Female Latin American Street Artists Tackle Social Issues

Latin American countries have become vibrant centers for street art where they have become political outcries for women to express social issues. They have formed a uniquely vivid and diversified scene of South American street art. Art has become a powerful tool to endure and transcend the hardships faced. Latin America has a flourishing scene of prominent and underground artists who embellish the streets the cities they live in.

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Fio Silva : “Mural con el gran David Petroni. Más que hermosa tarde en el conurbano!” (Villa Maipú, San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

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Fio Silva x Alan Myers - (Parque Quirno, Hurlingham, Buenos Aires 2016).

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Bastardilla

Bastardilla is a Colombian street artist whose internationally acclaimed graffiti focuses on gender inequality and the ever-present violence in her country.

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The Women Tagging and Painting the Streets of Bogotá

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Here, where graffiti is classified as a violation rather than a crime, street artists do not have to hide. Bright murals, often uncompromisingly political, cover public walls, as well as those of home and business owners who, understanding the value (cultural and financial), allow their own properties to be used as a canvas.

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Marta Noemi Noriega – Part of the Vertical Smile series (Detail), 2014, Panama

Female empowerment is important to her and in series of paintings she exhibited the beauty of female body and mind.

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Marta Noemi Noriega is a multidisciplinary artist from Panama. She mixes various mediums and different themes. Inspired by poetry and art, she explores the deeper dimensions of political and social fields. She dedicates her murals to children and their education. The artist strongly fights against social injustice.

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Through her art, La Suerte loves to play with the idea of the female body.

“Here in Ecuador, dealing with body issues or talking about the body is still a sin – it’s frowned upon … I like the beauty that there is in the skin folds. In my work I like to take this idea of flesh to an extreme. This is my way to deny female body stereotypes,” she said in an interview with Women Artists.

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This is Lady Pink.  She was born in Equador and grew up in New York.  Her street art career began in the late 1970’s to early 1980’s.  She began with graffiti writing and now does murals and fine art all around the world.

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Panmela Castro, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 2015.

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Panmela Castro, Quit, Ecuador, 2015

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Panmela Castro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2013.

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Panmela Castro, São Paulo, Brazil, 2015.

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Panmela Castro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2010.

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Panmela Castro, Santiago, Chile, 2012

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Panmela has diversified her into the field of performance art. In this piece she carves the title of the performance into her skin