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Vick Quezada (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist exploring Indigenous-Latinx histories and contested lands, particularly the U.S.-Mexico Border. Using ceramics, sculpture, and performance, they merge Indigenous knowledge, queer histories, ecologies and Rascuache—a Nahuatl term embodying survival and liberation through repurposed objects. Quezada’s work confronts and subverts Western archaeological frameworks, reclaiming Indigenous narratives and reimagining futurity through a lens of freedom.
A fellow at Socrates Sculpture Park (2024-25), Quezada received prestigious accolades, including the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship (2021-22) and recognition as a Yale Fellow (2022). Their work has been featured in The New York Times, Art News, and El Museo del Barrio’s La Trienal (2020). At Stony Brook University, Quezada teaches Sculpture, emphasizing unlearning—the intentional process of shedding preconceptions to foster adaptability, radical making, and deeper understanding of the worlds they are part of.
Shopping Cart no. 2, 2018, Found object, soil, corn, 55x37x29 inches
N-400 Hustle, 2023, ceramic buckets, cactus, soil, dolly 54x22x40 inches