Vick Quezada, Open Reception and Artist TalkMarch 19 at 4:30–6:30 p.m.

The Gustavus Arts & Arts History Department present Vick Quezada.

Vick Quezada (they/them) is an Mestizx interdisciplinary artist, explores hybrid forms in Indigenous-Latinx history and the function of these histories in contested lands, primarily in the U.S.-Mexico Border. They work with a variety of mediums: video, performance, sculpture and ceramics. Quezada’s work explores liberation through an approach that is rooted in queer and Indigenous knowledge, histories, and aesthetics. They draw on an Mexica spirituality that centers the power of interconnectivity, one that extends beyond gender, race, and the human experience . Quezada was a a fellow at Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration Institute in 2022. In 2021-2022 they received the prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Their work has been featured in Hyperallergic, BOMB Magazine, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Art News, Trans Studies Quarterly, and Remezcla. In 2020 Quezada was hand selected from a "large-scale survey" of 40 emerging artists from the US and Puerto Rico to be featured in El Museo del Barrio's groundbreaking, La Trienal.  From 2019-20 Quezada was the artist-in-residence at the Latinx Project at NYU. Quezada holds a Bachelors from the University of Texas at El Paso and a Masters in Fine Art from University Massachusetts at Amherst Amherst. They are currently an Assistant Professor of Art Practice at Hampshire College.