Bio

Louis Trujillo is an artist and curator born and working in Colorado. Identity is the recurring theme of inspiration for his artwork with explorations in gender expression, the unconscious, and family history. He received his B.F.A in drawing at Metropolitan State University of Denver where he was awarded the Nagel Art Thesis Grant and the Nagel Directed Studies Scholarship. He is a former member and PR Director of SYNC Gallery located in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe. His artwork is part of national private collections. He is currently employed by Access Gallery as their Gallery Manager.

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Education

2011
Bachelor of Fine Art: Drawing
Minor: Art History
Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO (MSU)

Scholarships/Awards

2011
Honorable Mention Award, Influx, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
Nagel Art Thesis Award, Influx, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
Nagel Directed Studies Scholarship, Plein Air Intensive, Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM

2010
Advanced Drawing Exhibition Award, 296 Unknown Associations, (MSU) Art Gallery, Juror: Ann Coddington Rast

Professional Experience

2022-Pres
Gallery Manager, Access Gallery, Denver, CO

2022-Pres
Collaborating Artist, Denver Digital Land Grab, Denver, CO

2022
Finalist - Concourse Expansion Colorado Public Art; B-East, Denver International Airport, Denver, CO

2022
Mobile Art Studio Coordinator, Access Gallery, Denver, CO

2017-2022
Member Services, Art Gym, Denver, CO

2017
Night at Art Gym Workshop, Art Gym, Denver, CO

2016-2018
PR Director, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO

2014-2018
E-newsletter and Social Media Coordinator, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO

2014-2016
Membership Crew, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO

2012
Back Gallery Coordinator, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO

Selected Exhibitions

2024
Queer in America, Artworks Center for Contemporary Art, Loveland, CO, Curator: Avery Wyke
Espiritu Hermosx/Beautiful Spirit, Museo De Las Americas, Denver, CO
No Man’s Land Film Festival: Drag Performance, MCA Denver at the Holiday Theater, Denver, CO
Performing Self: Drag Performance, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder CO
Performing Self, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder CO, Curator: Jane Burke

2023
Crossing Borders, 40 West Gallery, Lakewood CO, Presented by Athena Project and PINKPROGRESSION
Eyes Wide Shut: Visual Meditations on the Plague, McNichols Civic Center, Denver, CO, Curator Mark Brasuell
Prismatic, Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO, Curator: Drew Austin

2022
Us, 3rd Annual LGBTQ+ Exhibition, Bitfactory, Denver, CO
NFT Garage Sale, Denver Digital Land Grab, Denver, CO
No Show, 6th Annual Invitational, Bitfactory, Denver, CO

2021
El Poder de la Familia/Power of Family, Frederic C. Hamilton Fine Art Gallery, Children’s Hospital, Aurora, CO
Us, 2nd Annual LGBTQ+ Exhibition, Bitfactory, Denver, CO
No Show, 5th Annual Invitational, Bitfactory, Denver, CO
Colorado Draws, Spark Gallery, Denver, CO, Juror: Louise Martorano

2020
Looking At You, Art Gym, Denver, CO
Lavender Mist: Gay Men in Contemporary Art in Colorado, McNichols Civic Center, Denver, CO, Curator: Michael Paglia
Dearly Disillusioned, McNichols Civic Center, Denver, CO, Curator: Anna Kaye
No Show, 4th Annual Invitational, Bitfactory, Denver, CO

2019
Us, Bitfactory, Denver, CO
Figuratively Speaking, Art Gym, Denver, CO
Sacred Spaces: Drag Performance, Museo De Las Americas, Denver, CO
Altar’d Continuum: Resistance and Empowerment, Museo De Las Americas, Denver, CO
Messages from the Galactic Flare: Drag Performance, Platte Forum at Underground Music Showcase, Denver, CO
Amor es Amor: Celebrating LGBTQ in Chicanisma/o, CHAC Gallery, Denver, CO
Stories, Online Exhibition Presented by Dab Art, Ventura, CA
Cahoots, Art Gym, Denver, CO
Sexxxhibition, Art Gym, Denver, CO

2018
Multiplicity 2018, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO
Things Remembered…Things Forgotten, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO
Organized Chaos, Art Gym, Denver, CO
Blue, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO

2017
Multiplicity 2017, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO
Fine Arts Festival, Art Gym, Denver, CO
Whispers, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO
By Any Means Necessary, RedLine, Denver, CO, Juror: Jessica Kooiman Parker
Ephemeral, Art Gym, Denver, CO
black&white, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO

2016
Multiplicity 2016, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO
UnCommon Clay 2016, Arts Longmont, Longmont, CO, Juror: Jonathan Kaplan
Unconscious, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO
Equinox, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO

2015
Multiplicity, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO
Reverberations, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO

2014
SYNC Squared, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO
Celestial Incursion, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO
Capistrano III, Salud Medical Clinic, Longmont, CO

2013
Create at MSU Denver Fall 2013 Exhibit, Center for Innovation, (MSU), Denver, CO
Transcendent Ascension, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO
Create at MSU Denver Summer 2013 Exhibit, Center for Innovation, (MSU), Denver, CO
Photography/not Photography, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO
Sync Favorites, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO
Create at MSU Denver Spring 2013 Exhibit, Center for Innovation, (MSU), Denver, CO

