Claudia Peña Salinas
Artist
Claudia Peña Salinas was born in Mexico in 1975 and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and received her MFA from Hunter College, New York (2009). She has exhibited at Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, (2019), the Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, (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: 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).
Participating in
Panel Discussion: On Repatriation
This panel “On Repatriation” is in conjunction with Claudia Peña Salinas’ Quetzalli, a site-specific installation at DePaul Art Museum that centers on the Aztec headdress, Penacho de Moctezuma, an object that has become a symbol of national identity for both Mexico and Austria. Quetzalli highlights the issues around the provenance of ancient artifacts and the […] More information →