Jackie Patiño is a Chicago and Latine based artist whose current works focuses on self identity and navigating her own internal struggle with religious trauma and Mexican upbringing. They use self portraiture as a way to reconcile their fleeting sense of ethnicity while also taking pride in her taught sense of shame. She uses brightly colored, cartoonishly exaggerated human forms, both as a way to emphasize the sensual and sexual, but also to mask the dark and disturbing undertones within her paintings. Juxtapositions, oxymorons, and clashing opposites are key to her understanding of self and the world.