Jessica Sabogal

Jessica Sabogal (born 1987) is a queer Colombian-American muralist and stencil spray paint artist who is currently active in the Bay Area.[1] She's best known for her "Women Are Perfect!" visual campaign [2] which she created as an artist in residence at the Galeria de la Raza, and she is currently active in the "We The People" public art campaign created in collaboration with Shepard Fairey.[3][4]

Life and Timeline

Sabogal was born and raised in San Francisco, California.[5] She is the daughter of Colombian immigrants who came to America for a better education and to escape the normalization of violence and terror caused by the Pablo Escobar drug market.[6] She graduated from UC San Diego in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in Political Science and became involved in stencil spray painting. Soon after, she began to publicly display and sell her artwork locally on the East Coast.[7][8] Her first solo exhibition entitled "Womyn So Empowered Are Dangerous" opened in Northampton, Massachusetts in 2010 and later that year Sabogal opened her first Bay Area exhibition entitled "La Mujer Es Mi Religion".[9] This same year, Sabogal received one of her earliest major commissions from Penguin Books in which she designed the 20th anniversary cover of Dorothy Allison's novel Bastard Out of Carolina that was released a year later.[10] Soon after, she became the first female artist to be commissioned by Facebook to paint a series of panels at their headquarters in Menlo Park.[11] Her work has also been part of Facebook's "Getting More Women in Tech" video.[12] Sabogal has since displayed her works in exhibitions throughout Oakland and San Francisco.[13] She also has previously been sponsored by major spray paint supplier Montana Cans.[13] She has also designed pieces for the artist's collective Unceded Voices, an Anti-Colonial Street Artist's Convergence based in Montréal for indigenous and women of color street artists.[14] In 2014, Sabogal became the first artist in residence and mural coordinator for the Galería de La Raza, a non-profit arts organization which features Latinx and indigenous artistic identity in San Francisco's Mission District.[15][16]

Selected works

"Women Are Perfect! (If You Let Them)"

In 2014 Sabogal held an artistic campaign entitled "Women Are Perfect!", an exhibition hosted by the Galería de la Raza which featured much of her own work in addition to pieces submitted by 27 other self-identifying women of color from across the nation.[16] This campaign was meant to serve as a tribute to female identity, specifically to the lived experiences of indigenous women and women of color who have been left out of the prevailing narrative of "womanhood".[7]

"Our Existence Will No Longer Be Silenced..."

One of Sabogal's larger projects is a 30 foot tall mural located in Montreal.[17] Created in 2015 during the annual Decolonizing Street Art Convergence, it depicts a lesbian couple alongside with the quote "Our Existence Will No Longer Be Silenced, we require no explanations, apologies, or approvals".[7] The foundational image used for this mural is also a part of Shepard Fairley's "We The People" Public Art Campaign and has become a popular political image and poster in the queer and activist community.[18]

List of Works and Exhibitions

Title Year Location Type
Womyn So Empowered Are Dangerous 2010 Northampton, Massachusetts Solo Exhibition
"La Mujer Es Mi Religión" 2010 Oakland, California Solo Exhibition
Bastard out of Carolina 2011 None Book Cover Design
Facebook Panels 2011 Facebook Headquarters - Menlo, Park Diva-themed panels
Tribute to Egypt 2010/2011 None Stencil Ill
Women are Perfect! (If You Let Them) 2014 La Galeria de La Raza Collaborative Exhibition
Unknown 2013 Bogotá, Colombia Mural
Youth So Educated Are Dangerous 2013/2014 24th and Bryant, San Francisco Collaborative Mural
Better Than Perfect 2013 Betti Ono Gallery, Oakland Solo Exhibition
Justice for All Indigenous Women 2014 Montréal, unceded territory Mural
Los Hijos of the Revolution 2015 Stevenson and 6th, San Francisco Mural
Perfection Is My Right 2015 Stevenson and 6th, San Francisco Mural
We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For 2015 Downtown Oakland Mural
Our existence will be no longer silenced. We require no explanations, apologizes or approval. 2015 Montréal, unceded Kanien'kéhá:ka and Algonquin territories Mural
Toypurina 2015 Mission Cultural Center's Mural
Los Gordos 2016 MACLA Mural
White Supremacy is Killing Me 2017 Montréal, unceded Kanien'kéhá:ka and Algonquin territories Mural

References

  1. ↑ "Women to Watch: Jessica Sabogal". KQED Arts. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
  2. ↑ "Galería de la Raza: Womxn Are Perfect!". www.galeriadelaraza.org. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
  3. ↑ "We the People: public art for the inauguration and beyond". Kickstarter. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
  4. ↑ "Shepard Fairey's inauguration poster: The meaning behind the 'We the People' art". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
  5. ↑ "Catching up with Jessica Sabogal :: C3 Northampton". c3artscollective.org. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
  6. ↑ Define American (2015-10-27), Jessica Sabogal, retrieved 2017-05-07
  7. 1 2 3 "Inside the 'Women Are Perfect' Artist". XPRESS MAGAZINE. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
  8. ↑ "Jessica Sabogal". TAYO Literary Magazine. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
  9. ↑ "la mujer". Jessica Sabogal. 2010-11-08. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
  10. ↑ Curiel, Jonathan. "Los Hijos of the Revolution". SF Weekly. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
  11. ↑ "A Hacker's Life: Inside Facebook's New Campus". Wall Street Journal. 2012-05-15. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
  12. ↑ STEM4Girls (2012-03-09), Getting More Women in Tech (Facebook) | STEM4Girls, retrieved 2017-05-07
  13. 1 2 "Galería de la Raza: Digital Mural Project: "Youth So Educated Are Dangerous"". www.galeriadelaraza.org. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
  14. ↑ "http://www.creativesugarmagazine.net/la-mujer-es-mi-religion-the-jessi-wap/". www.creativesugarmagazine.net. Retrieved 2017-05-07. External link in |title= (help)
  15. ↑ "S.F.'s Galería de la Raza serves as lab for Latino culture". SFGate. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
  16. 1 2 "A 'Perfect' vision of women at La Raza". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
  17. ↑ Decolonizing street art (2015-09-12), UNCEDED VOICES #3: DAYNA DANGER, JESSICA CANARD, JESSICA SABOGAL & ELIZABETH BLANCAS, retrieved 2017-05-08
  18. ↑ "'Hope' artist's new posters protest Trump". CNN Style. 2017-01-19. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
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