LOST AND FOUND LAB — Current Resident Artist

Vick Quezada
Artist in Residence
June 2023

Vick Quezada (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist, exploring hybrid forms in Indigenous-Latinx history and the function of these histories in contested lands, primarily in the U.S.-Mexico Border. They work with a variety of mediums: video, performance, sculpture, and ceramics. They incorporate found objects (man-made) and natural elements, like dirt, soil, flora, corn and combine them with found objects like bricks, reclaimed trash, chains, cans, and barbed wire.
Quezada’s work explores liberation through an approach that is rooted in queer and Indigenous knowledge, histories, and aesthetics. They draw on an Aztec-Nahuan religious doctrine that affirms a “two-spirit” tradition in order to make the Latinx and Indigenous transgender body visible through history, trauma, and pleasure.

Quezada received an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Their work has been featured in Hyperallergic, BOMB Magazine, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Art News, Trans Studies Quarterly, and Remezcla. From 2020-21 they served as a Leslie Lohman Museum Fellow. In 2020 Quezada was featured in El Museo del Barrio's groundbreaking, La Trienal.
Quezada holds a BA from the University of Texas at El Paso and an MFA from UMASS Amherst.

To learn more about Vick Quezada, please visit: vickquezada.com