rafa esparza featured in "13 Artists Poised to Break Out Big in 2023, According to Naomi Beckwith, Marilyn Minter, and Other Art-World Insiders" on ARTnews

rafa esparza featured in "The Year in Latinx Art, From Overdue Retrospectives to Promising New Museums" on ARTnews by Maximilliano Duron

rafa esparza featured in "How rafa esparza transformed himself into a lowrider cyborg for Art Basel Miami" on Los Angeles Times Image magazine

rafa esparza featured in "Comrades in Art: Shared Studios Nuture Emerging Artists" on The New York Times by Robin Pogrebin

rafa esparza 2022 Pérez Art Prize recipient

rafa esparza and In Plain Sight featured in "LARB's Best" Art" on Los Angeles Review of Books

rafa esparza featured in "Review: Obama portraits find good company in L.A. museum show that signals Black lives matter" on Los Angeles Times by Christopher Knight

Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza at Candace Madey featured on The New Yorker

Carolina Caycedo and rafa esparza inagural Latinx Artist Fellowship recipients

rafa esparza at Jeffrey Deitch mentioned in "A Gallery Featuring Only Artists of Color Feels Like Change," on The New York Times by Robin Pogrebin

rafa esparza featured in "We wanted to know about the real L.A. So we asked our favorite Angelenos to show us" on Los Angeles Times by Julissa James

rafa esparza interviewed in "rafa esparza: Creating Spaces where Bodies Can Be Restored" on Whitewall by Katy Donoghue

rafa espara: keeping reviewed on Hyperallergic by Daniel Soto

rafa esparza 2021 USA Fellowship recipient

Kang Seung Lee, Beatriz Cortez, and rafa esparza featured in "Questionnaire. Queer Correspondence: A Mail-Art Initiative by Cell Project Space, East London. A Conversation with Eliel Jones" on Flash Art by Eleonora Milani

rafa esparza shortlisted for High Line Plinth Commission 

rafa esparza featured in "In First Joint Acquisition, LACMA, Vincent Price Museum Purchase 21 Works by Groundbreaking Photographer Laura Aguilar" on Artnet News by Maximiliano Duron

rafa esparza at the High Line featured in "Top Artists Propose Monumental Sculptures for New York's High Line—See Sketches of Their Work" on Artnews

rafa esparza and EJ Hill featured in "2020 AHAN: Studio Forum Acquisitions" on LACMA Unframed by Danielle Pesqueira

rafa esparza featured in "Opening Ceremony Returns with Homage to Historic LGBT Institutions" on Paper by Aaron Royce

rafa esparza and In Plain Sight featured in "#DefundHate: Artists Create Skytyped Messages Denouncing the Immigrant Detention Crisis" on Hyperallergic by Valentina di Liscia

rafa esparza and In Plain Sight featured in "Look Up: 80 Artists Are Skywriting to Highlight the Injustice of Immigration Detention in America" on Vogue by Brooke Bobb

Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza featured in "'In Plain Sight': 80 Artists Take Over the Skies in Support of Immigrant Rights" on KCET by Carren Jao and Mia Nakaji Monnier

rafa esparza and In Plain Sight featured in "Artists call out the injustices immigrants suffer in the US ahead of Independence Day" on The Art Newspaper by Gabriella Angeleti

rafa esparza and In Plain Sight featured in "80 Artists Writing Messages of Hope and Rage in the Sky This Independence Day" on Artsy by Raquel Gutiérrez 

rafa esparza and In Plain Sight featured in "Protesting U.S. Immigration Policies, Artists Aim for the Sky" on The New York Times by Zachary Small

rafa esparza, Nikita Gale, and David Alekhuogie featured in "Works for the Now, by Queer Artists of Color" on The New York Times Style Magazine

"Conversations in Quarantine," rafa esparza interviewed by Erin Christovale on the Hammer Museum blog

rafa esparza and Beatriz Cortez and Kang Seung Lee to participate in Queer Correspondence mail art initiative with Cell Projects

rafa esparza featured in "Through Collaborative Work, Centering Queer, Brown Folks, rafa esparza Looks to Destabilize Artistic Authority" on Artnews by Carmen Hermo

Carmen Argote, Carolina Caycedo, and rafa esparza featured in "The Most Important Works of the 2010s: Favorite Artworks That Didn't Make the List" on ARTnews

rafa esparza at MASS MoCA featured in "Two artists—from L.A. and Tijuana—present their visions of the border at MASS MoCA" on Los Angeles Times by Carolina Miranda

rafa esparza: bust: indestructible column featured in "Performing Across from the White House, Artist rafa esparza Chips Away at the Myths of Democracy" on ARTnews by Raquel Gutierrez

rafa esparza at Performance Space New York featured in "At the White House, rafa esparza Works Through Physical and Bureaucratic Constraints" on Art in America by Greg Allen

