ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: October 2025

Pável Acevedo is a printmaker/muralist from Oaxaca, Mexico, based in Los Angeles. The traditional Mexican printmaking imagery of Taller Gráfica Popular Mexicana and traditional family folk tales influence Pável Acevedo's artworks. Pável’s printmaking work has been showcased between the Bay Area of San Francisco and Southern California and other states such as Texas, New Mexico, New York, Mississippi, Washington, and internationally in Belgium, Canada, Mexico, and Colombia.

Pável Acevedo has worked as an independent art educator at Self Help Graphics, Plaza de la Raza, Breesee Foundation, Riverside Art Museum, and I Learnmerica. He’s also on Speedball's professional artist roster. His past residencies include Beyond the Press at Self Help Graphics, KALA Art Institute, College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, and Horned Toad Print Shop in El Paso, TX. 

As a mural artist, he’s been commissioned to create murals by Chaffey College’s Wignall Art Museum, La Sierra University’s Art & Design Department, and the city of Riverside. He has also crafted murals for We Rise LA and Self Help Graphics and for private collectors commissioning public murals in Los Angeles.

His artwork is in public collections at the Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, TX. The Met library is in New York, California, at Self Help Graphics, Riverside Art Museum, and KALA Art Institute. 

You can find Pável Acevedo on Instagram at @pavel_acevedo. For information on projects and prints, visit his website: https://www.oaxacaprintmaker.com/