Antonia Guerrero works with multiple media for her installation pieces combining drawings, lighting, video, performance and sound. She draws upon her Mexican and American backgrounds to explore themes of bicultural identities and ongoing cultural hybrids.
Antonia Guerrero’s work has been exhibited in Mexico, the United States, Puerto Rico, France, Germany, Spain, Rumania, including venues such as the Museum of Modern Art Mexico, the Palacio de Bellas Artes, the Diego Rivera Museum and Mexico City Museum, Mexico. In New York City: MediaNoche Gallery, Taller Boricua, Latin American Gallery New York, NoMaa Gallery, A.I.R Gallery and the Snite Museum, Notre Dame University, Indiana.
In 2019, Antonia was an Artist in Residence at Draw International in Caylus, France. Among other awards are the US-Mex Bi-Cultural Rockefeller Foundation Grant for her Performance Malintzin, the Valparaiso Foundation Artist Residency, Spain, the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, Cuts and Burns Media Residency, Penn State University Foreign Scholar Residency. She has also received awards from the Artist Fellowship, the Rauschenberg Foundation, Change, Inc. and the Mayer Foundation.
Recent group exhibitions include in 2018, Lost Horizons with a Drawing Installation at PS 109 Artspace. In 2017, her work was presented at the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, Miami, Fl., and “Uninhabited Rooms”, three artists working collaboratively. Other group shows were “Epiphany”, and “From the Corner to the Edge”, a group show of mixed media and multimedia both shows curated by Antony Dodds. The exhibitions presented at the new gallery space of El Barrio’s PS 109 Artspace in East Harlem.
Antonia’s professional activities also include theater, contemporary dance, and performance art, and as a soloist with the dance-theater Company Purpura in Mexico City. She studied at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 1965/66, the San Carlos Art Academy UNAM 1967/68, Mexico and at Pratt Institute 1968/69, New York.
Antonia for the last 45 years has been part of a Mexican sacred dance tradition known as the Danza de Concheros. She is a chieftain and works actively with several communities of men, women and children who seek to connect with their cultural roots and not lose their sense of identity.