Harold Mendez

Place: Chicago

Born: 1977

Biography:

Harold Mendez is a Chicago-born artist based in Los Angeles. He is best known for his work in the 2017 Whitney Biennial and has also had work exhibited in and collected by the Museum of Modern Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, Smart Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Institute of Contemporary Art (Miami), Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. Mendez graduated from the University of Illinois Chicago with a Master in Fine Art in 2007. He is a first generation American and his father is from Mexico and his mother is from Colombia. His work considers cultural memory, ritual, and the transnational.