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Daisy Quezada Ureña (born 1990) is a Mexican-American visual artist and educator born in California and currently based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Informed by her cultural background from Mexico and the United States, Quezada addresses overlooked social issues relating to immigration and colonialism. Ureña's practice consists of ceramic and fabric works, as well as installations that speak to identity and place in relation social structures that cross borders.

Life and Career
Quezada was born in California and spent her childhood in Mexico where her immigrant family is from. She moved back to the United States where her family intened for her and her two sisters to attend school. Quezada enrolled on a tennis scholarship to the College of Santa Fe which then became Santa Fe University of Art and Design (SFUAD) during her second year, and received her BFA focusing on sculpture and ceramics. She continued her studio art education, receiving MFA at University of Delaware, with full scholarship. Quezada has worked at SFUAD in various roles, exhibited in major shows regionally and internationally, completed a residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, and received a Fulcrum Fund grant.

Art
After visiting her family's ransacked and abandoned home in Mexico, Quezada began constructing sculptures in which she paired clothing items covered in porcelain alongside objects she found on the US-Mexico border. For her 2017 exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, Quezada reached out to the communities from whom she requested items or scraps of clothing for her work. Incorporating social practice into her oeuvre, she listened to the journeys of the community members. Mi Tierra included other forms of media such as videos, sculptures reminiscent of piñatas, and an actual piece of the US-Mexico border wall.

As an extension of her practice Quezada has also worked alongside the non-for-profit organization like El Otro Lado/The Other Side and Downtown Aurora Visual Arts that impact community at a local level by bring art to youth.

In 2016 Quezada was one of the cofounders of Present Cartographers, a collective invested in creating a platform for artist working within the theme of immigration. Most recently the collective launched Terreno: Borderland Linguistics, a chapbook that holds writing and visual work by ten national and international artists.

Selected Exhibitions

 * 2017 Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
 * 2017 Crafted Stranger, The Center for Craft Creativity & Design, Asheville, NC
 * 2016 Concept: Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei, Taiwan
 * 2016 Local Workshop Exhibition - Icheon Ceramics Festival, Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
 * 2015 Two by two: Small Scale Ceramics Sculpture Biennial, Gallery of Art, Cheney, Washington
 * 2014 UN SILENCIO, Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * 2014 A Place of Insight, Pocket Utopia, New York, New York
 * 2013 1759, Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
 * 2012 New Blood, The Crane, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * 2012 Nona, Santa Fe University Fine Arts Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico