SELECTED MURALS

The Promise: State Archives Museum Vaulted Ceiling, 70' x 20' - Sacramento, CA 1998
Sister Cities: Metrolink Station, 12' x 30' - Montebello/Commerce, CA 1997
Tikkun Olam: To Repair the World, 36' x 36' - Los Angeles, CA 1997
La Reina de Los Angeles, 12' x 20' - Los Angeles, CA 1996
The Resurrection, 20' x 20' - Bell Gardens, CA 1995
El Tepeyac de Los Angeles, 50' x 50' - Los Angeles, CA 1993
Harvest of the American Dream, 8' x 32' - Los Angeles, CA 1993
El Fuego de Los Angeles, 15' x 20' - Sitges, Barcelona, Spain 1992
The Phoenix of South Central, 20' x 30' - Los Angeles, CA 1992
Book of Dreams, 25' x 150' - Los Angeles, CA 1992
Pieta, 7' x 10' - Los Angeles, CA 1992
Corrido de Los Angeles, 8' x 30' - Los Angeles, CA 1992
The Resurrection, 18' x 24' - Los Angeles, CA 1992
Lady of the Eastside, 20' x 20' - Los Angeles, CA 1990
Rapture of the Sublime, 7' x 25', B-1 Gallery - Santa Monica, CA 1990
East Los Angeles Y.M.C.A., 6' x 15 ‘ - Los Angeles, CA 1990
El Nuevo Fuego, 80' x 85' - Los Angeles, CA 1985
Knowledge and the Spirit, 10' x 25' - Los Angeles, CA 1985
Corrido de Boyle Heights, 17' x 80' - Los Angeles, CA 1983
Manifest Destiny, 10' x 16' - St. Louis, MO 1982
The Education Suite, 24' x 61', East Los Angeles Community College - Los Angeles, CA 1981
Bicentennial Blues, 15' x 16', Craft & Folk Art Museum - Los Angeles, CA 1981
Ancient Energies, 6' x 195' - Los Angeles, CA 1980
Birth of a Warrior, 6' x 100' - Los Angeles, CA 1980
United Farm Workers Mural, 40' x 60' - Fresno, CA 1977





SELECTED TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS

Many Hands, One Heart, 24' x 70' Farragut Career Academy - Chicago, IL 2001
Guatemala Cultura, 10' x 25' Latino Museum Collection - Los Angeles, CA 1999
Tango Argentino, 10' x 25' Latino Museum Collection - Los Angeles, CA 1999
Patria Portatil, 10' x 25' Latino Museum Collection - Los Angeles, CA 1999
Machu Pichu, 10' x 25' Latino Museum Collection - Los Angeles, CA 1999
American Film Institute Mural 10' x 16' - Los Angeles, CA 1999
Europa-Jupiter/Galleleo Mural 10' x 25' JPL/NASA - Pasadena, CA 1998
Solar System-Space Flight Operations Facility Mural 10' x 25' JPL/NASA - Pasadena, CA 1998
Mars Global Surveyor 12' x 25' John F. Kennedy Space Center NASA - Cape Canaveral, FL 1998
Mars Path Finder 12' x 25' Mars Community Outreach Program JPL/NASA - Pasadena, CA 1997
Mars Mural 12' x 25' Planetary Society JPL/NASA - Pasadena, CA 1997
Cassini Spacecraft at Saturn 12' x 25' JPL/NASA European/Italian Space Agency 1996
Cassini at Saturn Prototype Mural 8' x 20' JPL/NASA - Pasadena, CA 1996
White Memorial Medical Center Lobby 10' x 20' - Los Angeles, CA 1996
Mariachi Plaza Mural 20' x 45' - Los Angeles, CA 1995
Second Street Elementary School Mural 10' x 20' - Los Angeles, CA 1995
Pepperdine University Mural 12' x 20' - Los Angeles, CA 1994
City Terrace Elementary School Mural 12' x 20' - Los Angeles, CA 1994
California State University of Los Angeles Mural 23' x 12' - Los Angeles, CA 1993
Boyle Heights Senior Center Mural 10' x 20' - Los Angeles, CA 1993
Harvest of the American Dream Mural 8' x 32' - Los Angeles, CA 1993
City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department - Arts Consultant/Set Designer 1992
Festival de Mariachis De Los Angeles Performing Arts Division - Set Designer 1992
Fox 11 Television Network - Set Designer/Art Director - Hollywood, CA 1991
Crossing Gang Lines National Television Special - Set Designer - Hollywood, CA 1991



