Claudia Peña Salinas, born in Mexico in 1975. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and received her M.F.A. from Hunter College, New York (2009). She has exhibited at Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, (2019); the Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, (2019); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2018); Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan (2018); Queens Museum of Art, New York (2012); El Museo del Barrio, New York (2005); El Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (2006); and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico (2015). Residencies and awards include: MacDowell, Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, (2018); the Lower Manhattan City Council, Process Space, New York (2016); and SOMA residency, Mexico City (2011). She is a recipient of the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (2007) and Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, Mexico (2020).
Claudia Peña Salinas
Studios
Putnam
Claudia Peña Salinas worked in the Putnam studio.
The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…