Grew up in Guatemala (b. Managua, Nicaragua, 1971)
Currently lives and works in the Bronx, NY.

SOLO/TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2021
Meditations on Hair, Hall of Fame Art Gallery (Online), Bronx Community College, Bronx, NY.
2008
Días especiales (Special Days), Bronx Blue Bedroom Project, Bronx, NY.
Recuerdo de nuestra boda, Casa Ibargüen, Guatemala City, Guatemala; traveling to Casa No'j, Xela, and Centro de Formación de Antigua, La Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala. Commissioned by Centro Cultural de España/Guatemala.
1999
Título de propiedad, Belia de Vico–Arte Contemporáneo, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected)

2024
Bajo presión / Under pressure, Poli/Gráfica de Puerto Rico: América Latina y el Caribe, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española y la Galería de la Sede del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Puerto Rico, April 18-September 15, 2024. Curators: Elvis Fuentes and Lisa Ladner.
When The Tropics are Quiet, Garner Arts Center, Garnerville, NY, March 9-April 21, 2024. Curator: Vladimir Cybil Charlier.
2022
Voy a reír, Voy a gozar, Vivir mi vida, La la la la, El Borinquen Residence / Comunilife, Bronx, NY, October 21-December 21, 2022. Organized: Blanka Amezkua.
Convergence: Artists & Community, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY, September 22-October 22, 2022.
La imagen quema: perspectivas del videoarte en Guatemala, Centro Cultural de España/Guatemala, Guatemala City, May 14-August 13, 2022. Curator: Josseline Pinto.
2021
Mon Corps, Mon Champ de Bataille / My Body, My Battlefield, Online, Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV). Curators: Meyken Barreto and Verónica Sedano.
Vida, muerte, justicia / Life, death, justice, An exhibition of Latin American Contemporary Art, Ogden Contemporary Arts, Ogden, UT. Curators: Jorge Rojas and María del Mar González-González.
Equinox Contemporary Women’s Exhibition, Art City Gallery, Ventura, CA. Curator: María Adela Díaz.
With Every Fiber, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY. Curator: Anki King.
2020
Transgresiones: Mujeres que cuestionan, Fundación ArtNexus (Online). Curators: Celia Sredni de Birbragher and Natalia Espinel.
Woven: Three Artists of the Americas, Preview (Online). Curator: Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro. Watch a Conversation Online with Gabriel.
Corposoberanía, recuperar lo que siempre fue nuestro, Centro Cultural de España en El Salvador, El Salvador. Curator: Luisa Fuentes Guaza. Curatorial Text.
Winter Workspace 10 Year Anniversary: Returning to the Source, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY. Online Catalog.
2019
AIM Open House Group Show, The Block Gallery, New York, NY.
Pasos a desnivel, Centro Cultural de España en Guatemala, Guatemala. Curator: Proyecto LAICA.
Identity Measures, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA. Curator: Dr. Jordan Amirkhani.
Fauna of Mirrors, Humanities Gallery, LIU, Brooklyn, NY. Curator: Etty Yaniv.
Portadores de sentido—Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico. Curator: Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy. Catalog.
Al Dictado. Arte y conflicto en Centroamérica, Centro Cultural de España Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Curators: Juan José Santos and Isabela Villanueva.
2018
Al Dictado. Arte y conflicto en Centroamérica, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia. Curated by Isabela Villanueva and Juan José Santos.
REVIVAL: Contemporary Pattern and Decoration, El Museo del Barrio at Longwood Art Gallery, Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY. Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado.
Her Art Will Be Cannibal, Longwood Art Gallery, Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY. Curator: Alicia Grullón.
2017
Video Art in Latin America, as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, LAXART, Hollywood, CA. Curators: Glenn Phillips and Elena Shtromberg.
Guatemala from 33,000 km: Contemporary Art from 1960-Present, as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA. Curators: Miki García and Emiliano Valdés. Catalog.
Bristle: Hair and Hegemony, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland. Curators: Roisin Kennedy, Niamh McGuinne, and Aoife Ruane. Catalog.
2016
Tribute to the Disappeared (Selections), The City College of New York’ Center for Worker Education, NY.
Wolves, Magic Mirrors & Spinning Wheels: The Anatomy of Fairy Tales, The Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art, Scranton, PA. Curated by Nezka Pfeifer.
2015
The (Not) So Secret Life of Plants, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ.
Meet the Data: Source Materials Visualized, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. Curated by Alexander Campos and Heidi Neilson. Catalog.
Abject Subjects, Art Exchange Gallery, University of Essex, UK.
