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We are honored to work with Tanya and Andrés to review proposals for the upcoming exhibition season. Both are artists and cultural organizers with extensive experience working on and around the U.S.-Mexico border and bring a wealth of national and international experience to the process.
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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 daily crossed the border 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 is the founder of 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 American’s 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.
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Andres Payan Estrada, born in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, currently lives and works in Los Angeles. An artist and curator whose practice focuses on issues revolving around contemporary craft along with material and object practices with a focus on ceramics and queer theory. He is currently the director of public engagement at Craft Contemporary, has served as special visiting art faculty at the California Institute of the Arts and has been a mentor at Warren Wilson College Master of Arts in Craft Studies and A+B Projects Ceramic Certificate. Payan Estrada is also the co-curator and co-founder of Craft Contemporary’s Clay Biennial, founded and leads the annual fundraiser and sale CLAY LA, and recently curated the exhibition Total Collapse, Clay in the Contemporary Past for the Arizona State University Museum, along with establishing POTLUCK, a large-scale biennial clay and ceramics fundraiser, auction, and free public program series that benefits Craft Contemporary.
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Ramon Cardenas is the Assistant Curator of Practice at the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts and brings significant artistic and community engagement experience in the El Paso/Juárez communities serving as a liaison between community artists and the Rubin Center. Ramon is a visual artist who forms half of the collaborative art duo LxsDos. He has more than a decade of experience in community-based arts, including public murals, public art commissions, grants from the City of El Paso and others, collaborations with artists and community organizations throughout El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, independent curatorial projects, workshops and curriculum development for students of all ages, and business experience through Maintain Studio.