Yvette Mayorga
Artist in Residence
Yvette Mayorga (b.1991, Moline, IL) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago, IL. Her works link feminized labor and the aesthetics of celebration to colonial art history and racialized oppression through pink as a weapon of mass destruction, flaunting a maximalist aesthetic rooted in personal narrative to examine the Latinx experience in the US. Mimicking confectionary labor, Mayorga uses piping bags to thickly apply signature bubblegum pink acrylics to canvas. Mayorga holds a BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Crystal Bridges, El Museo del Barrio, and Museum of Fine Arts Boston, among others.
