Rate My Professor Danny Jauregui

Danny Jauregui serves as Professor of Art and Department Chair of Art at Whittier College, positions he has held since joining the faculty in 2010. He was promoted to full professor effective August 1, 2023. In his teaching role, Jauregui offers courses in photography, art theory, new media, drawing, digital media, and game art. His academic credentials include a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, San Diego, earned in 2006; a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002; and attendance at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture summer residency program in 2005.

Renowned as an emerging visual artist in Los Angeles, Danny Jauregui employs a multifaceted interdisciplinary practice that draws on archival documents as source materials alongside data visualizations, maps, artificial intelligence, GIF animations, and 3D modeling techniques. Through these methods, he crafts narratives centered on Los Angeles and the city's queer geography. Jauregui's accolades include the prestigious 2021-22 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship from the Department of Cultural Affairs, which provided a $10,000 grant to create new artwork premiered at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Spring 2022. This honor acknowledges his more than 15 years of professional public presentations in the Los Angeles region. He also received the California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship beginning in 2010. His oeuvre has been showcased in numerous solo exhibitions, such as "Piss Elegant / Some Motorcycle" at Samuel Freeman Gallery in 2016, "There Goes The Neighborhood" at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects in 2010, and "Absent The Center" at Bowdoin Museum in 2010. Group exhibitions feature prominently, including "Geographies of Public Sex" at the Leather Archives and Museum in Chicago (2024), "Radical Perverts" at the Museum of Sex in New York City (2023), the COLA Artist Fellowship Exhibition (2022), "Archive Machines" at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (2020), and "Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2008). Additional venues encompass the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego and El Museo del Barrio in New York.