puerto rican
b. 1976
Roxana Pérez-Méndez is a video performance and installation artist who creates work about the arbitrary nature of contemporary identity through the lens of her own experience as a Puerto Rican woman.

Pérez-Méndez  is based in Philadelphia and has exhibited widely including the Morris Gallery at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (5/2010), the Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts (NY, NY), the Arlington Arts Center in Arlington, Virginia, the Aljira Contemporary Art Center in Newark, New Jersey, the Powel House Museum (Philadelphia), the Painted Bride (Philadelphia), the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial Fleisher Art Memorial (Philadelphia), the Fleisher-Ollman Gallery (Philadelphia), the Centro Estatal de las Artes in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico and the Centro Municipal de  Cultura in Castellon, Spain.  She participated in Aljira EMERGE 10 and in performances with her collaborator Gabriel Martinez in Skowhegan, ME and at the X-Initiative, No Soul for Sale, Festival of Independents in Chelsea. She was a finalist for both the Joan Mitchell Award and the Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2006.   As a Philadelphia based artist, Roxana is an artist/member of the collective Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia.  Pérez-Méndez received her BFA from The Ohio State University, MFA from the Tyler School of Art and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2003.