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EDUCATION

2022 Master of Arts in Liberal Arts, Summa Cum Laude | St. John’s College, Santa Fe

2016                 BFA in Art Studio, Summa Cum Laude | Minor in Arts Management | University of New Mexico

RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT / ACTIVITIES

2022-PRESENT Artist-in-Residence – City of ABQ Department of Arts & Culture, Borderlands Region, Artists at Work - THE OFFICE Performing Arts + Film, New York, NY

2019-PRESENT Arts Programming and Exhibition Planning – Peterson Art Gallery, St. John’s College

2019                   Executive Director – Judy Chicago’s Through the Flower Art Space, Belen, NM

2018-PRESENT Co-Director and Co-Founder Fourteenfifteen Gallery/L.o.A. Collective – Albuquerque, NM

2018-Present Co-Director of Alpaca Community Art Space with L.o.A. Collective – Albuquerque, NM

2018-PRESENT Guitar, Drums, Keyboards, and Vocals in Karen and Madrina – Albuquerque, NM

RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, ACADEMIC HONORS & AWARDS

2022 Prize for the Best Essay of the Entire Graduate Institute, FA22 Preceptorial – “To Articulate the Inarticulable: An Exploration of the Magnitude of Music in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

2022 Summa Cum Laude – St. John’s College, Santa Fe

2020 Fulcrum Fund – In conjunction with Fourteenfifteen Gallery

2020 Otis College of Art & Design Summer Residency – Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic

2018                 The L.o.A. Collective – Founding Member + Co-Gallery Director of Fourteenfifteen Gallery

2018                 Teaching Artist Residency – Art + Leadership Program, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

2017                 The Unifiedfield / El Campo Unificado – Artist in Residence, Cádiz, Spain

2016                 Summa Cum Laude – BFA Honors Thesis, The University of New Mexico

2016                 Award Recipient – New Mexico Committee for the National Museum of Women in the Arts

2016                The New York Arts Practicum – New York, NY

2016                Ana Chavira Award – The University of New Mexico

2016                Ada Wester Fine Art Endowment – The University of New Mexico

2016                Modesta E. Comeford Endowed Scholarship – The University of New Mexico

2015                SITE Santa Fe Scholar – SITE Santa Fe

2015                Honorable Mention – Patrick Nagatani & Leigh Ann Langwell - John Sommers Gallery

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018              Onism – Graft Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2017               Isla Del Medio – Castillo de Castellar Exhibition Space - Castellar de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain

2016               Sounds of Soothing and of Sickness | BFA Honors Thesis Exhibition – CFA Downtown Studio, Albuquerque, NM

2014              19 Photographs | Solo Sound Art Installation – SFCC Performance Space

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 i took a deep breath and you should too – Fun-a-Day, Fourteenfifteen Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2022 Something Old, Something New – Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, NM

2022 τέχνη καὶ σχολή: Works from St. John’s College – Peterson Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2019 Fun-a-Day – Fourteenfifteen Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2018              Debtfair – Group Show, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM

2018              No Glitter – Lawrence & Clark Gallery, Chicago, IL

2017              Isla Del Medio – Fulcrum Fund Exhibition - 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM

2017              Conversations : Human Rights – SARJ, The University of New Mexico

2017              Portrait of Parasitism | Juried Show – John Sommers Gallery 

2016             wish i was here | source: no signal | A Collection of Video Installations – CFA Downtown Studio 

2016             F L O W E R S | SITE Scholars Exhibition, SITE Santa Fe

2015             Photographs of Three Important Men | BODY:BEAUTY – Warehouse 508, Albuquerque, NM

2015             A Glitch in Time | Collaborative Video Art Installation – Historic KiMo Theater, Albuquerque, NM

2015             Loop | Undergraduate Juried Show – John Sommers Gallery

SELECTED CURATED EXHIBITIONS

2022 The Loss Show – Fourteenfifteen Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2022 τέχνη καὶ σχολή: Works from St. John’s College – Peterson Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2020 Fun-a-Day – Fourteenfifteen Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2019 The Divination Show – Fourteenfifteen Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2019 Fun-a-Day – Fourteenfifteen Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

SELECTED COMMUNITY ORGANIZED EVENTS

2022             Burque Babes/La Chancla – Fundraiser for Indigenous Women Rising, La Chancla, Albuquerque, NM

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2019             Face Me In This Ruin – Secret Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2018 Face Me In This Ruin – Southwestern University of Visual Arts, Albuquerque, NM

2018              Isla Del Medio – Onism, Graft Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2017               Dialects of Transmission with Ethnograph – Pendulum Performance Festival, Graft Gallery

PUBLIC LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

2019              Women / Censorship Panelist – With Paula Castillo - Belen, NM

2017              Artist in Residence Lecture – The Unifiedfield - Cádiz, Spain

2017              BEDTalks: Graft Gallery – Collaborative Lecture with Ethnograph

2016             Thesis Presentation to Faculty Committee and Public – CFA Downtown Studio

2016             Guest Artist Lecture for Albuquerque High School Students – CFA Downtown Studio