Nicole Marroquin

Nicole Marroquin is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who explores Black and Latinx Midwest histories of youth resistance movements, belonging and spatial justice. She recently presented projects at the American Association of Research Librarians Annual Conference, University of Pittsburgh, New School, Newberry Library, Harold Washington Public Library, Midwest Archives Conference, DePaul Museum of Art, Columbia College, Jane Addams Hull House Museum, the Poetry Foundation, MICA, Archivist Roundtable of Metropolitan New York, Northwestern University, the Kochi Biennale in Kerala India, Museum of Contemporary Art, Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, College Art Association, University of Chicago, University of Illinois and the Art Institute of Chicago for the symposium The Wall of Respect and People’s Art Since 1967. Her essays have been published in the Visual Arts Research Journal, Counter Signals, Chicago Social Practice History Series, Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements, Revista Contratiempo, The Quarantine Times and AREA Chicago Magazine. Her work is in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Mexican Art, DePaul Museum, and the Jane Addams Hull House Museum. She has won multiple Propeller Awards, a 3Arts Make a Wave grant, an Envisioning Justice grant from Illinois Humanities, the Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz Women of Excellence Award for her work in her community.  In 2019 she began a social media project called Chicago Raza Research Consortium and she is a member of the justseeds and Chicago ACT artist collectives. In 2020 Marroquin was the recipient of the USA Fellowship She is Professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.