Yashi Davalos (Yashira Lopez Davalos) b.1995,

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

As an Afro Latine Atlanta native, Yashi’s curatorial research and writing critiques hyper-capitalist focus on cultural tokenism vs. non-monolithic aspects of identity. 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. Past Curations include Allegories of Inertia (2024) and Miss/They Camaraderie 2024, both at The Charlotte Street Gallery, as well as Echolocation: Industrialized Persona(2023), and Past, Present, and Afro Futurism at The Front Gallery New Orleans (2022). Yashi’s writing has been published via Sixty Inches From Center, Burnaway, and Intervenxions at Latinx Project NYU. Her art has been exhibited throughout New Orleans, ATL, KCMO, and at MECA Art Fair in the Dominican Republic.