Alma Lopez, Artist and Activist

Alma Lopez is an artist, activist and visual storyteller working in painting, photo based digital prints, and video. She is internationally recognized for her innovative digital images, which recontextualize cultural icons bringing issues
of race, gender and sexuality into relationship with transnationalist myths. She holds a BA from the University of
California Santa Barbara and an MFA from the University of California Irvine. She exhibits her work extensively
and has received awards for her work such as the California Community Foundation Arts Funding Initiative?s
Individual Artist Grant, the Astraea Visual Artist Award, and most recently she received the 2005 Frida Kahlo
Award granted by the UCSC Chicano/Latino Research Center for her artistic and activist work.