THEA LAUREN PINEDA

THEA LAUREN PINEDA

(she/her) or (they/them)

Thea Lauren Pineda is a Minneapolis-based artist who works primarily in charcoal and soft pastel on handmade paper. Pineda’s practice draws connections between ideas regarding the aestheticization and depersonalization of Asian femme bodies in American societies and its intersection with her relationship to her Filipino lesbian identity and body. Pineda received their Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota in May 2024 and currently interns at Don't You Feel It Too? under the guidance of the founding artist Marcus Young 楊墨.