Artists Talk with Marisa Futernick and Cintia Segovia Figueroa

 

Cintia Segovia Figueroa was born and raised in Mexico City, where she worked in the entertainment industry. Learning English in the U.S. as an adult gave her a unique perspective on the nuances of the language. Her photography and socially engaged approach explore themes of immigration, displacement, and bilingualism. With an M.A. She earned a BA from CSU, Northridge, and an MFA from CSU, Long Beach. The Museum of Latin American Art and the National Immigration Law Center have collected her work, and private galleries and museums worldwide have exhibited it, including the Shanghai University, Spartanburg Art Museum, the Torrance Art Museum, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. It has also been shown at the Mexican Consulate, Shanghai University, and the Autonomous University of Mexico, among many other venues. Segovia Figueroa teaches photography and new media at Murray State University in Kentucky.

Marisa Futernick

 

Marisa J. Futernick was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. Futernick received her BA from Yale University and her MFA from the Royal Academy Schools, London, with additional studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has exhibited widely, at venues including the Royal Academy of Arts, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Brandeis University, Boston; the Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Oxy Arts at Occidental College, Los Angeles; Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles; Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA; Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA; Jerwood Space, London; Kingsgate Project Space, London; Arnolfini, Bristol, UK; Outpost, Norwich, UK; and Yale University. She has published several books, including 13 Presidents (Slimvolume, 2016), How I Taught Umberto Eco to Love the Bomb (RA Editions and California Fever Press, 2015), and The Watergate Complex (Rice + Toye, 2015). She is a core member of the activist group Artists 4 Democracy. After over 15 years in London, Futernick now lives and works in Los Angeles, California.