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 fantastical hyperrealism and afro-latine archival manipulation. Yashi is a collective member of the 501c3 artist-run gallery, The Front Gallery New Orleans. She is the 2023-2025 curatorial fellow at The Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City. Past Curations include Echolocation: Industrialized Persona at The Front Gallery New Orleans (2023), Past, Present, and Afro Futurism at The Front Gallery New Orleans (2022), Allegories of Inertia (2024) and Miss/They Camaraderie 2024, both at The Charlotte Street Gallery. Davalos is also the recipient of the Muña x Sixty Inches From Center Art Writing Residency, and a participant of the 2024 Burnaway Art Writing Incubator. In addition to these publications her work has also be published via Intervenxions at the Latinx Project. Her art has been exhibited throughout New Orleans, ATL, KCMO, and at MECA Art Fair in the Dominican Republic.