Exhibitions
Playful yet unsettling, the work navigates identity and belonging through raw, expressive forms that feel both deeply personal and universally familiar.
Cynthia Yarida Gonzalez is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, and craft, blending traditional and contemporary approaches into a distinct visual language. Through ceramics, textiles, installation, and mixed media, they create bold, expressive forms that navigate identity, cultural memory, and the tension of existing in-between.
Rooted in their experiences as a Mexican American artist, Gonzalez’s work carries a mix of humor, discomfort, and nostalgia—often filtering complex, adult themes through a deceptively playful lens. Their practice is both intuitive and driven by a constant need to make, experiment, and explore across mediums.
Moving fluidly between fine art and craft, Gonzalez transforms lived experience into work that is raw, familiar, and emotionally charged.





EDGE OF SOFTNESS
WORKS/San Jose, Nov. 2025




Clusterfucked
SJSU MFA Thesis, May 2024




MURPHY & CADOGAN
SOMARTS: Art Awards, Sept. 2023




INTRODUCTIONS
Root Division/SF, Aug. 2023




Play things
SJSU Apr. 2023




Ciclo
SJSU, Oct. 2022




Origins: Life Through DEath
Redwood City Art Kiosk, Oct. 2020




Perdida
SJSU, Mar. 2020




Uncomfortable growth
SJSU, Feb. 2020




DAedel
SJSU, Nov. 2019




Parts
SJSU, Sept. 2019




Altered
SJSU, Sept. 2019




Rejected
SJSU, Aug. 2019




Transcendence
SJSU, Jan. 2019


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