Then and Now: Ten Years of Residencies at The Center for Book Arts, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. Traveling to Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY.
Exhibition at F Gallery, Unconfirmed Makeshift Museum, Irvine, CA.
2014
Apocryphal Times, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, NY. Organized by Tamara Kostianovsky and Thorsten Albertz.
Flow: Economies of the Look and Creativity in the Contemporary Art of the Caribbean, IDB Cultural Center, Washington, DC. Curator: Elvis Fuentes with Meyken Barreto. Catalog.
In-Site: The Creative Process in Plain View, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ.
New Prints 2014/Winter, International Print Center New York, New York, NY.
Silence Unbound: The Artist Lexicon in the Making, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. Curator: Heather Powell. Catalog.
2013
Hair, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. Curator: Anonda Bell. Catalog.
Artists-in-Residence Exhibition, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. Curator: Alexander Campos.
2012
En la curvatura del tiempo: Arte y Mujer, Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Curator: Lucrecia de Prera. Catalog.
Convivir/Compartir, XVIII Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Artistic Director: Santiago Olmo. Catalog.
Selling Sex, SHOWstudio Gallery, London, UK.
Bound by Silence, Dowd Gallery, Dowd Fine Arts Center @ SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY. Curated by Heather Powell. Catalog.
Ñew York, Latin American and Spanish Artists in New York, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC. Curated by Paco Cano, Eva Mendoza Chandas and Jodie Dinapoli.
Parábola. Una línea imaginaria y semicircular entre mujeres fotógrafas, MUA. Mujeres en las artes, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Curated by Walterio Iraheta. (Travelling exbition from 2010.)
Braided Together, Hair in the Work of Contemporary Women Artists, Basket House Village Universe Gallery, London, UK. Catalog. Curated by Rebecca Baillie and Charlotte Lindsay. Travelling from New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK. Catalog.
2011
Privacy Please!, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Juried Show. Curated by Erin Riley-Lopez and Annette Rusin.
Disillusions: Gendered Visions of the Caribbean and its Diasporas, Middlesex County College Studio Theatre Gallery, Edison, NJ. E-Catalog. Curated by Tatiana Flores. Travelling to The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, New York, NY.
New, Latest Works by ROLLO Artists, Rollo Contemporary Art, London, UK.
Memories Past and Present: 1765 - 2011, Uptown Arts Stroll 2011, Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York, NY.
Uptown Arts Review, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance Gallery, Uptown Arts Stroll 2011, New York, NY. Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado.
JUSTMAD Art Fair, invited by Galería Antonia Puyó, Galería de Cristal del Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid, Spain.
2010
Basic Instinct, Black and White Project Space, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Sasha Okshteyn. Traveling to Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Pinta New York, Latin American Art Fair participating with Rollo Contemporary Art, Pier 92, NY.
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, 16th International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Catalog. Artistic Director: Mara Vujic and Predrag Pajdic.
Parábola. Una línea imaginaria y semicircular entre mujeres fotógrafas, Centro Cultural de España/El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador. Catalog. Curated by Walterio Iraheta.
Utrópicos, Central America & Caribbean: Archivacción, XXXI Bienal de Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. Artistic Director: Santiago Olmo.
Pinta London, Latin American Art Fair participating with Rollo Contemporary Art, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Design in the Heights: Contemporary Meets Colonial, Uptown Arts Stroll 2010, Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York, NY.
Uptown Arts Review, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance Gallery, Uptown Arts Stroll 2010, New York, NY. Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado.
Tracing Memories, Taller Boricua, New York, NY. Curated by Marcos Dimas and Christine Licata.
Ver para creer, XVII Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Artistic Director: José Roca. Catalog.
Caperucita ha crecido, Galería Antonia Puyó, Zaragoza, Spain. Organized by Fanny Guerineau from Seminario Interdisciplinar de Estudios de la Mujer (SIEM), Universidad de Zaragoza, as part of the XIII Muestra Internacional de Cine Realizado por Mujeres.
Women-Made, The Grady Alexis Gallery at El Taller Latino Americano, New York, NY. Curated by Andrea Arroyo.
Hair Tactics, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ. Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado.