SELECTED FILM AND MEDIA


GRINDHOUSE: Rodriguez/Tarantino Movie Artwork – Austin, Texas 2007
Telemundo Channel 52: Buenos Dias, Segment Tu Eres - Los Angeles, CA 2006
KNBC Channel 4: Your LA, George Yepes LA Mural Tours - Los Angeles, CA 2006
Telemundo Channel 60 - San Antonio, TX 2006
SA Living Channel 4: Solamenta Salma - San Antonio, TX 2006
Las Vegas Now Eyewitness News : Solamente Salma - Las Vegas, NV 2006
WIVB TV Channel 4: Solamente Salma - Buffalo, Niagara Falls, NY 2006
Los Four, Murals of Aztlan: The Street Painters of East Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA 2006
KLRU : George Yepes - Austin, TX 2005
Arizona State University - Tempe, AZ 2005
Robert Rodriguez “Once Upon A Time In Mexico” Movie Art - Guanajuato, Mexico 2003
WFAA La Vida - Dallas, TX 2003
Channel 4 - San Antonio, TX 2003
Channel 9 - San Antonio, TX 2003
Vista L.A. - Los Angeles, CA 2000
Land of the Free, U.S. Navy PSA - Los Angeles, CA 2001
Training Day Warner Bros. Set Design - Hollywood, CA 2001
Key Speaker Hispanic Heritage Month JPL/NASA - Live Internet Feed - Pasadena, CA 2001
Hispanic Heritage Month Adelphia Cable - Los Angeles, CA 2001
HBO Latino: Feature Segment - George Yepes - New York, NY 2001
Sacramento Cable Network, State Archives Museum Mural - Sacramento, CA 1999
Telemundo Channel 52: Primere Impacto - Los Angeles, CA 1999
KCAL Channel 9: Prime Time Segment, Bunker Hill South Gallery Opening - Los Angeles, CA 1989
KTLA Channel 5: Rose Parade Float Design - Los Angeles, CA 1997
KTLA Channel 5: Sacramento State Archives Museum Mural - Los Angeles, CA 1997
PBS: Life and Times: Feature Segment - Los Angeles, CA 1997
KCAL 9: "Primiero Latino", Prime Time News Segment - Los Angeles, CA 1996
Telemundo Channel 52: Profile Story - Los Angeles, CA 1996
NBC National Cable Network: "Have a Heart/America's Talking" - New York, NY 1995
NBC Channel 4: Profile Story - Los Angeles, CA 1995
NBC Network: The Phoenix of South Central" - Los Angeles, CA 1992
Telemundo Channel 52: Los Angeles Mural Story - Los Angeles, CA 1992
Fox 11 Network: "Crossing Gang Lines" - Hollywood, CA 1991
KTTV Channel 11 Profile : Public Service Announcement - Los Angeles, CA 1991
KMEX Channel 34: "Fama y Fortuna" - Los Angeles, CA 1991
Telemundo Channel 52: "Lo Que Pasa en el Mundo" - Los Angeles, CA 1991
Chanitclear Films: 15th Phase of the Moon Movie - Hollywood, CA 1991
Vidmark Productions: Black Magic Woman Movie - Hollywood, CA 1990
KTTV Channel 11: Profile, Public Service Announcement - Los Angeles, CA 1990





