Year
2019
Location
New York, NY
Amount
$60,000
Sol Aramendi (b. 1968, Argentina; lives in the United States) is a socially engaged artist working with immigrant communities throughout New York City, and she creates opportunities for immigrants to empower themselves through art. Her participatory practice lives at the intersection of immigration, labor, and art, and builds leadership and promotes change around fairer labor conditions and immigration policy.
Aramendi has received support from the Ford Foundation (2018) and the National Association of Latino Art and Culture (2018). She received a Blade of Grass Fellowship (2014) to develop a smartphone-based application that enables immigrant workers to report wage theft. Aramendi is a fellow at the Worker Institute at Cornell University.
Term
January 2019–July 2020