Joey Terrill

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Joey Terrill

Joey Terrill is a second-generation native Angeleno, who has been painting and making art for more than 30 years. Born in 1955, his work combines influences ranging from his love of pop art to Mexican retablos, and drawing on the energy, politics and creative synergy of Chicano and queer art circles in Los Angeles. Terrill was a formative figure in the Chicano art movement and AIDS cultural activism and is a former board member of VIVA!, the first gay and lesbian Latino art organization in Los Angeles.