Daniel Arthur Mendoza

Instagram: @daniel_arthur_mendoza

Website: http://danielarthurmendoza.com

Bio: Daniel Arthur Mendoza (b. 1989, Sacramento, California) received his MFA from UC Riverside in 2022. In 2013 he received a BA in Studio Art at UC Davis, and attended the Chautauqua Institution Schools of the Fine and Performing Arts in Chautauqua, New York. His work has been exhibited at The Mistake Room (Los Angeles, CA), Human Resources Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA), Rivalry Projects (Buffalo, NY), Guerrero Gallery (San Francisco, CA), and Incline Gallery (San Francisco, CA) among others. He is currently living and working in San Francisco, California.

Statement: Daniel Arthur Mendoza is an artist whose work made from cut and sewn secondhand fabrics and drawings celebrate queer history, joy, friendship and its historical veiled-ness within the confines of daily life. Exploring themes of intimacy, repression, and refusal, Mendoza's work reveals a longing to rediscover the past, confront the weight of patriarchal visual propaganda, and open oneself to potential, soft, and hopeful futures.