Private Story
ABOUT
She is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Magnum Foundation (2016/2018/2020), En Foco (2017/2022), National Geographic Research and Exploration (2018), We Woman (2019), National Fund for Culture and the Arts of México (2009/2011), etc. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Pdn, California Sunday Magazine, Vogue, Open Society Foundations, Buzzfeed, The Intercept, New Yorker, The Nation Magazine, La Jornada, among others.
She is co-author of the book “The Indigenous Worldview and its Representations in Textiles of the Nahua community of Santa Ana Tzacuala, Hidalgo”. And the documentary, The Huichapan Codex.
Cinthya has worked at pro-immigrant organizations in New York as a community organizer on issues such as detection, education, and sanctuary. She has volunteered in programs accompanying migrants to the courts and asylum applications. And she is a guardian of unaccompanied migrant children.
Currently she is an Adjunct Faculty at the Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
Cinthya is part of “Colectiva infancia” (childhood collective) made up of a group of anthropologists who works through ethnographic and visual research on studies around childhood in relation to migration, violence, urban studies and epistemologies of the Global South (https://infanciasenmovimiento.org/colectiva-infancias/)
Artist Statement
Her art is a constant exploration of her past and identity. Grounded in its indigenous Nahua and mestizo roots. The stories of her grandparents and her essence have been part of her work as an artist as well as an ethnohistorian and anthropologist. She grew up in a hybrid culture, linked to pulque, charrería, traditional huapango music, indigenous cuisine, textiles, and the Nahuatl worldview.Through theories and methodologies learned in the social sciences, she explores how the human body is crossed by migration. How the being is re-territorialized in the transnational space.Her work addresses ideas and ways of interpreting identity, language, and culture linked to indigenous ontologies and Mesoamerican thought. She uses counter nonlinear narratives to challenge historical and racial stereotypes around the imaginary of migrant, working class people, and extractivist practices. Her art is a practice of being in community and a means of transmitting restorative messages.
Clients
New York Times, The Intercept, The Nation Magazine, Pdn Online, Buzzfeed, Open Society Foundations, Vogue, Open Society Foundations, Haaretz, La Jornada, NACLA, PROOF: Media For Social Justice, Vision Project, Delayed Gratification Magazine, Democracy Now, etc.
Cinthya is available for assignments worldwide.
E-mail: cinthyas.briones@gmail.com
Phone: 347 549 65552
Phone: 347 549 65552
Languages:
Spanish and English