Sharing the Spotlight: Destiny Mata

When: Saturday, November 23, 2:00 - 4:00 pm

Where: Teatro LATEA @ The Clemente

Sharing the Spotlight is presented with support from Historias, a multi-year programmatic initiative led by The Clemente in partnership with LxNY and supported by the Rauschenberg Foundation. Historias charts the transformative impact of Latinx communities in NYC through research, artistic interpretations, and public engagement. 

Teatro LATEA and Historias are pleased to co-present Sharing the Spotlight, a conversation series by emerging Latinx artists/photographers to run in tandem with the Borimix exhibition Maximo Rafael Colón: Storied Lens. For this series, Colón has extended an invitation to a select group of Latino photographers to share the spotlight in a series of artist talks where they will present and discuss their work.

This event will be the second of the series, a talk by emerging artist, Destiny Mata, discussing Mata’s photo practice, trajectory, and upcoming projects.

Destiny Mata is a Mexican American photographer and filmmaker based in her native New York City focusing on issues of subculture and community. After studying photojournalism at LaGuardia Community College and San Antonio College, she spent two years as Director of Photography Programs at the Lower Eastside Girls Club.   Mata recently has been awarded the Magnum Foundation Fellowship 2023. She exhibited La Vida En Loisaida: Life on the Lower East Side, a solo exhibition at Photoville Festival 2020, ICP Concerned Global Images for Global Crisis at the International Center of Photography 2020, and Mexic-Arte Museum.  She is currently preparing a series of documentary works continuing her exploration of the fabric of the communities around her.  Among the work to be discussed will be, Lower East Side Yearbook, a collaborative multimedia project led by residents of Lower East Side public housing.