Artist Guadalupe Maravilla

Welcome to Season 3 of Art from the Outside!!! To kick off Season 3, we speak with the brilliant artist, thinker, and healer Guadalupe Maravilla. Born in 1976 in El Salvador, and now based and working in Brooklyn, New York, Guadalupe received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, and an MFA from Hunter College at the City University of New York.  Guadalupe creates intricately layered paintings, sculptures and therapeutic performances that draw from his personal history and Central American ancestry, often resembling mythic creatures or  reliquaries. Guadalupe is work examines issues of migration, healing, generational trauma, while creating new rituals for care, and regeneration.  Guadalupe has had solo presentations at museums around the world, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, and Socrates Sculpture Park, just to name a few. He's also the recipient of countless grants, including a Joan Mitchell Fellowship, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and a Soros Fellowship. He is represented by P·P·O·W in New York and mor charpentier in Paris. Enjoy!!