The Body in Women’s Art Now, New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK.
2009
The Body in Women’s Art Now: Part 1: Embodied, Rollo Contemporary Art, London, UK. Catalog. Curated by Philippa Found.
¡Aquí! (Here), An Uptown Latino Art Exhibition, NoMAA Gallery, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, New York, NY.
NoMAA Visual Arts Grantees Exhibition, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, New York, NY. Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado.
Pintura: El proyecto incompleto, espacio ce!, Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española, La Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala. Curated by Rosina Cazali and Emiliano Valdés.
The Happening: Kinesics as Art Object, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Nico Wheadon.
\'flo\ : art, text, new media, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. Catalog. Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado.
2008
Espada de Dos Filos, Latina Voices: California—New York, Arte Américas, Fresno, California.
Freeze Frame, Rush Arts in Miami, Miami, Florida; traveling to Blank, Cape Town, South Africa. Catalog. Curated by Nico Wheadon.
IV Encuentro Mundial de Arte Corporal, Caracas, Venezuela.
XVI Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Artistic Director: Nelson Herrera Ysla.
NoMAA Visual Arts Grantees Exhibition, The Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, New York, NY. Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado.
Horror vacui, Primera muestra de performance y accionismo, Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española, La Antigua, Guatemala. Catalog. Curated by Rosina Cazali.
Other, Other..., A sampling of 2007 and 2008 Urban Artist Initiative Grant (UAI/NYC) recipients visual arts and media, Longwood Art Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz.
Beneath The Skin, A PERFECT 8 Exhibit, Chashama ABC, New York, NY. Curated by Diana Schmertz.
What Does a Woman Want?, Proyecto X, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Cecilia Nuín.
Tres artistas. Tres vivencias, 2do Salón Nacional del Grabado, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Curated by Lucrecia Cofiño de Prera.
Resonance New York, Monkdogz Urban Art Gallery, New York. Curated by Diana Schmertz.
2007
The Feminine Mystique: Contemporary Artists Respond, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ. Catalog. Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado. Catalog.
Art Agora: The (S) Files, La Bienal del El Museo del Barrio, Instituto Cervantes, New York, NY. Catalog. Co-curated by Elvis Fuentes and Carmen E. Ramos.
El Museo’s 5th Bienal: The (S) Files / The Selected Files 007, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY. Catalog. Co-curated by Elvis Fuentes and Carmen E. Ramos. Catalog.
T’What?, Gallery NuLu, Louisville Photo Biennial 2007, Louisville, Kentucky. Co-curated by Aron Conaway.
Libertad, Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Curated by Belia de Vico/Contexto.
Ejercicios de lo efímero, Centro Cultural de España/Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Curated by Rosina Cazali.
Our Man in Havana: The Vacuum Cleaner in Art, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ. Catalog. Curated by Emma Wilcox.
Real pARTy 07, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut.
Slide Slam, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut.
Women of Color Art Exhibit on Violence Against Women, Brecht Forum, New York, NY.
art for art’s shake 07, la contaminazione dello spazio, Palazzo Zambeccari, Bologna, Italy. Catalog.
2006
The Art of Sensuality, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY.
Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation of Women, Online exhibition from the International Museum Of Women, San Francisco, CA http://www.imaginingourselves.org. March, May and July—August.
Real PARTy 06, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut.
Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) 26, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY. Catalog. Curated by Lydia Yee and Erin Salazar. Catalog.
Armi della prossimità. Tra performance e arti visive, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano, Milano, Italy. Curated by Lorenza Pignatti.
2005
Sweet Taboos, Episode 4: Bittersweet, III Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania. Catalog. Curated by Joa Ljungberg. Catalog.
Contemporary Latin American Art Group Show, Shimna, New York, NY. Curated by Risa Needleman Gallery.
2003
La región más transparente. Una exploración de los espacios íntimos, Centro Cultural de España/Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Curated by Rosina Cazali.
2001
Globalización, Nomadismo, Identidades, VII Bienal Internacional de Pintura, Cuenca, Ecuador. Catalog.
IV Bienal del Caribe, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

