Omar Pimienta
[Image description: Omar stands in front of a background with a yellow starburst pattern on it. He has light skin, a dark beard, and pulled-back hair. He wears a yellow shirt and stands with his arms crossed.]
Omar Pimienta is an artist/writer/scholar who lives and works in the San Diego / Tijuana border region. His artistic practice examines questions of identity, trans-nationality, emergency poetics, sociopolitical landscape, and memory. Pimienta has a PhD in Literature and an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego as well as a BA in Latin American Studies from San Diego State University. He has published four books of poetry in U.S, Argentina, México, and Spain. He has won the Emilio Prado 10th International Publication prize from the Centro Cultural Generación del 27 Malaga Spain. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally at spaces such as the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; 5th Transborder Biennial with El Paso Museum of Art; MOCA Tucson, Arizona; Oceanside Museum of Art; Museum Of Latin American Art in Long Beach; Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Orange, CA; Oficina de Proyectos Culturales. Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. México; the J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles, CA; the 3ème Biennale Internationale de l'Art Contemporain de Casablanca Maroc; and an A Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibit. In 2017-18 he was awarded an Art Matters Grant. He currently is a member of the Mexican Sistema Nacional de Creadores in the area of poetry.
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