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Alfredo Arreguín
Seattle, Washington
From Our Archive: Fine artist Alfredo Arreguín was born in 1935 in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. At age 9, Arreguín became the youngest pupil at the Morelia School of Fine Art. At age 13 he moved to Mexico City, living there for eleven years until he came to the United States in 1959. Arreguín resides in Seattle, where he earned BA (1967) and MFA (1969) degrees from the University of Washington. Among his awards are the Humanitarian Award by the Washington State Legislature, the Governor's Arts Award from the State of Washington, and a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship. He has had over 37 Solo exhibitions throughout the US and in Spain and his work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.