Antonia Guerrero

Antonia Guerrero is a multifaceted Mexican and American artist whose work revolves around issues of personal and cultural identities. She has been based in New York since 1999.

Born in the United States, to a Mexican father and Canadian mother, Guerrero was raised and educated in Mexico. Her mother, Bessie Galbraith was a pioneering advertising professional who helped promote an image of Mexico for foreign tourism. Antonia’s father, Jesus Guerrero Galvan, was a renowned painter and part of the Mexican Muralist movement of the 40s, 50s and 60s in Mexico.

Guerrero’s childhood was marked by an early exposure to the arts. Her mother raised her alone but made sure that visits to painters’ and writers’ studios, dance, concerts and theatre all were a part of her upbringing. Guerrero also traveled extensively throughout Mexico, to beautiful rural towns and indigenous communities that exposed her to many of the ancient sites of past civilizations as well as the colorful life of rural communities and traditions. Her professional life naturally sprung out of these early references which punctuate her artistic work in multiple ways.

Her estranged father’s early death propelled Antonia to commit to an art career. This loss intensifie...

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 Dra...