Raul Baltazar is an artist who works through aesthetic notions given in Mesoamerican and Western culture. Baltazar often mixes performance, video, photography, drawing, painting, murals, and community-based projects to create new relations for the decolonial art object. His work is often driven by the struggle of Mestizo, Xicanx, POC, and Mesoamerican Indigenous communities and their revolutionary vision for change in the context of Los Angeles. In addition, his work postulates responses to trauma and the body, examining the experience and rational abuse of power and authority by means of sanctioned or unsanctioned reiterations of violence in contemporary life. Baltazar challenges this by participating in the creation of contemporary cultural production rooted in an artistic research of ancient cultures. Here his work opens up a space for healing, communication, and reflection in order to engage the public and communicate the value of a self-reflexive identification with indigeneity.
Raul Paulino Baltazar lives and works in Los Angeles and Mexico City. Baltazar received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture and New Genres, and Master of Fine Arts degree in Public Practice, at Otis College of Art and Design. He has exhibited throughout Los Angeles and internationally.
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