MINORITY CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS

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ARTIST

WANGECHI mutu collage + acrylic on identity through http://wangechimutu.c

mylar, some portraiture om/
animation, some
installation

DO HO suh largescale installation, South Korean http://www.art21.org/a

some digital work ideologies on rtists/do-ho-suh
community + its effect
on the individual

SHALA miller video installation, queerness in relation http://www.smille.org/

photo to family, illustrating https://vimeo.com/use
different african r28373131
american cultures in
america

OLIVIA park photo, video asian stereotypes in http://www.oliviapark.

america and in asian net/have-you-eaten/
families

YVETTE mayorga mixed media exploring border http://www.yvettemay

installation, sculpture, politics, gender, race, + orga.com/
painting identity through tropes
of celebration in
Mexico

RACHEL wallis collaborative fibers honoring and opening http://www.rachelawal

installation up dialogue on police lis.com/gone-but-not-
brutality and mass forgotten.html
incarceration in
Chicago

ELLE perez photo normalizing and http://cargocollective.c

honoring queer bodies om/elleperez

KERRY JAMES painting + comics proving the essential http://www.metmuseu

marshall nature of black history m.org/press/exhibition
and culture in America, s/2016/kerry-james-
pushing against its marshall
silence in euro-centric
art history

SHIRIN neshat Photography + Video Female artist from https://en.wikipedia.or

 Iran who creates work g/wiki/Shirin_Neshat
focusing on the
struggles of being a
woman of Iranian Look for some
descent and also living interviews that she’s
in America. Power, done as well
Self,

CARMEN LOMAS painting Female Chicana artist http://carmenlomasga

garza who paints the the rza.com/about/artist-
lifestyles of hispanic statement/
families. Inspired by
the Chicano Movement
in the 1960’s she
dedicated her work to
representing and
illustrating the lives of
Mexican-Americans

Ai Wei Wei Installation, Chinese contempoary https://en.wikipedia.or

performance, music, artist / activist who g/wiki/Ai_Weiwei
sculpture, socially pushes boundaries of
engaged art what is valued and
questions his
suroundings
(government,
valuables, structures,
laws )includes the
viewer to participate
and become part of
the art and also had
faced scrutiny from
his government due to
his art practice.

KEHINDE wiley Painting New York-based http://kehindewiley.co

portrait painter who is m/
known for his highly
naturalistic paintings
of people with brown
skin in heroic poses

Beautiful work (and i

hate painting -Rozilla
Killa)

Deana Lawson Photographer; Large Afrocentric; https://www.artsy.net/

 Format (8x10) Environmental artist/deana-lawson
Portraits

“the body’s ability to

channel personal and
social histories,
drawing on the various
formal and informal
languages of the
medium and its
archival capabilities,”

All of her subjects are

strangers.

Romuald Hazoumè Sculpture; found Deals with social and Doesn’t have his own
objects; photographer political history of website but this is a
Benin; the exploitation good resource -
of Africa’s resources http://www.octobergal
as a 21st century lery.co.uk/artists/hazo
version of slavery; ume/
comments on waste,
especially in Western
societies: “I send back
to the West that which
belongs to them, that
is to say, the refuse of
consumer society that
invades us everyday.”

Tuula Närhinen Installations consisting Uses found waste, http://www.tuulanarhi

of photographs, specifically from the nen.net
videos, drawings ocean, to create her
and/or sculptures works. Her Baltic Sea
Plastique piece is
amazing! It deals with
the environmental
threat of plastic waste
in a very interesting
way.

Julie Mehretu Painting, Prints Mapping, architecture, http://www.mariangoo

space dman.com/artist/julie-
mehretu