JACKIE AMÉZQUITA, Guatemalan, now based in Los Angeles, is a performance & installation artist whose work fuses material & forms from pre-Colombian culture with contemporary community engagement. Day 30 of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

HUMBERTO SAENZ, Mexican-American, based in San Antonio Texas, is a visual artist, printmaker whose work reflects his heritage, culture, storytelling, immigration. The reality of wage laborers are juxtaposed with cultural, historical imagery. Day 29 of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

JAY LYNN GOMEZ, Mexican-American, born & based in Los Angeles, is a painter & sculptor. Her work looks at immigration, social justice, labor: particularly highlighting the work of often invisible people who work in houses & spaces of the rich. Day 28 #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

JOSEPH RODRÍGUEZ, Nuyorican, is a photographer whose work documents the life of various Latinx communities, from Spanish Harlem to East LA. He focuses on the toll of poverty, AIDS, drugs on people, as well as on the bonds of family & kinship. Day 27 #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

ALEXANDRE ARREACHEA, Cuban, produces pieces that are intimately involved with place, including geography, history, memory, social justice, politics. His work is often architectural in nature, ax installation, watercolor, sculpture. Day 26 of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

CAMILA ROSA is a Brazilian illustrator & artist based in Brooklyn. Her works, featuring high contrast & limited palette, center women: highlighting connections, identity. Her portrayal of women take up space in a glorious, joyful way. Day 25 of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

CONSUELO JIMENEZ UNDERWOOD, Chicana & Indigenous (Wixaritari), is a fiber artist & weaver whose work addresses immigration & migration. Ape specifically often interrogates the arbitrary borderline that separates Mexico & the US. Day 24 of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ is a Cuban-American visual artist whose large scale works & installations propose landscapes that might reveal other, psychological surfaces, places, times. Her materials bring their own histories with them into the art. Day 23 of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

TEDDY SANDOVAL, a queer Chicano artist in the late 1900s, challenged ideas of masculinity, sexuality in the Chicano community. His work was transgressive and existed out of institutional acceptance, instead he created his own institutions & community. #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

Round up of Days 15-21 posts for #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist … visit earlier posts if you missed any of the posts about these awesome #Latine artists!

GLENDALYS MEDINA, a diasporic Nuyorican, an artist who uses concepts - like pattern recognition - to break down systems, reconstruct & recontextualize them to find new meanings, new symbols. Identity, knowledge, memory are frequent targets. Day 21 of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

YOLANDA GONZÁLEZ, Chicana, brings her culture & identity into her artwork, boldly, uncompromising, full of emotion and desire for connection. Although these are all paintings shown here, she works across disciplines. Day 20 of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

FLORA SALDIVAR is a Mexican-American painter based in NW Arkansas. She uses a pouring method on raw canvas to produce large scale abstracts that are spontaneous & echo and remember her multilayered identity & past. Day 19 of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

GLEO aka NATALIA GALLEGO is a street artist from Cali, Colombia. Known for large murals, her art features folklore, women, inner worlds made tangible, revealing her vision of the world. You can find her work on bldgs around the world. Day 18 of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

SONIA ROMERO, Chicana, born & based in Echo Park, Los Angeles, is an artist whose work reflects her culture & a desire for healing. Her work includes printmaking, painting, murals/public art, tiles…, pushes the boundaries of any one discipline. #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

ZAMARA CUYÚN, of Highland Maya Guatemalan descent, born & based in Minneapolis, explores themes of (Maya) indigeneity, resistance, revitalization, decolonization, the role of women in those efforts. Her public art works are often collaborative. Day 16 #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

PATRICK MARTINEZ, a Los Angeleno of Mexican, Native, Filipino descent, is a mixed media, multidisciplinary artist. His work evokes & refers to the lives and the struggles of Black & Brown people, rooted in place & culture. #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

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HARMONIA ROSALES, an Afro Cuban American born in Chicago, paints Black women with the richness they deserve & have long been denied. Placing them at the center of ancient mythologies, incld Yoruba ones, achieving power & cultural reverence. Day 14 of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist

PRISCILA DE CARVALHO (Day 13!), born in Brazil, based in Brooklyn, constructs a sense of place through memory, cultural stories, structures, images. Installations, sculpture, painting; many of her works are in the public sphere. #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist