Yali Romagoza BIO

Yali Romagoza is a Cuban-born interdisciplinary artist whose work discusses migration issues and the effects of political trauma on the individual through performance, video installations, photography, and costume design. As a result of Romagoza’s experience in the U.S., coming from Cuba in 2011, she created her alter-ego Cuquita The Cuban Doll to rebuild a cultural home within the U.S. art scene, where Romagoza often does not feel included or represented. Through her narration, she illustrates what it is like to inhabit a space between cultures to address feminism and marginalization while poking fun at the misogynistic and racist stereotypes that particularly plague Latinas in the U.S. Romagoza’s alter-ego references ‘cuquitas cubanas’, a paper doll cutout distributed in magazines in Cuba during Romagoza’s childhood. Yali Romagoza builds her work from her autobiographical story sharing her feelings of vulnerability, displacement, and otherness.

yaliromagoza.org yromagoza@noguchi.org

Pain of Cuba, Body I am

Garment with video projection 47 x 18 in.

All works © the artists

Works by Isamu Noguchi

© The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, N Y/A RS

Frontispiece photo by F.S. Lincoln

The Noguchi Museum Archives, 01530

Design by Shamysia Waterman

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