Uzumaki Cepeda
Bronx-born, Los Angeles–based
Uzumaki Cepeda is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, installation, and photography. Her practice examines how safety, comfort, and agency are negotiated through objects and space.
As a first-generation American woman of Dominican heritage, Cepeda transforms everyday and found objects into immersive, interactive installations enveloped in brightly colored faux fur. Drawing from the traditional iconography of domestic spaces, her work reimagines the home as both a physical and psychological site of memory, protection, and play. This dreamlike visual language is deeply shaped by her childhood experiences split between the Dominican Republic and the Bronx.
Cepeda’s installations have been presented at the MoCADA Museum (2019), Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles (2018), the Contemporary Native Art Biennial at Art Mûr, Montréal (2018), Agenda Show, Los Angeles (2018), Reparations Club Gallery, Los Angeles (2019), ComplexCon (2016, 2019, 2023, 2024), and Refinery29’s 29Rooms (2019).
Her work has been featured in prominent publications including Forbes, Teen Vogue, PAPER, NYLON, i-D, HypeBAE, L.A. Weekly, and The FADER.
She is represented by Wönzimer, Los Angeles.
Available Artworks by Uzumaki Cepeda