Migueltzinta SolísUS/CA
Dr. Migueltzinta Solís is a trans Chicanx interdisciplinary artist, writer, scholar, filmmaker, educator, Tarot practitioner, and consultant. He was raised in California and Oaxaca by parents involved in the Chicano/a Movement during the 80s and 90s. He works at a unique intersection of creative arts practice, critical studies, and research creation. Solis writes across multiple genres and forms, working towards counter-institutional poetics for knowledge mobilization. Theme parks, amateur porn, Indigenous futurities, parallel realities, divination technologies, colonial imaginaries, queer materialities, and (un)belonging have been recurring themes. Materially, he has worked in performance, video, photography, leather, textile, installation, and painting. Solis holds an MFA in Art and a PhD in Cultural, Social and Political Thought from the University of Lethbridge/Iniskim in Treaty 7, traditional Blackfoot territory.
