Yreina Cervantez was born on 1952 and is an American artist and Chicana activist who is known for her multimedia painting, murals, and printmaking.
14 Facts About Yreina Cervantez
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Yreina Cervantez has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Mexican Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Yreina Cervantez's mother was creative and served as an artistic inspiration to her daughter.
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Yreina Cervantez became politicized during her Junior year of high school upon her transferring to Westminster high school in Orange County, California.
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Yreina Cervantez then received a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz and in 1989 graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with an MFA.
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In 1987, Yreina Cervantez's work was shown in Chicago at the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum.
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Yreina Cervantez's work was part of the CARA project and traveling exhibition which opened in 1983 and had its final venue in 1994.
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Yreina Cervantez was a cast member of the feminist film, Define, by OFunmilayo Makarah.
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Yreina Cervantez is currently a professor emerita of Chicano Studies at California State University, Northridge.
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Yreina Cervantez uses the visual language of Aztlan to create a new artistic vocabulary.
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Yreina Cervantez's self-portraits show an artist that is at once whole and fragmented, experiencing nepantla.
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Yreina Cervantez uses much of this type of iconography of the past in order to update the symbols and create a modern feminist perspective.
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Yreina Cervantez has created many large-scale murals in Los Angeles and is considered a pioneer of the Chicana mural movement.
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Yreina Cervantez has been a major influence on artist Favianna Rodriguez, who was so impressed with a printmaking class she took with Yreina Cervantez that she quit school to become a full-time artist.