"Cuando el patrón se convierte en una constelación 1"
(When the Pattern Becomes a Constellation 1), 2025
Screenprint and dry pigment screenprint on cochineal and quebracho dyed paper, chine collé
16 x 20”
 
www.nancyariza.com
@nancy__ariza
 
Nancy Ariza is a Mexican American visual artist and educator. Ariza draws from her Mexican heritage to explore themes of craft, cultural memory, familial ties, and migration. Through traditional and alternative printmaking, natural pigments, and textiles, her work is grounded in cultural preservation and reclaims, revives, and reinterprets inherited traditions.  Ariza has exhibited at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, in San Francisco, CA; Janet Turner Print Museum at California State University in Chico, CA; Prospectus Gallery in Chicago, IL; among others. She has received awards from the McKnight Foundation, Jerome Foundation, and Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA and National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, IL.  Ariza holds an MA in Education from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, as well as a BFA in Printmaking and BA in Art History from Minnesota State University, Mankato.
 
Upcoming Exhibitions
2026 Mcknight Fellow at Highpoint Center for Printmaking
What Follows, Fresh Eye Gallery, Minneapolis, MN - April 23 - May 31, 2026
Geometry of Culture, Hecho a Mano, Santa Fe, NM - August 7-30, 2026