Jackie Amézquita (b.1985)

Jackie Amézquita (Quetzaltengo, Guatemala, b.1985) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She is an artist with an interdisciplinary practice intertwining, site, movement, collective memory, adaptation, regeneration, and the transformative power of interconnection.

EDUCATION

2022 Master in Fine Arts, University of California Los Angeles, CA.
2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors, ArtCenter College of Design Pasadena, CA.
2016-17 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Israel.
2013 Associate of Arts in Broadcasting Communications, Los Angeles Valley College, CA

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2026 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.
2023 Mohn Public Recognition Award, Made in LA,Hammer Museum.
2022 Mohn LAND Award.
2022 National Performance Network Award.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 

2026 -present Adjuction Art History Professor at Compton College, Los Angeles, CA.
2023-2025 Arts and education instructor at Art Center College of design Pasadena.
2022 Teaching Assistant, University Of California Los Angeles,”Advance New Genres”, Miljohn Ruperto.
2021 Associate professor,University Of California Los Angeles, “Rise Of Modernism in Global”, Anuradha Vikram.
2021 Teaching Assistant at University Of California Los Angeles, “Beginning to New Genres”, Marco Rios.
2020 Associate professor, University Of California Los Angeles, “Introduction to Community Engagement through the Arts”, Dr. Kevin Kane.
2020 Teaching Assistant at University Of California Los Angeles, “Beginning New Genres”, Vishal Judeo.
2020 Teaching Assistant at University Of California Los Angeles, “Production Image and Sound”, Owen Kydd.
2019 Teaching assistant at ArtCenter College of Design, “Social Engage Art” Olga Koumoundouros.

BIENNIALS

2026 Craft Contemporary, TIERRA, Curated by Frida Cano and Joseph Baca.
2023 Acts of Living, MADE IN LA, Hammer Museum, curated by Pablo Jose Ramirez, and Diana Nawi, Los Angeles CA.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 Art, Desing, & Architecture Museum, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.
2026 Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, el Camino se Traza al Andar, Las Vegas, NV.
2025 College of the Canyons, Bodies of Flourishing Existence, Santa Clarita, CA.
2024 Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, California.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 Un Lugar para ecxistir, La Nueva Fabrica, Antigua, Guatemala, Curated by Ilaria Conte.
2026 ension, a collaboration with Tanya Agüiñiga during AMBOS on the Road 2018.The Rubin Center,TX.
2026 Several Eternities, Hammer Museum, curated by Pablo Jose Ramirez, Los Angeles, CA.
2026 Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination, Armory of the Arts Curated by Taylor Bythewood-Porter,Pasadena, CA.
2025-2026 Grounded, Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art, curated by Rita Gonzalez and Dhyandra Lawson and Nancy Thomas.
2025 Roberts Projects, Back to Earth curated by Clare Joelson, Los Angeles, CA
2025 Terrenos, curated by Ever Velazques, Keijsers Koning, Dallas, TX.
2025 Mother/Land, Murmurs Gallery,curated by Morgan Elder, Los Angeles, CA.
2025 Border Craft, University of California San Diego, curated by Ceci Moss.
2024 Accretion, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Curated by Lauren Karazija, Santa. Barbara, CA.
2024 Against Monoculture, Carolyn Campanga Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, curated by Erin Stout, Long Beach, CA.
2024 Unsavory, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Curated by Jan Alva, Fullerton CA.
2024 Art for Safe and healthy California, Gagosian, presented by Jane Fonda, Los Angeles CA.
2023 Recorderar -Anhelar, curated by Erika Hirugami, Dalton gallery at Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA.
2023 Tracing the Edge, Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College, curated by Nicholas Orozco, Pomona, CA
2023 Ahorita! Charlie James Gallery, Curated by Ever Velasquez, Los Angeles, CA. 
2023 Rooted, Muzeo, Museum and cultural center, curated by Carol Henke, Anaheim, CA.
2023 Of Seed, Soil, and Stars: Meditations on Land, Body, Resistance and Regeneration, Gail and Ed Roski Gallery, curated by Joy Andenson and Robin Garcia, Los Angeles, CA.
2023 Aesthetics of Undocumented’s, University of Virginia, curated By Erika Hirugami, Charlottesville, VA.
2022 CARE, Long Beach City College Art Gallery, curated by Karla Agüiñiga Long Beach, CA.
2022 Adornment Artifact, Curated by Jill Moniz, sponsor by the Getty, Los Angeles CA.
2022 At the Table, Armory of the Arts, Curated by Heber Rodriguez, Pasadena CA.
2022 Imaginary Dwellings, 18ST Arts Center, Curated by Marvella Muro and Natalie Godinez.
2022 Sonic Terrains, Vincent Price Art Museum, co-curated by Javier Arellanos, Pillar Tompkins, and Daniel Valencia, Los Angeles, CA.
2022 Graduate Show, New Wright Gallery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
2021 Graduate preview show, New Wright Gallery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.

