Biography

Jessica Denise Villegas is a multidisciplinary artist based in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. She received her BFA at The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley with a minor in Mexican American Studies. She has dedicated the last few years of her artistic career to cultivating a new historical narrative, one which is inclusive of the Latinx/Chicanx community. Focusing on border culture, politics and social issues. She attributes the uniqueness of her pieces to the ideas and expressions of the many Latinx poets, artists, activists and philosophers who have created beautifully transparent and representative narratives of the Southmost Borderlands.