B.F.A. in Community Arts, minor in Individualized Interdisciplinary Studies, California College of the Arts; M.A. in Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Laila Guadalupe is the daughter of a Roma mother and Mexican father, raised by her grandmother and aunties in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. She is an artist whose practice centers on the making of altars as rituals for the healing of the personal and the collective social body. Laila's research focuses on public altars, memorial murals, graffiti, ceremony, dance and other forms of ritual performances and movement that are rooted in decolonial spiritualities, epistemologies and aesthetics as ways of reconfiguring our embodied relationships with space, self and each other. Impacted profoundly by her experience growing up at the U.S./Mexico border during what has become a three-decade feminicide in Ciudad Juárez, Laila's work is primarily concerned with shedding light on feminicide across the Americas through the extra-spectral color magenta as a place where the Dead, the Living and the Missing can convene.
Learn more at LailaEspinoza.com