GRANTS / AWARDS / HONORS

2023
CERF+ Get Ready Grant, VT.
2022
FY2022, New York State Council on the Arts, NY.
2021
CERF+ COVID-19 Relief Grant, VT.
City Artist Corps Grants, NY.
BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) 2021 Grantee, Bronx Council On The Arts, NY.
2020
Foundation for Contemporary Art’s FCA Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund.
2019
Nominated—Colene Brown Art Prize, New York, NY.
2016
BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) 2016 Grantee, Bronx Council On The Arts, NY.
2014
Joan Mitchell Foundation 2014 Painters & Sculptors Grant.
2013
Nominated—Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) Subvention Grant, Miami, FL.
2011
21 Leaders for the 21st Century 2011, Honoree, Women’s eNews, NY.
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, ReGrant Program for Individual Artists, New York, NY.
2010
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, ReGrant Program for Individual Artists, New York, NY.
2009
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, ReGrant Program for Individual Artists, New York, NY.
2008
Urban Artist Initiative/NYC Fellowship, New York, NY.
Nominated—Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) Subvention Grant, Miami, FL.
Shortlisted—Ida Applebroog Award Biennial, New York, NY.
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, ReGrant Program for Individual Artists, New York, NY.
2006
Nominated—The Rema Hort Mann Art Grant, New York, NY.

RESIDENCIES / PROGRAMS

2023
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s On-Site Assistant Workspace Residency Program, New York, NY.
Bronx Council on the Arts, SU-CASA Artist in Residence, Tolentine Zeiser Community Life Center, Bronx, NY.
2022
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Residency Program, New York, NY.
2021
Artist Research Fellowship of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, New York, NY.
2019
Creative Capital’s 2019-20 Taller Profesional para Artistas, New York, NY.
The Bronx Museum’s AIM Alumni Residency at 80 White Street, New York, NY.
2018
Artist-in-Residence Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA.
2016
Back in Five Minutes: Artist in Residency (Office Hours), El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY.
2014
Winter Workspace Program, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY.
2012
Artist-in-Residence Workspace Grant, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY.
2010
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space Residency Program at Governors Island, New York, NY.
2005-06
Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program #26, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY.

BIBLIOGRAPHY (Selected)

