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38 MARCH 2020 I LIC COURIER I www.qns.com Juan Hinojosa
MEET JUAN HINOJOSA
Queens activist shakes things up with his art
BY TAMMY SCILEPPI
Our son, the artist?
That was Juan Hinojosa’s
parents’ reaction when they first
found out that he was a budding
artist.
Looking back, the self-described Latinx,
who was born and raised in Woodside, recalled
that it took his parents some time to “under-stand
what the hell I was doing.”
“As hardworking Peruvian immigrants who
arrived in New York to start a new life, the
concept of their only son becoming an ‘art-ist’
is not what they expected or wanted.
I think on a lot of levels it made no sense
to them,” Hinojosa said.“But here we are
today, and they have, over time, become
supportive. Now they attend my opens and
have a lot of questions. Time and patience
are great that way.”
Hinojosa says he has seen the city grow
and change quite a bit over the years.
“Growing up, I felt I had a lot in com-mon
with Peter Parker. He was a kid from
Queens, too. Funny enough, they filmed
‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ just down the
street from my place in Sunnyside.”
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