Cinthya Santos Briones is a Mexican participatory
artist, anthropologist, ethnohistorian and community organizer based in
New York. Her multimedia work uses collaborative and community
narratives of self-representation to tell stories about homeland,
immigration, memory, and (indigenous) identity through an
interdisciplinary process that uses photography, ethnography, history, textiles, herbalism and audiovisual and written narratives.
For
ten years Cinthya worked as a researcher at the National Institute of
Anthropology and History focused on issues on indigenous migration,
codex, textiles and traditional medicine. She is the recipientof
fellowships and grants from the Magnum Foundation (2016/2018/2020), En
Foco (2017), National Geographic Research and Exploration (2018), We Woman (2019) and the National Fund for Culture and the Arts of México
(2009/2011). Her work has been published in The New York Times, Pdn, La Jornada, California Sunday Magazine, Vogue, Open Society Foundations, Buzzfeed, The Intercept and The Nation Magazine, New Yorker, among others.
Cinthya is co-author of the book “The Indigenous Worldview and its Representations in Textiles of the Nahua community of Santa Ana Tzacuala, Hidalgo”. And the documentary, The Huichapan Codex.
Cinthya has worked in pro-immigrant organizations in New York as a
community organizer and is currently Adjunct Faculty at the Craig
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
Cinthya is part of “Colectiva infancia” (childhood collective) made up of a group of anthropologists who works through ethnographic and visual research on studies around childhood in relation to migration, violence, urban studies and epistemologies of the Global South (https://infanciasenmovimiento.org/colectiva-infancias/)
