Eduardo Pineda

Eduardo Pineda, based in Berkeley, CA, is a visual artist interested in the role of art in people’s lives. His artistic trajectory has taken him from the formative period of the Bay Area community mural movement in the 1980-90s into leading cultural institutions during the tremendous expansions of the 1990-2000s and back into the neighborhoods. Pineda has painted over 56 murals for cities, museums, school districts, universities, corporations, unions and commercial businesses since joining the Community Mural Movement in 1978. His mural partnership, Fresco (1990-98), with legendary muralist Raymond Patlán produced over 20 murals. In 2008 he teamed up with muralist Joaquin Alejandro Newman. They are currently producing cast concrete architectural enhancements for the Ashland Youth Center, commissioned by the Alameda County Arts Commission. In 2011 the duo produced murals for the Mission Neighborhood Health Center, SF, that engaged San Francisco State University anthropology students in the community mural process, and for the 100 Families Highland Hospital Community Mural Project, commissioned by the Alameda County Arts Commission and that directly involved families. In 2009 he painted a mural for a health clinic in Bamako Mali, West Africa, and produced a photo series for the Alameda County Arts Commission. He was the Director of Education at the Museum of the African Diaspora (2006-2007) and held multiple education posts at SFMOMA (1990-2006). As an independent curator he organized exhibitions at numerous Bay Area museums and alternative art spaces. In 2010 Pineda co-curated Images: Independence and Revolution an on-going exhibition of permanent collection objects for The Mexican Museum, San Francisco that is still on view. He is an Arts Integration Specialist for the Alameda County Office of Education and was a teaching artist for the VALUES Project (2003-2006) – an arts integration project of the California College of Arts, the Alameda County Office of Education and Harvard University Project Zero. His artworks are in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts and the San Francisco Arts Commission and Alameda County Arts Commission public art collections.