Guadalupe Maravilla is a transdisciplinary visual artist, choreographer, and healer. At the age of eight, Maravilla was part of the first wave of unaccompanied, undocumented children to arrive at the United States border in the 1980s as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War. In 2016, he became a US citizen, and in 2016 he adopted the name Guadalupe Maravilla in solidarity with his undocumented father, who uses Maravilla as his last name. As an acknowledgment to his past, he grounds his practice in the historical and contemporary contexts belonging to the undocumented and cancer communities.

He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. His work is in the permanent collections of MoMA; the Guggenheim Museum; the Whitney Museum of American Art; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Additionally, Maravilla has performed and presented his work at the Whitney Museum of American Art; MoMA; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Queens Museum; Bronx Museum of the Arts; and many more.

Awards and fellowships include: the Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2021), LatinX Fellowship (2021), Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award (2021), Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship I’m (2019), Soros Fellowship: Art Migration and Public Space (2019I ), Map Fund (2019), Creative Capital Grant (2016), Franklin Furnace (2018), Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant (2016), Art Matters Fellowship (2017), and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship (2018). Residencies include: LMCC Workspace, SOMA, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, and Drawing Center Open Sessions.