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Join us for a virtual artist panel with Kevin Quiles Bonilla, Paola de la Calle, Victoria Martinez, Johanna Moscoso, and Chelsea Ramírez, organized as part of our fall exhibition, Crossing Relations: Migrations and Possible Worlds. Moderated by exhibition curators Orlando Ochoa, Jr. and Isabel Saavedra-Weis, this conversation invites us to sense modes of relation made in migration and diasporic contexts between people, landscapes, animals, flora, and other entities.
Panelists
Kevin Quiles Bonilla is an interdisciplinary artist born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Through photography, performance, and installation, his works explore power, colonialism, and history with his identity as context. He received a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus (2015) and an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons The New School for Design (2018). He has presented his work at the Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, Lincoln Center, the Ford Foundation, Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, Bronx, NY, and Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York. He has received multiple residencies, most recently Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program (2022-2023); NYLAAT Residency Program (2023); Art Matters Artist2Artist Fellowship (2023); Monira Foundation Residency (2024); The Art Center at Governors Island (2024); Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop SIP Fellowship (2024); and the AIM Fellowship at The Bronx Museum of Art (2026).
Paola de la Calle is a Colombian-American multidisciplinary artist whose work explores home, identity, borders, and nostalgia through textiles, printmaking, and sculpture. Drawing from family photographs, found images, poetic texts, coffee paintings, and found objects, she investigates memory, migration, and the socio-political relationship between Colombia and the United States. She has received fellowships from KALA (2022) and The Studios at Mass MoCA (2025), and has participated in residencies at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn and Casa Lu in Mexico City. She was awarded the 2026–2027 Ann Chamberlain Artist-in-Residence at San Francisco State University. De la Calle is a graduate of the New York Foundation of the Arts Immigrant Artist Program (2019) and was lead artist for the Caravan for the Children Campaign during her residency with Galeria de la Raza (2020).
Victoria Martinez is an interdisciplinary artist who honors her Mexican-American ancestry through textile-based projects including painting, printmaking, and public art. She aligns herself with abstraction and her work is inspired by ancient sites, architecture, and the urban environment. Martinez’s practice considers the relationships between the body, the built environment, and systems of power. Following her feet, she revels in everyday urban forms: pattern motifs from metal fences, bricks, color fields of decaying paint, and lines that direct us to where and how we move. She has exhibited at the Yale University Art Gallery, Poetry Foundation, the McNay Art Museum and Museo Universitario Del Chopo. Martinez holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MFA from Yale University.
Johanna Moscoso is a Colombian-American visual artist who works in fiber, installation, and performance. Her artwork is held in prominent private and public collections, including the Solita Cohen Latin American Art Collection, the Memphis Public Libraries, and the Memphis International Airport. Moscoso has held numerous solo exhibitions at institutions including the SCAD Museum of Art. In 2024, her first retrospective was presented at the Tennessee Arts Commission. She has been awarded prestigious residencies, including the University of Arkansas Fort Smith (supported by the Windgate Foundation), and the BOLT Residency at the Chicago Artists Coalition and Arts/Industry Residency at Arts/Industry Residency at Kohler Co (John Michael Kohler Arts Center). Additionally, Moscoso has received institutional grant support from South Arts, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, ARTSmemphis, Tri-Star Arts, and the Tennessee Arts Commission.
Chelsea Ramírez is a visual artist whose practice visualizes the magic tethered to diasporic sensibility. She received a B.F.A from the University of Central Florida (2012) and completed an MFA from Louisiana State University (2015). Ramírez’s work has been shown at the Huntsville Museum of Art, AL; Prospect 3+: BR Invitational, LA; Dinner Gallery, NYC; BAM Rudin Family Gallery, NYC; and the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, NYC; amongst others. Ramírez’s work has been published in The Artist’s Working Journal, 2016; Flyway Journal, 2017; Soy Mujerista, 2019; and The Latinx Project: Intervenxions, 2023. Ramírez has also created site-specific commissions, including at the LSU Museum of Art (2015) and the Louisiana International Film Festival (2013). She was selected for the 2021 US Latinx Art Forum CHISPA grant and is a 2024-25 Baldwin for the Arts Fellow. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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