Yashi Davalos (Yashira Lopez Davalos) b.1995

is an experimental lens based artist, art writer, and independent curator.

Davalos is Afro Latine Atlanta Native whose practice began in the Americana Deep South. She attended HBCU, Savannah State University, where she studied Vocal Performance. Yashi’s curatorial research centers cultural epistemology through an interdisciplinary arts praxis. As an experimental lens based artist she explores the social intersections of hyperrealist fantasy and afro-latine archival manipulation.

Yashi is the 2023-2025 curatorial fellow at The Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. She was previously a member of collective run gallery The Front New Orleans from 2022-2025. Recent curations include Allegories of Inertia (2024) and Miss/They Camaraderie 2024, both at The Charlotte Street Gallery, as well as Past, Present, and Afro Futurism at The Front Gallery New Orleans (2022). Davalos has designed and facilitated programming in collaboration with various institutions including Kemper Museum, Prospect New Orleans, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, UMKC Music Conservatory, and MDW Artist Coalition. Her art has been exhibited throughout New Orleans, ATL, KCMO, and at MECA Art Fair in the Dominican Republic. Yashi’s writing has been published via Sixty Inches From Center, Burnaway, and Intervenxions at Latinx Project NYU.