Bianca Guerrero (they/them) is a non-binary self-taught artist born and raised in New York. They currently focus on documentary photography and fiber art.

Bianca’s photography is informed by their upbringing as the child of immigrants in Yonkers and Washington Heights, and their experience working in local and state politics. Tagging along to rallies and community meetings with their father (a retired teacher, union chapter leader and dogged community activist) shaped Bianca’s understanding of the gulf between their neighbors’ social conditions and that of New York’s wealthiest. Campaigning for pro-worker legislation at City Hall ignited a passion for labor rights that snowballed when, in 2021, they led a statewide coalition. Working with immigrant groups and worker centers across New York, this coalition secured a $2.1 billion fund for undocumented and other workers excluded from unemployment insurance and federal stimulus checks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Inspired by that victory but burnt out by political work, Bianca adopted another role in the movement: documenting social conditions and campaigns. In a city that glorifies profit and wealth, Bianca is laser focused on capturing dignifying portraits of their working class neighbors.

Bianca’s textile practice manipulates prints to create modern takes on traditional quilt forms. Bianca is currently exploring their families’ experience emigrating to New York from the Dominican Republic in the 1960s, and using their textile practice to reflect on the lasting impact the AIDS crisis had on their family’s story and their own queerness. From 2022 to 2023, Bianca studied American quilting traditions and its ties to abolition, civil rights, indigenous sovereignty and other social movements. They led a community art project to share those traditions with undergraduate students at CUNY City College, the nation’s first free public university.