2021
López, Pancho. “Centroamérica en acción. Una aproximación al performance centroamericano y algunos de sus protagonistas.” San José (Costa Rica): MADC, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo.
Facio, Alda. “Cómo construimos diálogos intergeneracionales, amorosos, sororales y visionarios. Diálogo virtual feminista.” JASS Mesoamérica, Mexico (2021): 34.
Yaniv, Etty. “Jessica Lagunas: With Every Fiber at Pelham Art Center.” ArtSpiel, April 7, 2021.
2020
Dávila, Arlene. “Latinx Art. Artists, Markets, and Politics.” Duke University Press, August 2020.
Online Conversation with Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro for the exhibition “Woven: Three Artists of the Americas,”Preview Art Platform (Online), August 2020.
2019
Ene, Cosmina. “The Seeds of Creation: Interviews with 18 Contemporary Women Artists.” Max Laniado Fine Arts Publisher.
Lambert, Audra. “Fauna of Mirrors Reflects a Nuanced Approach to Nature,” AnteMag, April 24, 2019.
Cornejo, Kency. “US Central Americans in Art and Visual Culture,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, February 2019.
2018
Rideal, Liz and Kathleen Soriano (eds). “Madam and Eve.” London (UK): Laurence King Publishing.
Kupfer, Paula. “Video Art in Latin America.” ASAP Journal, September 6, 2018.
2017
Acevedo, Anabella, Lydia Cooper, Miki García, and Emiliano Valdés (eds). “Guatemala from 33,000 km: Contemporary Art, 1960 – Present,” 2017. Santa Barbara (CA): MCASB, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara.
Herrera Ubico, Silvia. “Historias (paralelas) del arte,” in Acevedo, Anabella, Lydia Cooper, Miki García, and Emiliano Valdés (eds). “Guatemala from 33,000 km: Contemporary Art, 1960 – Present,” 2017, 181-195. Santa Barbara (CA): MCASB, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara.
2016
Mandel Katz, Claudia. “Estéticas del borde. Prácticas artísticas y violencia contra las mujeres en Latinoamérica,” San José (Costa Rica): Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica.
2014
Quiñones Otal, Emilia. “¿Cómo enfrentar la violencia en un territorio que vive de ello?” in the thesis “Transversalidad entre Violencia Patriarcal y Violencia Colonial: en las Artes Visuales de México, América Central y el Caribe Español.” Universitat de Valencia, 2014, pp 377-385.
Wren, Celia. “At IDB, cosmetics get under the skin,” The Washington Post, Online Edition: June 28, 2014; Printed Edition: June 29, 2014.
Katz, Miranda. “Against the Flow’, Caribbean Artists Critique Image-Driven Culture,” The Washington Diplomat, Online Edition: June 26, 2014; Printed Edition: Volume 21, Number 7, p 31, July 2014.
2013
López Tyrer, Andrea. “¿Vale la pena ser bellas?,” Arttextum, November 21, 2013.
Mazzocchi, Sherry. “On the ground level/A nivel del suelo,” Manhattan Times, November 21, 2013, p 12.
Mazzocchi, Sherry. “On the ground level/A nivel del suelo,” The Bronx Free Press, November 13, 2013, p 9.
“Hair”, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, September 3—December 24, 2013. Catalog.
Fuentes Guaza, Luisa (Ed.). Lenguajes contemporáneos desde Centro América/Contemporary lenguages from Centro América. Madrid: Turner.
Acevedo, Anabella. “Imágenes de la Mujer en el Arte Guatemalteco,” Editorial Galería Guatemala (Guatemala), Year 15, No. 44, (2013): 80-97.
2012
Convivir/Compartir, XVIII Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Catalog.
Mendoza, Eva. “Round Trip NY #23. Jessica Lagunas,” Round Trip NY, March 18, 2012.
2011
Harbin, Allison. “Jessica Lagunas. Interview.” Disillusions E-Catalog, December 14, 2011. http://www.artzpub.com/content/special-publications/disillusions
Carroll, Brendan. “Male Chauvinist Pig Reviews Feminist Art Exhibition.” He said She said Blog. http://brendanscottcarroll.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/male-chauvinist-pig-reviews-feminist-art-exhibition/
Acevedo, Anabella. “En el ámbito de las artes visuales”, in Nosotras, las de la Historia. Mujeres en Guatemala (siglos XIX-XXI), 304-321. Guatemala: Asociación La Cuerda y Secretaria Presidencial de la Mujer (SEPREM).
Hannouche, Cherie. “Interview with Jessica Lagunas: Visual Artist Questioning the Standards of Beauty Imposed on Women.” The Daily Femme Blog, March 21st, 2011.
Rubin, Edward. “Riding the Crest of the Latin American Art Wave, Pinta: The 2010 Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art Show, New York City.” NY Arts Magazine, March 21, 2011; and ARTES, Fine Art Magazine, March 9, 2011.
2010
16th International Festival of Contemporary Arts, Exh. cat. Slovania: City of Women.
“Parábola. Una línea imaginaria y semicircular entre mujeres fotógrafas,” Exh. cat. El Salvador: Centro Cultural de España/El Salvador. Essay by Anabella Acevedo.
“Caperucita ha crecido,” Galería Antonia Puyó, Zaragoza, Spain. Essay by Esther Moreno.
