Amalia Mesa-Bains

San Francisco resident Amalia Mesa-Bains is an artist, scholar, curator, and writer who has been involved in the Chicano artist movement since the 1960s. A leading installation artist and MacArthur awardee, Mesa-Bains incorporates Chicano culture and folk traditions into her work, utilizing themes inspired by Catholic rituals, Mexican pre-Christian religious imagery, Chicana history, and female rites of passage.