Xandra Ibarra
2023 Eureka Fellow
Xandra Ibarra is an Oakland-based visual and performance artist from the US/Mexico border of El Paso/Juarez that works across performance, video, and sculpture. She often uses both research and visual practices to think through racialized and gendered boundaries of decency and what is seen as proper and improper. She uses gypsum casts, steel, leather, varied found materials, archives, and her own body as potential sites for exploring excess, abjection, and racialization.
Her work has been featured at The Broad Museum in Los Angeles; Ex Teresa Arte Actual in Ciudad de México, Mexico; the Oakland Museum of California; The Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York City; and the Anderson Collection at Stanford University to name a few. She is a recipient of the Lucas Visual Arts Fellowship, a Queer Art Prize for Recent Work, an Art Matters grant, and the Franklin Furnace Performance and Variable Media Award, among others.
This summer, she will create new sculptural work as artist in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE.
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