Yvette Mayorga

born 1991

BiographyYvette Mayorga is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Her work interrogates the broad effects of militarization within and beyond the US/Mexico border and intervenes in the colonial legacies of art history. She fuses confectionary labor with found images to explore the meaning of belonging. Mayorga holds an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

She has exhibited nationally and internationally at the Museum of Art and Design, Vincent Price Art Museum, DePaul Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, the Center for Craft, the Museo Universitario del Chopo, and LACMA's Pacific Standard Time:LA/LA. In 2020-2021, her work was included in ESTAMOS BIEN: LA TRIENAL 20/21 and acquired by El Museo del Barrio as part of the inaugural survey of contemporary Latinx art. Currently, Mayorga is working on a large-scale commission for the City of Chicago’s O’hare International Airport’s Terminal 5 public art project and her first East Coast solo museum exhibition at the Aldrich, Ridgefield, CT opening in the fall of 2023. Mayorga’s first solo museum exhibition What a Time to be debuted fall of 2022 at Crystal Bridges’ satellite space, The Momentary, in Bentonville, AR.

She has been featured in Artforum, Artnet, Art in America, Art News, DAZED, Galerie Magazine, Hyperallergic, Latina Magazine, Teen Vogue, The Guardian, The New York Times, W Magazine, and Women’s Wear Daily. Her works are in the permanent collections of 21c Museum Hotels, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, DePaul Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the New Mexico State University Art Museum.

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