Angela Zamora

Instagram: @mex4art

Website: https://angelazamora.myportfolio.com/angela-zamora

Bio: San Francisco-based interdisciplinary artist Angela Zamora creates installations and sculptures influenced by their Mexican-American heritage. As a creator obsessed with cornhusks, they transform this familiar food item into a canvas that depicts the Mexican American experience, drawing on their auditory knowledge of living in Tijuana, San Diego, and San Francisco. Through weaving and transforming cornhusk with their family archive, Angela prioritizes ancestral heritage to foster a sense of belonging. Angela values community work, prompting them to create “Echarse Flores,” an art healing initiative offering free and accessible hands-on cornhusk flower workshops in Bay Area public spaces. Whether building with cornhusks or facilitating public art experiences, their goal is to create cornhusk narratives that explore the concept of where home belongs.

Statement: My work is rooted in the nostalgic understanding of my Mexican-American identity, as well as the significance of my primary sculptural material: Tamale Corn husk. As a multidisciplinary artist I strive to blend sculpture, stop-motion, and performance into my practice. I create sculptural worlds that tell stories linked to the Latin experience with cultural ties to masculinity and religion by regional influence. My work is moved by the auditory experience of living in San Diego, San Francisco and Mexico and where home belongs.I learned the generational value of self-labor and gained insight into my fathers craft by shadowing him during his construction work. Throughout my work I seek to understand the complexities of macho mentality and how that is reflected onto my femininity. Ultimately, my art echoes my journey as a Mexican American daughter through the rich material of tamale corn husks.