JOSEPH SEGURA
EDUCATION
1984 Certification, Tamarind Master Printer
1977–1978 Apprentice Printer, Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1977 MFA, Painting and Drawing, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
1975 BFA, Painting and Drawing, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
1973 Associate of Arts, Sauk Valley Community College, Dixon, Illinois
1965–1967 Saint Ambrose College, Davenport, Iowa
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2013-2017 Director, Segura Arts Studio, Notre Dame Center for Arts & Culture
2010-2012 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame
1991–2010 Associate Faculty, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Teaching Photo- processes for Printmaking, Collaboration, Collotype, Issues in Printmaking, Two-Dimensional Design, Photogravure, Relief, Lithography, Intaglio, Graduate and Undergraduate levels
1979–1995 Studio Manager, Print Research Facility, School of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
1981–now Director/Founder, Segura Publishing Company, Tempe, Arizona. Fine art print publishing, collaboration with contemporary artists. In the mid-90s the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art purchased the Segura Publishing Company archives and has continued to acquire published works annually.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2008 Kyoto Hanga 2008 International Print Exhibition, USA and Japan (traveling): The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo; Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, Annex, Kyoto; Tokushima Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Tokushima • Artist as Social Critic, Schneider Museum, Southern Oregon University • New Prints 2008/Spring (Selected by Jane Hammond), International Print Center New York • New Prints 2008/Spring Uptown, New York School of Interior Design • Dark Dreams: The Prints of Francisco Goya, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey • New Acquisitions, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
2007 Mark of the Crow: The Enduring Impression of Segura Publishing Company, Mesa Contemporary Arts • Art with a Cause, Tempe Historical Museum • Claudia Bernardi: Silence was hostile and almost perfect, 40 Acres Art Gallery, Sacramento • Trabajo Mexicano/Mexican Work, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Idaho • Luis Jimenez: Prints. The Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL • Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia, The Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
2006 From Segura Publishing, Borden Butler Fine Art, Houston, TX • Vistas of the Frontera: Claudia Bernardi, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Segura Publishing Company’s 25th Anniversary Exhibit, Carlotta’s Passion Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA • Jules Heller & Friends, Cattle Track Arts Compound, Scottsdale, AZ • Neither Man nor Beast, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ • News from Latin America, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
2005 Works from Segura Publishing, Gallery 72, Omaha, NB • Five Presses: Selected Works, Arvada Center, Arvada, CO • Karen Jilly, G2 Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2004 Works from the Permanent Collection, Mesa Contemporary Arts • The Goya Caprichos, Stuart Denenberg Fine Art • MacArthur Award Winners, Carl Solway Gallery (James Turrell) • Latin American Art Fair, Miami, FL • The First Annual Mercado, Hispanic Research Center, Tempe, AZ • IPCNY New Prints 2004, NY • Chicano Art for Our Millennium, Southwest Museum, Mesa, AZ
2003 Works by Segura Publishing, University of New Mexico, Las Cruces • Art and Politics, Capetown, South Africa • Segura Publishing Company Fine Prints, NMSU Art Gallery, Las Cruces, NM • An Evening with Joe Segura, Davis and Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ • Hispanic Women’s Conference, Calvin Charles Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2002 Prints From Segura, Gallery 72, Omaha, NB • Vue Deluxe: Selections from the Permanent Collection, University of Alabama Birmingham • Who Let the Art Out?, Sky Harbor Art Program • Selections from the Permanent Collection, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
2001 Segura Publishing Co.: Celebrating 20 Years of Printmaking, Flanders Graphics, Minneapolis • The Fine Art of Collaboration: Segura Publishing Company's 20th Year, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art • Hispanic Visions: Segura Publishing Company's 20th Anniversary, Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University • Digital Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art • New Prints 2001, Summer, International Print Center, New York
2000 Collaborative Consciousness: Prints from Segura Publishing Company, Etherton Gallery, Tucson • James Turrell, Espace Electra, Paris
SELECTED SEGURA PUBLISHING COMPANY ARTIST COLLABORATIONS
Luis Jimenez • Juane Quick-to-see Smith • Claudia Bernardi • Mark Klett • Elizabeth Catlett • Luis Gonzalez Palma • Vik Muniz • Aaron Fink • Lawrence Gipe • Faith Ringgold • Roy Wasson-Valle • Philip Pearlstein • Kate Breakey • Enrique Chagoya • Karen Jilly • Dan Rizzie • Merrill Mahaffey • James Turrell • Martin Moreno • Judy Chicago • Kyung-lim Lee • Beverly McIver • Daniel Martin Diaz • Gary Komarin • William Wegman • Carrie Mae Weems • Jane Rosen • Ian van Coller • Tony Delap • James G. Davis • Sue Coe • Dominique Blain • Roy DeForest • Charles Gaines • Roberto Huezo • Andres Serrano • Anne Siems • Buzz Spector • Frances Whitehead
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
2008 International Print Exhibition, USA and Japan. Organizers: Kyoto Print Exhibition Executive Committee and Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM, exhibition catalogue.
2007 Right to Print: Segura Publishing Company. Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue.
2002 The Original Print: Understanding Techniques in Contemporary Fine Printmaking. A book by Chris Byrne highlighting the top publishers in the country as a vehicle for looking at how contemporary prints are made.
2001 Art in Review: Print Fair at Lyden Gardens Hotel. New York Times, Ken Johnson.
SELECTED MUSEUM AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Arizona Commission on the Arts • Chase Manhattan • Cincinnati Art Museum • DeYoung Museum • Federal Reserve, Washington, DC • Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco • Fogg Art Museum • General Electric • Huntington Library & Museum • Instituto des Artes Graphicas de Oaxaca • Metropolitan Museum of Art • MGM/Mirage • Microsoft • Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago • National Museum of American Art • New York Metropolitan Opera • New York Public Library Paine • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum • Walker Art Museum • Whitney Museum • Yale University Art Gallery
Statement
Joseph Segura is Emeritus Professor at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. An internationally renowned master printer and past Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Segura developed his interest in printmaking as a graduate student at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, where he received an MFA in drawing and painting in 1977, followed by an apprenticeship at Tamarind Institute. He received certification as a Tamarind Master Printer in 1984.
In 1979, Mr. Segura received an invitation to teach and launch a print research facility at Arizona State University. Driven by the unique collaborative relationship that develops between the artist and the printer, Joseph Segura cofounded the Segura Publishing Company in Tempe, Arizona, in 1981. Committed to advancing a vital dialogue between art and the larger world, the company produced fine-art limited edition prints and monotypes by leading contemporary artists. Working with artists such as Enrique Chagoya, Judy Chicago, James Turrell, Faith Ringgold, Sue Coe and Vik Muniz, Segura Publishing was recognized as a mainstay of the artistic community both locally and nationally. Much of the work by these and the other artists he has collaborated with, address the romantic myths of the American Southwest, and often examine the historical realities of immigration, acculturation and assimilation.
Retiring from Arizona State University in 2010, Professor Segura relocated to South Bend, IN. He worked in collaboration with the Institute for Latino Studies to bring Segura Publishing to the Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture, making it the only university print studio in the country producing primarily Latino artwork, yet drawing from a bank of internationally known artists.
Professor Segura is a collaborative artist working in both printmaking and film. His collaborative work has been collected by numerous museums, including the Walker Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Center for Creative Photography, the National Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Fogg Art Museum, and many others. Professor Segura's films have been exhibited in national film festivals such as the San Francisco International, the New York International, Margaret Meade International, and the Chicago Latino International.
Currently, Joseph Segura is working in his own studio making paintings, drawings and prints.