Esperanza Mayobre

Esperanza Mayobre

Multi-media Artist

Esperanza Mayobre is a Brooklyn-based Venezuelan artist whose work often conceptualizes the political and economic events that have led her home country of Venezuela into economic and moral ruin. 

She has exhibited at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University, the Fuller Craft Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museo Eduardo Sivori Buenos Aires, the Queens Museum, The State University of New York Westchester Community College, La Caja Centro Cultural Chacao Caracas, the Bronx Museum, Hallwalls, MIT Cavs, BRIC, The Art Museum of the Americas Washington D.C., the Contemporary Museum of El Salvador, the Incheon Biennial Korea. She is a recipient of the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, the Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency, the Jerome Foundation Travel Grant, the International Studio and Curatorial Program, Smack Mellon Studio Program, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been in Artishock, Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Creative Time Reports, Arte al Día and Art in America. 

Mayobre is a recipient of the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. Has exhibited at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museo Eduardo Sivori Buenos Aires, among others. Her work has been featured in Artishock, Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail and Creative Time Reports.