Nica Aquino is a multidisciplinary artist, analog photographer & educator from Los Angeles, California. She holds a BFA in Photography from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon and an MA in Visual Culture from the School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Manchester, United Kingdom; Belgrade, Serbia; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and nationally in Portland, Oregon; Los Angeles, California; San Antonio, Texas.

Her work reveals place, identity, diaspora and the cross-cultural experience largely through a photographic lens. Via photography, viewers see through the eyes of a first generation Ilokana-American trying to navigate North American culture and drawing inspiration from the people and places around her, exploring diverse immigrant diasporas and communities in the US and beyond. Most recently, her work has expanded to experiment with textiles, installation, video and sound; examining themes of memory and loss.

Nica is currently based & working in the Northeast Los Angeles community, where she is a teaching artist, independent curator & arts administrator.

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UPDATES:

Timeline of Upcoming Projects:

May-July 2019 - Solo exhibition at Irenia in Santa Ana, presented by the Erica Broussard Gallery.

June 2019 - Artist talk with Erica Broussard Gallery.

more info TBA...