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(b. 1992, Lima, Perú) is an autistic transdisciplinary artist, cultural organizer, poet & language justice worker. Through poetry, photography, thread & moving image they consider the effect of migration on the visual language of their lineage, and how this lexicon permeates their queer & trans chosen family archive. Izquierdo Ugaz received their BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Recent group exhibitions include Un Estado de Gracia / A State of Grace, BAM, New York; Alchemies of Mutable Selfhood, Leslie Lohman Museum; Premio ICPNA Contemporanéo, Lima, Peru; as well as their first museum group exhibition ESTAMOS BIEN – LA TRIENAL 20/21, El Museo del Barrio. 

They are co-founder of Cabritas Resistiendo, a Peru-based mutable platform that gathers trans folks to resist through learning and joy virtually/IRL & co-organizer of BODY HACK, a NY/global mutual aid happy hour for trans & nb people. They are a consultant with Trans Equity Consulting, a 2020-21 Poetry Project Curatorial Fellow and a 2021-22 Leslie Lohmann Museum and EmergeNYC fellow. Izquierdo Ugaz has previously been in residence at SOMA Summer, Samsøñ Projects, Cuchifritos and PWRPLNT and will be in virtual residence with TEMP FILES 2023.

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