2009
“The Body in Women’s Art Now: Part 1: Embodied,” Exh. cat. London: Rollo Contemporary Art. Essay by Philippa Found.
Schmertz, Diana (ed.,) Perfect 8 (New York). Issue 4: The Space Between Things (2009): 27, 32-33.
“\'flo\ : art, text, new media.” Exh. cat. New York: The Center for Book Arts. Essay by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado.
White, Rebecca. “To Be With You. Jessica Lagunas is one part roaring feminist, one part hopeless romantic, but she is all woman. No apolgies. No regrets.” Zink Magazine. February.
2008
“Los Desaparecidos / Horror vacui,” Exh. cat. Guatemala: Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española.
Toledo, Aida. “Discusiones sobre lo Efímero: Reflexiones sobre la Performance en Guatemala.” in Los Desaparecidos / Horror vacui, 64-73. Guatemala: Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española.
Montijano Cañellas, Marc. “Jessica Lagunas. El mecanismo de la emoción.” Homines.com, Portal de arte y cultura. www.homines.com/arte_xx/jessica_lagunas/index.htm
Peréz-Ratton, Virginia. “Performance and Action Work in Central America, 1960-2000: A Political and Aesthetic Choice,” in Deborah Cullen (ed.,) Arte No es Vida, Actions by Artists of the Americas 1960-2000, 204-213. New York: El Museo del Barrio.
Aspect. The Chronicle of New Media Art. “Arte de las Américas,” Vol 11. DVD, Excerpt of “Para Verte Mejor,” “Para Besarte Mejor,” and “Para Acariciarte Mejor.”
Toledo, Aida and Anabella Acevedo. “Through their Eyes: Reflections on Violence in the Work of Guatemalan Performance and Installation Artists.” N.Paradoxa, International Feminist Art Journal (London, UK). Volume 21 (January 2008): 56-66.
2007
Schmertz, Diana (ed.,) Perfect 8 (New York). Issue 2: Resonance (Fall 2007): 19-20, 55-56.
Baker, R.C. “Best in Show: Bounty in the Barrio.” The Village Voice, November 13th, 2007, p 53.
“The Feminine Mystique: Contemporary Artists Respond.” Exh. cat. New Jersey: Jersey City Museum. Essay by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado.
“El Museo’s 5th Bienal: The (S) Files / The Selected Files 007.” Exh. cat. New York: El Museo del Barrio. Essay by Elvis Fuentes and E. Carmen Ramos.
Peréz-Ratton, Virginia. “Central American Women Artists in a Global Age,” in Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin (eds.,) Global Feminisms, New Directions in Contemporary Art, 122-143. London-New York: Merrell Publishers.
Cofiño de Prera, Lucrecia. “Libertad: una muestra de arte conceptual.” elPeriódico (Guatemala). July 23, p. 24.
Cofiño de Prera, Lucrecia. “Efímero: 1. adj. Pasajero, de corta duracion. (DRAE)” elPeriódico (Guatemala). July 9, p. 23.
Cordero, Mario. “Arte feminista.” La Hora (Guatemala). March 10th, p. 3.
Imagining Ourselves: Empowerment, Inspiration, and Community Building! Two Women Express How Imagining Ourselves Has Changed Their Lives. International Museum of Women, San Francisco, California. Brochure. Winter Newsletter, p4.
2006
Martínez, Neyda Luz. “Beauty is Truth.” New York Post, April 12, 2006, Tempo, p 55. Interview.
Genocchio, Benjamin. “For Hopeful Artists, the Search to Be Just Themselves.” The New York Times, April 9, 2006, p 8 WE.
AIM 26, Artist in the Marketplace. Exh. cat. New York: Bronx Museum of the Arts. Essay by Lydia Yee and Erin Salazar.
West, Cassandra. “A generation arrives.” Chicago Tribune, March 8, 2006, Woman News, p 5, C Section 5.
Goldman, Paula. Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation of Women. San Francisco: New World Library.
2005
Tirana Biennale 3, Sweet Taboos, 5 Episodes. Exh. cat. Tirana: Institute of Tirana Biennale, Albania.
Mandel, Claudia. “Miradas de mujer” (Women Gazes), ArtMedia Magazine (Costa Rica). No. 004 (April-June 2005): 28-31.
2004
Toledo, Aida. “Arte-Manía: Noticias sobre el performance en Guatemala: El caso de Jessica Lagunas”, TATUANA #1: Spanish Program of the University of Alabama. www.bama.ua.edu/~tatuana/numero1/arte.html
2002
Toledo, Aida. “En el performance y la instalación. Espacios imaginarios de artistas guatemaltecas”, Revista Isis Internacional (Chile). No. 33 (December 2002): 145-156.
Díaz Bringas, Tamara. “Art in Central America: The Critical Glance.” Atlántica, Revista de Arte y Pensamiento (Spain). No.31 (Winter 2002): 40-69.
VII Bienal Internacional de Pintura, Cuenca, Ecuador. Globalización, Nomadismo, Identidades. Exh. cat & Brochure. Cuenca: Bienal Internacional de Pintura 2002. Essay by Diana de Solares.
2001
Cazali, Rosina. “El oro y la plata en Santo Domingo” (Gold & Silver in Santo Domingo), elPeriódico (Guatemala). November 21, 2001, p 18.
2000
Toledo, Aida. “Definiendo cuerpos propios. Los alegóricos tacones de Jessica Lagunas”, La Cuerda (Guatemala). September 2000, p 8.

