Evan Apodaca
San Diego, California
Monumental Interventions
Monumental Interventions, is a video installation that brings monuments to life using facial motion capture and interviews to uncover the underpinnings of militarism within the border region of San Diego. In February 2023 the piece was exhibited at the San Diego International Airport and was soon after censored for complaints on the work’s subject matter.
Evan Apodaca is a third-generation Chicano digital media artist best known for Que Lejos Estoy, a short-animated documentary film about his family which streamed nationally on PBS in 2016. Apodaca's work in experimental non-fiction and animation explores culture, identity and political activism in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. His video work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the New Americans Museum, Best Practice Gallery, the Chicano International Film Festival (Los Angeles), the Tijuana Film & Food Festival and the San Diego Latino Film Festival. He was a 2019 San Diego Foundation Creative Catalyst fellow and was a recipient of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture’s Border Narrative Change Grant in 2021.
Intervenciones monumentales
Intervenciones monumentales es una instalación video-artistica que utiliza tecnologia de reconocimiento facial y entrevistas para explorar la militarizacion de la zona fronteriza de San Diego. Se expuso en el aeropuerto internacional de San Diego en febrero 2023. Poco despues fue la exhibicion fue cancelada debido a quejas acerca del tema del proyecto.
Evan Apodaca es un artista digital, Chicano de tercera generación, que es conocido por su documental animado Que Lejos Estoy; un cortometraje sobre su familia. Que Lejos Estoy se presentó por cadena nacional en PBS en el 2016. Su trabajo ha sido exhibido en el Museum for Contemporary Art San Diego, New Americans Museum, Galería Best Practice, Chicano International Film Festival (Los Angeles), Tijuana Film & Food Festival y San Diego Latino Film Festival. En 2019, Apodaca obtuvo una beca de San Diego Foundation y en el 2021, la beca
Narrative Change de la National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC).