Photograph by Daniel Acevedo
"My practice navigates the dualities of being a woman from the Tex-Mex Rio Grande Valley borderlands. My interdisciplinary work spans painting, installation, photography, and performance.
Informed by identity, gender, pop culture, and Latine culture, my work is emotionally and satirically charged with themes of representation. All through symbolism, sensory drive, and materials."
Alondra
Alondra M. Garza is a Mexican-American artist, curator, and gallerist based in Minneapolis, originally from the Texas–Mexico borderlands. Garza received an MFA at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, a BFA at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and attended master classes at the New York Academy of Art.
Her work has been exhibited internationally across the U.S., Mexico, and Italy. Including solo exhibitions at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MN), Modus Locus (MN), Pink Slip Gallery (MN), two-person shows at MCAD (MN), Art in Motion (MN), and group exhibitions at A.I.R Gallery, (N.Y.C), Artsy.net with Emerge Gallery (NY), The Minneapolis Institute of Art (MN), The Brownsville Museum of Fine Arts (TX), Museo Miguél Alemán (MEX), and YAG Garage Galeria (ITL), among others.
Her work is part of the permanent collections at the University of Minnesota and Museo Miguél Alemán. She has obtained awards, grants, and fellowships from Forecast Public Art, the University of Minnesota, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, the New York Academy of Art, and the Emerging Curators Institute.
Her work has been published in the book Latin Art in Minnesota, Miami Art Week Magazine, and Brown University's Somos Magazine. She has also attended art residencies around the U.S., including at the Weisman Art Museum and Second Shift Studio Space.
Garza is the founder of SEMILLAS, a non-conventional Latine gallery awarded the 2022 Visual Arts Fund grant through the Warhol Foundation.