April 13th - 16th, 2023
Exposure Booth 172 // navy pier Chicago

Residency Art Gallery is proud to announce our participation in the 2023 edition of Expo Chicago. Our artist, Daniela García Hamilton has been selected to showcase her solo presentation titled, COYOTE. Please join us at the Navy Pier in Chicago at Booth 172.

Coyote, or “human smuggler” is a person who works to smuggle immigrants across the US- Mexican border. For Mexican immigrants, every journey begins with a coyote and the passage to a new reality is laid in the hands of the coyote. The coyote is often negatively portrayed as the end result of these journeys sometimes leads to death, while other times it leads to renewal and a cultural restart. The exhibition title - Coyote - is significant in two ways; It correlates the coyote with death and money but also as a guide, through the journey of cultural shifts. As a child of immigrants, Daniela Garcia Hamilton owes her cultural upbringing to the coyotes who brought her parents over the border.

Coyote, or “human smuggler” is a person who works to smuggle immigrants across the US- Mexican border. For Mexican immigrants, every journey begins with a coyote and the passage to a new reality is laid in the hands of the coyote. The coyote is often negatively portrayed as the end result of these journeys sometimes leads to death, while other times it leads to renewal and a cultural restart. The exhibition title - Coyote - is significant in two ways; It correlates the coyote with death and money but also as a guide, through the journey of cultural shifts. As a child of immigrants, Daniela Garcia Hamilton owes her cultural upbringing to the coyotes who brought her parents over the border.

Archival photograph courtesy of the Artist

Coyote, or “human smuggler” is a person who works to smuggle immigrants across the US- Mexican border. For Mexican immigrants, every journey begins with a coyote and the passage to a new reality is laid in the hands of the coyote. The coyote is often negatively portrayed as the end result of these journeys sometimes leads to death, while other times it leads to renewal and a cultural restart. The exhibition title - Coyote - is significant in two ways; It correlates the coyote with death and money but also as a guide, through the journey of cultural shifts. As a child of immigrants, Daniela Garcia Hamilton owes her cultural upbringing to the coyotes who brought her parents over the border.

About the ArtisT

DANIELA GARCÍA HAMILTON

Daniela Garcia Hamilton (b.1995) is a first generation Mexican-American painter. Her work explores the rituals and traditions she experienced as a child of immigrant parents. Color and pattern is integrated throughout her work as she describes the vibrancy of her traditions through portraits of her family members. Settings are fabricated to draw attention to social-political commentary on past and current immigrant experiences. As she completed her B.F.A. at CSULB, she began to reflect on her traditions through the American lens. American tile patterns are used as the veil through which she remembers these events. She is currently an MFA candidate and the recipient of the Charles Gaines Fellowship at CalArts. Her work has been exhibited throughout the California Coast, with galleries such as Artbug Gallery, TAG Gallery, Luna Anais Gallery, Artshare LA, the Irvine Fine Arts Center, Residency Art Gallery and Thinkspace Projects. She has been a keynote speaker for the undocumented commencement at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and continues to hold a strong connection to her Mexican-immigrant roots.