Gabriela Muñoz is an artist whose work is rooted in her experiences as a migrant who lived in Arizona, undocumented, for more than a decade. A Latinx woman living in the Southwest, her practice is concerned with movements of social justice and racial equality. Her work as an arts administrator focuses on the equitable liberation of resources. Her installations, printed works and collaborations function as a growing archive documenting the spaces where borderlanders build a counternarrative that values power-sharing, peer-to-peer learning and horizontal leadership models. Her practice centers movements of social justice and racial equity, exploring issues of power, labor, and transnational feminisms.
A founding member of Fronterizx Collective, Muñoz is a 2024 Latinx Artist Fellow, a 2024 United States Artist Fellow, recipient of the 2023 Phoenix Art Museum’s Scult Award, the 2020–2021 NALAC Catalyst for Change Award, and a 2019–2020 Mellon-Fronteridades Creative Scholar Fellowship at the UofA’s Confluencenter. Her work has been exhibited internationally at the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez, The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Phoenix Art Museum, MOCA Tucson, the Barrick Museum of Art, The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, the University of Arizona Art Museum, Juniata Museum of Art, the Mexican Consulate in Douglas, and the United States/México border fence, among others, including an upcoming exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum titled The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture.
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