Juana Alicia
2021 Eureka Fellow
Juana Alicia has been creating murals and working as a printmaker, sculptor, illustrator, and studio painter for over thirty years. Her style, akin to genres of contemporary Latin American literary movements, can be characterized as magical and social realism, and her work addresses issues of social justice, gender equality, environmental crisis, and the power of resistance and revolution. The artist has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a Windcall Residency, Master Muralist Award from Precita Eyes, and a Woman of Fire Award, among other recognitions. Her sculptural and painted public commissions (individual and collaborative) can be seen in Nicaragua, Mexico, Pennsylvania, and in many parts of California, most notably in San Francisco. They include Sanarte at U.C.S.F. Medical Center; Santuario at the San Francisco International Airport; La Llorona’s Sacred Waters at 24th and York Streets in the Mission of San Francisco; the Maestrapeace mural of the San Francisco Women’s Building, and Gemelon at the Metropolitan Technical University in Mérida, Mexico. Juana Alicia, in collaboration with her sister muralists, has recently published MAESTRAPEACE: San Francisco’s Monumental Feminist Mural, through Heyday Books, and is now collaborating with Tirso G. Araiza on a graphic novel, La X’Taabay. She is currently the recipient of the Golden Capricorn Award from the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC), which will include a solo exhibition at the SFAC Main Gallery in the summer of 2020. *Artist biography at time of award.
Back to Eureka fellows