Artist Studio Visit: Tanya Aguiñiga

Join the Fowler Museum at UCLA off-site in East Los Angeles for a studio visit with artist Tanya Aguiñiga and learn about her craft and art practices. Aguiñiga’s work is featured in our current PST ART exhibition, Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal: Tanya Aguiñiga & Porfirio Gutiérrez en Conversación/in Conversation.

Tanya Aguiñiga was born in 1978 in San Diego, California; raised in Tijuana, Mexico; and lives in Los Angeles. An artist, designer, and craftsperson working with traditional craft materials, she collaborates frequently with other artists and activists to create sculptures, installations, performances, and community-based art projects. Drawing upon her upbringing as a binational citizen who daily crossed the border from Tijuana to San Diego for school, Aguiñiga’s practice speaks to her divided identity, and aspires to tell the larger and often invisible stories of the transnational community.

Presented in conjunction with the Fowler Museum at UCLA's PST ART: Art & Science Collide exhibition Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal: Tanya Aguiñiga and Porfirio Gutiérrez en Conversación/in Conversation.