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Matt Gonzalez Bio
Matt Gonzalez, 1999. Photograph by Elizabeth Ross.
SHORT BIO
Matt Gonzalez was born in McAllen, Texas. He received his B.A. at Columbia University and J.D. from Stanford Law School. After a decade as a deputy public defender in San Francisco Gonzalez served a term on the 11-member Board of Supervisors. He thereafter co-founded a civil rights law firm Gonzalez & Leigh LLP, which was active from 2005-2012, and was Ralph Nader’s running mate in 2008 on an Independent ticket. In early 2011, he returned to the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office as Chief Attorney.
Since 2006 he has exhibited artworks in a variety of Bay Area art venues including Park Life, Guerrero Gallery, Adobe Books, Incline Gallery, and Johansson Projects. He has shown with Dolby Chadwick Gallery since 2014.
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LONG BIO
Early Years
Matthew Edward Gonzalez was born on June 4, 1965 in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, in the city of McAllen, Texas (pop. 35,000 in 1965), nine miles north of the U.S. — Mexican border and 250 miles south of San Antonio, Texas. At the time of his birth the family lived in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Gonzalez’s mother Oralia Martinez Rendon is a native of Jalisco, Mexico. His father
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About The Matt Gonzalez Reader
Photo of Matt Gonzalez by Nick Bygon, 2008.
Art & Politics: The Matt Gonzalez Reader collects various interviews, opinion editorials, essays, art reviews, and other writings by Matt Gonzalez on issues related to art and politics, many of which are no longer in print or otherwise available online. The postings are reprinted from their original place of publication, including monographs and catalogs published by art galleries, which include:
The Argonaut
As It Ought To Be
Berkeley La Raza Law Journal
BeyondChron
BLISSS Magazine
Ceramics: Art & Perception
Comet Magazine
CounterPunch
Crocker Art Museum
Davis Enterprise
FMSBW
Fog City Journal
48 hills
Frey Norris Contemporary
Golden Gate [X]press
Hollis Taggart
Joshua Liner Galley
Jules Maeght Gallery
Juxtapoz
Luggage Store Gallery
Mark Moore Gallery
Medium
Mesh Magazine
Michael Rauner Photography
Moth Belly Gallery
The New Fillmore
North Bay Progressive Journal
Paragon Books
Plastic Antinomy
The Recorder
San Francisco Arts Quarterly
San Francisco Bay Guardian
San Francisco Bay View Newspaper
San Francisco Call
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco Frontlines
Squarecylinder
Stanford Humanities Review
Thomas Reynolds Gallery
The Trial Lawyer
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