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Oct 17, 2024Oct 17, 2024 from 6:30pm–8:00pm

Tanya Aguiñiga: Artist Talk

Tanya Aguiñiga: Artist Talk

Tanya Aguiñiga was born in 1978 in San Diego, California, and raised in Tijuana, Mexico. An artist and craftsperson, Aguiñiga works with traditional craft materials like natural fibers and collaborates with other artists and activists to create sculptures, installations, performances, and community-based art projects. Drawing on her upbringing as a binational citizen, who crossed the border daily from Tijuana to San Diego for school, Aguiñiga’s work speaks of the artist’s experience of her divided identity and aspires to tell the larger and often invisible stories of the transnational community. She founded AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides), an ongoing series of projects that provides a platform for binational artists. She was recently awarded the Latinx Art Forum: Latinx Artist Fellowship (2022), Heinz Award (2021), and an Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities (2018). Her work is in the collection of the Hammer Museum, LACMA, Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt and Renwick Museums, and the Museum of Art and Design among others.

Date and Time

Oct 17, 2024Oct 17, 2024 from 6:30pm–8:00pm

Location

Robinson Auditorium

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Event Fee

Free

Contact

Nick Lesley    nlesley@ucsd.edu

Audience

Faculty, Students, The General Public

Event Host

Visual Arts

Event Category

Talks and Lectures