Yvette Mayorga

Yvette Mayorga is a Chicago-based Mexican-American multidisciplinary artist whose work merges Rococo-inspired aesthetics with confectionary labor, found imagery, and an adamant use of pink to explore themes of belonging, femme power, consumer culture, and the alluring contradictions of the American Dream. 

Mayorga holds an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the University of Illinois. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the Museum of Arts and Design (New York, NY), LACMA (Los Angeles, CA), El Museo del Barrio (NY), Vincent Price Art Museum (CA), the Center for Craft (Asheville, NC), Museo Universitario del Chopo (Mexico City, MX), and more. Notable solo exhibitions include La Jaula de Oro at Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico (2024–25), Dreaming of You at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (2023–24), and What a Time to Be at The Momentary at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (2022–23).

Mayorga’s works are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution’s Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; The City of Chicago permanent public art collection at O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, IL; Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; 21c Museum Hotels, Louisville, KY; Cerámica Suro, Guadalajara, MX; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA; and New Mexico State University Art Museum, NM. She has been featured in Artforum, Artnet, Art in America, Art News, Cultured Magazine, DAZED, Galerie Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Hyperallergic, Latina Magazine, Teen Vogue, The Guardian, The New York Times, Vogue, W Magazine, and Women’s Wear Daily. Mayorga’s new commission with Times Square Arts, Magic Grasshopper, is her largest public artwork to date.