Claudia Peña Salinas
Claudia Peña Salinas, born in Mexico in 1975, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and Mexico City. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and earned her MFA from Hunter College, New York (2009). She has exhibited at Casa Gilardi, Mexico City (2025), Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, Florida (2024), Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern, Mallorca, SP, (2023), Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati (2022), The High Line, New York (2021), DePaul Art Museum, Chicago (2021), Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, New York (2021), Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, (2019), the Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, (2019), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2018), Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan (2018), Queens Museum of Art, New York (2012), El Museo del Barrio, New York (2005), El Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (2006), and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico (2015).
I remember many firsts with Lumin, but not the first time we met. I know it was at The Guggenheim; we were both working as art handlers. It felt as if we had always been friends.
