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Claudia Peña Salinas

Claudia Peña Salinas

Claudia Peña Salinas

Claudia Peña Salinas (b. Mexico, 1975) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Through the process of documentation, travel, collection, accumulation and discovery, Peña Salinas has developed a significant body of work in sculpture, video, publications, and installation that point towards a spatial, material, and temporal reflection. The artist situates her work between legacies of Modernism and Indigenous cultures. Highlighting indigenous thinking and worldviews using a contemporary language, she calls attention to the Americas' collective cultural memory.

Claudia Peña Salinas studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and received her MFA from Hunter College, New York (2009). She has exhibited at Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (2022), The High Line, New York (2021), DePaul Art Museum, Chicago (2021), Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, New York (2021), Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2019), the Arizona State University Art Museum (2019), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2018), Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan (2018), Queens Museum of Art, New York (2012), El Museo del Barrio, New York (2005), El Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (2006), and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico (2015). Residencies and awards include: CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain (2023), MacDowell, New Hampshire (2021), Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona (2018), the Lower Manhattan City Council, Process Space, New York (2016), and SOMA residency, Mexico City (2011). She is a recipient of the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (2007) and Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, Mexico (2020).