Bio & Project Information
Xochitl Priscilla Quiroz, 22, is a first-generation daughter of Mexican and Honduran immigrants born and raised in San Francisco, California. Her multidisciplinary artistry explores cultural and community preservation, themes that translate across the various mediums she works with and the multiple bodies of work she has created.
Her artistic interest bloomed after her involvement with Precita Eyes Muralists Association at the age of 14, and as she grew older she continued to practice painting as her preferred medium. She simultaneously developed an interest for film photography after inheriting her dad’s old cameras which she then used to document a majority of her adolescence with, capturing the intimate and personal experience of a city kid growing up amid gentrification.
After graduating during the pandemic, she received a grant fund that inspired her to pursue more mediums including oil and airbrush painting. Her subjects and style remain consistent, depicting imagery of her homegirls and familiar fragments of her environment, delivered through a unique and interpersonal perspective. The root of her practice has always been fundamental to her mission, which is creating not only with community, but for community and her dream is to open a space that highlights and celebrates experiences such as her own, experiences that have been inspired and influenced from the power of community and those that have nurtured and supported her.
With The ReGen Artist Fund, Quiroz will present ROOTED, a multidisciplinary group art exhibit that explores the rich and personal artwork created by 20 women that were born and raised in San Francisco and that call this place home. The collection of work showcased in this project highlights the individual connections the artists have with this city and demonstrates how this source of inspiration has influenced their respective crafts in unique ways.
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