Chicle (any/all pronouns) (July 31st) is an artist and educator from Chicago, IL and now based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Chicle's work aims to upend the image of the meek working class Latino through work that is historically informed and traditionally abstract. While challenging politics of respectability and seeking non-conventional forms and fusions to tell stories, they reach back and learn from migrant ancestors and pay homage to their Mesoamerican roots by way of interdisciplinary practices that explore people’s relationship to (or perception of) culture, time, objects, labor, power and class. After graduating from Columbia College Chicago in 2013 Chicle has been working primarily as a teaching artist, photojournalist and filmmaker.