Julie Tolentino and Rafa Esparza at Performance Space New York

rafa esparza at ONE Gallery featured in "21 Photos from the History of Queer Nightlife and Activism" on Advocate by Christopher Harrity

rafa esparza and Nikita Gale featured in "15 Young LGBTQ Artists Driving Contemporary Art Forward" on Artsy by Eli Hill

rafa esparza featured in "These L.A. Artists Are Bringing Queer Perspectives Into Focus" on Los Angeles Magazine by Steven Blum and R. Kurt Osenlund

Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza at Craft Contemporary reviewed in "Blurring the Border" on Artillery by Jennie E. Park

rafa esparza: nepantla (with Timo Fahler) at Gamma Galeria, Guadalajara featured on Artforum "Critics' Picks" by Lucas Matheson

Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza interviewed in "Frieze, Los Angeles — Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza's G.L.O.W." on ArchiExpo Magazine by Erin Gigl

rafa esparza at Frieze Los Angeles mentioned in "What Does it Mean for Los Angeles When the Frieze Art Fair Comes to Town?" on Los Angeles Review of Books Blog by Melissa Karlin

Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza: G.L.O.W. Match 5 and Commonwealth and Council at Frieze Los Angeles featured in "Why February Was a Game Changer for Los Angeles" on Whitewall Magazine by Desiree Mitton

rafa esparza and Beatriz Cortez at Clockshop featured on LA Weekly by Shana Nys Dambrot

Commonwealth and Council with rafa esparza and Beatriz Cortez at Frieze LA mentioned in "The Soulful Standouts Amid the Fanfare of Frieze LA" on Hyperallergic by Daniel Gerwin

rafa esparza at MASS MoCA reviewed in "At MASS MoCA, crumbling with purpose" on The Boston Globe by Murray Whyte

Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza: G.L.O.W. (Greetings Land Outflowing Wormholes) at Frieze Los Angeles

rafa esparza at MASS MoCA featured in "rafa esparza: 'staring at the sun' breaks the MASS MoCA mold" on The Williams Record by Mae Burris-Wells

rafa esparza featured in "The Next Stage: The Legacy of Latinx Performance Art in L.A. Lives On” on ARTnews by Bernadine Hernandez

rafa esparza at Clockshop featured in "Adobe, Dust and Water: rafa esparza and Rebeca Hernandez's building: a simulacrum of power" in X-TRA by Gwyneth Shanks

rafa esparza at Participant Inc. featured in "rafa esparza's Latest Performance Uses Google Maps as a Time Machine" on Hyperallergic by Laura Cadena

rafa esparza featured in "Mexican Artist rafa esparza's physical representation of immigrant nostalgia" on Pacific Standard by Willy Blackmore

Beatriz Cortez interviewed on BOMB Magazine by Rafa Esparza

rafa esparza mentioned in "Njideka Akunyili Crosby and rafa esparza Join Hammer Museum's Artist Council" on Artforum 

rafa esparza at ICA LA featured in "LA Artists and Nightlife Personalities Make Garments that Sparkle with Ingenuity" on Hyperallergic by Alex Jen

rafa esparza at ICA LA featured in "Why artist rafa esparza led a surreal art parade through the heart of L.A.'s fashion district" in The Los Angeles Times by Carolina Miranda

Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza, Pasado mañana reviewed in Artforum by Kavior Moon

Beatriz Cortez and Rafa Esparza, Pasado mañana in "Gardeners of the Future: New Works by Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza on Curate LA by Kathleen Deems

Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza, Pasado mañana reviewed in "Artists Build a Lush Landscape Where Diversity Takes Root" on Hyperallergic by Monica Uszerowicz

Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza, Pasado mañana featured on Artillery Magazine by Annabel Osberg

rafa esparza at Ballroom Marfa featured in "rafa esparza talks about Tierra. Sangre. Oro at Ballroom Marfa" on Artforum

rafa esparza at Ballroom Marfa reviewed in "Artist rafa esparza Honors Latino Labor in Marfa, Texas" in the Observer by Margaret Carrigan

Carmen Argote, rafa esparza, and Gala Porras-Kim featured in "The Other side of the Wall: A New Generation of Latino Art" in The New York Times Style Magazine by Kirstin Valdez Quade

rafa esparza featured in "Performance Artist rafa esparza is fighting invisibility, one brick at a time" on LA Weekly by Drew Tewksbury

rafa esparza at the Hammer Museum featured in "Artist rafa esparza moves a load of earth for 'Made in L.A.' exhibition" on 89.3 KPCC by Oscar Garza

rafa esparza at Clockshop featured in "Con/Safos: rafa esparza's Outdoor Art Space" on KCET Artbound by Carren Jao

rafa esparza at Human Resources reviewed in "rafa esparza Transforms Audiences into Communities" on KCET's Artbound by Albidrez