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Visual Art, M.F.A. (2023) University of California San Diego
Latin American Studies | Communications, B.A. University of Texas at Austin
African Diaspora in Central America UT-Austin Research Program Bluefields, Nicaragua
Indigenous Social & Political Movements UC-Davis Research Program Chiapas, Mexico
Grants | Awards
2020 Strategic Enhancement Excellence through Diversity Scholarship, awardee 2020 Competitive Edge Research Fellowship Award 2018 Lucie Foundation Independent Photo Book Award, awardee 2018 Women Photograph Workshop, selected 2018 Authority Collective, The Lit List, awardee 2018 Lucie Foundation Emerging Artist Scholarship, shortlist 2018 Photobook Biennial of Cork, Ireland, selected 2017 National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures Mentorship Grant, awardee 2016 Fotoseptiembre Exhibition Choice: La Pulga, awardee 2016 Luminaria Public Arts Grant, awardee 2015 FilmInitiativ African Film Festival, official selection 2013 Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Collaboratory Scholarship, awardee 2012 Lozano Long Institute of Latin America Studies Academic Scholarship, awardee
Publications
En Mi Piel: Colorism & Latinidad, La Liga Zine, print. 2018 Femme Frontera, Homie House Press, print. 2017 La Pulga, Deep Red Press, print. 2017 Óptica Magazine, print. 2016-2017 Mujeres en Medio, co-founder & editor, digital. 2013-2017
Film | Videography
2020 Director of Photography Documentary short directed by Sarah Garrahan (in production), Los Angeles, CA 2020 Camera Operator Woman of the Water documentary directed by Tahila Mintz, Sonora, Mexico 2016 Director & Videographer Sagrada Feminina documentary short, Veracruz, Mexico
Arts Education
2020 Guest Teaching Artist Harvard-Westlake School, Los Angeles, CA Lesson Plan/Project: Icons
2019 Lesson Plan Developer United Photo Industries, Annenberg Space for Photography Lesson Plan: Not So Basic
2018 Guest Teaching Artist Club Balam, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico Session: Documenting Water Issues
2017 Guest Teaching Artist -2018 The Lower Eastside Girls Club, New York, NY Sessions: Photographing Community, Portraiture and Empowerment, FLOW: A Discussion on Water
Speaking Engagements
2019 Radical Listening & Passionate Observation Workshop, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL 2019 Artist Talk, The Value of Sanctuary: Building a House Without Walls, St. John the Divine, New York, NY 2019 Las Fotos Project presents Flow, The International Day of Forests, United Nations, New York, NY 2019 Artist Talk & Photo Workshop, Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 2019 Mediums: Storytelling as Art, Dept. of African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles 2019 Process & Place: Artist Panel Platica, La Plaza de Culturas Y Artes, Los Angeles, CA 2018 Power of Pink Artist Panel, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY 2018 Damaged: Exhibit Roundtable, Los Angeles, CA 2017 How We Do It: Conversation with Women Photographers, The Main Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2016 La Pulga: Artist Talk, R Space Gallery, San Antonio, TX 2016 Latin American Communication, Research in Transitions Conference, TAMIU, Laredo, TX 2014 Women Narratives and Dismantling Power Structures, Illustrating Anarchy & Revolution Conference, University of Texas at Austin, TX
Collections
La Pulga | Harvard Library Special Collections, Cambridge, MA
We the People - Defend Dignity | Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Femme Frontera | Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
La Pulga | Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Femme Frontera | Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, Austin, TX La Pulga | Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, Austin, TX My Mother's Passport | Department of Arts & Culture, San Antonio, TX Photography of Oaxaca | MexicArte Museum, Austin, TX
Residencies
2017 Book-Making & Independent Publishing Homie House Press, Washington, DC 2013 Political Graphics Archiving Museo de la Palabra Y La Imagen, San Salvador, El Salvador 2012 Printmaking with Mario Guzmán Espacio Zapata, Oaxaca City, Mexico
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Metro Photographic Lightbox Series presents Caricias, Metro Station, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Haitian Soccer in Tijuana: Images of Club Haiti, F.C., Espacio Migrante, Tijuana, Mexico 2016 La Pulga curated by Lady Base Gallery and r.l. Rodriguez, R Space, San Antonio, TX
Group Exhibitions
2019 Dissent: Zine Culture (And the Voices You Wouldn't Hear Otherwise), University of Texas at Austin, TX
2019 Photoplay, Galeria Guadalupe, San Antonio, TX 2019 Women & the American West curated by Women Photograph, Photoville, Los Angeles, CA 2018 Remedios Sagrados, Luminaria Arts Festival, San Antonio, TX 2018 R.E.S.P.E.C.T., Lower Eastside Girls Club, New York, NY 2018 The Lit List curated by The Authority Collective, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY 2018 Mirame Bien curated by Rudy “Bleu” Garcia, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2018 Fotografia y nuevos medios: Selections from the Permanent Collection, MexicArte Museum, Austin, TX 2017 Entre Orillas: Borderlands Photography, Galeria Guadalupe, San Antonio, TX 2017 Mi Comida, Mi Cultura curated by Sean Fitzgibbons, Centro de Artes, San Antonio, TX 2017 East of Center: Locals In Focus, Luminaria Arts Festival, San Antonio, TX 2016 SATX | MX: Un viaje lleno de cultura, Centro de Artes, San Antonio, TX 2016 Multiples: Artists Within Our Midst, Galeria Guadalupe, San Antonio, TX 2015 Soy Mujer, Espacio 1839, Boyle Heights, CA 2014 Illustrating Anarchy and Revolution, MexicArte Museum, Austin, TX 2013 LLILAS Student Photo Exhibit, Benson Latin American Collection, Austin, TX
Experience | Internships
2017-2018 Collaborating Artist Obey Giant, Los Angeles, CA 2016-2017 Collaborator & Creative Consultant We the People Campaign, Amplifier Art 2015 Digital Photography Curator San Anto Cultural Arts, San Antonio, TX 2014 Administrative Assistant