Jaime Muñoz

1964，Los Angeles，USA

Jaime Muñoz was born in Los Angeles, and received a B.A. in Fine Art from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2016. He currently lives and works in Pomona CA. The visual language of his work is focused on aspects of identity, the commodification of labor, religion, and the critique of Latin American colonialism and Modernism. He’s inspired by concepts of “Blood Memory,” the relationship that ancestral ties have to the present day experience. He’s also inspired by the concept of “Toyoteria,” which is a working class shared experience through economic necessity around the R-series Toyota mini work trucks. A driving force in his technique is inspired by decorative aspects of commonplace everyday life and ordinary objects found in his community. His work was featured in the scholarly initiative Pacific Standard Time as part of the exhibition “How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America & Latin America’s Disney” in 2017. More recently, he was featured at Jeffery Deitch’s gallery for a show curated by Nina Chanel Abney titled “Punch LA”. This year, he is a participating artist featuring a solo exhibition, in “Focus LA” curated by Rita Gonzalez and Pilar Tomkins Rivas at Frieze Los Angeles, 2020. His work has also been published in the LA Times, in KCET’s “Artbound”, and in the Art of Choice, Los Angeles.