Talley Dunn Gallery is honored to announce the representation of Tina Medina. Through an exploration of fibers, painting, video, and audio, Medina’s art reflects U.S. American history from the point of view of the underrepresented voices in our communities such as people of color, farmworkers, the undocumented and women and children. In her mixed media works, Medina explores juxtapositions of history with cultural symbols to reflect the narratives of those whose stories are rarely told.
Many of my works contemplate the contributions of black and brown families to the cultivation of the lands, economies, and culture of the United States whose physical hard labor of the past and present continues to be overlooked as major contributors to the success of this country. My works are part social justice activism and part ritual, reviving an ancestral and maternal instinct to hold the family in reverence and to raise awareness for human rights.
Tina Medina
As a U.S.-American-born woman of Mexican ancestry, Medina embraces the theory of Xicanisma, a concept that recognizes the indigenous roots of Chicana identity. Her artwork explores displacement and identity informed by a lost connection to her indigenous ancestry, cultural traditions, and family history.
Medina’s art has been exhibited nationally in exhibits such as Immigration, Migration, Movement & The Humanities at Arizona State University, as well as Strive: An Exhibition Highlighting American Immigration & the American Dream, D’Art Center, Norfolk, Virginia. In 2021, her work was featured in Arte Latino Now 2021, a virtual exhibit for the Center for Latino Studies at Queens University Charlotte in North Carolina, and Medina was the Changarrito Artist of the Month for Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas. In 2022, she created a community-based solo art exhibit at Arts Mission Oak Cliff followed by a solo retrospective exhibition at the Latino Cultural Center of Dallas. Most recently, Medina was selected to participate in Soy de Tejas, a statewide survey of Latinx art in San Antonio, Texas and now on view in Fort Worth, Texas.
Tina Medina is an artist, educator, and curator living in Dallas, Texas. Originally from West Texas, Medina earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Texas Tech University and Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of North Texas. Over the past two decades, Medina has been an active leader within the North Texas art community and beyond. She has curated over a dozen exhibitions, and she has participated in numerous lectures, panel discussions, and art jury panels throughout the region. In 2021, Medina co-founded Nuestra Artist Collective and in 2022 collaboratively organized, curated, and exhibited work with nine other Texas women artists in an art exhibit focusing on the U.S. Mexico border. Additionally, Medina has been a member of the oldest artist-run co-op in Texas, 500X Gallery, and she has served on the City of Dallas Public Art Committee. In 2022, Medina was awarded a Nasher Sculpture Center Artist Grant.
