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= Mundo Meza = Chicano artist Edmundo Meza (born Edmundo Meza; 1955 - 1985) was a Chicano LGBTQ artist born in Tijuana, Mexico. He grew up in East Los Angeles and created performance art, paintings, installations, and fashions. His conceptual artworks address both Chicano heritage and gay liberation in the context of the political and cultural turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s in the United States.

Death
Meza died in 1985 due to complications from AIDS.

Legacy
In 2014 and 2015, the Getty Foundation awarded grants totaling $270,000 for exhibition research, support, and implementation of Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. Organized by the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries, the exhibition takes its name from Meza's work and focuses on queer, Chicanx artists and their collaborations from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. The exhibit was first shown at the ONE Archives' gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles before traveling to several galleries across the United States. Co-curators C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz worked for four years, on behalf of the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California to assemble and research the collection for the exhibition, spending time in Mexico, Spain, and England.

Works

 * Mermaid with Mandolin
 * Self-Portrait
 * Sweet
 * Wig Shop