Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. 1959 -
Puertorrican. Nationalized Mexican.
Lives and works in Mexico and Puerto Rico.
EDUCATION:
1984-1989: Sacred Heart University, Santurce, Puerto Rico. Studied Advertising, Journalism, and Public Relations. Associate Degree in Communication Arts.
Began a full-time career as a sculptress in Mexico in 1995. Eventually, moved towards the expanded field of art and more recently, towards an interdisciplinary territory of expression, always with an emphasis on tridimensional platforms. She attends regularly conferences, workshops, and theory seminars on contemporary art.
Honorary visual arts creator of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts/ México.
PROGRAMMED ACTIVITIES FOR 2023:
2023
Artist residence. Museum of the Ana G. Mendez University of Gurabo. Gurabo, Puerto Rico.
2023
Mexico-Japan Contemporary Print Exhibition. Museum of the City of Narita. Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
2023
Solo exhibition. La Liga de Arte. Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2023
Banknotes waste and refines. Estimated date: March 2023.
Bank of Mexico Museum. Mexico City, Mexico.
EXHIBITIONS/ SOLO PROJECTS AND SHOWS: (selection/ most recent)
2021:
Certitudes and Uncertainties. Popular Art Museum. Mexico City, Mexico.
2019:
Fragmented totality. Libertad Gallery. Queretaro, Mexico.
2019:
Liquid time. Count Rul House Museum. Guanajuato, México.
2019:
Dissolution. Open-air degradable intervention. Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico, Mexico.
2019:
The imprint.Open-air degradable intervention. Guest artist on the 1st. The encounter of Young Creator of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) Tikilhsukut Indigenous Centre. Tajin, Veracruz, México.
2018:
Innocuous. El Cuadrado Gris. Santurce, Puerto Rico.
2018:
The irrational imprint. Fernando García Ponce-MACAY Museum. Yucatan, Mexico.
2017
Earth: between the Anthropocene and the Noosphere. Museum of the Ministry of Finance. Mexico City, Mexico.
2017
Nature and its state of Contingency. Museum of the City of Queretaro, Mexico.
2017
Hydric Contexts. Museum and Center for Humanistic Studies Josefina Camacho de la Nuez. Turabo University. Gurabo, Puerto Rico.
2016-2017:
Debt and Diaspora. Area Lugar de Proyectos. Caguas, Puerto Rico.
2016
Water. History Museum of Tlalpan. Mexico City, Mexico.
2016
Black Nature. Isabelle Serrano Fine Art Gallery. Mexico City, Mexico.
2016
Water. Museum of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mexico City, Mexico.
2015
Nature and its State of Contingency. Estación Indianilla Cultural Center. Mexico City, Mexico.
2015
On the Condition of Food. Municipal Institute of Art and Culture of Puebla. Puebla, Mexico.
2014
Timeline and Reification (installations) and Exchange, Oral Tradition and, Reverberations around the Banquet (videos) and my Great Grand Father Thomas and I (registration and sound narration). For the project titled Memoir. Studio 71 Process Lab., Mexico City, Mexico.
2014-2013
Channels and Deviations. La15 Curatorial Center. Santurce, Puerto Rico.
2013
Hydric Displacements. Cuarenta & Cinco Gallery. Guadalajara, Mexico.
2013
Water: flux/situations. Le Cube Independent Art Room. Rabat, Morocco.
2010
Campeche 331. The Oven of the Citadel. Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
2010
Metamorphosis. Papalote Children Museum. Mexico City, Mexico.
2010
Black Box: story of a sinister. Caguas Art Museum. Caguas, Puerto Rico.
2009
The possibility of not being there. Ovo Mini Space for Creation. Mexico City, Mexico.
2008
Alternate Senses. Tomás Chávez Morado Gallery. Autonomous University of Guanajuato. Guanajuato, Mexico.
2007-2008
Into the Void. Estacion Indianilla Cultural Center. Mexico City, Mexico. Museum of Modern Art. Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico.
