Artist Estephania González displays first exhibition at SMoCA

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art will present “Chicomoztoc: The Cosmic Throne” as the first solo museum exhibition by artist Estephania González opening Feb. 20, 2027.

González is a multidisciplinary artist working across video, performance, sculpture and installation. Through these artistic mediums, she explores concepts of spacetime and cosmologies from both physics and Indigenous narratives and how they intersect with personal identity.

“I was born in Los Angeles, raised in Mexico and immigrated to Iowa when I was 6 years old,” González said in the release. “A lot of my work stems from that experience, and from moving to Arizona to make art about the physical and psychological borderlands people live in today.”

In 2021, González was among the artists featured in the exhibition “Forever Becoming: Young Phoenix Artists” at SMoCA, which was curated by Lauren R. O’Connell, curator of contemporary art. O’Connell continued to follow González’s career and saw the significance and timeliness of presenting her work in a new solo exhibition.

The museum is located at 7374 E. Second St.

For information, visit scottsdalearts.org.