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Yvette Molina is a Mexican-American artist focused on the relationship between justice and caring. She is interested in expanding our circles of care in response to how caring or not caring influences the privilege we assign to certain places, stories, and living beings.

Her work includes public engagement, painting, processional banners, performance, comics, costumes, action figures, and collage. Learning and incorporating traditional techniques is significant to her practice as a means of connecting to history, culture, and embodied forms of ancestral knowledge. 

Ongoing projects include New Pantheon, a series of reimagined, hybrid gods born to confront the world’s challenges, Big Bang Votive, a large-scale installation and communal storytelling project centered on love and delight, and Freedom Beings, a portrait series depicting the myriad ways humans remain self-expressed through play while sharing and caring for one another.

Yvette has exhibited across the US and internationally at venues such as the American Embassies in Uruguay and Latvia, the Stockholm Fringe Festival, Tang Teaching Museum, Brattleboro Museum, The Newark Museum of Art, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Spring Break Art Show, NADA Art Fair and the Legion of Honor and de Young Museums of California as an AIR awardee. Other residency fellowships include the Vermont Studio Center, Jentel Foundation, UC Berkeley Worth Ryder Gallery, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation. Born in Kansas City, Yvette currently splits her time between Oakland, CA and Brooklyn, NY.