2021 A Place for Justice, curated byTina Yapelli, San Diego State University Gallery, San Diego, CA.
2021 Just Food, Virtual exhibition, curated by Carol Henke, Fullerton College Art Gallery, CA.

2020 Tension, a collaboration with Tanya Agüiñiga, Armory of the Arts, Pasadena, CA.
2019 Tension, a collaboration with Tanya Agüiñiga, The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA.
2019 Trabaj/ho resistance of a colonial imprint, Curated by Carnegie Art Museum Oxnard, CA.

2019 Look who’s talking now, curated by Nahui Garcia, Human Resources Los Angeles, CA.
2019 Buzzsaw, curated by Cheyanne Sauter, Art Share LA, Los Angeles CA.

2018 AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite sides),Museum of Art and Design, curated by Shannon R. Stratton, MAD’s William and Mildred Lasdon, Manhattan, New York.
2018 I am the American Dream, Studio 50, Highland Park, CA.

PUBLIC WORKS

2027 A collaboration between PAM museum in Los Angles CA, Arte Alameda Mexico City, and La Nueva Fabrica en Guatemala,
2027 Catalina Island Conservancy, Presented by LAND, Catalina, CA
2027 University of California Santa Barbara, Arts & Architecture, Santa Barbara, CA.
2025 The Greenway park, slips of breath through the cracks of time, Boston,MS.
2023 Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil), Los Angeles CA surroundings, Co-presented by LACE and LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division).
2021 Día de los Muertos public installation at GrandPark Los Angeles CA, presented by Self-Help Graphics
2020 Día de los Muertos public installation at GrandPark Los Angeles CA, presented by Self-Help Graphics.
2019 De Norte a Sur, (from North to South), endurance performance from the US/ Mexico border and ended at the Mexico/Guatemala border.

COLLABORATIONS

2025 Tripa shuca, in collaboration with Guadalupe Maravilla, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA.
2023 hieroglyphs of metaphysical lacerations, in collaboration with LaRissa Rogers, of seeds, soil, and stars: Meditations on Land, Body, Resistance and Regeneration, USC Roski, Los Angeles, CA.
2023 attending to the wound: a wake, a waiting, a witnessing, in collaboration with LaRissa Rogers, of seeds, soil, and stars: Meditations on Land, Body, Resistance and Regeneration, USC Roski, Los Angeles, CA.
2018 Tension, in collaboration with Tanya Agüiñiga, Douglas Prieta, Arizona-US border with Agua Prieta, Sonora-Mexico border.
2017-2019 AMBOS Project on the road, founded by Tanya Agüiñiga, the 1,951 mile border that connects the US and Mexico.

PUBLICATIONS

2026 Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials is organized by Pablo José Ramírez, curator, with Jessi DiTillio, curatorial assistant.Publish by Hammer Museum, CA.
2026 (In)visibility; Aesthetics of undocumentedness, organized by Erika Hirugami, publish by The Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
2025 Soil Turn; A field guide to Artistic Earthly Engagements, published by ecoart-space with support from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
2025 Art in America, New Talent 20 Artist to watch, USA.
2025 Flaunt Magazine, A slow dance of magnetism of migration by Tara Anne Dalbow.
2025 Cultured Magazine,For this year frieze projects, 8 Angeleno Artist are making work that reflects the cit’s endurance resilience by. Sarah Harrelson.
2024 75 Latinx Artist to Know by Maximiliano Durón,Paula Mejía,Mauricio Ramirez, Alex Santana.
2023 Art News, The Year of Latinx Art: Icons Receive Their Due as Mid-Career and Emerging Artist Get Spotlights. By Maximilíano Durón.
2023 The Art Newspaper, Hammer Museum Mohn Awards by Jodi Finkel
2023 LA Weekly, Meet Terrestrial Testimony by. Shana Nye Dambrot.
2023 Hyperallergic, The Made in LA Biennial Is All About Diaspora by MattStromberg.
2023 LATV, Artist uses soil as her canvas by Andrew Tamarin.
2023 EL PAIS, All the faces of an undefinable city in a Single exhibition: Made in LA by Luis Pablo Beauregard. 2023 Acts of Living, by Diana Nawi and Pablo Ramirez. Publish by Hammer Museum, CA.
2023 Hyperallergic, Remembering the Migrants Who Died in US Detention by Matt Stromberg.
2022 LA Times, How artist use food as both subject and medium by Leigh-Ann Jackson.
2022 Daily Bruin, Art sprouts ideas of regeneration by Zinnia Finn.
2020 Retracing Our Steps, Instruments of memory by Claudia Pretelin.
2020 Graphite Interdisciplinary Journal of the Arts Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
2019 Teeth Magazine Gen Z Artist and Border Crossing by Nan Collymore & Myra Paci.
2019 VoyageLA, Artist in East LA, Los Angeles, CA.
2018 Walker ArtCenter, What Can Art Do that Journalism Can’t? by Paul Schmelzer
2018 Los Angeles Magazine, Huellas que Germinan by Andrea Alonzo.
2018 Good Magazine, Huellas que Germinan by Liz Ohanesian.
2018 LA Weekly, Huellas que Germinan by Shana Nys Dambrot.