2004-2005
Alternate Senses. Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola. U.N.A.M. Mexico City, Mexico. also presented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs/ Mexico at Mexico Cultural Center, Guatemala; National Hall of Exhibitions, El Salvador; National Art Gallery, Honduras; Casa Castelví, Paraguay; Mexican Cultural Institute, Belice and Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS: (selection)
2022
A dialogue between Systems and Values. Contrafuertes House. Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2022
Third Latin American Biennial of New York. Longwood Art Gallery. Bronx, New York.
2022
Terra in Transformazzione. Magazzino 26, Porto Vechio di Trieste, Italy.
2022
Inside. Contingency Video Project.
1903 Space Gallery at Kumming. Yunnan, China.
2022
Gaia Crisis. Center of Complexity Sciences. Kunstlerhous. Vienna, Austria.
2022
Muestra. La sede. Puertorrican Institute of Culture. Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2022
Weavings of hope.
ADS La Milagrosa Maniapure Center. Caracas, Venezuela.
2022
Mexico-Japan Contemporary Print Exhibition.
Sasebo City Museum, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.
2021
Mexico-Japan Contemporary Print Exhibition.
Tsurumi Gallery. Yokohama, Japan.
2020:
Cultivate, share, practice. Representations, practices, and contexts. De Reul: 1999-2020.
Del Carme Centre. Valence, Spain.
2020:
9+9 Mexican notes on Chinese notebooks & Video Art. Beijing Design Week. Chaoyang District, Beijing, China.
2020:
Pandemia. Aguafuerte Gallery. Mexico City, Mexico.
2020:
Inside. Contingency Video Project at Waterpieces International Contemporary Video Art Festival. Riga, Latvia.
2020:
50 women, 50 years, 50 works. Group show. Museum of the City of Mexico. Mexico.
2020:
22 years Chronology. Puertorrican collection of art 1998-2020. Caguas Museum of Art. Caguas, Puerto Rico.
2020:
Waiting for the rain. Kairos #3 Art Residency. Carrillo Puerto, Chiapas, Mexico.
2020:
Modern Love vol. 4 Col. Transito, Mexico City, Mexico.
2019:
50 years at La Liga. Las Américas Museum. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2019:
Crossing the bridge between Mexico and China. Museum of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mexico City, Mexico.
2019:
On paper supreme. Group show in various venues in China.
2017-2018:
Fable without morals. The overflow of corruption. Casa del Lago/ UNAM. Mexico City, Mexico.
2017:
The bride of Culiacán. Collaboration in a project by María Romero. National Museum of Art. Mexico City, Mexico, and performance in Culiacan, Sinaloa.
2017:
Process in art. Museum of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mexico City, Mexico.
2016-2017:
To the afterlife and back. A suitcase for the last journey. Museum of Popular Arts. Mexico City, Mexico, and the Arts Museum of Sonora. Sonora, Mexico; Madrid, Spain and Berlin, Germany.
2016
Last call. Climate change. Museum of Women Artists. Digital edition by Lucero González.
2016
Affinities and differences. Museum of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mexico City, Mexico.
2016
A cycle of video artists from Latin America, Spain, and China. Artoon Gallery, Shanghai, and Hao Space in Chaoyang, China.
2015-2016
Without Commissaire. Museum of Modern Art. Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico.
2015-2016
Gifts and wonders. Still life and Vanitas. The Treasury Museum. Old Palace of the Archbishop. Historical Center, México.
2015
Codex. Artist books collective show. Ankara, Turkey.
2015
Aspects. Collective of Contemporary Art within the collections of the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit. The Treasury Museum. Old Palace of the Archbishop. Historical Center, Mexico.
2015
2015 National Art Show. White House Museum, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2014-2015
Rectangular Prism: the box as a starting point. Guest Artist. Estación Indianilla Cultural Center. Mexico, City, Museo del Barro. Metepec, Edo. Mex. and Museum of San Pedro. Puebla, Puebla.
