Juana Valdes

Juana Valdés
Born1963 (age 60–61)
Cabañas, Pinar Del Rio, Cuba
EducationSchool of Visual Arts
Parsons School of Design
WebsiteJuanaMValdes.com

Juana Valdés (born 1963) is a multi-disciplinary artist and an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1] Her works examine Afro-Cuban[2] migration through the lens of material culture and personal experience. Valdés's work in ceramics, printmaking, video, and installation explores the colonial and imperial economies that tie the transoceanic movement of people and political ideologies across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.[3] Her installations and photographs of mass-produced decorative objects chart the history of colonial trade in conversation with her sub-Saharan and East Asian ancestry, demonstrating that the ancestry of black and brown populations is inextricably linked to trade and globalization.[4] Valdés works with a wide range of source material that reflects the impact of global networks of exchange on contemporary issues of transcultural identity, displacement and migration, and the climate crisis.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Department of Fine Arts: Juana Valdes". University of Massachusetts Amherst. Archived from the original on 2 October 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  2. ^ Gómez-Upegui, Salomé (2022-07-07). "10 Cuban Artists Who Are Shaping Contemporary Art". Artsy. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  3. ^ "Reference at ylef61fq8sw4803ci1ap5hl1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com" (PDF).
  4. ^ "Juana Valdes:An Inherent View of the World – Mindy Solomon Gallery".
  5. ^ "Latinx Spaces | Redefining Latinx Media – Artist Juana Valdes offers Refuge in 'Rest Ashore'". 4 March 2021.
  6. ^ "PBS For The Arts | Latinx Voices Respond to the Moment". PBS.