Yvette Mayorga

Education

2016

MFA in Fiber and Material Studies, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

2014

BFA in Painting with a Minor in Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL



Yvette Mayorga est une artiste basée à Chicago qui navigue au croisement du féminisme, de l'immigration et du postcolonialisme. Américano-mexicaine de première génération, elle puise son inspiration dans les récits personnels de cette traversée de la frontière et dans la politique migratoire aux États-Unis. Ses projets récents incluent des expositions personnelles à la Roman Susan Gallery (Chicago) ainsi qu’une présentation personnelle en collaboration avec la Chicago Artists Coalition à l'EXPO Chicago en 2017. Parmi ses dernières bourses et résidences, citons la subvention MAKER de la Chicago Artists Coalition (2018), la résidence Fountainhead (2017), ACRE Artist Residency (2017) et la résidence BOLT à la Chicago Artists Coalition (2016). Yvette Mayorga a obtenu un MFA en Fibres et Matériaux à la School of the Art Institute de Chicago et un BFA en peinture à l'Université de l'Illinois - Urbana-Champaign.


-Geary

Yvette Mayorga est une artiste multidisciplinaire basée à Chicago, dans l’Illinois. Son travail interroge les conséquences de la militarisation au cœur et de part et d’autre de la frontière américano-mexicaine, tout en convoquant l'héritage colonial de l'histoire de l'art. Elle mêle confiserie et images retrouvées pour explorer le sentiment d'appartenance.


Son travail a été exposé dans des galeries et musées nationaux et internationaux, dont le Vincent Price Art Museum, le DePaul Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, le Center for Craft, le Museo Universitario del Chopo, le LACMA's Pacific Standard Time : LA / LA, NXTHVN, Art Design Chicago, la Chicago Artists Coalition, le National Museum of Mexican Art, GEARY Contemporary, EXPO et Untitled Art Fair. En 2020, elle réalise le projet Meet me at the Green Clock pour Johalla Projects, dans le cadre de l'exposition Andy Warhol - From A to B and Back Again, à l'Art Institute of Chicago. Elle participe à l'exposition largement saluée par la critique ESTAMOS BIEN : LA TRIENAL 20/21, la première enquête à grande échelle d'El Museo del Barrio sur l'art latino contemporain.


Ses créations ont fait l’objet d’articles pour de publications telles que Artforum, Artnet, Art in America, Art News, Galerie Magazine, Hyperallergic, NewCity, Teen Vogue, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books et The New York Times. Certaines de ses œuvres ont rejoint les collections permanentes du DePaul Art Museum, d’El Museo del Barrio et de la John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Elle a participé à la résidence Fountainhead et à la résidence BOLT, et a reçu la bourse MAKER. Elle a obtenu un MFA en Fibres et Matériaux à la School of the Art Institute de Chicago.

Expositions de groupe à la galerie
The Ecstasy of Saint Britney, New York
11 juin - 29 juillet 2022


Expositions Personnelles

2023

TBA, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Ridgefield, CT (catalogue)


2022

What A Time to be, The Momentary, Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AR

2021

Monochromatic Dreams, Law Warschaw Gallery, Saint Paul, MN

2020

Monochromatic Dreams, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX

2019

A Part of US, GEARY Contemporary, New York, NY

High Maintenance, Tube Factory, Indianapolis, IN

2018

Pastillage, Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL

High Maintenance, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN

2017

High Maintenance, EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL (curated by Janine Mileaf)

The Politics of Desire, BOLT

Solo Exhibition, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago,IL

Expositions à Deux Personnes

2021

A Walk in the Park, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL

2020

UNTITLED Art Fair, Selenas Mountain, New York, NY


Expositions Collectives 

2023


Funk You Too!: Humor and Irreverence in Modern and Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY


2022


Skin in the Game, organisée par Zoe Lukov, Chicago, IL


EXPO Chicago, Pablo’s Birthday, Chicago, IL


Contemporary Ex Votos, NMSU Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM


The Ecstasy of Saint Britney, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York


