Aged eight, Guadalupe Maravilla fled the Salvadoran Civil War to arrive undocumented and unaccompanied at the US border. While earning his MFA at Hunter College, New York, he was diagnosed with colon cancer. These formative experiences shape a practice that is now part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Maravilla has also presented his work at institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Queens Museum, New York; and many others.
