San Antonio artist Kathy Sosa is a self-taught artist whose work explores mestizaje—the blending of peoples, cultures, traditions and identities—and the distinctive cultural identity of the Texas-Mexico borderlands. After a career in Hispanic advertising and communications, Sosa has spent more than two decades exploring borderlands culture through painting, mixed media, public art and altar installations. Drawing inspiration from Mexican and Mesoamerican visual traditions, her work combines portraiture, textiles, pattern and symbolism to explore women, identity and memory.

Sosa is the author of Mestizaje: The Feminist Art of Kathy Sosa and coeditor and illustrator of Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives, which helped inspire the exhibition. She also co-produced the documentary series Children of the Revolución: How the Mexican Revolution Changed America’s Destiny. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C., as part of the Smithsonian Latino Center’s “Mexico at the Smithsonian.