Barbara Carrasco

Place: El Paso

Born: 1955

Biography:

Barbara Carrasco is a Chicana artist, activist, painter and muralist. She was born in El Paso, Texas in 1955 and grew up in the predominantly Mexican American and African American community of Mar Vista Gardens, near Los Angeles. Her work critiques dominant cultural stereotypes involving socioeconomics, race, gender and sexuality, and she is considered to be a radical feminist. Her art has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including in the 1990-1993 traveling exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation.