Ada Medina is a mixed media artist represented by Van de Griff/Marr Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. She is a recipient of various awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2001), an NEA Individual Artist's Fellowship in Drawing (1987), and an Awards in the Visual Arts Fellowship (1983) funded by the NEA, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Medina's work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art (Washington, D.C.), the Mint Museum of Art (Charlotte, NC), and the Equitable Life Assurance Society (New York, NY) among other museum, public and private collections. In addition to her individual work as an artist, Medina has worked collaboratively with Edith Katz, landscape architect, on "Curandera's Garden: Sur y Norte". This landscape project, co-conceived as a "heterotopia, a site of co-existing differences," is referenced by Lucy R. Lippard in her 1997 book, The Lure of the Local - Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society (The New Press, NY).

Medina was tenured at Drake University in 1982. She went on to teach as an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and as a professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. Her artist-in-residencies include Yaddo in NY, the Djerassi Foundation in CA, and the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has M.F.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Iowa, plus a B.F.A. from Layton School of Art and Design in Milwaukee, WI. Medina was born in Carrizo Springs, TX to working-class immigrants from Mexico. She resides in Santa Fe, NM.

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