Daisy Quezada Ureña b. 1990

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    photo by Cougar Vigil
    photo by Cougar Vigil

    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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  • 'As a Mexican American artist, I am informed by my cultural background from both Mexico and the United States, I...
    "As a Mexican American artist, I am informed by my cultural background from both Mexico and the United States, I address social issues that substantiate a voice with an overarching identity of being cast aside. My work bridges the personal to the social, forming a relationship to immigration, gender inequality, labor, and class issues that have resulted in a population that has been left devalued and lost within their own culture. Using an altered lace draping technique, I use my garments or items donated by people on either side of the border. I create complex and intimate works that could be considered private in nature. I take garments of individuals through a transformation state using porcelain slip. Drawing from the internal vulnerability carried by each garment, the works act as imprints of past states, and are a culmination of identities, collected and externalized."

    -Daisy Quezada Ureña
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