Daniel Galvez (born 1953) is an artist, muralist, and painter currently living in Oakland. He was born in Calexico and raised in Sacramento. He studied at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, and completed his BFA at the California College of the Arts. He also earned an MA in painting from San Francisco State University. Through his schooling, he found inspiration from photorealism and “Los Tres Grandes” (José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Diego Rivera). He worked on the murals People's History of Telegraph Avenue (1976) and Winds of Change (1977), in Berkeley, and completed his first mural Viva la Raza (1977), also in Berkeley, and then Oakland’s Portrait (1981) in Oakland.
