Shizu Saldamando

Shizu Saldamando (born 1978 in San Francisco, CA), is an American visual artist. Her work merges painting and collage (often using origami paper) in portraits that often deal with social constructs of identity and subcultures. She has worked in the genre of arte paño, a type of prison art involving portraits of family members and friends drawn in ball-point pen on napkins or handkerchiefs.[1][2][3][4][5] Saldamando also works in video, installation and performance art.

Biography

Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent. She was raised in the Mission District of San Francisco.[6] She attended the California Institute of Arts and the University of California, Los Angeles School of Arts and Architecture.[7]

Her work was included in the group exhibition "Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter" at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution in 2011,[8][9] Her work was also shown in "We Must Risk Delight: Twenty Artists from Los Angeles," curated by Elizabeta Betinski as an official collateral exhibition of the 56th Venice Biennale.[10] She was a resident artist at the Art Omi International Artist Colony in 2002.[11]

Quotes

"A lot of what I try to capture are different subcultures or scenes in which people have created their own world outside of larger alienating constructs."[12]

"My friends and I would buy Teen Angels, a magazine of lowrider and cholo art, and try to copy the drawings of Aztec pyramids and warriors and naked girls. I think that's how I got good at ballpoint pen renderings."[13]

"Growing up in the Mission district in San Francisco, it was predominantly a hip-hop culture. Here in Los Angeles, I'd go to shows or house parties, and it would be all Latino kids listening to the Cure and the Smiths. In L.A., I felt normal for the first time."[14]

References
  1. Shatkin, Elina (August 2, 2007). "Chicano portraiture meets Siouxsie Sioux". LA Times. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  2. "ArtSlant - Shizu Saldamando". Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  3. Jones, Rachel. "The Magic Of The Everyday: An Interview With Shizu Saldamando". Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  4. USA, Latino. "A Japanese-Mexican-American Artist". NPR.org. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
  5. Gonzalez, Rita (2008). Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement. Los Angeles: University of California Press and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. pp. 85. ISBN 978-0-520-25563-0.
  6. McClure, Diana (Summer 2004). "Projects in the Making: Shizu Saldamando". ArtAsiaPacific. 41: 96 – via ARTBibliographies Modern.
  7. Simon, Jamie (August 12, 2011). "Encountering the Asian American Experience at the Portrait Gallery". Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  8. May, Stephen (2011). "Asian American Portraits Encounter". ARTnews. 110: 112 – via Artbibliographies Modern.
  9. Vikram, Anuradha (2015-05-27). "City Among Nations: Los Angeles at the Venice Biennale". Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  10. McClure, Diane (June 2004). "Projects in the Making". ArtAsiaPacific (41): 96.
  11. Shatkin, Elina. "Ink Well: Artist Shizu Saldamando Goes Solo". No. September 9, 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  12. Shatkin, Elina. "Chicano portraiture meets Siouxsie Sioux". No. August 2, 2007. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  13. Shatkin, Elina. "Chicano portraiture meets Siouxsie Sioux". No. August 2, 2007. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
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