A Vital Matters voice: Tanya Aguiniga
Tanya
Aguiñiga
Artist, Designer, and Craftsperson
BIOGRAPHY
Tanya Aguiñiga was born in 1978 in San Diego, California; raised in Tijuana, Mexico; and lives in Los Angeles. An artist, designer, and craftsperson working with traditional craft materials, she collaborates frequently with other artists and activists to create sculptures, installations, performances, and community-based art projects. Drawing upon her upbringing as a binational citizen who daily crossed the border from Tijuana to San Diego for school, Aguiñiga’s practice speaks to her divided identity, and aspires to tell the larger and often invisible stories of the transnational community.
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