Daisy Quezada Ureña is a multidisciplinary artist, and a professor and Associate Academic Dean at the Institution of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Within her practice she creates ceramic works, installations, and artist’s books that thematically connect to ideas around identity and place in relation to social structures that cross imposed borders. She cofounded Present Cartographers, a collective invested in strategies and perspectives from national and international artists and writers amid a migration crisis and resurgence of territorial claims in local and international border zones. As an extension of her practice Quezada Ureña has also worked alongside non-for-profit organizations like El Otro Lado/The Other Side and Downtown Aurora Visual Arts that impact community at a local level by bringing art to youth. Quezada Ureña was named one of 15 Latinx Artist Fellows for 2023 by the US Latinx Art Forum.

A national and international exhibiting artist, her work has been featured in Summerhall (Edinburg, Scotland); New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum (New Taipei Taiwan); Icheon Ceramics Festival (Icheon South Korea); The Denver Art Museum (Denver, Colorado); and in Women’s Work, an exhibition at the Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, N.Y., alongside artists Judy Chicago, Louise Bourgeois, and Cindy Sherman.

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