A Performance

Guadalupe Maravilla

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Price: Free Admission
Genre: Exhibition
Season: Fall 2025
DATE: DEC 19
TIME: FRI, 8 PM
RUNTIME: Approx. 60 minutes, no intermission
PROGRAM: Not yet available

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About

In a newly commissioned performance for REDCAT, Guadalupe Maravilla presents an evening of communal healing and resilience. Maravilla crafts a ritual that references his experience as an undocumented unaccompanied child fleeing El Salvador’s civil war as a minor and his later colon cancer, inviting audience members to experience a collective energy. A Performance brings together healers from around the world along with local artists based in Los Angeles for an evening of sound, vibration, and resonance as a means of care and recovery.

Admission to Guadalupe Maravilla: A Performance is free courtesy of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts.

Guadalupe Maravilla’s multi-disciplinary practice is rooted in a simple premise: sound is medicine.

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Grace Ebert, This Is Colossal

This project is made possible by support from the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts as part the Foundation’s 2025 Infinite Expansion Grants (IEG) initiative.

about the artist

Combining sculpture, painting, performative acts, and installation, Guadalupe Maravilla grounds his transdisciplinary practice in activism and healing. Engaging a wide variety of visual cultures, Maravilla’s work is autobiographical, referencing his unaccompanied, undocumented migration to the United States due to the Salvadoran Civil War. Across all media, Maravilla explores how the systemic abuse of immigrants physically manifests in the body, reflecting on his own battle with cancer. Maravilla received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts and his MFA from Hunter College in New York. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, among others. He has received numerous awards and fellowships including a Herb Alpert Award in 2022, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2019, Soros Fellowship: Art Migration and Public Space in 2019, Creative Capital Grant in 2016, and The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Award in 2003. He has presented solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO; Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY; P·P·O·W, New York, NY; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, among others. His work has been included in recent group exhibitions such as uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK; soft and weak like water, 14th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Metropolitan City, South Korea; Drum Listens to Heart, Part III, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA; Crip Time, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; and Stories of Resistance, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, among others.