Tanya Aguiñiga

Tanya Aguiñiga grew up in both San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico, a bi-cultural artist whose quest is to create a dialogue between two very different cultural experiences in her craft-based artistic expression.

Having learned her trade from vastly different sources, from a native backstrap weaver in Chiapas, Mexico to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, her fiber art and furniture designs challenge our assumptions by re-purposing and re-designing existing icons and experiences. As a founding member of the artist cooperative Border Art Workshop, she helped to establish a community center at Maclovio Rojas, a community in an impoverished area of Tijuana, established during the US/Mexico trade wars in the 1980s. Aguiñiga also creates environmental installations, including her 2011 solo show, Crossing the Line, at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles.

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Tanya Aguiñiga in her installation at CAFAM. Douglas Kirkland photograph
Tanya Aguiñiga in her installation at CAFAM. Douglas Kirkland photograph
Tanya Aguiniga, Eames Wire Chair, 2008. David San Miguel photograph
Tanya Aguiniga, Eames Wire Chair, 2008. David San Miguel photograph
Tanya Aguiniga, Soft Boulers, 2010
Tanya Aguiniga, Soft Boulers, 2010