Charmagne Vasquez

Artist’s Statement

Charmagne Vasquez is an artist of contemporary paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Her current works often focus on interconnectedness and humankind’s role within earth’s dynamic biology. The artworks are made spontaneously and ecstatically, with traditional and non-traditional media. Vasquez builds up complex, colorful layers, organic landscapes and menageries of emerging forms. The tension of daily human existence grapples with a deeper, inherent need to live more harmoniously within a symbiotic web of life. Urban and feral. Civilizations and hinterlands. Decay and regrowth. States of reverence intersect curiosity and exploration. Interdimensional figures signal to the viewer, beckoning toward the ever-communicating global biome. Vasquez’s canvases pay homage to sacred Mother Earth, aligning with collective energy and honoring indigenous, ancestral ties. 

Vasquez has been internationally collected, published and exhibited. Notable, recent inclusions of her artworks appeared in pacificREVIEW: moment(o) by San Diego State University, Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, and the Artist + Researcher Project with Phoenix Bioscience Core and Bentley Gallery. Her process cross-pollinates with her other practices, free ver...

Northern Arizona University

Curriculum Vitae 

Education:1991-1994 Northern Arizona University: BA in Elementary Education, Minor in Fine Art

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2026
-Meridians, Horseshoe Gallery, Bobby Beals Presents, Santa Fe, NM
2024
-Hinterlands & Murmurations, Walter Art Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2021
-Contrails  and Peripheries, Royse Contemporary Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2018
-Pan Door, Royse Contemporary Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2016
-The Reaches, Chartreuse Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2014
-Prelude, Shade West of MonOrchid Gallery, Renaissance Hotel, Phoenix, AZ
2013
-From Hinterland, Gallery One13, Flagstaff, AZ
2011
-Embark, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ
2008
-Holland Studio, Flagstaff, AZ 

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2026
-Fever Dreams, Desert Crafted Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2024
-Arizona Art Stars, trio exhibition curated by Terri Rundle and Jerre Lynn Vanier, Soca Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2023
-Visual Syntax, abstract exhibition, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ
-Artist + Researcher Project, Phoenix Bioscience Core and Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
-Sustainable, HQ Gallery, Surprise, AZ
-The Space Between, Artsy, Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2022
-Flinn Foundation Art Exhibition, Flinn Foundation, Phoenix, AZ
2021
-Artlink ...