Cristina Cárdenas is a Tucson artist known for her public murals and lithographs. Born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, Cárdenas moved to Tucson in the 1980s and received an MFA in printmaking from the University of Arizona. Cárdenas is internationally renowned for her art, and has been the recipient of prestigious grants from organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arizona Foundation, and the Lila Wallace residency at the Claude Monet Museum in Giverny, France. Locally, she is a founding member of Raices Taller, an intergenerational cooperative art gallery and workshop, and has taught at Pima College and Las Artes Youth Art Program. Her work often features political themes, like women’s empowerment and migrant deaths along the Arizona/Mexico border.
