C.J.Chueca

Bio/CV: C.J. Chueca was born in Lima, Perú and moved to New York in 2003. Recent exhibitions include: In 2023, the solo show “Mermaids in the Basement”, curated by Blanca de la Torre at the Sugar Hill Museum in New York, where she was the artist in residency. The group shows: “El Amuleto” at El Lobi + The Franklin in San Juan de Puerto Rico; and “The Braid”, an experiment of 4 curators inviting 4 artists at  WhiteBox in New York; In 2022, the two person show: “What Lies Beneath” with Emilia Olsen at Kates-Ferri Projects, New York and the group show “El Sonido de las voces que se unden” at Centro Cultural de España in Tegucigalpa-Honduras. In 2021, the solo show “Micaela, La Sangre de Todas” in Vigil Gonzales Galería and the group shows "A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience; 20 Years of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection" curated by Amethyst Rey Beaver and Eva Thornton at the Taubman Museum of Art; “XX (6 female Latinx artists working in abstraction)” at LatchKey Gallery in New York; ¨Landmark¨ at KM0.2 in San Juan de Puerto Rico; and Art Souterrain in Montreal with a public commissioned installation curated by Dulce Pinzón at Palais des Congres. She was the July art resident at Silo6776 with Kates-Ferri Projects in New Hope, Pennsylvania were she presented the solo show ¨Time Traveler¨. She was part of "Hay algo incomestible en la garganta. Poéticas antipatriarcales y nueva escena en los años noventa" curated by Miguel López at ICPNA-Lima. In 2020: “The Force of Water” with Latchkey Gallery at the Core Club NYC. In 2019 the solo show “Somos La Noche y El Día” at Vigil Gonzales Galería; and was part of “Crónicas Migrantes, Historias communes entre Perú y Venezuela” curated by Fabiola Arroyo at MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima. In 2018 she had the solo shows: "I am the river behind the wall" at Mulherin Gallery in Toronto; and "Dos Cielos Azules/Two Blue Skies" at ICPNA (Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano) for which she released a monograph in collaboration with Meier Ramirez and VM& Studio. She is currently working in a public commission in the Bronx managed by Percent for Art, from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Artist Statement: Since 2015 I started to name myself C.J. Chueca, an abbreviation of Cecilia Jurado Chueca, which began a new journey in my artistic practice. I live in New York since 2003. Before this period, I lived in different houses in Lima and in my first years of life I lived in Mexico City and Oaxaca. My father migrated to Lima –the capital of Perú- from a small town called Muquiyauyo-Jauja located in the high mountains of the Andes. My mother's father was an orphan who traveled in a warship and eventually found a putative father in Valparaiso - Chile. My history, and the history of my family of perpetual immigrants has led me to explore the concepts of home, territory, transition, multiculturality, uprooting and solitude. Focusing on talking about those lives that are still on the road (or without route) in the streets of the world. Eleanor Heartney writes in her essay: ““Something there is that doesn’t love a wall”: C.J. Chueca creates walls that neither contain nor separate. Instead, they provide insight into the complex ways that walls operate in our lives."

In a parallel path, I am mesmerized by the power of water, it's never ending ride, it's possibility to pass through the smallest gap, it's condition of eternal traveler. We are water, as we are rivers that will eventually mix with other rivers in the deepest water of the ocean. 

The diversity of cities like New York and Lima have inspired me to use mediums that are part of many traditions in daily basis like hand-built ceramic objects and mosaic sculptures, ceramic tiles, and painting. The color blue has been present throughout my practice for its own formal intensity and as a connector between urban life and nature.

Selected Solo & Two Person Exhibitions: 2023 Mermaids in the Basement: curated by Blanca de la Torre, Sugar Hill Museum, New York 2022 What Lies Beneath: C.J. Chueca & Emilia Olsen, Kates-Ferri Projects New York 2021 Micaela: La sangre de todas Galería: Galería Vigil Gonzales, Sacred Valley, Cusco Time Traveler: Silo6776, New Hope, Pennsylvania 2020 The Force of Water / La Fuerza del Agua: the Core Club, New York 2019 Somos La Noche Y El Día: Galería Vigil González, Lima 2018 I Am The River Behind The Wall: Mulherin Gallery, Toronto Dos Cielos Azules (el cielo claro del río migra al cielo inmenso del mar): ICPNA Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, Lima 2016 Illuminations of Angie: Someone There Is That Doesn't Love a Wall: Y Gallery, New York El Zorro Fugitivo y El Zorro Imaginado: solo projects curated by Roc Laseca; Parc, Lima Walls and heads: invited section Latin America at Art Toronto, Toronto

