BIO
Sue Montoya (1990) was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised between Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Miami, Florida. She earned a BFA in Visual Arts from New World in 2014 and an MFA from the University of Florida in May 2018. She has exhibited in Berlin (Radialsystem), Mexico City (FainFeria), and Miami (CIFO). She has completed artist residencies at 4Most gallery in Gainesville, FL, Home+Away at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, CO, SOMA Summer 2019, Radio 28 in Mexico City, and Home+Away at Artpace in San Antonio, TX. She was shortlisted for the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards in 2022 for Change Atlas, a transmedia exhibition exploring climate change in Miami. In March 2026, she completed a three-month artist residency at the National Young Arts gallery in Miami, FL.
Artist Statement
In my work, I examine how the built environment is apportioned, utilized, and perceived. Development perpetuates the seemingly endless cycle of modernity and gentrification at the cost of local communities. Throughout my work, the geopolitics and history of places emerge through photographs, sculptures, videos, and zines. My research draws on architecture, feminism, ecology, and labor (physical and emotional) as means to investigate multiple paradigms and their contribution to the production of places. By bringing these matters into the contemporary framework, it aids in revealing how economic, political, and historical factors contribute to the allocation, exploitation, and perception of space.