Beatriz Guzman Velasquez
Visual Art
Edinburg, TX
Beatriz Guzman Velasquez was born and raised in the Texas-U.S. Southwest/Mexican border region. Her multimedia installations reclaim spaces of intergenerational trauma through personal and collective ancestral rituals and ethically sourced materials. At Ragdale, she will focus on ancestral generative practices and symbolism to reimagine her stories as a border woman. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is an alumna from the New York Studio School and the University of Texas-Pan American. She recently participated in the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Advancement Fellowship for Beginner Farmers to conduct research on native plants, soil health and the region's history of land exploitation. In 2022, she finished her participation with DocX Archive Lab Fellowship with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She also formed part of the National Association of Latinos Arts and Culture Fellowship, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada and the New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Program. She is the founder of Juana Simona, a space dedicated to creativity and the stewardship of the land.