UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
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Artist: Yvette Mayorga
Yvette Mayorga is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Her work interrogates the broad effects of militarization within and beyond the US/Mexico border and intervenes in the colonial legacies of art history. She fuses confectionary labor with found images to explore the meaning of belonging. Mayorga holds an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
She has exhibited at the Vincent Price Art Museum, DePaul Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, the Center for Craft, the Museo Universitario del Chopo, and LACMA's Pacific Standard Time:LA/LA.In 2020-2021, her work was included in ESTAMOS BIEN: LA TRIENAL 20/21 and acquired by El Museo del Barrio as part of the inaugural survey of contemporary Latinx art. Currently, Mayorga is working on a large-scale commission for the City of Chicago’s O’hare International Airport’s Terminal 5 public art project. Mayorga’s first solo museum exhibition What a Time to be will debut fall of 2022 at Crystal Bridges’ satellite space, The Momentary in Bentonville, AR. She has been featured in Artforum, Artnet, Art in America, Art News, Galerie Magazine, Hyperallergic, Teen Vogue, The Guardian, and The New York Times. Her works are in the permanent collections of the DePaul Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Photo credit: Mercedes Zapata.