Miguel Angel Reyes

Miguel Angel Reyes (born 1964) is an American performer and professor of art.

Reyes was born in Colima, Mexico in 1964. He emigrated past his intimates in 1975 to the United States and took taking place residing in Southern California. He acknowledged a BFA in illustration from the Otis Art Institute/Parsons School of Design. In 1993, he worked for a season as a jazz and unprejudiced dancer for the San Diego Dance Theater. He is openly gay.

In 1995, he completed a 750-foot mural, one of the largest mural projects in Los Angeles, at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle titled Amistades (Friendships). It was commissioned by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The mural was removed next the creation of the Hollywood segment of the Metro Red Line in 1999.

Reyes has had fifteen solo exhibits and has been featured in beyond a hundred activity shows throughout the United States, Mexico, Europe and Asia back 1989. He has in addition to shown in major museums.

He is a portrait and symbolic painter, muralist, printmaker, and illustrator.

As a regular contributor to a range of causes such as Project Angel Food, Self-Help Graphics, and Central America Resource Center (CARECEN), he not by yourself contributes artwork but next his get older and experience.

He currently is theoretical of model drawing in the Fashion Department of the Otis College of Art.