Originally from Mexico City, Elizabeth Z. Pineda is a photographic emerging artist. Her work explores complicated issues regarding immigration, identity, displacement, and migrant deaths that occur in the Arizona desert. Pineda speaks visually of community, touching on language barriers, culture, and society. Her practice is rooted in handmaking as an expression of her deep ties to the subject matter using historic and untraditional photographic, printmaking, papermaking, and book art processes.
Pineda’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions locally, nationally, and published in The Experimental Darkroom: Contemporary Uses of Black & White Photographic Materials by Christina Z. Anderson (Focal Press, 2022). She is Center’s Personal Project Recipient 2023 and was awarded the Pat Mutterer award at The Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art, 2023. Her work received honorable mentions in the 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards and winner and honorable mentions in the 18th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards. In the 2022 Denis Roussel Award, her portfolio was named Outstanding Work by juror Christopher James. She holds an MFA in Photography from Arizona State University.
