Tanya Flores Hodgson is an artist based in Los Angeles. She was born in Masaya Nicaragua and immigrated to the United States at a young age. She holds a Bachelor’s in Fine Art Photography and a minor in Latin American Studies from California State University Long Beach. Her work focuses on Central American identity, immigration, feminism, social movements and the impact of U.S. imperialism/colonialism on Latin American politics, specifically Nicaragua, through a feminist decolonial lens. She mainly works with photography, video, and text as mediums to showcase system oppression on her body and homeland.
Her work has been exhibited in Casa de Las Americas, Madrid, Spain, University Art Museum, Long Beach, UCF Daytona Beach, University of Florida, Rancho Los Cerritos, Long Beach and the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach.