With Nancy Rivera, a visual artist, curator, and arts administrator based in Salt Lake City, Utah. As an artist, she works primarily in the fields of photography, video, sculpture, and installation. Her practice is influenced by her dual cultural identity and its effects, such as code-switching, cultural assimilation, and displacement. We talk about the artificial versus reality, a-i generated art (or is it?),  immigration, and originality.

Nancy's most recent work reflects on her experience as a first-generation Mexican American through her own history of migration and we spend some time talking about her immigration experience in this episode. 

She has exhibited nationally in a variety of traditional and non-traditional venues and her work is part of private and public collections. From 2018–2021, she served as board member and vice-chair of the Salt Lake City Art Design Board. She was a 2021 National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) Leadership Institute Fellow and currently oversees the Visual Arts Program at the Utah Division of Arts & Museums. I love that she’s always experimenting with different mediums and looking at ways to subvert it, such as her still life photography, which you can see at www.nancyrivera.com.

Follow Nancy on instagram at @_nancy_rivera.

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