Yvette Mayorga
Works from Cerámica Suro
Feria Material 2024, Mexico City
CASTILLA / KLYUYEVA is proud to present a new body of original ceramic works by Mexican-American artist Yvette Mayorga. These pieces were created during her art residency at Ceramica Suro in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, between June and July 2023.
Continuing her artistic practice and drawing inspiration from Rococo Art history and American Art history throughout the centuries, Yvette envisions intricate and decadently designed vases and plates. These pieces are adorned with her signature pink hue and distinctive piping technique.
Yvette Mayorga
(Illinois, 1991)
Yvette Mayorga es una artista multidisciplinaria radicada en Chicago, Illinois. Su trabajo vincula el trabajo feminizado y la estética de la celebración con la historia del arte colonial y la opresión racial a través del pretexto del uso del rosa como arma de destrucción masiva. Fusiona el trabajo de repostería con imágenes encontradas para explorar el significado de pertenencia. Mayorga tiene una maestría en Estudios de Fibras y Materiales de la Escuela del Instituto de Arte de Chicago.
La primera exposición individual de Mayorga en un museo de la costa este, Dreaming of You, en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Aldrich, estará abierta hasta marzo de 2024. En 2023, Mayorga tuvo su primera gran exposición individual en un museo, What a Time to be, en The Momentary, Crystal Bridges. Museo de Arte Americano. Su trabajo ha sido expuesto a nivel nacional e internacional en el Museo de Arte y Diseño, Nueva York, NY; Museo de Arte Vincent Price, Monterey Park, CA; El Museo del Barrio, Centro de Artesanía, Asheville, Carolina del Norte; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Ciudad de México, MX; y LACMA, Los Ángeles, CA. La instalación a gran escala de Mayorga, Pilgrimage to the Isle of Pink, estará expuesta durante los próximos 25 años en la colección de arte público permanente de la ciudad de Chicago en la Terminal 5 del Aeropuerto Internacional O'Hare.
Mayorga ha aparecido en Artforum, Artnet, Art in America, Art News, Cultured Magazine, DAZED, Galerie Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Hyperallergic, Latina Magazine, Teen Vogue, The Guardian, The New York Times, Vogue, W Magazine y Women's. Úselo a diario. Sus obras se encuentran en las colecciones permanentes de 21c Museum Hotels, Cerámica Suro, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, DePaul Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts Boston y Nuevo México. Museo de Arte de la Universidad Estatal.
(Illinois, 1991)
Yvette Mayorga is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Her work links feminized labor and the aesthetics of celebration to colonial art history and racialized oppression through the guise of using pink as a weapon of mass destruction. She fuses confectionary labor with found images to explore the meaning of belonging. Mayorga holds an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Mayorga’s first East Coast solo museum exhibition, Dreaming of You, at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, is on view through March 2024. In 2023, Mayorga had her first major solo museum exhibition, What a Time to be, at The Momentary, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA; El Museo del Barrio,The Center for Craft, Asheville, NC; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, MX; and LACMA, Los Angeles, CA. Mayorga’s large-scale installation, Pilgrimage to the Isle of Pink, is on view for the next 25 years for the City of Chicago’s permanent public art collection at O’Hare International Airport’s Terminal 5.
Mayorga has been featured in Artforum, Artnet, Art in America, Art News, Cultured Magazine, DAZED, Galerie Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Hyperallergic, Latina Magazine, Teen Vogue, The Guardian, The New York Times, Vogue, W Magazine, and Women’s Wear Daily. Her works are in the permanent collections of 21c Museum Hotels, Cerámica Suro, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, DePaul Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and New Mexico State University Art Museum.