DIEGO SANCHEZ
EDUCATION:
1990 Master of Fine Arts; Painting and Printmaking; Virginia Commonwealth University; Richmond, Virginia.
1988 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking; Virginia Commonwealth University; Richmond, Virginia.
EXPERIENCE
2000 – present St. Catherine’s School, Richmond, Virginia. Art Dept. Chair
1994 2000- Faculty - Virginia Union University, Richmond, Virginia.
1991 present -Virginia Museum. Teaching different art classes, in Richmond, Virginia.
1993, 1995, 1998 - Art teachers, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia.
1991-1993 Adjunct faculty; VCU, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College. Richmond, Virginia.
1991-2014 - Visual Art Center and teaching drawing and printmaking classes. Richmond, Virginia
SPECIAL HONORS / AWARDS
2020 Painting acquired for the permanent collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
2017 Virginia Commission for the Arts 50 for 50 - Artists Award
Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) Teacher Advisory Board
2017 Juror FCCA, Fredericksburg, VA
2016 Commissioned to paint a Mural at VMFA, Richmond VA Panelist for VMFA, Kehinde Wiley “The Economy of Grace”
2012 Distinguished Service Award, VisArts, Richmond, VA
2004 Panelist for the Virginia Museum Latin American Show.
2001 Panelist for the Virginia Commission for the Arts Art and Community Projects 2000 Key-note Speaker for the Virginia Art Education Association
1999 Juror for the Theresa Pollack Arts Awards
1998 Juror for the Virginia Museum Fellowships
Member of the Steering Committee for The Thomas Dale Art Specialty Center 1998 Recipient of The Artists of the Year Award – Theresa Pollack Arts Award
1995 Appointed to the City of Richmond Public Art Commission.
Juror for the Scholastic Awards Arts Council, Richmond, Virginia.
1994 Juror for the 1995 Two-Dimensional Visual Arts Award, for the state of Maryland Arts Council.
ONE PERSON SHOWS
2024 Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA, (fall) 2023 St. Christopher’s School, Richmond, VA 2022 Quirk Gallery, Charlottesville, VA.
2020 Fall Show, Quirk Gallery, Richmond VA. 2019 Quirk Gallery, Richmond VA.
2017 Quirk Gallery, Richmond VA.
Woodberry Forest, Gordonsville VA. 2016 Randolph Macon College, Ashland VA.
2015 Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA 2114 Hill Gallery, Richmond VA
2013 Rivermont Gallery, Lynchburg VA.
2013 St. Christopher’s School, Richmond VA
2012 Chroma Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2011 Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2009 Page Bond Gallery, Richmond,VA
2008 Woodberry Forrest, Gordonsville VA
2006 Plant Zero, Richmond, VA
2004 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2003 Collegiate School, Richmond, VA
2002 Jay Barrows Gallery, Richmond, VA
1999 Main Art Gallery, Richmond, VA
1998 Coincidence Gallery, Richmond, VA
1997 Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia.
1996 Collegiate, Richmond, Virginia.
1991 1708 Gallery; Richmond, Virginia.
1991 Gallery X; Charlottesville, Virginia.
1990 M.F.A. Thesis Show; Anderson Gallery; Richmond, VA.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 1708 Annual Auction
Visual Art Annual Auction
2021 Hispanics in Richmond, Gallery 5, Richmond, VA.
2020 Latin Show MCV hospitals, Richmond, VA.
2019 Hispanic Show - Capital One, Richmond VA
Ship of Fellows - Rawls Museum of Art. Courland, VA
2018 RAG, Randolph Macon College
2017 1708 and Visarts Annual Auctions
2015 Hispanic Heritage Show, Capital One, Richmond VA
2013 Ambiguity and Interface: Art Across the Spectrum. Taubman Museum,
Roanoke VA.
1998 Present Collector’s Night, The Visual Art Center of Richmond
1997 Present 1708 Gallery Annual Auction, Richmond Virginia.
1708 Gallery Small Work Show, Richmond, VA.
2009 Present Monster Drawing Show 1708 Gallery, Richmond VA
2008 Charcoal Drawing, Main Art Gallery
2006 Present Faculty Show at VMFA Studio School, Richmond VA
2007 Labori Su Carta – Rome Italy
2006 WPA Show, Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington D.C.
2005 Six Americans, Capital One, Richmond, Va
2004 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2003 7th Art Symposium in Budapest Hungary.
Celebracion De Las Artes Latinas, Art Space, Richmond, VA.
Latin American Show, Glen Allen Art Center, Glenn Allen, VA.
2000 Ocean, Randolph Macon Community College, Ashland, Va.
New Neo, Christopher Newport Community College, Newport News, VA.
Art Space 1708 20th Anniversary Show, Richmond, VA.
“In the Flat Field II”, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA.
Artists On Artist, ASTRA Design Gallery, Richmond, VA.
Small Works Show At the 1708 Gallery
1997 20 Printmakers Main Art Gallery, Richmond, VA.
1997 Artist Council Show, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA.
1997 “In The Flat Field I”, at 1708 Richmond, VA.
1996 Coincidence Gallery, The Art of Communication, Richmond, VA.
“Small Works Show”, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA.
Printmaking Show Main Art Gallery, Richmond, VA.
“VCU 30 Years of Printmaking”, Art Space, Richmond, VA.
1995 “Making a Mark”, MidAtlantic Drawing Show, Longwood College,
Farmville, Virginia.
“Season Of Light”, Invitational Show, Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA.
“New Work Show”, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA.
VCU Invitational Show in Brussels, Belgium.
Hispanic Show, Valentine Museum; Richmond, VA.
Richmond Printmakers, Jewish Community Center; Richmond, VA.
1994 “Voces de Magia y Color”, Ellipse Gallery, Arlington, VA.
COLLECTIONS: The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The Anderson Gallery Virginia Commonwealth University
The School of Law, University of Richmond
College of William And Mary
Longwood University
Sidney and Frances Lewis
Bill and Pam Royall
Media General
Altria Corporation
Dominion
First Market Bank
Capital One
Markel Corporation
Phillip Morris
Federal Reserve Bank
CLUB AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
2019 -2026 Board of Directors Visual Art Center of Richmond
1993- 2017 Member, Board of Directors, 1708 E. Main Gallery.
2000- 2005 Board of Directors Art 180
1997 - 2002, Board of Partners In the Arts, The Arts Council
1995 – 1999 Member, City Of Richmond Public Art Commission.
1994 1999 Member, Board of Directors, Hand Workshop
19901992 - Member, Board of Directors; Richmond Printmaking Workshop.
Guest Lecturer / Workshop Leader
2004 Virginia Museum, Contemporary Latin American Artist Panel 2004 Capital One Leadership Through Art Workshop
2000 University of Richmond in conjunction with the Partners in the Arts 2000 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Three Days in March program
1998 Virginia Museum of Fine Art Programs for Educators
1996, 1998, 2000 Mary Baldwin College Summer for Art Teachers Program
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