About

Cande Aguilar (b. 1972, Brownsville, Texas) is a visual artist that reflects on border culture through his BarrioPOP, defined as an amalgamation sprung by characters, colors and street phenomena of his life emerged in a border town. He is a self-taught artist ranging from multimedia painting to assemblage and image transfer and is also an accordionist deeply rooted in Conjunto/Tejano music. Aguilar’s work has been featured in solo shows at the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, The International Museum of Arts & Science, Cahn Drennan Contemporary and group exhibits at MACLA Museum in California, Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Craighead Green Gallery in Dallas, K Space Contemporary, Kirk Hopper Gallery and The Painting Center in New York.