Victoria “Victoria Artista” Armenta is a multifaceted 2nd Gen Mexican-Chilean Queer artist whose preferred mediums range from paintings and mixed media to larger-than-life sculptures and pop-up art shows. Even DJ Vinyl playing at events and coffee shops. Being Influenced and informed by her Hispanic heritage, they have staged a diverse range of art work in their base city, Houston, Texas.

Her work is a vision based on breaking traditional art historical canons with loud, unapologetic portraits of people of color and people sharing domestic spaces. Also, speaking with folk-art that cohesively aligns her identity as a middle-lower-class Hispanic woman. As an artist, she is essentially interested in creating works that call for the participation of the viewer’s imagination to the same extent as my involvement in it.

Often it is said that being Hispanic-Indigenous “Mestizo” is a feeling caught between cultures. Being born in the United States as a detached Generation of parents of Mexican and Chilean descent and has struggled her entire life to justify her identity to others even to herself. Victoria believes that her body of work examines the intersection between culture, identity, “home like feeling” crafted through the lens of a Hispanic painter working in the context of contemporary folk art aesthetics.