Leticia R. Bajuyo
Leticia R. Bajuyo received her B.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame and her M.F.A. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Prior to moving to Norman, Oklahoma to join the faculty of the School of Visual Arts at The University of Oklahoma, Bajuyo served as an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, a Visiting Assistant Professor in Sculpture at the University of Notre Dame, and Professor of Art at Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana.
A Filipinx-American interdisciplinary artist and object maker, Leticia Bajuyo engages audiences and connects with communities through her site-specific installations that involve community collections of media and memories. Bajuyo’s drawings, sculptures, and installations highlight the impact of desire and the machines that create more desire. Her interest in unpacking value perceptions began with her autobiography growing up bi-racial small town named Metropolis on the border of Illinois and Kentucky.
The time and space of quiet landscapes outside and the multi-national dialogues inside her family’s house influenced the development of her critiques of consumer capitalism, fickle domestic desires, and internalized pressures of assimilation. Her continued research of cultural privilege and consumer pressure yields a drive to both create and question a vision that is comfortable, contained, and controlled. By incorporating recognizable materials and forms including CDs, artificial grass, and insulation styrofoam, Bajuyo creates spaces and multi-layered experiences that invite audiences to participate in theatrical re- arbitrations of value.
Upcoming exhibitions include permanent, site-specific, outdoor roundabout sculptural installation for the Marine Creek Parkway in Fort Worth, Texas, a solo exhibition at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, Arkansas, and a solo exhibition at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Her recent solo exhibitions include the Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery in Dallas, Texas; Beeville Art Museum in Beeville, Texas; Hall Art Gallery at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi; and Rudolph Blume Fine Art / ArtScan Gallery in Houston, Texas. Bajuyo's large-scale, site-specific artworks include creating installations at the From Waste to Art Museum in Baku, Azerbaijan; in the silos of the Site Gallery at Sawyer Yards in Houston, Texas; at the Nashville International Airport in Tennessee; and in the Tony Hillerman Library in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In addition to exhibitions of her individual artwork, Bajuyo seeks community and welcomes collaboration by participating in five artist collectives and serving on the Boards of Directors for the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance and Public Art Dialogue. Two of the collectives are:
Project Vortex - an international not-for-profit collective of artists, designers and architects actively focusing on the global problem of plastic pollution through their work
Land Report Collective - a group of six artists in Wyoming, Tennessee, New Mexico and Oklahoma who create and exhibit artworks together as they deal with landscape in fundamental ways and as a foundational reference point
For more information about Bajuyo’s work, please visit https://www.bajuyo.com
