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EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW:

 
 

Yvette Mayorga’s first East Coast solo museum exhibition Dreaming of You will debut at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Ridgefield, CT.

Solo Exhibition, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, September 15, 2023-March 17, 2024

Material Art Fair, Expo Reforma, CDMX, Mexico

February 8, 2024–February 11, 2024

Tender Loving Care Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts.

July 22, 2023–July 28, 2025

Yvette Mayorga’s first solo museum exhibition What a Time to Be will debut at Crystal Bridges The Momentary in Bentonville, AR.

Solo Exhibition, The Momentary, October 29, 2022-October 15, 2023

Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL. David B. Smith Gallery

 
 
 

PRESS:

Harper’s Bazaar: “The Mexican-American Artist Who Sees Power in Pink”

By Scarlett Newman, November 3, 2023

Artnet: “An Yvette Mayorga Work Is Unmistakable. A New Survey Explores Her Unique Inspirations, From German Lithographs to ‘Mexican Pink’”

By Taylor Dafoe, October 31, 2023

CEREBRAL WOMEN: Podcast Episode 174

October 31, 2023

VOGUE: “Artist Yvette Mayorga’s Pink Confections Pack a Punch”

By Lisa Wong Macabasco, September 19, 2023

 

HYPERALLERGIC: “Decolonizing Rococo”

By Emmanuel Ortega, February 26, 2023

W MAGAZINE: “Welcome to Yvette Mayorga’s Candy-Colored, Acrylic, Alternative World”

By Thalia Henao, December 2, 2022

Latina Magazine: “This Mexican-American Artist Pays Homage to the Visionary Power of Latina Girlhoods”

By Jillian Hernandez

 

WWD: “What This Up-and-coming Mexican American Artist’s Pink-frosted Paintings Reveal About the American Dream”

By Booth Moore, November 14, 2022

 
 

DAZED: “Inside Chicago’s booming art scene”

By Vanessa Murrell, April 28, 2022

 

COLOSSAL: “Piped in Decadent Layers, Yvette Mayorga’s Bright Pink Playhouses Luxuriate in 90s Nostalgia”

By Grace Ebert, February 15, 2022

 
 
 
 
 

“Pink and gold become colors of liberation in an art show at St. Olaf College. Three artists of color explore the ways that women adorn themselves”

By Alicia Eler, November 12, 2021

 
 

“El Museo Acquires Seven Artworks from La Trienal 2021”

By Sarah Rose Sharp, November 8, 2021

 
 

The New York Review of Books: Cover Feature

October 21, 2021 Issue

 
 

Galerie Magazine: “Meet the Mexican American Artist Creating Ingenious Works from Toys and Frosting”

By Jacoba Urist, July 29, 2021

 
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ARTSY: “10 Latinx Artists to Watch at El Museo del Barrio’s Triennial”

By Nicole Martinez, May 17, 2021

 
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The New Contemporaries Vol 2 at Residency Art Gallery April 10-June 5, 2021

 

Smithsonian Magazine: “How a Sweeping Survey in NYC Redefines What It Means to Make ‘Latinx’ Art”


By Isis Davis-Marks March 26, 2021

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The New York Times: “El Museo Looks to Define ‘Latinx Art’ With a Major Survey The museum’s first triennial, imperfect but stimulating, has successfully landed”

By Holland Cotter, March 25, 2021

The Wall Street Journal: “‘Estamos Bien: La Trienal 20/21’ Review: A Vibrant Portrait of American Latino Life”

By Peter Plagens, March 27, 2021

 
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ESTAMOS BIEN – LA TRIENAL 20/21 at El Museo del Barrio March 13 – September 26, 2021

Curated by El Museo’s Chief Curator Rodrigo Moura; Curator, Susanna V. Temkin; and Guest Curator, Elia Alba  

Flaunt Magazine: “EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO | ESTAMOS BIEN – LA TRIENAL 20/21”

BY CONSTANZA FALCO RAEZ, MARCH 16, 2021

Artnet: “Veering From the Didactic to the Lyrical, El Museo del Barrio’s Worthy New Triennial Defines Latinx Art Through a Common Struggle “Estamos Bien—La Trienal" is the museum's first national survey of Latinx art”

By Barbara Calderón, March 19, 2021

 
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LatinXAmerican at DePaul Art Museum

January 7 – August 15, 2021



 
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Sleight of Hand at Center for Craft

Oct 23, 2020- Jan 22, 2021 CURATED BY Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy

Cake Cake Cake: Baking as Resistance

A conversation with Sleight of Hand exhibiting artist, Yvette Mayorga, and exhibition curator and 2020 Curatorial Fellow, Angelik Vizcarrondo-LaboyMayorga and Vizcarrondo-Laboy discuss the exhibition, "Sleight of Hand" and Mayorga's studio practice - including the significance of baking techniques in her work - all while Mayorga decorates a cake.


 
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Artnet: “How Yvette Mayorga’s Luscious Artworks Use ‘Rasquache Aesthetics’ to Address the Dark Side of the American Dream”

The first-generation Mexican-American artist is rising fast based on her colorful style and themes that address the Latinx experience.

By Barbara Calderón, November 27, 2019

 
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“DePaul Art Museum sets out to ‘change art history’ with Latinx Initiative”

Multi-year effort includes research, exhibitions and community-building February 12, 2020

Borderless Magazine: “New Contemporary Art Exhibit Uplifts Latinx Experiences At the DePaul Art Museum, a major intergenerational art show celebrates the contributions of Latinx artists with ties to Chicago”

BY CLAIRE VOON, FEBRUARY 18, 2021

 
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Artnews: “THE STUFF OF LIFE”

By Danni Shen, January 19, 2021

 
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Fair Vanity at Summertime Gallery

Curated by Lisa Slominski September 12 - November 7, 2020

 
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Chicago Gallery News: “Yvette Mayorga: Artistic Confections Add New Layers to Art History”

By Alison Reilly

 
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NewCity Art: “Art 50 2020: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists”

BY KERRY CARDOZA, SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

NewCity Art: “Breakout Artists 2020: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers”

BY KERRY CARDOZA, APRIL 30, 2020

 
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Amadeus: “INSIDE CHICAGO-BASED YVETTE MAYORGA’S DREAMY, FROSTED, ROCOCO WORLD”

By WILLIAM CAMARGO, DECEMBER 10, 2019

 
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Chicago Magazine: “The Frosting Chronicler Yvette Mayorga’s bittersweet sculptures ingeniously tackle immigration politics”

By JASON FOUMBERG, SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

 
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Artnet: “Plunge Into the Madcap Delirium of Chicago Imagists at a Brooklyn Brownstone With These PhotosOn view now, "The Chicago Show" is on display in a Clinton Hill brownstone, see pictures here”

By Caroline Goldstein, May 16, 2018

 
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The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4 LatiNext

Edited by Felicia Chavez, José Olivarez, and Willie Perdomo

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READER: “The American dream, in frosting: the art of Yvette Mayorga”

By Kerry Cardoza

 
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Poetry Magazine: MARCH 2020 Yvette Mayorga

 
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Hyperallergic: “From Immigrant Stories to Environmental Dread, EXPO Chicago Gets Dark The Midwest's mega-fair seems less concerned with the bottom line, making space for politics”

By Claire Voon, September 15, 2017

 
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Teen Vogue: “Bold Disobedience" Art Show Was Curated by Chicago Teens "This is someone that deserves to be represented”

By KATE SIERZPUTOWSKI, AUGUST 30, 2017

 

The Chicago Tribune: “National Museum of Mexican Art celebrates its 30th with a protest party”

By LORI WAXMAN, July 05, 2017

 

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