Elena Tejada-Herrera presents their work “Burping Wonderwoman”, (2006) in the collective show “There are other skies” at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA).

There are other skies brings to light a multiplicity of urgent, pressing, and ongoing topics faced by female-identifying people worldwide. Exploring an international lineage of feminist art practices, the exhibition presents artwork by twenty-nine artists from six continents, many of whom are showing in the United States for the first time. The exhibition is arranged into sections to articulate five strategies of resistance: Activism, Fragile Archives, Hidden Labors, Care and Kinship, and Radical Imagination.

Artists include Sonia Boyce, Victoria Cantons, Liz Cohen, Zainab Fasiki, Chiara Fumai, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Martine Gutierrez, Lubaina Himid, Juliana Huxtable, Marcia Harvey Isaksson, Elsa James, Kyuri Jeon, Jesse Jones, Yuki Kihara, Fatima Mazmouz, Gulnur Mukazhanova, Josèfa Ntjam, Ada Pinkston, Agnes Questionmark, Alex Martinis Roe, Cara Romero, Shizu Saldamando, Selma Selman, Bahia Shehab, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Shinique Smith, Elena Tejada-Herrera, Bri Williams, and Lorena Wolffer.

Organized by Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art with Mimosa House and originally curated by Christine Eyene, Daria Khan, Jennifer McCabe, and Maura Reilly. Assistant curators Sandra Lam and Keshia Turley, with additional support from Danielle Ochoa, curatorial intern. Global curatorial advisors Camille Auer, Giulia Casalini, Natasha Ginwala, Snejana Krasteva, Natalia Sielewicz, Gabriela Rangel, Lucía Sanromán, Olia Sosnovskaya, Stefanie Hessler, and Indira Ziyabek.

Support provided by World Class Partners: National Endowment for the Arts, Terra Foundation for American Art, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Source: https://smoca.org/exhibition/there-are-other-skies/