Born in South Central Los Angeles, Gabe Medina is a Queer Mexican-American artist and community organizer. Informed by his own familial history, much of his work addresses Mexican-American identity, immigration, agricultural history and cultural terraforming. Using clay based installation, Medina’s current work delves into domestic visual languages such as wrought iron fence motifs, red clay and local plant life. Medina is currently Artist In Residence with Crafting the Future at Still Life Studios (2026) Most recently, he was the Artist in Residence at Pottery Northwest in Seattle Washington (2025) and before that part of the Ellsworth Artist Residency at Art Share (2025). Medina’s selected exhibitions include Tiger Strikes Asteroid (2025), Residency Art Gallery (2024), Santa Ana College Gallery (2024), Brea Gallery (2024), Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles (2024), Monte Vista Projects (2023), The Mistake Room (2023) and South Gate Museum and Art Gallery (2023). As a community organizer, Medina has facilitated a variety of workshops from topics including queerness, community building, identity and ceramics. Medina curated and organized Seen at Office Hours, an artist-led space in Carson, CA (2023) and was an Arts for LA 2024 ACTIVATE Protege Mentee. Medina received his B.A. in Studio Art from California State University Dominguez Hills (2023).