Roxana Pérez-Méndez

August 2010

Philadelphia, PA

About the Artist:

Roxana Pérez-Méndez is a multi-media and performance artist whose work examines the fragile nature of history and identity through the lens of her own experience as a Puerto Rican woman.  Pérez-Méndez received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.  She was a finalist for both the Joan Mitchell Award and the Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2006.  Currently, she is an artist/member of the collective Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia and an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.