Jesús “Txutxo” Pérez

“During the storms that affected SF last January, the building where i have my studio flooded and forced me to move it out entirely to a new unit, in the moving, I ran into a bunch of silkscreens that either never finished or didn't showed propriety so i decided to completed the work, "After the Flood",  it is a selection  of silkscreens that cover the last 25 years of my work.”-Txutxo Perez

Jesús “Txutxo” Pérez is a Mexican American printmaker. Born and raised in Mexico City, he earned his degree in arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City. Pérez artworks are inspired by his heritage, personal identity, cultural values, and vulnerability. 
Perez’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Mexico, Cuba, Belgium, France, Austria, Spain, Canada, and the United States. Perez has been an artist-in-residence with the De Young Museum, San Francisco, and AS220, Providence, RI. He has contributed to the Balmy Alley and Clarion Alley mural projects in San Francisco’s Mission District, and has served as director and curator of the alternative spaces El Balazo Gallery and SUB/Mission Art Space in the Mission District.
He has been deeply involved in community work, teaching mural classes in East Oakland with the California Arts Council; with California Youth Authority; and with the Community Arts Program at Hospitality House and as Art Activator with CounterPulse Block Fest, both in San Francisco.
Pérez received the Senate of the State of California Certificate of Recognition in Arts in 2001.
—Adapted and excerpted from https://cometoyourcensus.us/jesus-txutxo-perez/, accessed 8-20-2021