Artist Statement:
Artist Marcia X is a Puerto Rican and Peruvian-American artist working with installation, performance, painting and film. Their art practice and research is a development of what they call the existential-cultural crisis women of color experience in the Diaspora. They are beginning their new role as Board Member for eLaboratories, creating content on self-recovery.
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Their doctoral research includes phenomenology, Black and Indigenous artistic production, Afro-Syncretic spiritual practices, and Afro-Indigenous femme subjectivity from the Hispano-Caribbean (mainly Puerto Rico).
In May 2018 they completed an immersive film and performance project about the Puerto Rican Diaspora and the reeling with the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. It was shot in Puerto Rico June of 2017, and was performed at the Norwich Arts Centre in April 2018. It was funded and supported by UNA Gallery, Norwich Arts Centre and Arts Council England.
Latest interview can be found at refinery29 regarding the debate on the banning of "Latinx"
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Current Projects:
"The Vocal Void"
Board Member: eLaboratories.
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Artist CV
BORN
1985, Chicago, IL
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Education
Currently: Doctoral Candidate EINA,Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Philosophy: Contemporary Aesthetics
EINA, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Research Masters in Art and Design, 2019
University of East Anglia — Masters of the Arts, 2016
Norwich University of the Arts- Bachelors (Honors) 2014
EXPERIENCE
Artist Residency
Associate Artist (residency) at Norwich Arts Centre 2018
May 2017 Collusion Labs, Cambridge, UK
April/May 2017 at Dyad Creative Duo/Dove Street Studios, Norwich, UK
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Director of Photography
Untitled work with Heaux History Project, more information to be released soon, 2021
"Rebelle", in collaboration with Heaux History, 2020
Unfortunate Inheritances, Victoria Adukwei, artist residency at Victoria and Albert Museum, 2018
Featured Articles
2023, Emerging from The Vocal Void: A Journey Towards Afro-Femme Subjectivity in Phenomenology, Scholarly Editing, Issue 40
2022, Can Mastodon be a Twitter refuge for Marginalized Groups?, Fast Company
2023 What's at Stake for Trans Latines as States Ban the term Latinx, refinery29.com
2020 Habitando subjetividades: Entrevista a Marcia X, Puerto Rican Art News
2018 Meet Four of the Speakers Making Their Voices Heard at WOW Norwich, Eastern Daily Press
2016 Interview with Marcia X, Outline Online, http://tinyurl.com/j89uqxh
2016 Interview: Artist Marcia X, Diva Magazine, April Issue
2015 Artist Marcia X, Parallel, Issue 4
2014 Fresh from NUA, Fresh Meat Gallery, Issue 3
Solo Exhibitions — 2013-2017
2017 Memory as Resistance, Dove Street Studios, Norwich, UK
2015 Diasporic Conditions [II], Anteros Art Foundation, Norwich, UK
2014 Diasporic Conditions, 13A Gallery, Norwich, UK
Group Exhibitions — 2013-Present
2023 Trenzando Identidades, Museo Casa Escuté de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico
2019 A Traves De, La Infinita, Barcelona, Spain
2018 The Playhouse x WOW Exhibition, Playhouse Bar, Norwich, UK
2018 UNA Gallery Presents Rejuvenation, St Mary's Show Factory, Norwich, UK
2017 Bridges, Curated by Annabelle Smith, Space Studios, Norwich, UK
2017 Meet The Artists "Society & Culture", The Black & White Building, London, UK
2017 Move Your Homeland, Dove St Studios, Norwich, UK
2016 UNA Gallery Presents, Industrial.Color, Undercroft Gallery, Norwich, UK
2015 AACDD Bargehouse Festival, Diaspora Dynamics, London, UK
2015 Space/Invaders, Art Lacuna Gallery, London, UK
2015 Identity/Memory, Gabriela Davis & Frameless Gallery, London, UK
2014 UNA Gallery Alumni Group Show, Fabric Warehouse, Norwich, UK
2014 AACDD Bargehouse Festival Past, Present, Future, London, UK
Lectures/Panels/Performance — 2013-Present
2021 Díalogos Hacia Una Investigación en Arte y Diseño, Universtitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, ES
2021 Play It Together: feminismos, interseccionalidad y espacios virtuales, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, ES
2021 Archiving the 8th - Feminist community-based learning, https://maeveobrienwrites.squarespace.com/
2020 Al Margen de Arte, I Jornada de Estudios Doctorales de Arte y de Musicología, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, ES
2019 Women, art and colonial memory in Africa, European Observatory on Memories, Facultat de Heografia i Història Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, ES
2018 Color Blindness: Living in a White city, WOW Fest Norwich, Open Studios, Norwich, UK
2018 Sisters, Sistahs and Transisters, WOW Fest Norwich, Open Studios, Norwich, UK
2016 Race Relations in Art: Art research & Pedagogy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
2016 The Self is a Trick of Memory: Art research & Pedagogy, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
2015 Black History Month exhibition, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
2015 Who’s Afraid Of Intersectional Feminist Art?, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
2015 Homotopia & Diva Debate, Confront/Contest/Create, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2015 Zine Cultures, InIva, London, UK
2015 [Live] Art Club Presents Marcia X, Norwich Art Centre, Norwich, UK
2014 The Institution is Decadent & Depraved, Sibeal Network Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, IRL
2014 Race, Gender, and Representation, Stuart Hall Library at Iniva, London, UK
2014 The Politics of Hair, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, UK
Published Writings
2016 Black Queer Lives Matter, Diva Magazine
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