LADY PINK is one of the OGs of graffiti. Ecuador-born, NYC-raised, she started writing in 1979, one of the only female writers in the scene. Her art has became more political & fantastical & centering women, indigenous South American spirituality. #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

ADRIANA GORDILLO is Columbian based in my same town - St Paul Imniza Ska. A multidisciplinary visual artist & poet, her work forms bridges across gender & cultural expectations, migration, memory & personal histories, dreams and myths. Day 11 #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

KANDY G. LOPEZ is Day 10! #LatinxHeritageMonth
A multimedia portrait artist, her works explore identity - that of her self, of members of her Afro-Caribbean-Latinx community. She has become known for her fiber portraits but her collage & stained glass work is also amazing. #LatinxContemporaryArtist

VERONICA BELLO was born in Caracas but never lived there, grew up in CDMX & is now Brooklyn-based. These details are related to her fiber art where she creates remembered/imagined spaces from family fotos and memories, lacunas included. Day 9 of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

JOIRI MINAYA grapples with the way stereotypes of “the tropics” effectively erase, hide the lives and even bodies of women. New York-based, of Dominican descent, she works with painting, installation, film, digital media, textile, performance. Day 8 of
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Days 1 thru 7 of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist
All these artists were completely new to me. Love learning about them, their work. Be sure to check out the daily posts for anyone you missed so far! & stay tuned for more #LatinxARTISTS #LATINEartists

DAVID ANTONIO CRUZ is NYC-based, Puerto Rican painter, sculptor, performance artist, explores queerness & race. He combines figuration with abstract elements & collage, centering & posing Black & Brown bodies, unveiling the hidden. This is Day 7! of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

OLGA DE AMARAL - a revolutionary fiber/sculptural artist, from Colombia. She studied at Cranbrook (where my dad studied too!) & then returned to Colombia & pushed the boundaries btw weaving, sculpture, painting. Also founded a commercial design studio. #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

ANGEL OTERO, painter & sculptor, from Puerto Rico, explores memory, distortion, place & relationships in his works that often literally are scraped and pushed into ‘skins’ or include objects from real or remembered times, places. #AbstractArtist #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

TANIA BRUGUERA is a Cuban performance artist who interrogates power dynamics, social & political oppression, often in startling, visceral, literally body-based ways. Hard to convey the power of her work in fotos. But I had to include in #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist as she’s a force

MARGARITA CABRERA is a Me I am-American sculptor that interrogates the border, what happens on each side and to the people who cross it. Her work is often collaborative with other Latinx immigrants, cf. remarkable Space in Between project. Day 3 of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

Day 2 is GUADALUPE MARAVILLA, a healer, choreographer & transdisciplinary artist, a Salvadoran immigrant who addresses trauma, Latinx immigrant experiences, and uses indigenous & contemporary approaches in their art. #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

In honor of #LatinxHeritageMonth I’ll daily highlight a contemporary artist from the Latinx community. Day 1 is YVETTE MAYORGA who uses highly decorated style (“Latinx-oco”) to explore a Mexican-American identity, the immigrant experience, labor, feminism. #LatinxContemporaryArtist