Details
First Name | Yuskadd |
Last Name | (Yuri Ortiz) |
Username | yurioa |
Bio | Yuri Ortiz, known as Yuskadd, is a transdisciplinary artist born in Cuautla, Morelos, Mexico, and based between Salt Lake City, Utah, and Mexico City. As the founder and director of Mixi Art Studio LLC, she blends painting, textiles to explore the intersection of human interaction with AI through the lens of femininity, drawing inspiration from artists like René Magritte, Yayoi Kusama and Barbara Kruger. Since 2019, she has engaged in contemporary art collecting, enriching her perspective and fostering a comprehensive understanding of the art ecosystem through collecting, curating, and advising. Her curatorial work and vision transformed tattoo studios into exhibition spaces, collaborating with artists from Mexico, the United States, France, and Spain. She curated exhibitions with the former Misery and Co Tattoo Collective, including Art Exhibit 1st Edition (2023) and PRIMAVERA: A Celebration of Life (2024). She was the curator of Mixi’s first formal collective exhibition, COLORS where she worked with 10 local artists, creating a cohesive exhibition and showcasing work that engages with local culture in diverse ways. Currently, she leads Mixi Collectors, an acquisition and exhibition project at Casa Siza, Mexico City (Nov 2025). Her work was is on display in New York at What Remains Unsaid (2025, Uncool Gallery), And she participated in the Uncool Artist residency (2025, New York). Ortiz holds diplomas in Political Curating, Introduction to Curating, and Exhibition Design (2023, IMCR, Mexico), as well as Curatorship and Storytelling (2024, IMCR). She completed a course on launching independent art spaces (2024, NODE Center, Germany) and a diploma in Aesthetic Appreciation of Visual Arts (2017, MARCO, Mexico). Her innovative approach and education position her as a key figure in both teaching and studying the evolution of contemporary art through collecting since 2019. |
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Country of residence | United States (US) |
Statement
Statement | My life condition, otherness, living “on the other side” or in the opposite direction—as a woman, as a mother, as an artist—shapes my work. My artwork represents another path, another way of doing things. Through it, I skirt boundaries, amalgamate, combine, and mix to forge a completely transdisciplinary cohesion. In my creative process, I seek out the unlikely connections that serve as a vital engine to explore ideas, materials, and shapes that culminate in my final work. I delight in discovering convergences where none seem apparent, those that break away from the norm and the conventional. The quest for the inconceivable guides me at all times, both in my artistic journey and in my personal life. Through this pursuit, I explore otherness and decode myself. It is at this point, in creation, that I reach authenticity—everything that cannot be feigned, that which endures over time with its own truth. This appreciation for the genuine, for convergences that skirt the edges, leads me to find wholeness as an artistic process, creating cohesion, a “whole,” which is often interconnected, though it might appear opposite or fragmented. My work fervently analyzes boundaries, edges, and limits because these are spaces (or non-spaces) meant for exploration, offering new perspectives. In my creations, I employ multiple techniques because I find that blending them can lead to reinvention, guiding the viewer to otherness, approaching remote worlds within the artistic output. I play with the absurd, building upon what is already created. Thus, by recreating everyday objects, I grant the “incoherent” a new perspective from duality and opposition, challenging the real and the imaginary. I conceptualize based on my own life experiences; this exclusive perspective of the feminine vision is where the strength and power of my work’s authenticity lies. I am keen to highlight the interconnection of my experiences with social and cultural issues, influenced by a capitalist and patriarchal system. I use words to pinpoint universal situations that could pose a question, inviting the viewer to explore the boundaries of their own life. |
Exhibitions
Exhibitions | Solo Exhibitions 2025: Debut solo exhibition, ”When life imitates AI”, The Gala-Fine Art, Salt Lake City, Utah USA Group Exhibitions 2025: Elements, Community Art Show, The Union Station Gallery, Ogden, Utah 2024: PRIMAVERA, Misery and Co Tattoo Collective Studio-Gallery, Curator and Artist, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 2023: Art Exhibit 1st Edition, Misery and Co Tattoo Collective Studio-Gallery, Curator and Artist, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 2020: Intersections, Malitzi Performing Arts, Artist, Cuautla, Morelos, Mexico 2019: Wine and Cheese Fair with the project Boutique de Botellas Decorativas, Exhibitor, Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico |