Yaxkin Fuentes-Barrientos

Yaxkin Fuentes-Barrientos (b. 2001, San Jose, CA) works across painting and drawing to inve!igate place, myth, and the ambiguity of collective memory. Trained in architectural drafting, his practice draws on the rugged landscapes and underground residues of Northern California—the mines, quarries, caves, and logging roads he explores, and the folk tales and buried histories that surround them. Fuentes-Barrientos received his BFA in painting and drawing from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA in 2023, and lives and works in San Francisco.