January 14, 2025 thru
March 30, 2025
Featured image: National Tools
About the Exhibition
Herramientas Nacionales — National Tools
This work repurposes fragments from the 1950s and 1960s Golden Book Encyclopedia, originally made for children, and vintage U.S. corporate stock certificates—two artifacts that have shaped and spread the national historical narrative created by the United States. Using these found materials, Tinoco critiques the national meta-narrative embedded in them, revealing the violence they perpetuate.
The work draws inspiration from Mexican-born artist Enrique Chagoya, specifically what he calls “reverse anthropology”. This satirical approach subverts traditional appropriation by critically examining Western cultures through the perspectives of those they colonized. By retooling these seemingly outdated materials, Tinoco highlights how colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacy continue to shape our present.
Daniela Tinoco’s exhibition is on view from January 14–March 30, 2025
About the artist
Daniela Tinoco is a transdisciplinary artist from Cholula, Mexico, currently living on Ohlone Land and pursuing her MFA in Art Practice at San Francisco State University.
Through repurposing and fragmenting discursive elements, her work disrupts and reorients structures of domination, seeking possibilities for a transformed future rooted in solidarity, collective elaboration of meaning, and reclamation of agency.
She is a co-founder of the annual Enero Zapatista Bay Area and has exhibited her work at the Berkeley Art Center, ATA Right Window, and SOMArts.
Daniela is the recipient of the 2024 Edwin Anthony & Adelaine Boudreaux Cadogan Scholarship and a member of the research group Autonomous Imaginaries: For Collective and Counter-Hegemonic Artistic Practices at the UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender Studies.
About the Artwork
Small case
National Tools
Found media
8.5” x 11” each
2025
$400 each
Big case
National Tools
Found materials collages
8.5” x 11” each
2025
$400 each
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