Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray
• – • Contemporary at Blue Star
About the speaker
Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray is an artist and curator living in San Antonio, Texas who grew up in the Central Valley of California. McGilvray is the Curator and Exhibitions Director at the Contemporary at Blue Star where she has developed exhibitions and special projects since 2014.
McGilvray’s curatorial practice is centered on a collaborative and service-minded approach. She is committed to providing access to a diverse array of perspectives, experiences, and artistic practices through the exhibitions she curates. She is drawn to work that can offer shared truths while challenging audiences, and artists who invest in their craft, demonstrating artistic excellence and material expertise in balance with conceptual rigor. McGilvray brings ethea of humanitarianism, environmentalism, and stewardship to her creative work.
As an artist McGilvray’s photographic work is focused on exploring how identity develops and shifts through family, home, place, and culture. Her work is influenced by the history of photography and interests in the nuances of language, gesture, and the body.
McGilvray earned an MFA in Photography and Integrated Media from Ohio University and BFA from Texas State University in Photography. She was a 2023 AAMC Propel Program Fellow. She continues to invest time mentoring developing artists through various programs as well as teaching darkroom photography at Texas State University.
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