2014-2015
Responsible artists in defense of wildlife. Project exhibition and book in charge of Luis Ignacio Sáenz, et. al. Exhibiting in 2014: Rufino Tamayo contemporary art museum. Mexico, D.F., Mexico. First exhibition in 2015: Federico Silva Museum. San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
2014-2015
The sea in which a mosquito may drink and an elephant may bathe. Le Laboratoire Gallery. Mexico City, Mexico.
2014
Art al Vent XI. Gata de Gorgos, Spain.
2013-2014
Codex. Artist books collective show. Embassy of Mexico in Berlin, Germany (2014) and Mexican Institute of Culture in Washington, D.C., U.S.A.(2013)
2013
Liquid journeys. With María José de la Macorra and Mario Palacios Kaim. Contemporary Cell of the Cloister of Sor Juana University. Mexico City, Mexico.
2013
2013 National Art Show. Old Marine's Arsenal. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2013
Archipelago Group. 14 micro-histories in Contemporary Art. Art Today gallery Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico.
2012
The beautiful faces. Space C 787. Santurce, Puerto Rico.
2012
Juxtaposed derivations. Homer 45 Gallery. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
2012
Codex.Estación Indianilla Cultural Center. Mexico, City, Mexico.
2012/ 2011
Fragmented nature. Museum of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mexico City, Mexico.
2012/ 2011
Chiquitolina. La Quince Curatorial Space. Santurce, Puerto Rico.
2011
OVO Habitante. A concept, to live in a work of art. Museum of the Filipino People. Manila, Filipinas.
2011
Fragility. The Treasury Museum. Mexico City, Mexico.
2010
Inhabitant. Alternative Hall, the Emerald School of Painting, Engraving, and Sculpture of the National Center for the Arts. Mexico City, Mexico.
2010
Careos y relevos. Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico. Santurce, Puerto Rico.
2008
Art al Vent V. Gata, Alicante, Spain; Aquisgrán, Monshau y Kornelimünster, Germany.
2008
Temps, Memòria VII ESTIU ART intevencions plàstiques. 17va. Castell de Dénia, Valence, Spain
2006-2007
Selection of new acquisitions 2006. Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico. Santurce, Puerto Rico.
2005
The Radical will. Museo Universitario del Chopo. UNAM. Mexico City, Mexico.
2004-2005
Alter nature. Federico Silva Museum. San Luis Potosi, Mexico and Manuel Felguérez Abstract Art Museum. Zacatecas, Mexico.
2003
1st. Collective show of large format sculpture. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Ateneo de Yucatán. Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico.
2002-2003
Volume and structures, 19 visions CONACULTA INBA. Museum of Contemporary Art Jorge Chavez Carrillo. Colima, Mexico.
2001-2002
Rassegna d’arte visiva dedicata ad artisti di paesi emergenti. Ethnographic museum/ Casa del Conte Verde. Rivoli, Italy.
2000
Global Culture Center/ I.G.S. 5/ Osaka 2000. World Trade Center. Osaka, Japón.
1998-2001
Expression of the new Millennium: the presence of Mexico. National Library of Education Cultural Center of the SNTE. The historic center, Mexico City, Mexico, Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico. Santurce, Puerto Rico, Washington State Convention, and Trade Center. Seattle, Washington, USA, and Houston Center. Houston, Texas, USA.
GRANTS AND DISTINCTIONS: (selection)
2022
Selected at The Third Lumen Open of Painting. Participating work: "Awakening" Palacio de Correos Gallery. Mexico City Historic Center, México.
2022
Selected at The Third Latin American Triennial of New York. Participating work: "The beginning of many ends". Longwood Art Gallery. Brooklyn New York.
2021
Acquisition for the National Collection of Art of Puerto Rico. Work title: "Cains Garden". Institute of Culture of Puerto Rico. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2016
Fellow of the National System of Creators of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts. Period 2016-2019.
2014
Selected to participate in the 2015 National Art Show. Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2012
Selected to participate in the 2013 National Art Show. Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2012
Fellow of the National System of Creators of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts. Period 2013-2015
2011
Selected for the realization of public work for the Paseo de la Reforma and Genoa: Inhabit the
Heart, work donated by the Japanese company OMRON to the City of Mexico.
