Margarita Cabrera, Artist of the Month "FUSION Mag"

Margarita Cabrera was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and lives and works in Houston, Texas. Her sculpture has been included in various exhibitions, among them Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (traveling); Nexus Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX; Trabajo Mexicano/Mexican Work, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID and Domestic Odyssey, San Jose Museum of Art, CA. In 2008 she was a resident artist at ArtPace, San Antonio, TX and had her fourth solo exhibition at Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY. Cabrera is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and was a finalist for the Texas Prize in 2007. Currently she is working on FLOREZCA, a coordinated series of collaborative workshops with immigrants from Mexico and Central America. She is also working on Muertes Cotidianas, a project that aims to raise public awareness of the ongoing series of brutal murders in Ciudad Juarez.

For more work of Margarita Cabrera, look at the digital version of FUSION Magazine here.