SELECTED EDITORIALS


Caja Madrid "Notas de Prensa" - Madrid, Spain 2007
Perceval Press "El Arte Chicano Se Instala en la Casa Encendida" - Madrid, Spain 2007
La Coctelera "La Que voy Leyendo" - Madrid, Spain 2007
Extec "Arte Chicano" - Madrid, Spain 2007
Artwolf "Chicanos en La Casa" - Madrid, Spain 2007
San Antonio Current "Lofty Aspirations"- San Antonio, TX 2007
Dirty Gypsy "Y is for Yepes" 2007
Save Garfield Murals "George Yepes" - Los Angeles, CA 2007
Webwire "Salma" 2007
NY Arts Magazine "Salma Hayek, Sin City, Fire Bellies and Angels"- New York, NY 2006
Texas Public Radio News "Terra Nostra: Solamente Salma" - San Antonio, TX 2006
San Antonio Express News "Yepes Talks Salma His Current state of Mind" 2006
San Antonio Express News " Artists Reluctantly Part With Salma" - San Antonio, TX 2006
Hispanic News "Solamente Salma" - Phoenix, AZ 2006
Hispanic Business "Solamente Salma" - Santa Barbara, CA 2006
San Antonio Business Journal "Solamente Salma" - San Antonio, TX 2006
PR Newswire United Business Media - New York, NY 2006
Media Ford "Solamente Salma" - Dearborn, MI 2006
Jive News Magazine "Solamente Salma" - Lilburn, GA 2006
Latinos On Wheel Magazine "Solamente Salma" - Detroit, MI 2006
El Diario "Solamente Salma" - La Paz, Bolivia 2006
California State University Northridge - Northridge, CA 2006
Cam San Antonio - San Antonio, TX 2006
Modern Guitar Magazine "Gibson Austin Guitartown Project" 2006
Internet Herald 2006
Vanguardia - Santa Catarina Nuevo Leon, Mexico 2006
San Antonio Current "George Yepes shines in Blue Star 21" - San Antonio, TX 2006
Dirty Children US "Artist Fax" 2006
TFAOI "Chicano" - San Clemente, CA 2006
Centre Daily News - State College, PA 2006
Lowrider Arte - Anaheim, CA 2006
CNet Network "La Pistola Y El Corazon" - San Francisco, CA 2006
Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek, CA 2006
Juarol 2006
Entertainment Guide 2006
India Car "Solamente Salma" - Worli, Mumbai 2006
Texas Monthly "Solamente Salma" - Austin, TX 2006
Hispanic Tips "Exhibition Of Salma Hayek Paintings In San Antonio" - Los Angeles, CA 2006
Star Media "Solamente Salma" - Mexico 2006
The Eureka Reporter "Living In Two Cultures" - Eureka, CA 2006
Target "American Painters On The Verge" 2006
Hispanic Magazine "Yepes’ Madonna" - Miami, FL 2006
Auto Spectator "Mercury Presents Solamente Salma Exhibition" 2006
Flick R "Salma Paintings" 2006
Auto Channel "Solamente Salma" - Surry, England 2006
Texas Non Profits - San Antonio, TX 2006
Art Knowledge News "Chicano Art" 2006
Cinema Strikes Back "Salma Paintings" 2006
La Weekly - Los Angeles, CA 2006
UH Downtown - Houston, TX 2005
ArtScene Magazine - Los Angeles, CA 2005
Tesoros Art Auction - Brooklyn Park, MN 2005
Manoa Jungle Planet - Honolulu, HI 2004
UMN News University Of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN 2004
Art Business News "Braveheart" - Seven Hills, OH 2004
Shade Magazine "Chicano Art For Our Millennium" 2004
The Daily Aztec "The Color Chicano" - San Diego, CA 2004
Once Upon A Time In Mexico DVD 2004
Mexico and Mariachis - The Trilogy CD/DVD 2004
El Corazon, Dallas Arts Revue - Dallas, TX 2004
Latino L.A. - Arts & Entertainment - Los Angeles, CA 2003
Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles, CA 2003
SA Music Scene - San Antonio, TX 2003
Latin Style Magazine - Glendale, CA 2003
Sister Cities Magazine - Los Angeles, CA 2003
NASA - Cassini-Huygens to Saturn and Titan - Washington D.C. 2003
San Antonio Express News - San Antonio, TX 2003
Sizzling Summer Art in Dallas, Dallas Arts Revue - Dallas, TX 2003
Getty Museum Education Arts, The J. Paul Getty Trust - New York, NY 2003
Best of San Antonio, San Antonio Current - San Antonio, TX 2003
Texas Monthly "L.A. hotshots George Yepes" - Austin, TX 2001
OYE Magazine, Cover Art - Chicago, IL 2001
La Opinion Vida y Estilo - Los Angeles, CA 2001
Art of the Dragon East Los Angeles College - Los Angeles, CA 2001
Los Angeles New Times - Los Angeles, CA 2000
State of California, The Capitol - Sacramento, CA 2000
Los Angeles Downtown News - Los Angeles, CA 2000
Lowrider Magazine - Anaheim, CA 2000
East Los Angeles Campus News - Monterey Park, CA 1999
Arizona State Department of Education - Tempe, AZ 1999
Getty Museum Education Division, Web Page Feature - New York, NY 1999
Vida Nueva, Archdiocese of Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA 1999
Eastern Group Publications, Latino Museum Mural - Los Angeles, CA 1999
Los Angeles Times, Sacramento State Archives Museum Mural - Los Angeles, CA 1998
Sacramento Bee Newspaper, Encore, "Halls of History" - Sacramento, CA 1998
Princeton University Meso American Archive Publication - Princeton, NJ 1997
Eastern Group Publications, Metrolink Station Mural - Los Angeles, CA 1997
Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles, CA 1993/1994La Opinion Spectaculos - Los Angeles, CA 1993
Guia del Ocio Inventario Olympico - Barcelona, Spain 1992
Contedio "Latinos en Los Angeles" - Mexico City, D.F., Mexico 1992
Los Angeles Times Academia de Arte Yepes - Los Angeles, CA 1992
La Opinion Academia de Arte Yepes - Los Angeles, CA 1992
American Film Magazine Front Cover 1991
Los Angeles Times Nuestro Tiempo - Los Angeles, CA 1991
La Opinion - Los Angeles, CA 1991
Los Angeles Times Calendar - Los Angeles, CA 1990
Mark Taper Forum, Season Brochure - Los Angeles, CA 1990-91
Los Angeles Times Nuestro Tiempo - Los Angeles, CA 1990
Los Angeles Times Nuestro Tiempo - Los Angeles, CA 1989
Herald Examiner Mitchell Fink Column 1989
Communications Arts Illustration Annual - Menlo Park, CA 1989
People's Daily World San Francisco - San Francisco, CA 1989
Los Lobos Album Cover, "La Pistola y El Corazon" - Hollywood, CA 1988