“OKC Multimedia Artist Eli Casiano Explores Cultural Identity with Vibrant Pop Surrealism”

My feature story on multimedia artist Eli Casiano is up now at Oxford Karma. Casiano’s art grapples with notions of identity and belonging as a brown face in a white space.

“I remember wanting to wear what I thought were ‘white people’ clothes — Tommy Hilfiger, or whatever,” he said. “I wanted to eat what they ate. It was a crazy jealousy I had towards [white] kids. And to them, I was always ‘not that kind of Mexican,’ if that makes sense. ‘White-Mexican.’ I didn’t talk with an accent, and my parents didn’t work at the egg farm or saddle shop.”

[Read the full feature at Oxford Karma.]