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.
Exhibition
Rooted: Exhibition by ReGen artist Xochitl Priscilla
Rooted is a multidisciplinary group exhibition that presents a collection of artwork created by women that were born, raised and reside in Frisco. This exhibition unearths and weaves the often absent female gaze to demonstrate the inextricable ties we hold to our environments, inviting us to reflect on the connections to the places we call home.
Calling to the familiar ficus trees planted in the 1980’s along 24th Street, Rooted is a tapestry of personal narratives of the artists’ lived experiences and surroundings. These narratives are brought to life through a wide range of art mediums that reclaim the self and community memory. By observing the mundane and venerating it as a cultural emblem, each artwork acts as an independent lens through which we can grasp many intimate and unique aspects of the artists’ ties to this city. The convergence of these artists and their work welcomes you to understand, admire and connect to themes that are constant and central to their lives: inner child memories, the honoring of family lineage, intersectional community, religious and spiritual reverence, stories of loss and love, and fragments of their everyday lives.
Documented through a zine publication, Rooted seeks to uplift these women’s stories as artists and their interconnected spirit driven by creativity, the love they hold for San Francisco, and the passion they have for their work. Join us in celebrating this remarkable intersection of art and identity, as we share the depths of inspiration found within the hearts of Frisco.
Featured Artists: Natalie Alemán, Alyssa Aviles, Emilia Baria, Guadalupe Cabrera, Yuriko Castillian, Morgan Corbitt, Elissa Jiménez, Vero Majano, Johanna Martinez-Aguilera, Milly Millions, Kassandra Lissette Pintor, Xochitl Priscilla, Anna Raquel, Abryana Rodriguez, Aztaxelli Vargas and María Fernanda Vizcaino.
Rooted is curated by Xochitl Priscilla, a grantee of Galería de la Raza’s 2024 ReGen Artist Fund. Born and raised in San Francisco, California, she is a first-generation daughter of Mexican and Honduran immigrant parents that settled in the city in the 1980’s. 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.