Selected Group Exhibitions: 2023 The Braid: White Box, New York Square Pegs: the B-Side Kates-Ferri Projects, New York El Amuleto: El Lobi + The Franklin, San Juan MECA: Dominican Republic, Vigil Gonzales Art Toronto: Plataforma Artbase 2022 HER(Story): Untitled Art Fair, Miami Kates-Ferri Projects El Sonido de las voces que se hunden: curated by Blanca de la Torre. Centro Cultural de España, Tegucigalpa Homecoming: Kates Kerri Projects, New York Parc Art Fair: Vigil Gonzales, Lima Peru Material: Mexico City, Vigil Gonzales NADA NY Special Projects: Espacio Continuo 2021 A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience; 20 Years of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection: curated by Amethyst Rey Beaver and Eva Thornton; Taubman Museum of Art, Virginia Landmark: KM0.2, San Juan de Puerto Rico Chronometrie: curated by Dulce Pinzón; Art Souterrain Festival, Montreal Sabor & Control: curated by Ivan Sikic, Vantage Art Projects Hay algo incomestible en la garganta. Poéticas antipatriarcales y nueva escena de los años noventa: curated by Miguel A. Lopez; ICPNA - Lima XX (6 female Latinx artists working in abstraction): Latchkey Gallery, New York 2020 Art Mutters: curated by Annesofie Sandal; Triangle, New York La Fantástica Construcción Femenina: Museo y Taller Erasto Cortés, Puebla Carpa Interdimentional: curated by Andrés Hare and Martín Rodriguez Miglio; El Garajr – Lima Lo que dejamos fuera: Galería Vigil Gonzales, Good Dirt, ADA Gallery, Richmond 2019 Crónicas Migrantes: palabra, cuerpo, casa, territorio: curated by Fabiola Arroyo, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima Creatures: Olsen Gruin Gallery, New York La Fantástica Construcción Femenina: Plataforma ArtBase, Puebla-México Soy La Casa Que Ladra: MaMaMa Espacio, Lima Soy La Casa Que Ladra: Ramón Luján 78, Madrid 2018 The Border #1: The Border Space; Brooklyn-NY Luces Desde La Isla: General Consulate of Colombia in New York City, NY 2017 Identity Document: curated by Chris Bors; Bergen Community College Gallery, New Jersey El Jardin de las Delicias: Y Gallery, Lima 2016 This one is smaller than this one: curated by Paulina Bebecka; Galerist, Istanbul This one is smaller than this one: curated by Paulina Bebecka; Postmasters, New York Practice Makes Practice: Mulherin Gallery, New York Strength in Creative Diversity: curated by Elisa Pritzker; The Project Space, New York America: curated by Manuela Viera-Gallo y Maximiliano Siñani: 67 Art Space, New York 2015 Polivalencias: curated by Jorge Villacorta; Galería Lucia de la Puente, Lima There Is Only One Catch And That Is Catch 22: curated by Blanca de la Torre; Y Gallery, New York

Public Art Projects: 2022-2025 Public commission in the Bronx, managed by Percent for Art, from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (upcoming) 2021 We Are Night And Day / Nous Sommes La Nuit Et Le Jour, curated by Dulce Pinzón. Installation at Palais des Congrès as part of Art Souterrain Festival in Montreal-Canada

Press: ArtNet News Hyperalergic ArtFuse The Slow Down Brooklyn Magazine The Latinx Project Artishock La Republica, Terremoto, Artnet, Flaunt, Lapresse, Artifoid, AMNY

Selected Collections: Beth Rudin-De Woody, ICPNA Instituto Peruano Norteamericano, Alberto Rebaza and Ginette Lumbroso, Ali Khadra, Luis Oganes, A.G. Rojas, Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt, Susie Kololian, Morris Adjmi, Luis Felipe Cordero, George Gruenberg, Nicolas Kecskemethy, Julie Ragolia, Christine D´lzarny, Raul Otero, Eric Shiner, Arlene Davila, DeMuro Das, Susana de la Puente, Lorena Chavez-Molina, Ivan Vildoso/Gaby Yamamoto

Social: @c.j.chueca