Briana Calderón Navarro

Briana Calderón Navarro is a Mexican American cultural worker who has lived in New York City for 13 years. Briana uses painting and video to tell stories about people, weaving elements of portraiture through her multidisciplinary projects. Informed by mutual aid principles, Briana creates with urgency that is rooted in lived experience and collective empowerment. She is critical of authority and imagines new structures, while embracing contradictions. Briana’s work offers unique strategies to address issues like food injustice, erasure, and resource disparity.

Briana’s current projects include pop-up activations and documentaries by her new agency, Global Hands. This is all part of a process to make work that inspires change and disruption. Briana has most recently expanded her efforts to Mexico, exploring new collaborations that blend art and activism internationally.