Roberto Torres Mata is the Chazen Museum of Art s 2021 Panczenko MFA Prize winner
Please/Por favor, 2021, spit bite with aquatint, screen print, lithograph.
MADISON, WIS
.- MFA candidate Roberto Torres Matas exhibition Untethered: Our Journey Beyond Borders takes the 2021 Russell and Paula Panczenko MFA Prize. The exhibition is on view in the Garfield Galleries April 6-May 14, 2021.
Visitors will be led on a journey through the exhibition, guided by a path of migrating birds. Archaic symbols impressed into handmade paper evoke indigenous cultures of the Americas, while the words of migrants themselves are recorded on linen sheets suspended from the gallery ceilinga work made in collaboration with Dani Zelko.