Jessica Carolina González, Our love cannot be quelled by the boundary of the flesh (still) (2024), performance at L.A. Dance Project.
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 a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Digital Media, and a Bachelor of Arts 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 and the LA Dance Project, Art League Houston, Project Row Houses, and Pangea World Theatre in Minneapolis. Curatorial projects include “In the Sun” at The Station Museum of Contemporary Art and “Our Patch: LGBTQ+ Life from Cradle to Grave” at the LA LGBT Center’s Advocate and Gochis Galleries. Awards and honors include the Idea Fund from the Diverse Works and The Andy Warhol Foundation, Center for Ethnographic Media Arts Fellowship, and Norman Topping Fellowship. González is a recipient of the Jones Artist Award from the Houston Endowment Foundation and is a 2021 Artadia Award Finalist. She 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. Her performance work is featured in Volume 50 of Aztlán: a Journal of Chicano Studies published by UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center Press. González is currently an Adjunct Professor of Studio Art at Houston City College and the University of Houston.
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