ARTIST BIO

Claudia Peña Salinas (b. 1975, Mexico) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and received her MFA from Hunter College, New York (2009). Through the process of documentation, travel, collection, accumulation, and discovery, Claudia Peña Salinas has developed a significant body of work in sculpture, video, publications, and installation that point towards a spatial, material and temporal reflection. She situates her work between legacies of Modernism and Indigenous cultures. Highlighting indigenous thinking and worldviews using a contemporary language, she calls attention to the Americas collective cultural memory.

Claudia Peña Salinas has exhibited at Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, (2019); the Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, (2019); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2018); Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan (2018); Queens Museum of Art, New York (2012); El Museo del Barrio, New York (2005); El Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (2006); and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico (2015). Residencies and awards include: MacDowell, New Hampshire, (2021); Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, (2018); the Lower Manhattan City Council, Process Space, New York (2016); and SOMA residency, Mexico City (2011). She is a recipient of the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (2007) and Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, Mexico (2020).