Yaz
Portrait Series #4, 2025
Oil, Fabric, and Crucifixes on Canvas
18 x 25 in.
Bio
Yazmin Aguilar is a Puerto Rican-Honduran artist born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. She received a BFA in Painting, minoring in Illustration and Religious Studies from Wayne State University in 2025. Aguilar currently resides and works in Detroit, Michigan. Multidisciplinary and versatile, there will not be a time when he needs to consider the possibilities of merging materials and methods to push the boundaries, such as the art of sewing, sculpting, painting, printmaking, and more, into one. Their pieces feature his religious affiliation, creating devotional pieces of La Santa Muerte and sharing them with others of this fascinating and loving relationship between mortal and immortal.
Statement
History, no matter how altered it may be, has an important significance to who I am, culturally and personally. There is never a day in which I do not consider the “what ifs” and how they could affect me today and in the future. As a Puerto Rican and Honduran artist, both sides of my ancestry have been mixed from the effects of colonization, both as a means of power for the oppressors and survival for the oppressed. I often reflect on who my modern and ancient ancestors were or could have been if I have known them, but I also often reflect upon myself and the consistent deaths and births of different egos that I experience. I often mourn the lineage before that of colonization, but I know that I wouldn't be who I am now without the suffering and violence.
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