Lynda Grafito

Lynda Grafito is a Latina Visual Artist based in Minnesota. Her linocut work is inspired by the beauty and diversity of nature, representing scenes of animals and plants from Latin America and Minnesota, from which she finds sociocultural relationships that allow her to talk about migration and environment issues. In Colombia Lynda Grafito collaborated in the drawings of two graphic novels: Cielo Rojo (2017) and Ciudad Perdida (2019) with L.E.C.H.E. Collective and she obtained her degree as a Visual Artist (2019) and a laureate mention with her project Aguablanca, un barrio de historias. Her first international group show was at the MCAD Art Sale, Migani Mirror (2019) for a graphic representation of the graphic novel Dos Aldos, by Cohete comics. She has been part of group exhibitions as The Land Within Us (2022) at Fresh Eye Gallery; Archive I: Diverged Origins (2023) at New Studio Gallery and was selected in The First Print Pachanga juried exhibition (2023) at El Paso Print Pachanga, TX. Lynda has been interested in interventions in public space, such as her participation in the Day of the Dead Parade on Lake Street, exhibiting her linocuts We Belong to the World and Lake Street Is... (2021), in Latino local businesses. She has collaborated with the community organization Copla Murals creating murals focused on community engagement such as The Ancestors (2022) at La Mexicana Supermercado on Lake Street and Bloomington Avenue, Minneapolis; What a Wonderful World (2022) at House of Payne on Sims and Payne Avenue, Saint Paul and Mamitas (2023) at Centro Tyrone Guzmán, Minneapolis.