Alma
Lopez is an artist, activist and visual storyteller working
in painting, photo based digital prints, and video. She is
internationally recognized for her innovative digital images,
which recontextualize cultural icons bringing issues of race,
gender and sexuality into relationship with transnationalist
myths.
She
holds a BA from the University of California Santa Barbara
and an MFA from the University of California Irvine. She exhibits
her work extensively and has received awards for her work
such as the California Community Foundation Arts Funding Initiative's
Individual Artist Grant, and most recently, the Astraea Visual
Artist Award.
Her
work has been featured in numerous publications including
Art in America, Flash Art International, and Ms. Magazine.
In
2005, she produced her first digital video documentary titled
Boi Hair, and is currently working on a documentary about
queer femmes.