ARTIST TALKS / CONVERSATIONS / CURATORIAL PROJECT

2022 Roundtable: Artists’ Perspectives on the Collection, Hispanic Society Museum & Library, NY. March 28th.
2021 With Every Fiber, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY. Online Artist Talk April 8th.
2021 Online Artist Talk to Book Arts Students, SUNY New Paltz, New York, NY. March 31st.
2020 Woven: Three Artists of the Americas, Preview (Online). Online Conversation with Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro.
2015 Here & There: Guatemalan Diaspora through Activism and Art, SUNY New Paltz, New York, NY. Organized by Lucía Escobar from Guatemala and Luz Porras from SUNY Paltz.
2015 The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. Roundtable with Then and Now Artists: Wayne Hodge, Jessica Lagunas, Shervone Neckles, Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, Tattfoo Tan, and Amanda Thackray.
2013 Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. Artist Talk to Students (Communications, Intro to Photography, Photography II).
2013 The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. Artist-in-Residence Talk.
2012 Plaza College, Queens, NY. Artist Talk to Students from Women, Art, and Society Class.
2011 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Artist Talk to Students from Casa Hispana.
2011 Hunter College, New York, NY. Artist Talk to the Ceramics Class Students.
2011 Institutions and their Feminist Discontents Panel, The Feminist Art Project @ CAA Annual Conference 2011, NY. Artist Talk.
2010 Plaza College, Queens, NY. Artist Talk to the Latin & Caribbean Art Class Students.
2010 Blue was never my color, anyway!, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY. Panel discussion.
2009 \'flo\ : art, text, new media, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. Artist Talk.
2008 Girls Gone Wild: Tupperware Parties to Riot Grrrls: The Feminine Mystique Panel, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ. Artist Talk.
2007 The Feminine Mystique, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ. Artist Talk to Randolph High School Students.
2007 Voces: Art Agora, The Public Dimension of Contemporary Art, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY. Artist Talk.
2007 Image and Identity Online Exhibition, Imagining Ourselves. Co-curator.
2006 AIM 26, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY. Artist Talk to Morris High School Students.

SCREENINGS

2016 (Dis)Connected Forms: Narratives on the Fractured Self, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, England, UK, September 8—9.

2011 Endangered Species International Summit, Screenings at Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, March 4.

2010 XIII Muestra Internacional de Cine Realizado por Mujeres, Screenings at Centro de Historia, Zaragoza, Spain, March 11—20th. Organized by Seminario Interdisciplinar de Estudios de la Mujer (SIEM), Universidad de Zaragoza.

2009 Performing Localities: Recent Guatemalan Performance Art on Video, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, UK, May 5-6. Organized by the Department of Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art.

2008 Preoccupation, Femlink: The International Video Collage, Curated by Véronique Sapin (France) and CM Judge (USA).

ARTIST REGISTRIES

Bronx 200: The Bronx Visual Artist Directory, NY.
CIFO, Miami.
Arttextum, Mexico-Spain.
Arte-Sur, Paris, France.
Feminist Art Base, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, NY.
Studio Visit, PS1, NY.
Femlink Male & Preoccupation, France.
Irving Sandler Artists File Online, Artists Space, NY.

COLLECTIONS

The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Promised gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in honor of Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy.
The Center for Book Arts, NY.
National Gallery of Prague, as part of Femlink’s International Video Collages: “Preoccupation” (2008) and “Male” (2009).
Private collections.

EDUCATION

2015 The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
2008 Hunter College, City University of New York, NY.
2006–2011 The Art Students League, New York, NY.
1992 Advanced Technical Degree in Graphic Design, Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala City, Guatemala.