Daisy Quezada Ureña

2025 Stepping Stone Grantee

Daisy Quezada Ureña is a multidisciplinary artist, faculty, and Academic Dean at the Institution of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Within her practice, she creates ceramic works, installations, and artist’s books that thematically connect to ideas around identity and place in relation to social structures that cross imposed borders. In 2016, she cofounded Present Cartographers, a collective invested in strategies and perspectives from national and international artists and writers amid a migration crisis and resurgence of territorial claims in local and international border zones. Quezada Ureña has been exhibited nationally and internationally including : SITE Santa Fe International: Once Within a Time, SITE Santa Fe; Korean International Ceramic Biennale, Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum (Icheon, South Korea); Indigenous Women: Border Matters, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian and UNM Maxwell Museum of Anthropology; Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place, The Denver Art Museum; Concept: Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum (New Taipei Taiwan). Upcoming, she will be exhibiting at the 2026 Biennale of Sydney. In 2023, she was recognized as a United States Latinx Artist Fellow.