2021

Liberatory Adornment, Flaten Art Museum at St. Olaf College, College, Northfield, Northfield, MN

Felix Art Fair, Residency Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The New Contemporaries Vol 2, Residency Art Gallery, Inglewood, CA

Estamos Bien: La Trienal 20/21, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY

Unending Chapters, Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA

Exotify Elsewhere, Marthas Contemporary, Austin, TX

LatinX American, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL

2020

Material Intimacies, NXTHVN, New Haven, CT

Endlessly Dreaming, NADA Chicago, Everybody Gallery, Chicago, IL

Sleight of Hand, Center for Craft, Asheville, NC (curated by Angelik Vizcarrondo)

Fair Vanity, Summertime Gallery, Slominski Projects, New York, NY

The Collection, Fashion Outlets of Chicago, Rosemont, IL (curated by Julie Ro drigues Widholm)

Xicanx: New Visions, Centro De Artes, San Antonio, TX

Separation Anxiety, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

Well Healed, HF Johnson Gallery of Art at Carthage College, Kenosha, WI

2019

Five x Five, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX

Human Nature, The Pit, Glendale, CA (curated by Jaime Muñoz)

A Record of Memory, The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN

Mana Decentralized, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ

The Salon at The Wing, The Wing, Chicago, IL (curated by Lolita Cros)

Dream Wavers, STNDRD, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

The world can never be exactly what you want it to be, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL

2018

Softer but Louder, GEARY Contemporary, New York, NY

Art Design Chicago Booth, EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL

Local Comfort, LVL 3, Chicago, IL

Late August Early September, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL

Living Architecture, Art Design Chicago, 6018North, Chicago, IL

Reinterpreting Religion, Ukraine Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL

The Chicago Show, featuring work by the Chicago Imagists, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Madeleine Mermall)

Out of Easy Reach, DePaul Art Museum, Gallery 400, Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago, IL (catalogue)

Design and its Dimension, Design District, Miami, FL

A Universal Universal History History of Infamy, Charles White Gallery, LACMA, Pacific Paci Standard Standard Time:LA/LA, Los Angeles, CA

Barrier, ALSO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2017

The Terrain Biennial, Terrain Exhibitions, Oak Park, IL

Tilica Tilica y flaca es la calaca: calaca: Day of the Dead, The National National Museum of Mexican Mexican Art, Chicago, IL

Bold Disobedience, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL

The Petty Biennial, The Arts Incubator at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Memoria Presente: An Artistic Journey, The National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL

Luscious Saturn, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL

50 x 50 Invitational, The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

2016

Preview 6, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL

Nepantla: Spaces of Transformation, Lady Base Gallery, San Antonio, TX

Tastemakers & Earthshakers, Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA

SAIC Booth, EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL

MFA Thesis Show, Sullivan Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Brown Profile, Benton House, Spring of Latino Art Conference Conference and Biennial, Biennial, Chicago, IL 

2015

SAIC Booth, EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL

Borderline Visual Art, Eberhard Center, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI

Layered Cities, Kriti Gallery, Varanasi, India

2014

BFA Thesis Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL 

Prix/Résidences

2021


Individual Artist Program Grant, DCASE, Chicago, IL 


2020


Finaliste, Artadia Awards Chicago, Artadia, New York, NY 


2019


Nomination, Louis Comfort Comfort Tiffany Ti Foundation Foundation Award


Emerging Legacy Award, The College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at 


Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 


Visiting Artist Residency Program, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL 


2018


MAKER Grant, The Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL 


The Money For Women, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Inc, Bearsville, NY 


Emergency Grant, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY 


Art Ambassador, Art Design Chicago, The Terra Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Chicago, IL 


2017


Make a Wave, 3Arts, Chicago, IL 


The Fountainhead Residency, organisé par Jose Carlos Diaz, Miami, FL 


ACRE Artist Residency, Diversity Scholarship, Steuben, WI 


2016


BOLT Residency, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL 


Nomination, The Edes Fellowship, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 


2014


Incentive Scholarship, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 


House Florence M. Scholarship Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2010 


Brand-Boeshaar Scholarship, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA