Edgar Arceneaux was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, where he continues to live and work. He received a BFA from the Art Center College of Design and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. In addition he has studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and at the Fachhochschule Aachen in Germany.
He has had solo exhibitions at the Kunstverein Ulm, Germany; Galerie Kamm, Berlin; Frehrkring Wiesehoefer, Cologne; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; the Studio Museum Harlem, New York; and the Project, New York. His recent group shows include True Stories, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Germany; Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California; Urban Aesthetics, African American Museum of Art, Los Angeles; and One Planet Under a Groove, Bronx Museum, New York.
Visited the Art History, Theory & Culture course