Dan Concholar

Dan Concholar (May 23, 1939 – February 1, 2017 ) was an American painter and arts organizer. Educated under Charles White at the Otis Art Institute, he was active in the Los Angeles scene in the 1970s and in New York City in the 1980s. His work was included in the "Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980" at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles which travelled to MoMA P.S.1 in New York City in 2012.

Early life and education Concholar was born May 23, 1939, in San Antonio, Texas to Alvin Dorsey, a Black Texas cowboy, and Rubena Cocholar. His family, which included three sisters and three brothers, and Gallery 32. too, began exhibiting his work there. He also stayed active organizing artists by directing of the Art Information Center in the 1980s, an organization that helped them develop gallery representation.

Concholar's work is in the Mott-Warsh Collection, among others.

Personal life He was married to Olivia Diaz with whom they had three children, Alvin Derek, Leslie, and Denise. Diaz and Cocholar divorced.

Death Concholar moved to Nevada City, California to be cared for my his surviving daughter Leslie and her family. Six years later, he moved into a rehabilitation facility in Grass Valley, where he died on February 1, 2017. The Arizona Republic reported in his obituary that he liked to say, "The art world is racist, sexist, elitist, and completely wonderful!"