Bio
Sue Montoya (1990) was born in Los Angeles, California and raised between Tegucigalpa, Honduras and Miami, Florida. She received a BFA from New World in Visual Arts in 2014, and her MFA from the University of Florida in May 2018. She has exhibited in Berlin (Radialsystem), Mexico City (FainFeria), and Miami (CIFO). She has completed artist residencies at 4Most gallery in Gainesville, FL, Home+Away at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, CO, SOMA Summer 2019, Radio 28 in Mexico City, and Home+Away at Artpace in San Antonio, TX. She was shortlisted for the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards in 2022 for Change Atlas, a transmedia exhibition exploring climate change in Miami. In March 2024, she attended an Artist in Residence at the Flower Shop in Brownsville, TX.
Artist statement
In my work, I examine how the built-environment is apportioned, utilized, and perceived. Development perpetuates the seemingly endless cycle of modernity and gentrification at the cost of local communities. The geopolitics and history of places emerge throughout my work in the form of photographs, sculptures, videos, and zines. My research draws on architecture, feminism, ecology, and labor (physical and emotional) as means to investigate multiple paradigms and their contribution to the production of places. By bringing these matters into the contemporary framework, it aids to reveal how economic, political, and historical factors contribute to the allocation, exploitation, and perception of space.