Claudio Dicochea was born in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico. He was
raised alongside the U.S.-Mexico border on a small farming community in
southern Arizona. Claudio studied drawing and painting at the University of
Arizona in Tucson, where he was vice president of the Cultural Diversity in the
Visual Arts organization. Dicochea received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1995,
graduating Outstanding Senior with Honors. He continued his education at the
San Francisco Art Institute, where he earned a Post Baccalaureate degree in
Painting and Drawing in 1999. Claudio then went on to obtain first place in the
Ford Foundation's 'Siqueiros-Pollock' Binational Painting Award in 2000 and, the
following year, was also awarded a California Arts Council grant. In 2003, he
finished a landmark historic mural in Half Moon Bay, California, and his work
was published in Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art: Artists, Works, Culture
and Education (Bilingual Press, 2002). He is currently an MFA candidate at
Arizona State University.
raised alongside the U.S.-Mexico border on a small farming community in
southern Arizona. Claudio studied drawing and painting at the University of
Arizona in Tucson, where he was vice president of the Cultural Diversity in the
Visual Arts organization. Dicochea received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1995,
graduating Outstanding Senior with Honors. He continued his education at the
San Francisco Art Institute, where he earned a Post Baccalaureate degree in
Painting and Drawing in 1999. Claudio then went on to obtain first place in the
Ford Foundation's 'Siqueiros-Pollock' Binational Painting Award in 2000 and, the
following year, was also awarded a California Arts Council grant. In 2003, he
finished a landmark historic mural in Half Moon Bay, California, and his work
was published in Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art: Artists, Works, Culture
and Education (Bilingual Press, 2002). He is currently an MFA candidate at
Arizona State University.
