Itzel Basualdo

Itzel Basualdo is an interdisciplinary artist working across photography, video, text, installation, sound, and sculpture to question race, gender, and class structures. Engaging with cultural, historical, and political frameworks, she uses person...

Itzel Basualdo is an interdisciplinary artist working across photography, video, text, installation, sound, and sculpture to question race, gender, and class structures. Engaging with cultural, historical, and political frameworks, she uses personal and found materials to navigate intersections of self, other, and place, challenging the systems that shape and define identity and society. She holds a BFA with honors from Florida International University and an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been shown at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, NSU Art Museum, Heaven Gallery, LOOP Barcelona, among others. Her writing has appeared in The Acentos Review, Creative Nonfiction magazine, Ginger Magazine, [PANK], and Plates Journal, and she is a Pushcart Prize nominee. She is a recipient of a Redbull Arts Microgrant Award, the Oolite Arts Ellies Creator Award, the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship Award, and the New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship, and has participated in the Artpace San Antonio and Smack Mellon residency programs. She is one of the co-founders of the artist-led research institute R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O. and a previous member of NEW INC.