Katie Mejia (b. 1994, Los Angeles,CA) is a Salvadoran American artist from Los Angeles. Her work explores the experience as a first generation American living in Los Angeles, referencing bakeries, restaurants, grocery stores and textile pass down from her family. Mejia collects objects found in Salvadoran households and integrates beans, metate (stone slab) and corn husk into her artwork. Recontextualizing the domesticity connotation of cooking food and gender norms. She connects with her culture through “taste memory” and redefines women’s relationship with cooking food, questioning the matrimonial ideas and instead emphasizes the importance of honoring a Mesoamerican diet that has resiliently been preserved for centuries. Katie Mejia received her BA in Arts from Cal State Dominguez Hills in 2024. She collaborated with AMBOS for Made in LA at the Hammer Museum (2023), Frieze (2025), Frieze (2026) and Border Quipu (2026).

 

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