Guadalupe Maravilla

Guadalupe Maravilla is a transdisciplinary visual artist, choreographer, and healer, who grounds his practice in the historical and contemporary contexts belonging to the undocumented and cancer communities. A cancer survivor who now seeks to heal others, Maravilla is also a former unaccompanied, undocumented immigrant, who at the age of eight was part of the first wave of children to arrive at the United States border in the 1980s as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War. In 2016, Maravilla became a U.S. citizen and adopted the name Guadalupe Maravilla in solidarity with his undocumented father, who uses Maravilla as his last name. 

Maravilla currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Additionally, Maravilla has performed and presented his work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Queens Museum, and Bronx Museum of the Arts. 

Awards and fellowships include the Joan Mitchell Fellowship, LatinX Fellowship, Lise Wilhelmsen Art award, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Soros Fellowship: Art Migration and Public Space, Map fund, Creative Capital Grant, Franklin Furnace, Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant, Art Matters Fellowship, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship. Residencies include LMCC Workspace, SOMA, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and Drawing Center Open Sessions.