Cheech Marin

Collector and co-founder. Cheech Marin spent decades buying Chicano art when major museums ignored it, and in June 2022 the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture opened in a former public library in Riverside, California. It is a partnership with the Riverside Art Museum, which runs it, and the city. His collection of roughly 700 works is the core, and its exhibitions now tour nationally.