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Roy Villalobos.
Is an artist, arts educator and community organizer. His art is influenced by surrealism with metamorphic human figures mostly in acrylic or oil on canvas.
Roy is also an experienced graphic designer and much of his projects are within a cultural
and social context targeting the Hispanic community.
Over the past few years, Roy has become a respected and well-known muralist in the City
of Chicago.
His work has been commissioned from organizations in the public and private sector.
A signature piece of his work is a 38 ft. high by 18 ft long public mural located in 1821 S. Allport St. titled, “Globalization”.
In 1998, the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum of Chicago invited him to submit a piece he made in Mexico to the group exhibit for “Day of the Dead”.
In the year 2000 he moved back to the Pilsen community in Chicago where he has been heavily involved with the art community.
Roy’s commissions include several landscape murals at local restaurants to public art.
The City of Chicago commissioned him to paint a canvas commemorating Cesar Chavez to be placed at postal office in Pilsen in 2004.
He was commissioned to paint a 17 ft. long mural by 4ft. high at Casa Aztlan, a community organization in Pilsen in 2006, titled “Reforma Laica”.
Another significant project was the art he created for the 34th Annual Salsedo Press May Day Blast event poster.
Nationally he was awarded the first place Heineken Company national mural contest and his mural was installed at the corner of Milwaukee Ave. and Paulina St. in Chicago, IL.
Since 2006 Roy has serves as an art teacher for The Northeastern University’s Chicago Teachers Center, an art program of After School Matters.