Tanya Aguiñiga (San Diego, California, 1978) is an artist and craftsperson, raised in Tijuana, Mexico. She works with traditional craft materials, such as natural fibers, and collaborates with other artists and activists to create sculptures, installations, performances, and community-based art projects. Drawing on her upbringing as a binational citizen who crossed the border daily from Tijuana to San Diego for school, her work reflects her experience of a divided identity and aspires to tell the broader and often invisible stories of the transnational community. She is the founder of AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides), an ongoing series of projects that provides a platform for binational artists. She received the Latinx Artist Fellowship (2022), the Heinz Award (2021), and the Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities (2018). Her work is part of the collections of the Hammer Museum and LACMA (Los Angeles), The Cooper Hewitt (New York), Renwick Gallery (Washington), and the Museum of Arts and Design (New York), among others.

During the residency, she experimented with natural elements in dialogue with the territory, including wool, snail eggs, and bones collected along the coast of José Ignacio. She carried out two performances: one action in the sea, in which she used a life jacket made of snail eggs, and another on the Laguna Garzón bridge, conceived around the making of a textile piece that interacted with the wind.