The Poetry Project

Guadalupe Maravilla

In this black and white portrait, Guadalupe sits on a sculpture
© Zoe Salaun

Guadalupe Maravilla is a transdisciplinary visual artist, choreographer, and healer. At the age of eight, Maravilla was part of the first wave of unaccompanied, undocumented children to arrive at the United States border in the 1980s as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War. As an acknowledgment to his past, Maravilla grounds his practice in the historical and contemporary contexts belonging to undocumented communities and the cancer community. Maravilla currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Maravilla was awarded the 2021 Joan Mitchell Fellowship, and the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2019. He has exhibited and performed in major museums such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami and many more. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, ICA Miami and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.