Consuelo Jimenez Underwood is most well known for her textiles and installation work. Her work represents her own history as a migrant agricultural worker, signifying her hybrid culture as well as the arbitrary lines that divide her homes. “With beauty, grace and traditional form, my work expresses the quiet rage that has permeated indigenous peoples of the Americas.”
She is a professor of art at San Jose State University and has been teaching there since 1989. She received her B.A. and M.A. from San Diego State University and M.F.A. from San Jose State University. Her work is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Oakland Museum of Art.
