C. J. Chueca
Bio
C.J. Chueca was born in Lima in 1977 and moved to New York in 2003. In 2021 he presented "Micaela, la sangre de todas" at Vigil Gonzales in the Sacred Valley. She was part of "Hay algo incomestible en la garganta". She 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, New York; "Landmark" at KM0.2 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Poéticas antipatriarcales y nueva escena en los años noventa" curated by Miguel López at ICPNA-Lima. In 2020 she presented "La fuerza del agua" Latchkey Gallery, Core Club NYC. In 2019 she had the solo show "Somos La Noche y El Día" at Vigil Gonzales; and was part of "Crónicas Migrantes, Historias comunes entre Perú y Venezuela" curated by Fabiola Arroyo, MAC Lima.
Statement
C. J. Chueca's history as a perpetual immigrant has led her to explore the concepts of home, territory, transition, multiculturalism, uprootedness and loneliness.
Additional information
“No me pidas eliminar mis viejas tristezas Arraigadas están
Más bien mira cómo las domino
Las arreo
Y las completo con días de gloria
Para darle un balance a esta vida
Que sigue y seguirá lluviosa Incandescente Ferviente y bella
No me quites la fiebre”
C.J. Chueca. Lima, Setiembre, 2020.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
