Jessica Carolina González, Our love cannot be quelled by the boundary of the flesh (still) (2024), performance at L.A. Dance Project.
Jessica Carolina González (b. 1995 Houston, TX) is an artist and educator based in Los Angeles, CA. Her practice evolves within interdisciplinary process-based experimentation in analog and digital photo/video, performance, and installation. Through an autoethnographic focus on Central American immigration, archival practices, and spirituality, Jessica maintains an on-going critique of hegemonic cultural phenomena and collapses temporalities to contemplate sociopolitical dichotomies embedded in land, architecture, and memory.
Jessica has a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Digital Media, and Bachelor of Arts in World Cultures and Literatures: Global Modernity Studies from the University of Houston. Exhibitions include The Printing Museum, Mulvane Art Museum, Blaffer Art Museum, and the Houston Center for Photography. She has performed for Art League Houston, Project Row Houses, Pangea World Theatre, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Curatorial projects include “In the Sun” at The Station Museum of Contemporary Art and “Our Patch: LGBTQ+ Life from Cradle to Grave” at the LA LGBT Center’s Advocate and Gochis Galleries. Awards and honors include the Idea Fund from the Andy Warhol Foundation, Fellowship from the Center for Ethnographic Media Arts, and finalist for the Houston Artadia Award. Jessica is a Norman Topping Fellow and is recognized by the California Legislative Assembly for her commitment to featuring the intertwined histories of LGBTQ+ community care, organizing, and movement building throughout the Greater Los Angeles region. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at USC’s Roski School of Art and Design.
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