2012        
Members Exhibition, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO
Of the Eternal Sky, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO
Virtual Incubator and Exhibition, Center for Innovation, (MSU), Denver, CO
Spirituality, Core New Art Space, Denver, CO, Juror: Hilary De Polo
Show Tell & Sell, Center for Innovation, (MSU), Denver, CO

2011
Influx, BFA Thesis Exhibition, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
Plein Air Intensive, RedShift Gallery, Denver, CO
Eclection, Auraria Library Gallery, (MSU), Denver, CO

2010
Lead, Auraria Library Gallery, (MSU), Denver, CO
296 Unknown Associations, Auraria Library Gallery, (MSU), Denver, CO

2009
Alt. Draw, Auraria Library Gallery, (MSU), Denver, CO

Publications

2024
Colorado Community Media, Exploring the vibrant world of ‘Espiritu Hermosx-Beautiful Spirit’ at Museo de las Americas, by London Lyle, June 6, 2024

The Denver Post, “Espiritu Hermosx” at the Museo de las Americas explores LGBTQ+ identity through the eyes of Latinx artists, by Ray Mark Rinaldi, May 6, 2024

Westword, Ride Into the Weekend With New Art at Union Hall, the Museo, Leon and More, by Susan Froyd, March 29, 2024

Daily Camera, The world’s a stage: New exhibition at BMoCA explores self-identity in the digital age, by Ella Cobb, February 8, 2024

Westword, See Performance Art, Feminist Art, Prison Art and More in Denver and Beyond, by Susan Froyd, January 25, 2024

2023
DARIA Art Magazine, Prismatic, by Danielle Cunningham, June 26, 2023

2022
DARIA Art Magazine, Us: A Showcase of LGBTQ+ Artists (Third Annual Exhibition), by Ashten Scheller, June 28, 2022

Denver Post, 3rd Annual “Us” Art Exhibit Celebrates Denver’s Pride, by Amy Norton, June 20, 2022

Westword, Art Attack: All the Shows to See in Denver This Weekend, by Susan Froyd, June 15, 2022

2021
Denverite, The Denverite Guide to 2021 Pride, by Maggie Donahue, June 24, 2021

The Denver Post, Bitfactory Gallery Celebrates Pride at 2nd Annual “Us” Exhibit, by Amy Norton, June 16, 2021

Westword, Art Attack: Twelve Ways to See Great Art in Denver This Weekend, by Susan Froyd, June 16, 2021

OUT FRONT Magazine, Louis Trujillo: Master of All Mediums, by Addison Herron-Wheeler, May 14, 2021

2020
Explore Art: Denver, Walking the Beat Again is Bittersweet, by Deborah Ross, June 18, 2020

Pink Progression: Coalesce Catalog, McNichols Civic Center, Denver, CO, Spring 2020

DARIA Art Magazine, Dearly Disillusioned: Birdseed Collective, Hardly Soft, Odessa, and Pink Progression, by Mary Voelz Chandler, April 3, 2020

Westword, In Dearly Disillusioned, Denver Artists Offer a Fresh Take on Women’s Suffrage, by Cori Anderson, January 16, 2020

2019
Westword, Art Attack: Twelve Things for Gallery Lovers to Do This Week, by Susan Froyd, October 9, 2019

OUT FRONT Magazine, Louis Trujillo: Love in Self Through Art & Community, by Emily Creek, February 19, 2019

Westword, Gallery Picks: Twenty Things to Do for First Friday, by Susan Froyd, January 30, 2019

2018
Westword, Six Things for Art Lovers to Do and See This Weekend in Denver, by Susan Froyd, May 17, 2018

2012
Westword, The many forms of Spirituality at Core New Art Space this Collector’s Friday, by Tiffany Fitzgerald, May 17, 2012

2011
Metrosphere 2011, vol. 29, Metropolitan State University of Denver Student Publication, page #15

2010
Metrosphere 2010, vol. 28, Metropolitan State University of Denver Student Publication, page #94-95

Artist Lectures

2024
Saving Queer Lives, Espiritu Hermosx/Beautiful Spirit, Museo De Las Americas, Denver, CO

Curator and Artist Panel, Espiritu Hermosx/Beautiful Spirit, Museo De Las Americas, Denver, CO

Curator and Artist Talk, Espiritu Hermosx/Beautiful Spirit, Museo De Las Americas, Denver, CO

2023
Artful Reflections, Crossing Borders, 40 West Arts, Lakewood, CO

2020
Artist Talk, Dearly Disillusioned, McNichols Civic Center, Denver, CO

2019
Artist Talk, Altar’d Continuum: Resistance and Empowerment, Museo De Las Americas, Denver, CO

Gallery Membership

2012-2018
Sync Gallery, Denver, CO

Exhibitions Juried and Curated

2024
Espiritu Hermosx/Beautiful Spirit, Museo De Las Americas, Denver, CO

2019
Sexxxhibition, Co-curated with Elke McGuire and James Mullane, Art Gym, Denver, CO