Year
2019
Location
New York, NY
Amount
$15,000
Kenia R. Guillen (b. 1994, El Salvador; lives in the United States) is a visual artist and filmmaker who uses multimedia to narrate personal stories. Having migrated from rural El Salvador to the suburbs of New York, her work is heavily influenced by the need to heal migrants’ sudden separation from family, community, and the natural environment of their homeland. Interested in immortalizing personal and collective memories, Guillen is currently writing and directing diasporic cinema that speaks to the ordinary, uneventful, everyday lives of Central Americans living in Long Island, New York. She is also a co-founder and curator for Tierra Narrative.
Term
January 2019–July 2020