Yvette Mayorga

Yvette Mayorga is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist known for her ornate Rococo-inspired reliefs that merge confectionary labor with found images to explore themes of belonging. Through works dominated by the color pink, Mayorga celebrates femme power and labor while challenging the allure of consumer culture and the American Dream as a first-generation Mexican American woman.

Mayorga holds an MFA in fiber and material studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been showcased internationally, including exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York; Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, California; El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York The Center for Craft, Asheville, North Carolina; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico; and LACMA, Los Angeles, California. She has had solo exhibitions at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in 2024 and at Crystal Bridges’ satellite space, The Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas, in 2022. Her first international solo museum exhibition, La Jaula de Oro, opened in August 2024 and is on view through January 2025 at Museo de Arte de Zapopan in Guadalajara, Mexico, where it has received acclaim, including a review in The New York Times.

Her works are in the permanent collections of 21c Museum Hotels, Cerámica Suro, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, DePaul Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and New Mexico State University Art Museum. Mayorga’s large-scale installation, Pilgrimage to the Isle of Pink, is featured in the City of Chicago’s permanent public art collection at O’Hare International Airport’s Terminal 5. She has been featured in publications including Artforum, ArtNews, DAZED, Galerie Magazine, Hyperallergic, Teen Vogue, The Guardian, The New York Times, and W Magazine.