Angélica Maria Millán Lozano is an artist from Bogotá, Colombia currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Using distressed fabrics, she creates abstract and figurative compositions that question the social injustices affecting migrant families, specifically Latinas at home. In response to her home country’s political unrest, Millán Lozano uses her experiences to explore themes of familiarity, absurdity, foreignness, and fear. 

Millán Lozano chooses the fabrics for her work very carefully – opting for textiles that tell stories of resilience. The pre-worn fabrics reveal evidence of distress, wear and tear, deconstruction, and reconstruction. The artist emphasizes that these mediums can carry narratives of pain – which is fitting given that they often represent the bodies of suffering Latin American Women. Millán Lozano also selected fabric as her medium to return agency and meaning to a material often reduced to “women’s work” in Latinx households. 

She received her MFA in Visual Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Angélica has been a resident at the Bemis Center, Ox Bow School of Art, among others. She has shown nationally at Ortega y Gasset Projects, Equity Gallery in New York, NY, Jacob Lawrence Gallery in Seattle, Washington, Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, and Nationale in Portland, Oregon.