Naomi Rincón Gallardo (b.1979, North Carolina) lives and works between Oaxaca and Mexico City, Mexico. From a decolonial-queer perspective, her critical-mythical worldmaking addresses the creation of counter-worlds in neocolonial settings. In her work she integrates her interests in theater games, popular music, Mesoamerican cosmologies, speculative fiction, vernacular festivities and crafts, decolonial feminisms and queer of color critique. She holds a BFA degree in Visual Arts from ENPEG La Esmeralda, Mexico, an MA degree in Education, Culture Language and Identity from Goldmiths University of London, UK, and a PhD in Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.
Rincon Gallardo has held exhibitions at Toronto Bienal; Hayward Gallery;
Casa Encendida; Artes Mundi; La Biennale di Venezia; 34th Bienal de São Paulo; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca; Kunstraum Innsbruck;
11 Berlin Biennale; Museo Experimental El Eco; SFMoMA among others.
Naomi Rincón Gallardo's works are part of the collections: TATE, UK;
KADIST, USA,FR; FRAC des Paus de la Loire, FR; Museo Tamayo Collection, MX; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil Collection, MX; Moisés Cosio's Collection, MX; Guadalupe Phillips' Collection, MX; Servais Family Collection, BE; Benedicta Nordenstahl's Collection, US, SNG; Alfonso Castro's Collection, MX; and Álvaro Castillo's Collection, MX.