Jackie Amézquita (b. 1985) is a Latin-American artist based in Los Angeles, California. Amézquita was born in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, and migrated to the United States in 2003. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from ArtCenter College of Design and an Associate degree in Visual Communications from Los Angeles Valley College. She is a Master of Fine Arts candidate in the New Genres program at the University of California, Los Angeles (2022).
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Her practice has been influenced by her relationship to borders and displacement, informed by her experiences as an immigrant woman. Amezquita’s work makes use of durational performances, site specificity, and materiality to explore a visual language that rebalances the power of socio-political relationships. This has allowed her to intertwine historical and contemporary references.
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Amézquita is interested in exploring the narratives created in these social environments and how socioeconomic differences between power structures affect the relationship between the body and the landscape. Her recent works investigate the actions that influence the process of transformation, informed by the material and the layers that the work involves.

Website: www.jackieamezquita.com