American · b. 1979
Performance, video, sculpture
Xandra Ibarra is an Oakland-based performance artist from the US/Mexico border of El Paso/Juarez. Sometimes performing under the alias 'La Chica Boom', her work addresses themes of abjection and the boundaries of racialized, gendered, and queer subjects. She is a Creative Capital awardee and an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of California, Berkeley.