Raised in the remote Sierra Madre mountains of Oaxaca Mexico, Iya Nacuaa is a German-American born artist with a backstory that reads like a mystery novel. After a deeply spiritual upbringing in central america, Iya was brought back to the USA at age 15 only to encounter what he would describe as ‘the uglier side of life.’ His work speaks primarily to the fallacy of, and the brutal oppression caused by, The American Dream.