Jessica Carolina González
is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Los Angeles, CA. Archival practices and archives of the bloodline are her tools for storytelling and critique in a post-colonial landscape. By collapsing temporalities from a queer, diasporic, Central American perspective, she confronts the Estadounidense understanding of ever-present sociopolitical issues embedded within land, architecture, and memories. González has exhibited in The Printing Museum, Mulvane Art Museum, Blaffer Art Museum, and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston among others. She has performed for Art League Houston, Project Row Houses, Pangea World Theatre in Minneapolis, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and the LA Dance Project. She was an invited panelist for the "Latino Art Now!" conference hosted by the IUPLR, "Resistance in (A)synchronous Futures" panel hosted by the University of California, Irvine, and "Art in the Space of Social and Political Advocacy" hosted by the Houston Coalition Against Hate. González curated “In the Sun” at The Station Museum and co-curated “Our Patch LGBTQ+ Life from Cradle to Grave” at the LA LGBT Center’s Advocate and Gochis Galleries. She was awarded the first prize for the juried exhibition "Withstand" at the Holocaust Museum Houston, the Idea Fund by the Andy Warhol Foundation, and was a finalist for the Houston Artadia Award. Additionally, González has been 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 the Roski School of Art and Design at USC. She holds an MFA in Art from the University of Southern California, and a BFA in Photography/Digital Media, BA in World Cultures and Literatures with a concentration in Global Modernity Studies, and Minor in Spanish from the University of Houston.
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