Jay Lynn Gomez

About the artist:

Jay Lynn Gomez was born in San Bernardino, California to undocumented Mexican immigrant parents who have since become US citizens. She briefly attended the California Institute for the Arts before leaving to take work as a live-in nanny with a West Hollywood family, an experience that did much to inform her subsequent artistic practice. Gomez’s work is known for addressing issues of immigration and making visible the “invisible” labor forces that keep the pools, homes, and gardens of major metropolitan communities in pristine condition.

Gomez has exhibited at institutions throughout the US including, MCA, Chicago; the Whitney Biennial; the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery; LACMA; Denver Art Museum; MFA Houston; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art; Torrance Art Museum; Cornell Fine Arts Museum; Barrick Museum at UNLV; MCA San Diego; and Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA). Gomez’s work has been featured in the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, and CNN, among others. 

Artwork in exhibition:

Jay Lynn Gomez and Patrick Martinez, Against the Wall, 2019, Acrylic paint, latex house paint, spray paint, cardboard, ladder, work gloves and stucco on panel, Installation dimensions: approx. 90” x 80 x 24 in., Courtesy of the artists and Charlie James Gallery