MFASO Lecture

Guadalupe Maravilla

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Flex Space / 205 Hudson

7:00pm - 9:00pm

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In 1984, at eight years old, Guadalupe Maravilla immigrated alone to the United States from El Salvador in order to escape the Salvadoran Civil War. Maravilla was part of the first wave of undocumented children to come to the US from Central America. In 2016, as a gesture of solidarity with his undocumented father, who uses Maravilla as his last name in his fake identity, Maravilla changed his birth name Irvin Morazan to Guadalupe Maravilla.

Maravilla creates fictionalized performances, videos, sculptures and drawings that incorporate his pre-colonial Central American ancestry, personal mythology, and autobiography.

Guadalupe Maravilla has performed and presented his work extensively in venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, ICA Miami, Queens Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bronx Museum, El Museo Del Barrio, MARTE (El Salvador), Central America Biennial X (Costa Rica), XI Nicaragua Biennial, Performa 11 & 13, Drawing Center, Exit Art, Smack Mellon, Rubin Foundation. Maravilla has upcoming solo projects at the Institute for Contemporary Art/VCU in Richmond Virginia, and a performance at the Knockdown Center in NY.

Residencies include; LMCC Workspace, SOMA, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Drawing Center Open Sessions.

Awards and fellowships include; Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship 2019, Soros Fellowship: Art Migration and Public Space 2019, MAP Fund 2019, Creative Capital Grant 2016, Franklin Furnace 2018, Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant 2016, Art Matters Grant 2013, Art Matters Fellowship 2017, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship 2018, Dedalus Foundation Grant 2013 and The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Award 2003.

Portals solo exhibition ICA Miami, Mixed Media installation, 2019.