Malaquías Montoya (b. 1938) is a pioneering Chicano artist, activist and educator whose prints, posters and murals use art as a tool for social change. A key figure in the Bay Area serigraphy movement of the 1960s, Montoya embraced screenprinting as an accessible means of reaching audiences beyond museums and galleries. His bold graphic works address farmworker rights, immigration, war and other struggles for social justice, reflecting his conviction that artists can give “a voice to the voiceless.” Raised in California’s San Joaquin Valley in a family of farmworkers, Montoya graduated from UC Berkeley in 1969. He taught at the University of California, Davis, from 1989 to 2008 as a professor of Chicano Studies and cooperating faculty member in art. In 2009, he co-founded Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer (TANA), a UC Davis Chicana/o Studies community arts program in Woodland. His work has been exhibited nationally, including at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Major surveys of his work and influence were presented concurrently at the Manetti Shrem Museum and the Oakland Museum of California in 2023–24.