Shizu saldamando tupac biography

American installation artist

Shizu Saldamando (born 1978 in San Francisco, CA), is an American visual artist. Her work merges painting and collage (often using origami paper) in portraits that often deal with social constructs of identity and subcultures. Saldamando also works in video, installation and performance art. She has been featured in numerous exhibitions, has attained accolades like that of Wanlass Artist in Residence, and is a successful writer, tattoo artist, and social activist.

Biography

Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent. She was raised in the Mission District of San Francisco.^[1] Her parents both appreciated artwork and were invested in social issues.^[2] As a teenager, Saldamando was influenced by publications like Teen Angels, which celebrated the popular Chicano aesthetics of the time, as well as the growing punk and cholo cultural movements.^[2] At thi