Claudia E Zapata is a Queer Chicanx artist known as the co-founder of Puro Chingón Collective, which has developed BIPOC zines and designer toys.
Biography
Caudia E Zapata is a Texan based artist known for their DIY art-making toy designs and zines. A lot of their artwork has been created through and for the Puro Chingón Collective that they co-founder in 2012 with a few of their friends. Zapata's artwork in and outside of the collective have touched on topics that involve the LGBTQ+ community and the Chicanx community. The topics of otherness and queerness are important to Zapata and is well interpreted in their artwork, published articles and activism. Zapata is currently a doctoral candidate at Southern Methodist University and is a Curatorial Assistant of Latinx Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) in Washington, D.C. They have been actively associated with SAAM since 2018.
Research interests: Latinx and Chicanx art, digital art and humanities, and curatorial methodologies of identity based exhibitions.
Has curated over 30 exhibitions in Mexic-Arte Museum and other museums.
Art & Exhibitions
Puro Chingón Collective (2012-present) is a project in which Zapata co-founded along with Claudia Aparicio-Gamundi and James Huizar.
The Let's Get Weird (2017) Puro Chingón Collective exhibition was a part of ChingoZine 7 release party that took place in Austin, Texas.
Designer toys of the Puro Chingón Collective were featured in the 2019 Expresiones en Esculturas exhibition.
“El Zine: Contemporary Underground Archives” was featured in the Latinx Project in 2019 New York, NY.
References
Ramírez, Sara A., et al. El Mundo Zurdo 7 : Selected Works from the 2018 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa. Aunt Lute Books, 2019.
Ramos, E. Carmen, et al. ¡Printing the Revolution!: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2020.
National Portrait Gallery, director. ¡Printing the Revolution! In Conversation with E. Carmen Ramos and Claudia Zapata. YouTube, YouTube, 15 July 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx3ip9k1VJQ&list=PLoiUVJmnCbmBt5lUJvJdT6syGdthFbbN8&index=4. Accessed 19 Oct. 2021.
“Claudia Zapata.” Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, https://americanart.si.edu/person/claudia-zapata.
“Expresiones En Esculturas, Expressions in Sculptures.” Mexic-Arte Museum, 22 Mar. 2021, https://mexic-artemuseum.org/event/expresiones-en-esculturas-expressions-in-sculptures/.
Further Reading
“Let’s Get Weird: El Mundo Zurdo As A Toy Design” in El Mundo Zurdo 7: Selected Works from the 2018 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa.
“Chicanx Graphics in the Digital Age” in ¡Printing the Revolution!: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now
“Chicanx Queer Visions: Fighting for Change and Exploring Identity” in smithsonianmag.com
External links
Artist Website: https://www.claudiaelisazapata.com/
Puro Chingón Collective Website: https://www.purochingoncollective.com/
Smithsonian American Art Museum Website: https://americanart.si.edu/person/claudia-zapata
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