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DIAZ LEWIS Booth D-12 Alejandro Figueredo Díaz-Perera, born Havana, Cuba Cara Megan Lewis, born Kansas City, MO Both live and work in Los Angeles, CA Alejandro Figueredo Diaz-Perera and Cara Megan

Recent projects include: 34,000 Pillows, an ongoing project that is in direct response to a US Congress mandate where 34,000 immigrants must be detained per day in one of 250 detention facilities.

1 DIAZ LEWIS Booth D-12 Alejandro Figueredo Díaz-Perera, born Havana, Cuba Cara Megan Lewis, born Kansas City, MO Both live and work in Los Angeles, CA Alejandro Figueredo Diaz-Perera and Cara Megan Lewis make up the collaborative Díaz Lewis. Díaz Lewis are based in Los Angeles where they stage performances and develop work that deals with shared global and human-rights interests. Recent projects include: 34,000 Pillows, an ongoing project that is in direct response to a US Congress mandate where 34,000 immigrants must be detained per day in one of 250 detention facilities. Another work, A Dream Deferred, a two-channel HD/8mm video installation simultaneously follows a game of soccer in the desert between undocumented workers while a young girl reads from Langston Hughes poem: Harlem. In 2015, their work was highlighted in the New York Times for Cheryl Haines group exhibition: Home Land Security. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Safe Harbor, Visual Arts Gallery, curated by Allison Lacher and Jeff Robinson, University of Illinois, Springfield, IL Mumbai Art Room, Focus Festival Mumbai, Bombay, India making plans, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA 2015 A Dream Deferred, Aspect/Ratio, Chicago, IL 2014 A Home Coming, Antena Space, Chicago, IL 2013 SMS: Simultaneous Moments of Silence, essay by Jessica Cochran, EXPO Chicago, IL and Garcia Squared Contemporary, Kansas City, MO SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 Home Land Security, curated by Cheryl Haines, For-Site Foundation, San Francisco, CA 34,000 Pillows, David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, IL SELECTED PRESS, RADIO AND TELEVISION KT Hawbaker, See It Now, The Chicago Tribune, November 9, Zahra Amiruddin, The anxiety of waiting, divided by silence, The Hindu, May 29, Matt Strongberg, Inventive Responses to Labor and Immigration Issues at Human Resources, Hyperallergic, March 23, 34,000 Pillows Casting a Spotlight on Immigration Reform, ABC 20, Illinois, March 2, Safe Harbor: Work by Díaz Lewis- Artivism in Springfield, NPR Illinois, March 1, Rob Marks, Home Land Security, Frieze Magazine, January-February, Open Engagement, 34,000 Pillows, Chicago, IL 2016 Jori Finkel, A Home Land Security Art Show, at the Foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, The New York Times, June 23, 2016 Presidio Hosts Artwork Examining Human Cost of National Security, NPR Northern California, September 13, 2016 Art Trip: Chicago, Art Assignment, PBS Studios, March 10, 2016 Artist s Pillow Exhibit Draws Attention to Plight of Undocumented Immigrants, CBS 2 Chicago, February 16, 2016 SELECTED RESIDENCIES AND TALKS Open Engagement, 34,000 Pillows, panel discussion, Chicago, IL 2016 DCASE Cultural Center of Chicago, artist-in-residence, Chicago, IL Hyde Park Art Center, Latino Art Now!, panel discussion, Chicago, IL

2 ALEJANDRO FIGUEREDO DIAZ-PERERA Skin 18 latex paint, spackling paste and drywall 24 x x 76.2 cm

3 ALEJANDRO FIGUEREDO DIAZ-PERERA Skin 19 latex paint, spackling paste and drywall 24 x x 60.9 cm

4 ALEJANDRO FIGUEREDO DIAZ-PERERA Skin 20 latex paint, spackling paste and drywall 24 x x 60.9 cm SOLD

5 ALEJANDRO FIGUEREDO DIAZ-PERERA Skin 21 latex paint, spackling paste and drywall 24 x x 60.9 cm

6 ALEJANDRO FIGUEREDO DIAZ-PERERA Skin 8 latex paint, spackling paste and drywall 24 x x 60.9 cm on hold

8 ALEJANDRO FIGUEREDO DIAZ-PERERA Skin 14 latex paint, spackling paste and drywall 24 x x 60.9 cm

9 Skin 11 latex paint, spackling paste and drywall 24 x x 60.9 cm

11 ALEJANDRO FIGUEREDO DIAZ-PERERA Skin 17 latex paint, spackling paste and drywall 24 x x 60.9 cm

12 ALEJANDRO FIGUEREDO DIAZ-PERERA

13 DIAZ LEWIS Unfamiliar Setting 1 embossed lint comprised of hair, skin cells, dust and clothing fibers in a custom acrylic frame (frame not depicted) 20 x 23.5 x x 60 x 6.4 cm

14 DIAZ LEWIS Unfamiliar Setting 2 embossed lint comprised of hair, skin cells, dust and clothing fibers in a custom acrylic frame (frame not depicted) 20.5 x 26.5 x x 67 x 6.4 cm

15 DIAZ LEWIS Unfamiliar Setting 3 embossed lint comprised of hair, skin cells, dust and clothing fibers in a custom acrylic frame (frame not depicted) 15 x 20 x x 50.8 x 6.4 cm

16 DIAZ LEWIS Unfamiliar Setting 4 embossed lint comprised of hair, skin cells, dust and clothing fibers in a custom acrylic frame (frame not depicted) 20 x 30 x x 76.2 x 6.4 cm

17 DIAZ LEWIS Unfamiliar Setting 5 embossed lint comprised of hair, skin cells, dust and clothing fibers in a custom acrylic frame (frame not depicted) 17 x 22 x x 55.8 x 6.4 cm

18 DIAZ LEWIS Unfamiliar Setting 6 embossed lint comprised of hair, skin cells, dust and clothing fibers in a custom acrylic frame (frame not depicted) 20 x 23.5 x x 60 x 6.4 cm SOLD

19 KAMBUI OLUJIMI Staying Afloat 2016 single channel video with signed certificate password: aspectratio Edition of 6

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