Moisés Salazar
(USA, n.d.)
Moisés Salazar is a non-binary queer artist from in Chicago. They graduated in 2020 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Undergraduate Program. Salazar’s practice is meant to highlight their own identity, as being queer and as experiencing the United States with undocumented parents. These two identities are critical to the conceptualization and focus of Salazar’s practice. Their work is meant to showcase the trauma, history, and current state that undocumented immigrants and queer folk face. It is by examining the intersections of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, queerness and the United States history that Moises Salazar addresses the reality of the barriers that immigrants and queer individuals face with the intention to begin to dismantle the myths and stereotypes used to criminalize and dehumanize them.
Salazar’s work also powerfully asserts alternative spaces for queer and undocumented bodies, which are self-constructed, and provide safety from the violence of the state and its attached apparatuses. Salazar’s work has been exhibited in various Chicago venues, in Miami, and Ciudad Mexico. They are an Artaxis Haystack Fellow, Luminarts Fellowship Recipient, and a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Recipient.
