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Live and work on Kizh - Tongva - Payómkawichum unceded land, also known as the Inland Empire and Los Angeles county.
Dulce Soledad Ibarra (they/them/theirs) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, educator, and curator with investments and strategies in community arts and opportunity. As a practicing artist, Ibarra reflects on issues and narration of generational guilt, the working class/poor, labor, displacement, injustice, oral histories, and personal lineage as described in drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos, installations, performances, and participatory outreach. With a heightened sense of the vulnerabilities found in craft, the work is fueled by laboring hands, personal and cultural research, and a heavy interest in place-making and narrative-building. The purposive fascination with materiality, such as with the bolsas de mercado, offer iconographic dialogues between what the objects are, how they are transformed, and how their new pictorial descriptions question power, colonial histories, and curative existence. Ibarra has exhibited, screened, performed, and programmed at venues across Southern California and beyond, including Angels Gate Cultural Center, Charlie James Gallery, Consulado General de México en Los Ángeles, Craft Contemporary, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Human Resources Los Angeles, ONE Gallery in West Hollywood, and Pieter Performance Space, among others. Ibarra holds an MFA from the University of Southern California and earned a BFA in Sculpture from California State University, Long Beach.