Combining sculpture, painting, performative acts, and installation, Guadalupe Maravilla (b. 1976) grounds his transdisciplinary practice in activism and healing. Engaging a wide variety of visual cultures, Maravilla’s work is autobiographical, referencing his unaccompanied 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; Tate, London, UK; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, among others. He has presented solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway; Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY; P·P·O·W, New York, NY; REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, among others. Maravilla presented his second solo exhibition at P·P·O·W, Si no sanas hoy, sanarás mañana, in 2024. Guadalupe Maravilla: Mariposa Relámpago, a solo exhibition featuring a newly commissioned immersive installation, debuted at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston’s Watershed, in 2023 before touring to Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, and the Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX. His work is currently included in Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way at Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY, and Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA as well the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia by Koyo Kouoh, In Minor Keys, through November 22, 2026.