Pablo Javier Castillo Huerta is a Queer interdisciplinary artist based in Treaty One Territory (Winnipeg, MB). Their parents migrated from Mesoamerica (Guatemala) to Canada in the 1980’s and Pablo is the first in their family to be born in Treaty One Territory. Guatemala, as with most Latin American countries, has a complex history of colonization, imperialism, genocide, ethnic cleansing, economic turmoil, foreign resource exploitation, state-sanctioned violence, femicide, machismo and corruption. Canada shares many of these same issues throughout its history, so these parallels are often explored in their work. Castillo Huerta has a keen interest in the ancestral knowledge, history and resilience of all Indigenous peoples, but more specifically with that of their own Maya ancestry – they are mixed Indigenous Mesoamerican (Maya) and European (Spanish). Intersectional activism, sustainability, leftist politics, collective liberation struggles and environmentalism are all deeply rooted in their art practice. These concepts tend to dictate the methodologies, processes, techniques, locations and materials in their work. Their mediums include, but are not limited to: installation, sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, poetry, music, performance, video and graphic design.