Jessica Carolina González (b. Houston, TX) is an artist and educator based in Houston, TX. Her practice evolves within interdisciplinary process-based experimentation in analog and digital photography and video, performance, book arts, and installation. Through an auto-ethnographic focus on Central American immigration, archival practices, and spirituality, González maintains an on-going critique of hegemonic cultural phenomena and collapses temporalities to contemplate sociopolitical dichotomies embedded in land, architecture, and memory.
González has an MFA from the University of Southern California, a BFA in Photography and Digital Media, and a BA in World Cultures and Literatures: Global Modernity Studies from the University of Houston. Exhibitions include The Printing Museum, Mulvane Art Museum, Charlie James Gallery, and the Houston Center for Photography. She has performed for Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Art League Houston, Project Row Houses, and Pangea World Theatre. Awards and honors include the Jones Artist Award from Houston Endowment, the Idea Fund from Diverse Works and The Andy Warhol Foundation, and the Center for Ethnographic Media Arts Fellowship. González is recognized by the California Legislative Assembly for her commitment to featuring the intertwined histories of LGBTQ+ community care, organizing, and movement building throughout the Greater Los Angeles region and is a 2021 Artadia Award Finalist. Her performance work is featured in Volume 50 of Aztlán: a Journal of Chicano Studies published by UCLA.
Photograph by Rony Canales courtesy of Houston Endowment and Weingarten Art Group
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