ARTISTS

Alexis Ruiseco Lombera

Baxter St. Residency (2020)

Alexis Ruiseco Lombera is an artist making from the intersection of being non-binary and
Latinx. Fluidly working across performance, video, photography, and sculpture, they stage
creative interruptions as a meditation on the conditions of the personal and collective body, and
its proximity to gendered violence and migrant identity. Articulated through installation or
descriptive durational performances, their work interrogates the links between border crossing,
exile, modes of mobilizing, death, and archive. Often using visceral elements, gesture,
construction, or re-enactment and undergo strenuous, meditative, or ritualistic conditions.
Ruiseco Lombera documents their performances through self-portraiture, moving image, they
make live performance, and occasionally reproduce sculptural objects as an outcome. Utilizing
conventional and unconventional materials, video, sound, and photographs, they operate from a
process driven framework to create performances of affect. Their interdisciplinary performative
language not only renders my contact with authority to question power, but also honors the
poetics of historical excavation, to address the place and borders of being a queer Latinx
immigrant.

Alexis Ruiseco Lombera graduated with a BFA from Parsons in New York, in 2016. Ruiseco
Lombera has exhibited work at Brooklyn Museum, NY; 00Bienal De La Habana, Cuba; The
Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY; Milk Gallery, NY; Galleria Menjunje, Cuba; Andrew Freedman
Home, NY; Leslie Lohman Museum, NY; Knockdown Center, NY; Visual AIDS, NY; Company
Gallery, NY; Baxter St CCNY, NY; MDC Kendal Art Gallery, Miami; Kellen and Aronson
Gallery, NY. They have performed at MoMA for Tania Bruguera, Adrian Piper, and Simone
Forti. They were a resident at the Marble House Project and fellow of En Foco Photography, TU
Cuba, and AIM at the Bronx Museum. Ruiseco Lombera’s work has been featured in Vogue,
Wallpaper, VICE, W Magazine, NEWSPAPER, and Nueva Luz.