Background
Montoya, Malaquias was born on June 21, 1938 in Albuquerque.
Montoya, Malaquias was born on June 21, 1938 in Albuquerque.
Bachelor with honorary, University California Berkeley, 1970.
He was raised by a single mother in a family of migrant farm workers (including brother, José Montoya) in California"s Central Valley. He joined the United States. Marines and through the G.I. Bill was able to attend the University of California at Berkeley. In 1968, Montoya founded the Mexican-American Liberation Art Front and was "arguably the most influential Chicano artist collective in the movement".
Since then he has taught at University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, California College of Arts and Crafts, University of Notre Dame, and University of Texas, San Antonio.
Since 1989 Montoya has held a professorship at the University of California, Davis, teaching both in the department of Art and the department of Chicana/o Studies.