Los Angeles Times, Carolina A. Miranda, Spotlight: Knocked out by a pair of paintings by Luis A. Sahagun
Luis Sahagun
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(b. 1982, Mexico) lives and works in Asheville, NC; He is a 3Arts awardee and a 2023 United States Artist Fellow.
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Luis Sahagun is an artist whose practice confronts the palpable inescapability of race and transforms art into an act of cultural and spiritual reclamation. As the grandson of a Curandera, and himself a practitioner of Curanderismo, when Luis make...
Luis Sahagun is an artist whose practice confronts the palpable inescapability of race and transforms art into an act of cultural and spiritual reclamation. As the grandson of a Curandera, and himself a practitioner of Curanderismo, when Luis makes art, he conjures indigenous spiritualities to embody the aesthetics of personal histories, cultural resistance, and colonial disruption.
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View AllBorn in 1982 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Currently residing in Chicago, IL, USA.
Haciendo Caras Haciendo Caras UNIVISION, Alex Hernandez
Televised interview: Luis Sahagun comprometido con la comunidad