Andy Medina (b. 1993, Oaxaca City, Mexico) is a multidisciplinary artist and curator whose practice investigates language, signs, and visual systems as tools through which power, identity, and socio-political narratives are produced and interrogated. Working across painting, installation, object, and video, Medina engages with semiotics, vernacular symbols, and visual languages, exploring the balance, tension, and fragility inherent in communication. His work often draws attention to Indigenous languages and knowledge systems, particularly Zapotec, Mixe, and Mixtec, and extends into public interventions and community-focused projects.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Plastic and Visual Arts from the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” in Mexico City (2016), and previously studied in the second generation of the Clinics for the Specialization in Contemporary Art (CEACO) at La Curtiduría, Oaxaca (2011–2012).
Medina has exhibited widely, including at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), Museo Universitario del Chopo (UNAM), Salón Silicón (CDMX), and Estrella Gallery, New York. He is co-founder of the collective Yope Projects Space, director of the artist-run space Trinidad (Oaxaca), and co-director of the traveling exhibition project Visa Projects. In 2021, he received the Young Creators Scholarship from the Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) in the Alternative Media category.