Arleene Correa Valencia

Me Quiero Ir Contigo / I Want To Go With You

repurposed textiles on canvas discussing

the history of human migration as survival

Artist Talk Thursday, August 27th at 5pm

Exhibition Opening September 3 from 5-7pm

Arleene Correa Valencia is a Mexican-born embroidery and textile artist known for multiple solo and group exhibitions based on the emotional impacts of migrations through the perspective of family separation, identity, and visual representation on families migrating for a better life. Join Ah Haa in welcoming her with an artist talk.

ARLEENE CORREA VALENCIA (b. 1993, Michoacán, Mexico) is an inaugural recipient of the Bay Area Fellowship at Headlands Center for the Arts and received a regional Emmy award for her feature REPRESENT: Portraits of Napa Workers: Arleene Correa Valencia by KQED Arts. In 2023, Correa Valencia was named a Eureka Fellow by the Fleishhacker Foundation and a Finalist for the SECA Award through the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In Fall 2023, Correa Valencia’s work was featured in a two-person booth presentation (alongside work by Stephanie Syjuco) for Focus at The Armory Show, curated by Candice Hopkins, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Forge Project.