Los Angeles–based artist Edgar Arceneaux received a BFA from the Art Center College of Design and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. He was an artist-in-residence at Artpace in San Antonio (Texas, USA), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan (Maine, USA), Project Row Houses in Houston (Texas, USA), and the Fachhochschule in Aachen (Germany). Venues at which he has had solo exhibitions include the Kitchen in New York City, SFMOMA, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects in Los Angeles, and the Studio Museum in Harlem in New York City. His work was included in the Whitney Biennial 2008 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and is retained in such public collections as the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA) and the Hammer Museum at UCLA in Los Angeles. Since 1999, Arceneaux has been the director of the Watts House Project, an ongoing collaborative artwork in the shape of a neighborhood redevelopment that is centered on the historic Watts Towers.
