Nathan Hosmer Nevarez is a painter, textile maker, and ESL educator born in Washington D.C. While he grew up in the United States he spent considerable time in his mother’s home country of Ecuador. He earned His BFA in Painting and Printmaking with minors in Chemistry and Art History from the Honors College at Virginia Commonwealth University. In his artwork, he uses the myth of the Chusalongo, a folklore from Southern Ecuador, to explore how systems of power construct narratives that define certain people as othered, or as demons in his practice. His work is informed by the texts like Queer Phenomology and The Polticis of Emotions by Sara Ahmad, pulling the idea of an object’s arrival into his practice. He draws heavily from histories of Imperial conquest in Latin America as recounted in Eduardo Galeano's *The Open Veins of Latin America*. He is interested in how subjective positions, such as north vs south and immigrant vs native came to exist. He has exhibited work in group shows at Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, CAH Eye Street Gallery in Washington D.C., the Greenville Museum of Art in North Carolina and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Virginia Beach. He has also worked in curatorial roles for projects such as the exhibition Hilos Heredados at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, the first Hispanic Heritage Month Show in Richmond, and an upcoming juried show focusing on queer resistance opening in June at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia. Nathan’s work has also recently been featured in New American Painting South Issue 166 and was chosen as one of the two Noteworthy Artists in the South Issue 178. He is also the recipient of many awards including a Fulbright Grant to Ecuador for the 2024/2025 academic year.
