Stephanie Mercedes

Stephanie Mercedes is an uncategorized Queer Latinx artist who works in sculpture, opera, techno, choreography and sound. Their work revolves around creating rituals of mourning and rituals of liberation. Mercedes melts weapons to create instruments and sculptures. She also excavates missing violent histories.

Mercedes has exhibited and performed at the Bronx Museum, the Art Museum of the Americas, the Queens Museum, the Smithsonian, the Kennedy Center, and the National Gallery of Art. She has been funded by George Soro's Open Society Foundation, Light Works, NALAC, The Foundation for Contemporary Art, WPA, The DC Commission for the Arts, the GLB Memorial Foundation, the Warhol Foundation, and the Clarvit Fellowship. Mercedes has been an artist in residence at VisArts, Halcyon Art Labs, the Bronx Museum, Montgomery College, Christopher Newport University, SOMA, Lugar a Dudas, Largo das Artes, and La Ira de Dios. Mercedes has created two operas: Never In Our Image, a queer gun destruction opera, and We Shall Not Inherit Our Earth, an anti surveillance opera. Velvet Rage, a bigender opera, will be created this summer with the Walters Museum.