ABOUT
Janeth Aparicio Vázquez (b. Los Angeles, CA) is a visual artist and historian as curandera of Mixtec and P'urhepecha descent. Her multidisciplinary work spans drawing, painting, and crafts-based mixed-media installation. Aparicio uses this range of materials to create tender offerings to her communities: past, present, and future. She explores personal and historical ecologies and histories of South Central, Los Angeles, and Mexico that guide to ancestral inner-knowing, often reflecting the intricate interplay between personal narratives and cultural contexts. With these 'medicinal' histories Aparicio-Vazquez seeks to, in the words of poet-scholar Aurora Levins Morales, "re-establish the connections between peoples and their histories, to reveal the mechanisms of power, the steps by which their current condition of oppression was achieved... but also to reveal the multiplicity, creativity, and persistence of resistance among the oppressed."
Aparicio Vazquez has most recently organized a community event, alongside artist Liz Goetz, at El Sereno Community Garden that hosted the organization Malaqatel Ija- Semilla Viajeras - Seed Travels as they taught a group of 20 garden members traditional Guatemalan Amaranth harvesting and cooking methods (September 2024).The artist’s most recent murals are located at Dr. Owen Lloyd Knox Elementary School (Los Angeles, CA, 2024) and at Ruben F. Salazar Park, painted as part of a Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory community program that the artist co-led (Los Angeles, CA, 2023). Aparicio Vazquez exhibited most recently at The Brooklyn Children's Museum (Brooklyn, BY, 2024), Room 3557 (Los Angeles, CA, 2024), Superchief Gallery (Los Angeles,CA, 2023), Tlaloc Studios (Los Angeles, CA, 2022), and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (Santa Cruz, CA, 2022). Earned awards include Espolón Tequila's Modern Maverick Artist Award (National Association of Latino Arts & Culture, 2024) and the California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Award: Emerging Artist (Los Angeles Performance Practice for LA County, 2023). She holds a BA in studio art and art history from Occidental College (Los Angeles, CA).
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