Beatriz Mejia-Krumbein
was born and raised in Colombia then lived in Germany, Mexico and the US. Her art deals with emigration, displacement, exploitation, violence and abuse, and implores viewers to confront the convoluted inequalities of our modern world. It has been widely exhibited in the US, Europe and South America and is in the collections of several museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum, Museum of Latino-American Art in Long Beach, The Museum of American Art of The Smithsonian Institution and the Museo de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia.