When pegged as a Chicano artist, Ybarra demurs. “I make contemporary art that is filtered through a Mexican-American experience in Los Angeles,” he told the L.A. Times. “It’s not my goal to learn Nahuatl but to speak Cantonese.”
Sweeney Tate is a performance for The World as a Stage exhibition by the Los Angeles-based artist Mario Ybarra Jr, who works out of in the city’s New China Town Barber Shop, a community art space. Ybarra stages a recreation of the barbershop at Tate Modern, and has invited barbers from across London to participate in a hair-cutting competition.
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