(b. El Paso, Texas, 1940)
He attended the University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Texas at Austin to study architecture, however in 1964 he received a B.S. in Art. That same year he received a scholarship to study at UNAM and later moved to New York City while still traveling extensively. In 1971, he returned to El Paso where he would continue to create art in Roswell, New México for six years with the help of an art patron Donald Anderson in which he produced the Progress sculptures, which portray "stereotypical" southwestern images. Luis Jimenez has worked across various medias and was influenced by the popular calendars printed in México. He has demonstrated an alteration of these images on lithograph prints using the symbols of the cactus, an eagle, and a serpent. Some of his work includes a recognizable icon sculpture, Vaquero (Cowboy) for the Chicano community in Houston.
In 1988 he participated in a collaborative exhibition
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