Natalia Anciso

Quick Facts

Full Name	Natalia Anciso
Occupation	Installation Artist
Date Of Birth	Mar 25, 1985(1985-03-25)
Age	39
Birthplace	Weslaco
Country	United States
Birth City	Texas
Horoscope	Pisces

Natalia Anciso Biography

Natalia Anciso is one of the most popular and richest Installation Artist who was born on March 25, 1985 in Weslaco, Texas, United States. Anciso studies vernacular arts such as pano arte (handkerchief art thought to have originated from Chicano prisoners during the 1940s) and the huipil (embroidered Mayan textiles worn in Southern and Central America by indigenous women). These art forms are reconfigured in order to tell modern stories about life at the Texas/Mexico border. Anciso uses pen, pencil and paint to examine the psycho-political struggles that life along La Frontera. Her Pinches Rinches series draws on both historical references as well as stories from her family in Rio Grande Valley.

The 10th United States Secretary for Education John King, Jr. made reference to Anciso in his Medium piece titled, “What i Hope Students (and Education Policymakers will see in Hamilton” highlighting Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit musical, Hamilton, as well as the importance of civic education, social studies, and the arts. He asks: “How can we expect students to make the next Hamilton, Natalia Anciso or Kehinde Wiley?”

Her most recent work covers issues around education, human rights, class and race, as evident in her piece, Don’t Shoot (2014), which is featured as the cover of the globally-released human rights education book, Bringing Human Rights Education to US Classrooms: Exemplary Models from Elementary Grades to University, published by London-based Palgrave Macmillan and edited by University of San Francisco professors, Dr. Susan Roberta Katz and Dr. Andrea McEvoy Spero. In the book’s final chapter titled, “Afterword: Will Human Rights Education Be Decolonizing?,” Dr. K. Wayne Yang, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of California, San Diego, makes a reference to Anciso and connects her work on her native La Frontera in the Texas Borderlands with that of the plight of “urban frontiers” in Detroit, Ferguson, Oakland, New Orleans and Watts, Los Angeles.

Anciso was included in Elle Magazine’s 30th Anniversary Issue, as part of its feature portfolio, “This is 30,” which was photographed by renowned American photographer Mark Seliger, and styled by Brandon Maxwell. The portfolio highlights 35 women who are recognized as “outstanding musicians, comedians, politicians, artists, activists, novelists, athletes, and actors” who turned 30 in 2015. She appears in a double-page spread with supermodel, Bar Refaeli, actress, model and trans activist, Carmen Carrera, and actress and recording artist, Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Anciso was born in Austin shortly after she was born. She would live there until the age of 10. After graduating from Mercedes High School, she would return to the Rio Grande Valley, where her parents lived. Anciso comes from a long line migrant farmworkers/laborers. She is the first member of her family to graduate college. Her B.A. was earned. She earned her B.A. in Studio Art at The University of Texas at Austin, 2008, and then moved to the Fruitvale District of Oakland in California to earn her Master of Fine Arts at California College of the Arts, 2011. Anciso is a Berkeley Distinguished Graduate Fellow and earned her M.A. In 2015, Anciso graduated from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education with a Master’s degree in Education.

Natalia Anciso Net Worth

Natalia Anciso is one of the richest Installation Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Natalia Anciso 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Natalia Anciso was the third child of Armando Anciso and Idalia Anciso. She was born in Weslaco in Texas in 1985. Her family, a fifth-generation Tejana from the Texas Borderlands, has lived there since the Texas Revolution. Her family tree can be traced back to San Nicolas de los Garza in Mexico, near Monterrey. Also, Tejones y Sacatiles Indians are indigenous to the Zacatal Ranch, between Santa Maria and Relampago, along with the Rio Grande.

Natalia Anciso, born March 25, 1985, is an American Chicana Tejana contemporary artist and educator. Her artwork is primarily focused on Identity issues, particularly as it relates to her childhood experiences along the U.S.–Mexico Border. Her recent work focuses on education, human rights and social justice. This is a result of her experiences as an urban educator in San Francisco Bay Area. She is originally from South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley and lives and works in Oakland.

Anciso is married to educator John Nepomuceno. The couple married in Travis County, Texas in 2013. In 2016, Anciso gave birth to their son, Leonardo, in Oakland, California. She is a member of the Kappa Delta Chi (ΚΔΧ) sorority.

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Natalia Ranked on the list of most popular Installation Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Natalia Anciso celebrates birthday on March 25 of every year.