C.J. CHUECA 2022 SHCMAS Artist-In-Residence
C.J. Chueca has lived between Lima (Peru) and New York (USA) since 2003. Chueca’s history as a perpetual immigrant (her early years found her in different cities in Mexico) has led her to explore the concepts of home, territory, transit, multicultural experiences, uprooting and solitude. Focusing on discussions about lives that are still on the road (or without route) in the streets of the world.
C.J. Chueca was born in Lima, Perú, and moved to New York in 2003. In 2022, C.J. Chueca was part of "El Sonido de las voces que se hunden'' curated by Blanca de la Torre at Centro Cultural de España en Tegucigalpa; "What Lies Beneath" a two-person show at Kates Ferri Projects. In 2021 she had the two-person solo show “Micaela, La Sangre de Todas” in Vigil Gonzales Galería and participated in "A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience; 20 Years of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection'' curated by Amethyst Rey Beaver and Eva Thornton at the Taubman Museum of Art; “XX (6 female Latinx artists working in abstraction)” at Latchkey Gallery in New York; “Landmark” at KM0.2 in San Juan de Puerto Rico; and Art Souterrain in Montreal with a public commissioned installation curated by Dulce Pinzón at Palais des Congres. She was the July art resident at Silo6776 with Kates-Ferri Projects in New Hope, Pennsylvania where she presented the solo show “Time Traveler”. She was part of "Hay algo incomestible en la garganta. Poéticas antipatriarcales y nueva escena en los años noventa" curated by Miguel López at ICPNA-Lima. She presented in 2020: “The Force of Water'' with Latchkey Gallery at the Core Club NYC. In 2019 she had the solo show “Somos La Noche y El Día” at Vigil Gonzales Galería; and was part of “Crónicas Migrantes, Historias communes entre Perú y Venezuela” curated by Fabiola Arroyo at MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima. In 2018 she had the solo shows: "I am the river behind the wall" at Mulherin Gallery in Toronto; and "Dos Cielos Azules/Two Blue Skies'' at ICPNA (Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano) for which she recently released a monograph in collaboration with Meier Ramirez and VM& Studio. This year and in 2023, C.J. Chueca will work in a public commission in the Bronx managed by Percent for Art, from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Read MoreC.J. Chueca was born in Lima, Perú, and moved to New York in 2003. In 2022, C.J. Chueca was part of "El Sonido de las voces que se hunden'' curated by Blanca de la Torre at Centro Cultural de España en Tegucigalpa; "What Lies Beneath" a two-person show at Kates Ferri Projects. In 2021 she had the two-person solo show “Micaela, La Sangre de Todas” in Vigil Gonzales Galería and participated in "A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience; 20 Years of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection'' curated by Amethyst Rey Beaver and Eva Thornton at the Taubman Museum of Art; “XX (6 female Latinx artists working in abstraction)” at Latchkey Gallery in New York; “Landmark” at KM0.2 in San Juan de Puerto Rico; and Art Souterrain in Montreal with a public commissioned installation curated by Dulce Pinzón at Palais des Congres. She was the July art resident at Silo6776 with Kates-Ferri Projects in New Hope, Pennsylvania where she presented the solo show “Time Traveler”. She was part of "Hay algo incomestible en la garganta. Poéticas antipatriarcales y nueva escena en los años noventa" curated by Miguel López at ICPNA-Lima. She presented in 2020: “The Force of Water'' with Latchkey Gallery at the Core Club NYC. In 2019 she had the solo show “Somos La Noche y El Día” at Vigil Gonzales Galería; and was part of “Crónicas Migrantes, Historias communes entre Perú y Venezuela” curated by Fabiola Arroyo at MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima. In 2018 she had the solo shows: "I am the river behind the wall" at Mulherin Gallery in Toronto; and "Dos Cielos Azules/Two Blue Skies'' at ICPNA (Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano) for which she recently released a monograph in collaboration with Meier Ramirez and VM& Studio. This year and in 2023, C.J. Chueca will work in a public commission in the Bronx managed by Percent for Art, from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
