Yvette Molina is a Mexican-American artist focused on the relationship between justice and caring. Her work is multidisciplinary and includes public engagement, painting, processional banners, performances, comics, costumes, action figures, and collages. Learning and incorporating traditional techniques is significant to her practice as a means of connecting to history, culture, and embodied forms of ancestral knowledge. Yvette is trained in gilding and egg tempera painting as well as Byzantine iconology with a focus on the Russian Prosopon School techniques. Ongoing projects include New Pantheon, a series of reimagined hybrid gods born to confront the world’s challenges, and Big Bang Votive, a large-scale installation and communal storytelling project centered on love and delight.
Yvette has exhibited across the US and internationally at venues such as the American Embassies in Uruguay and Latvia, the Stockholm Fringe Festival, Brattleboro Museum in Vermont, The Newark Museum of Art, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Arsenal Contemporary, Spring Break Art Show, NADA Art Fair and the Legion of Honor and de Young Museums of California as an AIR awardee. Other residency fellowships include the Vermont Studio Center, Jentel Foundation, UC Berkeley Worth Ryder Gallery, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation. Born in Kansas City, Yvette currently splits her time between Oakland, CA and Brooklyn, NY.