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=Rafa Esparanza

Background

Featuring dress undergarment made by Esparanza

Rafa Eparanza 2018 De La Calle exhibition

- Rafa Esparanza is a first generation Mexican American artist. Born in 1981 in Pasadena,California. While growing up Esparanza would be heavily influenced by the Mexican American culture,heritgate,self identity and much more.As they came out as Queer later in life there art would become a reflection of the bonding created from coming out to there father. They would later attend the University of California in which they would practice a new vision of performing arts in which Eparanza would combine their history fashion, brick creation and overall visual story telling of their life and inspiration in their craft, They would earn the BFA in Arts and being there up and coming work In New York City

Work

While Eprezana would later move to New york city to purse a career in art, He would harness all of his ability and skills we had took the time to learn and cultivate at his time in the University Of Los Angeles California "He is inspired by his own relationship to colonization and the disrupted genealogies that come forth as a result. Using live performance as his main form of inquiry, Esparza employs site-specificity, materiality, memory and (non)documentation as primary tools to interrogate and critique ideologies, power structures and binaries that problematize the “survival” process of historicized narratives and the environments where people are left to navigate and socialize."Esparza has performed in a variety of spaces including events such as the Aids project, and ,uch more. Tying back to his vison of telling this hidden stories of their culture

1. • Press release for exhibition piece called Pasado Manana was installed in collaboration with several other artist from January 20th to March 3rd of 2018.
2. • Commonwealth and Council at Tina Kim Gallery exhibition installation from June 28th to August 3rd, 2018
3. • Frieze Los Angeles 2019 Beatriz Cortez and Rafa Esparza February 15th–February 17th, 2019
4. • Art Basel 2020 Rafa Esparza, Eamon Ore-Giron, Gala Porras-Kim June 19th–June 26th
5. • Keeping Rafa Esparza March 11th–April 10th, 2021
6. • Art Basel 2021 Rafa esparza: verde September 23rd–September 26th, 2021
7. • Nosotrxs with Galería Agustina Ferreyra Geles Cabrera, Kang Seung Lee, Leonel Salguero, Leslie Martinez, Rafa Esparza, Ramiro Chaves, Ulrik López June 11th–July 23rd, 2022
8. • Seoul Pop-up Danielle Dean, Guadalupe Rosales, Nikita Gale, Rafa Esparza August 31st–September 21st, 2022
9. • Cowboy 2023 Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver Photo: Wes Magyar Rafa Esparza Cowboy touched on the stories of the subculture and queer identity that is tied to cowboys, a masculine subjective surrounding the idea of men, discussing the one'll idea of the context of the romantic nature being experienced • Sitting on Chrome 2023 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rafa Esparza installation of textile working within Chicano culture of the bike aka (Chrome) the piece sitting on chrome was a installation piece dedicated to the subculture of Chicano culture This bike called (loweriders) and the personation when it came to customization of the bikes and it reflection of identity

References

1. • Donoghue, K. (2021, April 19). Rafa Esparza: Creating spaces where bodies can be restored. Whitewall. https://whitewall.art/art/rafa-esparza-creating-spaces-where-bodies-can-be-restored
2. • Programs. Welcome to LACE. (n.d.). https://welcometolace.org/lace/rafa-esparza-i-have-never-been-here-before/
3. • O’Leary, E. (2023, June 21). Interview with Rafa Esparza. Carla. https://contemporaryartreview.la/interview-with-rafa-esparza/
4. • | Rafa Esparza - Queer: Art. QUEER. (2018). https://www.queer-art.org/rafa-esparza
5. • Commonwealth and Council / Rafa Esparza. Commonwealth and Council. (n.d.). https://commonwealthandcouncil.com/us/rafa-esparza