Living Here

Maria Fe Victoria Tolentino Villote is an interdisciplinary artist whose process-based works explore the complexities of identity and the transformation of emotional experience through mimesis. As a 1.5-generation immigrant from the Philippines, she draws on fleeting and fragmented childhood memories to reflect on the intricate process of cultural amalgamation within the diaspora and the fluidity of cultural boundaries. Her work examines the enduring impacts of colonial mentality, internalized racism, and cultural assimilation. Villote received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and Mexico. She lives and works in Ventura County, California.