Join us for a conversation between artist-in-residence Dalila Sanabria and artist Catalina Tuca. This conversation will be moderated by the exhibition’s curator Laura G. Gutiérrez. The panel will be followed by a reception.
About the Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program
The Latinx Project’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program is open to emerging and mid-career artists based in the United States. As part of the AIR program, the selected artist will present a solo exhibition on campus and a public program. AIR are selected via open call each spring.
Participants
About the Participants:
Dalila Sanabria is a Chilean-Colombian-American artist from central Florida. Working primarily with sculpture and video, her work references domestic sites and sacred architectures, accumulating organic materials as catalysts for exploring displacement, permanence, and belonging. Sanabria has received an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art, a BFA in Art, and a BA in Portuguese Studies from Brigham Young University. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City, UT; Ortega y Gassett Projects in Brooklyn, New York City; Roman Susan Gallery in Chicago, IL, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Philadelphia, PA; and the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans. Her work has been written about and mentioned in Art in America, Terremoto Magazine, SaltLakeUnderground Magazine, and Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. She is also the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, being a Gilbert Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and participated in residencies and workshops at the Vermont Studio Center, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Sweet Pass Sculpture School, and ACRE (Artists’ Cooperate Residency & Exhibitions).
Laura G. Gutiérrez is Associate Professor in Latinx Studies in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Public Practice in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Gutiérrez is the author of Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage (recipient of an MLA book award) and has published on Latinx performance, border art, Mexican video art, and Mexican political cabaret. She was a Scholars Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles during the Fall of 2022 and a UT Provost Author’s Fellow from 2022-23, and thanks to these she was able to work on her manuscript entitled Binding Intimacies in Contemporary Queer Latinx Performance and Visual Art. In Austin, TX she also serves as the Artistic Director for OUTsider, a nonprofit queer and trans arts organization that programs an annual festival in the community.
Catalina Tuca (b. Santiago, Chile) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator, working in the intersections between geographic identities, collective memories, and hybrid systems of collaboration and participation. After earning a BFA and a degree in Visual Arts Education, she developed her career in Santiago, Chile by showing her work in solo and group exhibitions, teaching visual arts and film, and creating and directing art spaces.
Tuca has had residencies at Youkobo Art Space (Japan); Taller 7 (Colombia); and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (United States). In 2016, she moved to the U.S. to pursue an MFA at Rutgers University, which she received in 2018. She has been a member at NEW INC (New York), a resident at NARS Foundation (New York), a fellow at the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program (New York), a resident with Collider Artist Residency at Contemporary Calgary (Canada), and a grantee of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (New York). She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Pratt Institute and NYU. Tuca lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.