Savannah Bustillo

Iowa Art Field 2025

Savannah Bustillo (she/her) is a queer, second generation, Colombian-American printmaker, bookmaker, and papermaker from Albuquerque, New Mexico. She combines making and anthropological investigation to explore spaces in the margins – where identities not easily reconciled are placed. Recently, this has taken the form of setting up performative situations — spaces where the viewer can choose to participate in small actions with the works.

Embedded in these actions is a form of visceral contact, engaging the body to better ground the expansive histories of language and labor. She received a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis, and is completing her MA/ MFA at the University of Iowa in printmaking. Her work is held in over 40 collections throughout the US, including Harvard University, Yale University, UCLA, and the Walker Art Center.

pictured: [kwoh-tuh], the slow drip (2024) Handmade watermarked cotton and abaca paper, 2lbs of Agua de Jamaica slowly dripped on, 34 x 54 inches

https://www.savannahbustillo.com/
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