viento izquierdo ugaz (b. 1992, Lima, Perú) [they/he] is an autistic trans/disciplinary artist, cultural organizer, poet & language justice worker. Through writing, photography, thread & moving image they address how the burden of imposed migration has woven its threads into the visual tapestry of their lineage. From personal portraiture to video poetry, their work also reveals the powerful essence of their queer and trans chosen family in an act of unapologetic resistance and tenderness.
izquierdo ugaz received their BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Recent group exhibitions include Un Estado de Gracia / A State of Grace, BAM, New York; Alchemies of Mutable Selfhood, Leslie Lohman Museum; Premio ICPNA Contemporanéo, Lima, Peru; as well as their first museum group exhibition ESTAMOS BIEN – LA TRIENAL 20/21, El Museo del Barrio.
They are a co-organizer of BODYHACK, a NY/global mutual aid happy hour for trans & nb people, and TRANSMISSION, NYC’s first trans music festival. He is also 2020-21 Poetry Project Curatorial Fellow and a 2021-22 Leslie Lohmann Museum and EmergeNYC fellow.
Izquierdo Ugaz has previously been in residence at SOMA Summer, Samsøñ Projects, Cuchifritos and PWRPLNT and TEMP FILES 2023. Their first chapbook is Estoy Tristeza (No Dear, 2018).
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AW CLASSROOM PODCAST: Interview with izquierdo ugaz
La Trienal | se que fue así porque estuve allí by izquierdo ugaz
“Poet of the Week” Brooklyn Poets. April 2019.
Bayetti Flores, Veronica “Arts Collective Sweety’s Uplifts Black & Brown Artists With Its For Us, By Us Philosophy.” Remezcla. 2018
Peters, Cierra “Diaspora, Memory, Place” What’sGood. 2016
Houseman, Haley ED. “A Boston Podcast by and for Artists of Color.” Hyperallergic, 6 Nov. 2015.
Benisvy, Kevin. “yBos 1” yBos 1: young Boston Artists 2012.