C.J. Chueca
b. 1977, Lima, Peru
C.J. Chueca makes work that addresses her immigrant experience through the language of abstraction. Splitting time between Peru and New York, she works in various mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, and installation.
Coming from a larger series, Pale Body was made by affixing tiles to wood and then breaking them, which creates an illusion of decay. The use of grids and reclaimed materials recurs throughout Chueca's work. Both have histories in twentieth-century modernism and serve as sources of in her creation of contemporary Latinx abstraction.
C.J. has shown her work at galleries in Peru, the United States, and Canada and released her first monograph with Meier Ramirez Publicaciones Independientes in 2019. In addition, she was recently included in the exhibition "XX" on female Latinx abstraction at LatchKey Gallery in New York and has been invited to create a public commission by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
