Ortiz y Sanchez commenced in 2021 with the project In the Court of the Conqueror. Their collaboration brings together Sanchez’s background in performance art with Ortiz’s visual art. The text and imagery can take many forms from poetic to surrealistic to monologue. Ortiz y Sanchez are devoted to practices and enactments where text and art frame critical questions about historical narratives and social paradigms. They are dedicated to expanding the meaning and scope of indigeneity in the Americas.

 

Patty Ortiz (MFA University of Texas) has had a dual career as a visual artist and as a museum director. Her current work is devoted to a social practice that looks to institutional critique, drawing, and video. Social practice projects like Work Won’t Kill You have travelled throughout the US in such places as the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. pattyortiz.net   

 

George Emilio Sanchez (MFA Bard College) has been creating original works in the arena of performance since the 90s. He is currently professor in Dramatic Arts  in the Performing and Creative Arts Department at the City University of New York's College of Staten Island. During COVID lockdown Sanchez obtained a Master of Legal Studies in Indigenous Peoples Law from the University of Oklahoma.  georgeemiliosancchez.com

 

Ortiz lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and San Antonio, TX.

Sanchez lives and works in Brooklyn, NY