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Art and Artists

Artists play a huge role in illustrating and shaping public sentiment around controversial political and social issues. Explore some revolutionary art by queer Latinx artists from the  20th and 21st centuries below.

 

Pieces from the LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes' 2017 exhibit, "¡Mírame!"

(Exhibit info found here and here.)

 

Hector Silva, Los Hijos de Dona Rita
Hector Silva, Los Hijos de Dona Rita

 

 

Alma Silva, Ixta
Alma Silva, Ixta

 

The show features a lot instances of what Delgadillo describes as the "queering" of traditional Latinx imagery. Alma Silva's photographic pieces, printed on large canvases, mash together lesbian love and the sort of iconography you'd find in an abuela's house"

 

Other queer Latinx artists confront American racism and more forms of oppression

Detail of the Great Wall of Los Angeles (1976–), by Judith F. Baca, showing 500,00 Mexican Americans Deported. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND SPARC, VENICE, CALIFORNIA
"Detail of the Great Wall of Los Angeles (1976–), by Judith F. Baca, showing 500,00 Mexican Americans Deported."

(Source)

 

Carmelita Tropicana by Carlos David
Carmelita Tropicana by Carlos David

 

Carmelita Tropicana has been performing in New York’s downtown arts scene since the 1980s, straddling the worlds of performance art and theater in the U.S., Latin America and Europe with her irreverent humor, subversive fantasy and bilingual puns." (Source)

 

And don't forget to check out these 16 songs by Queer Latinx artists for the month of Pride! (Source)

 

As queer Latinx artists and activists gain voices, more and more art exhibits around the country are including their pieces in both permanent and traveling exhibitions.