Jessica Kairé (b. Guatemala City, 1980) is an artist and educator based in New York. She is also the co-founder and co-director of NuMu (Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo), an egg-shaped museum located in Guatemala City that aims to satiate the lack of other contemporary art institutions in the country. Through a variety of media, Kairé makes work that often invites an active relationship between artwork and viewer. She is particularly interested in objects and environments imbued with personal or collective struggle, and altering how we relate to them through participatory experiences.
Kairé (Guatemala City, 1980) studied Visual Arts at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Guatemala, and received a Bachelor of Arts from Hunter College in New York City. Her work has been shown at museums and institutions including Foment de les Arts i del Disseny (FAD), Barcelona; Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (MSN Warsaw); SculptureCenter, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH), Houston; Museo del Barrio, New York; 2da Gran Bienal Tropical, Loíza, Puerto Rico; the 22nd Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala; and Biennial 12 Online, Bienal do Mercosul, Brazil. In 2023, her first institutional solo exhibition, “Levantamiento: A Collective Unshaping”, was held at the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts in El Paso, Texas.
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