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Payan Estrada works in craft-based processes including clay, textiles, and collage which he uses to explore social surfaces, ephemeral exchanges, and queer experiences. His curatorial and academic practice focuses on issues revolving around contemporary craft with special interests in ceramics, material politics, and queer artistic practices.
He is the senior curator at the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at The University of Texas at El Paso, was recently creative director and curator at Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles CA and has served as visiting art faculty at the California Institute of the Arts, and mentor in the Warren Wilson College Master of Arts in Critical Craft Studies and A+B Projects Ceramics Certificate. Payan Estrada is also the co-curator and co-founder of Craft Contemporary’s Clay Biennial and has curated and juried numerous exhibitions including Total Collapse, Clay in the Contemporary Past at the Arizona State University Museum and the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center in El Paso, Texas.
Payan Estrada has shown in numerous exhibitions including the Los Angeles Sur Biennial, Queer Threads at The San Jose Museum of Textiles and Quilts, Queer Sublime at the Visual Arts Center in Austin, Texas, and the 2023 Border Biennial at the El Paso Museum of Art in El Paso, Texas and The Ciudad Juarez Museum of Art in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua Mexico. He has also had recent solo exhibitions in El Paso, Texas, and a traveling solo project in Guadalaja, Cuidad Juarez, and Mexicali, Mexico.
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