René Yañez
Artist, curator, and activist of the San Francisco Bay Area Chicano art movement (1942-2018) · Mexico · On the map · Artists · Died at 75
René Yañez was a Mexican-American painter, assemblage artist, performance artist, curator and community activist located in San Francisco, California.
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He was a well-known contributor to the arts of San Francisco and is a co-founder of Galería de la Raza, a non-profit community focused gallery that features Latino and Chicano artists and their allies. In the early 1970s, he was one of the first curators in the United States to introduce Mexico's Día de Muertos as a contemporary focus and an important cultural celebration.
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