Nao Bustamante Quotes

Nao Bustamante is a Chicana multimedia and performance artist, from the San Joaquin Valley in California. Her work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation and video and explores issues of ethnicity, class, gender, performativity, and the body. She has performed in galleries, museums, universities and underground sites throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Mexico and the United States. Her collaborations include working with such luminaries as Coco Fusco and the experimental arts entity Osseus Labyrint. She has been called "the doyenne of the Bay Area’s underground cultural scene." She currently serves as Professor, Vice Dean, and Director of MFA Art at the USC Roski School of Art and Design. Before this position, she served as Associate Professor of New Media and Live Art at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. She has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the New York Museum of Modern Art, Sundance, and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. In 2007, Bustamante was named a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. Bustamante competed in the first season of Bravo's Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.

✵ 3. September 1969

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Nao Bustamante Quotes

“Every Mexican family has a member that fought in the Revolution…There are stories in my family of two great uncles who fought on different sides and they would meet at my uncle’s land to share a meal and then they’d go back to the fight…The Revolution…it divided families.”

Nao Bustamante

On the familial toll of the Mexican Revolution in “Femininity in Kevlar: Nao Bustamante’s women of the Mexican Revolution” https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-artist-nao-bustamante-women-of-the-mexican-revolution-20150513-column.html in Los Angeles Times (2015 May 14)

Fight , Family

“I’m really interested in reality TV as a format for storytelling, as a way of communicating humanity, of seeing ourselves, of seeing our scripted selves perform as ourselves. It’s simulacral, this removal of the self while performing the self in a quote-unquote real life situation…”

Nao Bustamante

On her appearance on Bravo’s television show Work of Art in “INSIDE THE ARTIST’S STUDIO: NAO BUSTAMANTE” https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/nao-bustamante-work-of-art-bravo in Interview Magazine (2010 Jun 11)

Communication , Self-confidence , Reality , Way