EMMANUEL GUERRA
...a tender vessel shaped by the wind

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Emmanuel Guerra (b. 1998) is a Mexican-American interdisciplinary artist based in Milwaukee whose practice spans drawing, painting, object-making, and video. Rooted in the complexities of a Midwest and Mexican-American upbringing, Guerra's work excavates the terrain between cultural memory, ancestral sacrifice, and the act of dreaming — both passive and active — as a means of reclaiming what displacement has rendered ephemeral. Through found imagery, reimagined histories, and cultural iconography, they negotiate shared experiences of grief and kinship, reshaping lost narratives into new, tender contexts. Guerra's recent exhibitions, including let sleeping dogs lie (2026) and Nuestros Sueños (2024), reflect an ongoing reformation of creative practice concerned with the porousness of identity and remembrance. They hold an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a BFA in Printmaking from Ball State University.

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