Web: https://www.leticiabajuyo.com

Bio:

Leticia R. Bajuyo is an interdisciplinary artist and Associate Professor of Sculpture at the University of Oklahoma School of Visual Arts in Norman, Oklahoma. Known for public outdoor sculpture and immersive installation, she works across permanent commissions, site-responsive environments, and hand-built objects with a build-forward, materially attentive approach. Her work transforms discarded CDs and DVDs, industrial materials, and architectural surfaces into sculptures that foreground environmental impact while exploring systems of value, personal and collective memory, and material change. Recent 2025 indoor installations include Oklahoma Contemporary’s ArtNow biennial in Oklahoma City; the Spectrum Theater in Grand Rapids, Michigan; and the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia. Recent outdoor projects include a permanent public commission in Fort Worth, Texas, and a long-term installation at Josephine Sculpture Park in Frankfort, Kentucky.

Statement:

Through her large-scale works, Leticia Bajuyo engages audiences and connects with communities through her site-specific installations that involve community collections of media and memories. Bajuyo’s drawings, sculptures, and installations highlight the impact of desire and the machines that create even more desire. Her interest in unpacking value perceptions find their roots in her autobiography growing up bi-racial in a small, rural town named Metropolis on the border of Illinois and Kentucky. The time and space of quiet landscapes outside and the multi-national dialogues inside her family’s house influenced the development of her critiques of consumer capitalism, fickle domestic desires, and internalized pressures of assimilation. Bajuyo’s continued research of cultural privilege and consumer pressure yields a drive to both create and question a vision that is comfortable, contained, and controlled. By incorporating recognizable materials and forms including CDs, artificial grass, and insulation styrofoam, Bajuyo creates spaces and multi-layered experiences that invite audiences to participate in theatrical re- arbitrations of value.