Tanya Flores Hodgson

Americanizacíon

Digital photograph

"As a Central American living in the United States, specifically in California, my experiences and connections to Latinx identity are often one-dimensional and monocultural. White Supremacy in the United States and Mexican hegemony within Los Angeles has resulted in an identity crisis. My identity and culture as a Central American from Nicaragua are often erased within various cultural and social spaces.

This series deals with the intersecting concepts of immigration, cultural identity, and feminism. Through the use of cultural items from my motherland, personal objects, traditional garments, and historical documents, I am seeking to construct and carve out a space to nurture and question my identity as a Nicaragüense existing and resisting in the United States."

— Tanya Flores Hodgson

About the artist

Tanya Flores Hodgson

Tanya Flores Hodgson is an artist based in Los Angeles. She was born in Masaya Nicaragua and immigrated to the United States at a young age. She holds a Bachelor’s in Fine Art Photography and a minor in Latin American Studies from California State University Long Beach. Her work focuses on Central American identity, immigration, feminism, social movements and the impact of U.S. imperialism/colonialism on Latin American politics, specifically Nicaragua, through a feminist decolonial lens. She mainly works with photography, video, text and vector illustration. A prevalent theme in her work is the impacts of U.S imperialism, immigration and patriarchal systemic oppression on her life and her body through the use of self-portraiture.