Juana Valdés (b. 1963, Cabañas, Pinar del Río, Cuba) is a Cuban American multidisciplinary artist who migrated to the United States in 1971 and grew up in Miami. She earned a BFA in sculpture from Parsons School of Design (1991) and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts (1993), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (1995). Her research-based practice combines printmaking, photography, video, sculpture, ceramics, installation and performance to explore race, gender and class in the transnational Afro-Latinx diaspora and colonial networks of trade and labor. She has worked extensively with bone china, ceramics, maps, textiles and found domestic objects, connecting the movement of materials to the movement of people across oceans and borders. She lives and works between Miami and Amherst, Massachusetts, where she is an associate professor of printmaking at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Juana Valdés. Courtesy of the artist