2010
Selected to produce five public works: The embrace, The guardians, Uadis, The Forest, and Wind Spikes at the
Sanctuary of the Monarch Butterfly Cultural Center in Michoacán. Michoacán,Mexico. Corteza Urbana
Arquitectos/ FONATUR.
2011/ 2009/ 2004/ 2002
Selected works. V, IV, II and I National Biennial of Visual Arts of Yucatán, Mérida, Yuc. Mexico.
2008
The sculpture installation Endemic is chosen for realization and display at Castell of Denia,
Valencia, Spain. Temps, Memòria VII ESTIU ART intevencions plastiques.
2007
Selected works. First Contest of Sculpture Juan José Oliveira. Tui, Pontevedra, Spain.
2006
The sculpture project Swagine is chosen for realization at the Second International Stainless Steel Biennial in Comitan. Chiapas, Mexico.
2006
Work selected. WTC 06 Artfest. World Trade Center. Mexico City, Mexico.
2003
Her sculpture project Custody is chosen for realization at the First Biennial of Sculpture in Concrete.
Caguas, Puerto Rico.
2003
Her sculpture project Needle is chosen for realization at the Third Biennial of Sculpture in Steel. Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, Producing additionally, Mountain Chain, Extasis, Motion Works, and Hammocks.
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Caguas, Puerto Rico: Autonomous Municipality of Caguas. Custody. Public sculpture made in concrete, travertine marble, mineral pigment, and recycled tire bead.
Comitan, Mexico: Open-Air Contemporary Art Museum of the South. Zwagine. Public sculpture made of stainless steel.
Mexico City, Mexico: National Insitute of Fine Arts. The Decalogue. Large-format sculpture made of steel, masarroca, and strings.
Mexico City, Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco. Autumn. Sculpture installation made of corten steel.
Mexico City, Mexico City: Government of Mexico City. Inhabit the heart. Interactive public sculpture made of steel.
Michoacan, Mexico: Cultural Center Sanctuary of the Monarch Butterfly in Michoacán. Michoacán, Mexico. 5 public works: The Guardians (corten steel, pigment, and concrete), Wind Spikes (nickel-plated brass, copper, and stainless steel), The Embrace (white carved stone), Uadis ( brown slab stone and cement), and The Forest (white carved stones and road resembling a tree and its branches in black stone).
Santurce, Puerto Rico: Museum of Contemporary Art. Sweet dreams are made of this, a sculpture of rubber and recycled tire bead.
Zacatecas, Mexico: Manuel Felguérez Museum of Abstract Art. Celestial Codex, a large-format sculpture made in steel, and resin with travertine marble, and ropes.
Art al Vent. Gata de Gorgos, Spain.
Caguas Art Museum. Caguas, Puerto Rico.
Chocolate Cortés Foundation. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Fernando García Ponce Museum/ MACAY. Yucatan, Mexico.
Fine Arts Museum. State of Mexico, Mexico.
José Castrodad Collection. Caguas, Puerto Rico.
Le Cube Independent Art Room Collection. Rabat, Morrocco.
Manuel Felguérez Abstract Museum. Zacatecas, Mexico.
Museum of the Ana G. Mendez University.Gurabo, Puerto Rico.
Museum of the City of Querétaro. Querétaro, Mexico.
Museum of Contemporary Art. Santurce, Puerto Rico.
Museum of the Ministry of Finance/ Archbishop's Palace. México.
Museum of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mexico City, Mexico.
Museum of the National Bank of Mexico. Mexico City, Mexico.
National Collection. Institute of Culture of Puerto Rico. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
National Institute of Fine Arts. Mexico City, Mexico.
Popular Arts Museum. Mexico City, México.
The Autonomous University of Guanajuato. Mexico.
The Gray Square Collection. Santurce, Puerto Ricop.
Reyes-Veray Collection. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
University Museum of Science and Arts. UNAM. México, D.F., Mexico.
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