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Bio:

I was raised in South Florida to Colombian immigrant parents. My mother became a public school art teacher and my father was a disappointed intellectual/failed union organizer who left his university after a student strike and became many kinds of laborer; chef, waitstaff, Denny’s Manager, t-shirt screen-printer, carpenter, and other things. I began training as an artist very early at truly excellent public arts schools starting in middle school. Because of those resources, I attended the Maryland Institute College of Art on a full tuition, room, and board scholarship. I lived in Baltimore for three more years working five jobs before moving to NYC to support my partner through an MFA. I worked sixty-hour weeks for four years. I have recently completed my MFA studies at Hunter College and was awarded the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Award by the Elizabeth Foundation Printshop. My ambitions are to live a full, healthy life where I can work and build a community that understands and recognizes me and my creative output; to be in solidarity with other artists by working towards systems that create more equity in the art world; to grow in my work as an educator, and to exhibit my work in the care of people who respect me and my practice.

Resume:

Solo Exhibitions:

FORTHCOMING: Solo Show, MTN Space, West Palm Beach, FL, 2025

Para Todos Todo, Free in the Open Air, curated by Daniela Mayer, MAMA Projects, NY, NY, 2024

Between One Problem and Another, Swivel Saugerties, Saugerties, NY, 2022

¡SIEMPRE HAY MÁS!, commissioned solo installation, curated by Arden Sherman in partnership with Hunter East Harlem Gallery, Galeria del Barrio, and Hope Community, inc., New York, NY, 2021

Selected Group Exhibitions:

Thank you, I’m rested now. I’ll have the lobster today, thank you, Margot Samel, NY, NY, 2024

Neuro-Queering the Drawing Studio, curated by Angela Conant, Pratt Institute Dekalb Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2024

Foundations, curated by Blackbird Rook for Artsy, 2024

Visage, curated by Juan Bolivar and Blackbird Rook for Artsy, 2024

Red Thread, curated by Anne-Laure Lemaitre, LATITUDE Gallery, NY, NY, 2023

None of This Ever Went Away, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA, 2023

Unfurled, curated by Dana Notine, CodyWycoff Space, Queens, NY, 2022

Materia/Material, The National Academy of Design, House 7B, Nolan Park, Governor’s Island, NY, 2022

Cute Gloom, Lauren Powell Projects, Los Angeles, CA, 2022

Que Prosiga, (curated by Diana Guerra and Aro Grace), 340 E 64th Street, New York, NY, 2022 

Some Strange Power, 205 Hudson Gallery, New York, NY, 2022 

In With the Old: a Rummage Sale and Retrospective, P.A.D Gallery, Walter Elwood Museum of the Mohawk Valley, Amsterdam, NY, 2021

München Monopoly, Galerie Christine Mayer (curated by P.A.D Gallery,) Munich, Germany, 2021

Transient Grounds, NARS Foundation (curated by ACOMPI), House 6B, Governor’s Island, NY, 2021

We Were Already Gone, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, 2021

NOVEMBER 2ND, M Street Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, 2020 

Belief Systems, P.A.D Gallery, New York, NY, 2020

Trust Fall, 205 Hudson Gallery online, New York, NY, 2020

Common Thread, 210 Project Space, New York, NY, 2019 

Second Semester Show, 205 Hudson Gallery, New York, NY, 2019  

For Which it Stands, Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY 2018

School of Visual Arts Staff Exhibition, SVA Gramercy Gallery, New York, NY, 2018

School of Visual Arts Staff Exhibition, SVA Gramercy Gallery, New York, NY, 2017

Obstructed Views, Scott Charmin Gallery, Houston, TX, 2016

School of Visual Arts Staff Exhibition, SVA Gramercy Gallery, New York, NY, 2016

35-33-35, School 33, Baltimore, MD, 2014

Station North Salon, The Wind Up Space, Baltimore, MD, 2014

MICA Staff Show, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2014

GOOD LIGHT, Current Space, Baltimore, MD, 2013

Sondheim Prize 2013 Semi-Finalists Exhibition, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2013 

Integration and Exchange, Nepalese Academy of Fine Arts, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2013 

Baker Award Artists Exhibition 2012, Joe2, Baltimore, MD, 2012

Station North Salon, The Wind Up Space, Baltimore, MD, 2012

Walk The Line, School 33, Baltimore, MD, 2012

Cultivating a Presence, Fox Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2011

Disegno II: Undergraduate Drawing, MICA, Maryland, CCA, California, KCAI, Missouri, 2009 

Selected Awards and Distinctions:

Robert Blackbrun Printmaking Award, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, 2022

Leeman-Boksenbaum Thesis Prize, 2022

Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship nomination, 2022

Stanton Grant, 2020, 2021

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Grant, 2013

Jacques and Natasha Gelman Fellowship, 2007-2011

Diversity in the Arts Internship, Dept. of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Walters Art Museum, 2010

Studio Art Center International Honors Scholarship, 2009

Distinguished Alumni Award, 2009

MICA in NY,  AICAD NY Studio Program Scholarship, 2009

National Association of Women Artists Scholarship, 2007

Lectures and Events:

Guest critic, Pratt Institute, NY, NY, 2023

Guest lecturer, Fullerton College, CA, 2023

Guest lecturer, Laguna College of Art and Design, CA, 2023

Guest lecturer, Towson University MFA, MD, 2022

Guest artist, "How Art Gets Made", presented by Woman Interwoven and the New York Public Library, 2021

Organizer, Surveillance City: Examining the Urban Panopticon from 9/11 to Covid, panel discussion with Ingrid Burrington, Fabian Rogers, & Hasan Elahi, moderated by Janus Rose, 2021

Guest artist, Instagram Live discussion with Nora Maites and Hunter East Harlem Gallery 2021

Lecturer, ART@COVID.EDU: Studio Art MFAs & The Cost of Remote Learning, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY, 2020 

Residencies:

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia, January 2014

AICAD NY Studio Program, New York City, 2009

Press:

IMPULSE, Christina Barrera’s “Revolutionary Festival”, Mariado Martínez Pérez, 2024

Hyperallergic, Artists Denounce Supreme Court’s Ruling on Affirmative Action,  Rhea Nayyar, 2023

Some Strange Power Exhibition Catalog, “Some Strange Power”, Anne-Laure Lemaitre, 2022

New York Magazine, Approval Matrix, 2021

Art News, Editor’s Picks, Tanner West, 2021

Bmoreart. A Celebration of Photography: Good Light at Current Space, Mac Falby, 2013

Open Lab Magazine, Interview with Christina Barrera, Katherine Nonemaker, 2013 

Baltimore City Paper, Walk the Line, Andrea Appleton, 2012

Publications:

Assemblage Journal, “ We Are Already Here: Positioning Ourselves in a World of Absurdity,” Kim Nam, June 2021

We Were Already Gone zine, “¡El Tiempo! No Hace Si No Pasar,” Polygraph Press, New York, 2021 

Qui Parle 23:1, Berkely, CA, 2014

GOOD LIGHT, Baltimore, MD, 2013 

Studio Visit Magazine Vols. 17 & 18, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2012

Education:

Hunter College, summa cum laude, May 2022, NY, NY

MFA in Studio Art

Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), summa cum laude, May 2011, Baltimore, MD 

BFA in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts and Art History