PRESENTATIONS

2026 University of California Davis, Inside the studio, Los Angeles, CA.
2026 California State University Norhtdridge, Inside the studio, Los Angeles, CA.
2026 Scripts College, Inside the Artist Studio, Los Angeles, CA.
2025 REDCAT, in conversation with Elia Arce, Moderated by Jasmine Magana, Los Angeles, CA.
2025 University of California San Diego, Artist presentation, San Diego, CA.
2025 Compton College Artist presentation, Los Angeles, CA.
2025 Santa Barbara Museum Of Art,Earth as living element:Archives of Memories.
2025 College of the Canyons, In conversation: Bodies of flourishing existence.
2023 UCLA Arts:School of the Arts and architecture.In conversation with Roksana Pirouzmand.
2023 Recordar – Anhelar, Dalton Gallery at Agnest Scott, Atlanta Georgia
2023 Tracing the Edge, Artist conversation Benton Museum, Pomona, CA.
2023 Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land) Reflexion: with Jackie Amézquita and rafa esparza, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles CA.
2022 Guided By Plants: The Indigenous Oaxacan Diaspora, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Contemporary Art. Pacific Standard Time: Art + Science + Los Angeles, an initiative of The Getty Foundation curated by John Connelly, Frederick Janka, and Audrey Lopez
2022 Sound and Power work presentation, Vincent Price Museum, East Los Angeles, CA.
2022 Change lab-podcast by Lorne Buchman Artcenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA.
2021 Self Help Graphics, Tamal de Tierra (Soil Tamale), Los Angeles CA.
2021 Digital Symposium, Immigration and Violence at the US Mexico Border, Ohio University, Columbus, OH.
2021 Soil as an Archive, a conversation with LaRissa Rogers at Arts initiative in Charleston, VA.

2021 Tension, conversation with Tanya Aguiniga Armory Museum of the Arts,Pasadena, CA.
2021 Just Food, Lecture at Fullerton College Art Gallery, Los Angeles,CA.
2019 AMBOS presentation at LA Design Festival. Los Angeles, CA.
2019 Art Share LA, a conversation with Yrneh Art as Social Practice, Moderated by Anuradha Vikram, Los Angeles, CA.
2018 AMBOS Project, The Other Art Fair. In conversation with Tanya Agüiñiga, Los Angeles, CA.
2018 AMBOS Project, Museum Of Art and Design in Manhattan, NY.
2018 Change lab-podcast by Lorne Buchman Artcenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA.

RESIDENCIES

2027 Art Farm at West Dry Creek Residency, Sonoma, CA.
2026 Cheddle Center at UCSB, Santa Barbara CA.
2026 Craft Contemporary,Maker in Residency, Los Angeles, CA.
2024 Fundación Ama Amoedo Residencia Artística, José Ignacio, Uruguay.
2020 Human Resources, Artist in Residency, Los Angeles, CA.

WORKSHOPS

2026 Weaving workshop in collaboration with Making Huellas, Hammer Museum
2026 Heart of Los Angeles, Fragments of gratitud, Los Angeles, CA.
2025 Cultivist, Mini workshop In the Studio, Los Angeles CA.
2024 Hammer Museum Kids KAMP, Into the wind: Kite is the Sky, Los Angeles, CA.
2023 Masa and soil workshop, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA.
2022 Masa and soil workshop, Illuminate LA, Community workshops, GrandPark Los Angeles, CA.