Gissel Gomez is a Mexican American artist from New York. Her work is informed by her experiences witnessing labor as a source of survival in the immigrant and working-class communities where she grew up. She depicts the relationship between land, labor, and the body, and the heavy, exhaustive, battered elements that arise from those relations. She views charcoal as an embodied material, one she can put her whole body into—blending, rubbing, and wiping. With these somatic traces, she centers the vulnerable realities of her figures.

A first-generation student, Gissel received her BA in Studio Art and English from Williams College in 2026 with High Honors and attended the University of Oxford in 2025. She is a recipient of the Berkshires Art Association Fellowship and the Hubbard Hutchinson 1917 Memorial Fellowship in Art. Her artwork has been recognized nationally and internationally in various publications and in art shows.