Theodore Sandoval

Place: Albuquerque

Born: 1949

Death: 1995

Biography:

Teddy Sandoval was an American artist born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1949. He died in 1995. Sandoval was a central figure in Los Angeles’s Queer and Chicanx artistic circles and an active participant in both U.S. and international avant-garde movements. He produced subversive, yet playful artworks that explored the codes of gender and sexuality and continuously mined archetypes of masculinity in his work through his signature icon of a faceless man. Sandoval's artworks are held in various collections, including the Williams College Museum of Art. The Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles held a retrospective of his work, 'Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art', in 2024.