Naomi Rincón Gallardo
Born in Raleigh, 1979 and lives in Mexico City
Naomi Rincón Gallardo (b. 1979, Mexico), is a Mexican Visual Artist and Educator, who lives and works between Oaxaca and Mexico City, Mexico. From a decolonial-queer perspective, her critical-mythical world-making addresses the creation of counter-worlds within neocolonial settings. Her work brings together her interests in theatre games, popular music, Mesoamerican cosmologies, speculative fiction, vernacular festivities and crafts, decolonial feminisms, and queer-of-colour critique.
She holds a BFA in Visual Arts from ENPEG La Esmeralda, Mexico; an MA in Education, Culture, Language and Identity from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK; and a PhD in Practice from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.
Understanding research as an artful and transdisciplinary fabrication, her latest work addresses initiatives related to the creation of counter-worlds in the recent past in Mexico. She uses irony, masquerade lenses and queer methodologies to create a place between radical utopian experiences, fantasy and crises of beliefs. Rincón Gallardo integrates her interest in music, literature, theater games, feminisms, queer theory and critical pedagogy into her work. Alongside her artistic work, she has been involved in institutional and non-institutional education settings and community projects, both teaching and coordinating.
