Esteban Cabeza de Baca was born 1985 in the bordertown of San Ysidro, CA. Esteban lives and works between Queens, NY and the US Southwest. Cabeza de Baca employs a broad range of painterly techniques, entwining layers of graffiti, landscape, and pre-Columbian pictographs in ways that confound Cartesian single-point perspective. His work is included in the collections of Harvard University (Cambridge, MA); Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego, CA); Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, AZ); and Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA). Esteban holds a MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from The Cooper Union.
Howard has exhibited at many prestigious venues including Wave Hill Garden and Cultural Center, Gaa Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, the Queens Museum, W139, The Hunterdon Museum of Art, and James Cohan Gallery. Howard has been awarded artist residencies including the Terra Summer Residency, Rauschenberg Residency, Carrizozo AIR, and Palazzo Monti. Their work has been discussed in Vogue Magazine, The Paris Review, and The Brooklyn Rail, amongst other publications. Colors make us do vibrant deeds!, Howard’s first monograph, will launch in September 2024 in conjunction with an eponymous solo exhibition at the The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University.