Tanya Aguiñiga

Tanya Aguiñiga
Born 1978
Tijuana, Mexico

Tanya Aguiñiga (born 1978) is a Los Angeles-based designer and artist. Born and raised in Tijuana.[1]

Education

Growing up, Aguiñiga travelled two hours daily to attend school in Los Angeles.[2] She received a BA in Applied Design from San Diego State University and an MFA in furniture design from Rhode Island Institute of Design.[3]

Art career

Aguiñiga's work takes many forms but is generally textile-centric, and often combines modern design with elements of traditional craft technique and activism.[4] She is responsible for multiple "performance crafting" happenings, including tying herself to the Beverly Hills sign and weaving while wearing traditional Mexican garments.[4]

Her work has been featured in the PBS series Craft in America[5] and in a 2011 site-specific exhibition at the Craft and Folk Art Museum,[1] among many other venues. Designer, Ulla Johnson, commissioned a piece by Aguiñiga for her shop in New York.[6]

In May through October of 2018 Aguiniga's art was on exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City in a show called "Tanya Aguiniga: Craft and Care." The show features her work, mostly in fiber, with AMBOS ("Art Made Between Opposite Sides"), that addresses life on the Mexican-American border. In Spanish "ambos" means both.

Her work will be featured in Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery.[7]

Design career

Aguiñiga began designing furniture in 1997 while she was still an undergraduate student.[8] Her first design job was working as a designer and fabricator off-camera for the DIY Network show called Freeform Furniture.[8]

In addition to designing furniture, jewelry, and other small scale pieces, she has extended her design mediums to fiber and creates weavings with materials such as woven jute, wool, silk, and cotton. She manages a team of nearly all female assistants in the creation of large format wall , woven hangings, by commission.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Crossing the Line: A Space by Tanya Aguiniga" (PDF). Craft & Folk Art Museum. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Tanya Aguiñiga Is an Art-World Dream Weaver - Galerie". www.galeriemagazine.com. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  3. ↑ "Tanya Aguiniga". Dwell. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  4. 1 2 Tewksbury, Drew. "Craft Happening: Tanya Aguiniga Vs. the Beverly Hills Police". KCET. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Tanya Aguiniga". Craft in America. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "Ulla Johnson's New Bleecker Street Shop Is Just as Beautiful as You'd Expect". Vogue. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
  7. ↑ "Smithsonian American Art Museum".
  8. 1 2 "Tanya Aguiñiga on Designing Outside Your Own Reality and Using Craft as a Way to Diversify Conversations in Society - Core77". Core77. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
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