(b. San Joaquin, California, USA, 1940).
Gilbert "Magu" Lujan is the son of Mexican immigrants, with one brother and four half-brothers. After serving in the Air Force for four years (three in England), Lujan attended East LA College and California State University Long Beach on the G.I. bill, and later completed an MFA at UC Irvine. The artist began curating shows to "show-off" the low rider, graffiti, pan de huevos, serapes, cholo aspects of Chicano culture.
He has been teaching Chicano studies since 1973 and was the department chair of Chicano Studies at Fresno City College. He is best known for his murals in Los Angeles, yet his favorite medium is clay. Lujan says about his work, "My art intentions, over the years, have been to use Mesoamerican heritage as well as implementing current popular Art and cultural folk sources as the material substance to translate." In 1973, he created the art collective Los Four, along with Frank Romero, Carlos Almaraz,
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