CURRICULUM VITAE (brief)
Education
2021 Artist Lab: Art Meets History in New Mexico, 516 ARTS / Kolaj Institute / Albuquerque Museum. Instructors: Jillian Hartke, L. Kasimu Harris, Alicia Inez Guzmán, Stephen Schaub, Wylie Garcia, Ric Kasini Kadour
2017 Course: “Born Digital Materials in Special Collections,” Rare Book School. Instructors: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Naomi Nelson
2016 PhD, Art History, Binghamton University. Committee: María Lugones, Tom McDonough (Chair), Pamela G. Smart. Reader: Nancy P. Appelbaum
2014 Summer Course: “Slavery, Democracy, and the Decolonial Option(s),” University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University, Middelburg, Netherlands. Instructors: Maria Lugones, Walter D. Mignolo, Rolando Vasquez
2012 Summer Course: “The New World (Dis)Order and the Challenge of Social Justice: Ethics and the Decolonial Option,” Roosevelt Academy, Utrecht University, Middelburg, Netherlands. Instructors: Maria Lugones, Walter D. Mignolo, Rolando Vasquez
2010 MA, Philosophy, Interpretation & Culture, Binghamton University. Advisor: María Lugones
2006 BA, Art History, Southwestern University (Paideia Scholar). Advisor: Kimberly Smith
Honors
2022 Terra Foundation for American Art International Publication Grant
2021 Lecturer, Spiegel Wilks Seminar in Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
2021 Virtual Visiting Artist, Painting and Drawing Program, University of Iowa School of Art and Art History
2020 Risograph Residency, The Future Minneapolis [postponed to August 2021 by COVID]
2019-20 Edward E. Elson Artist-in-Residence, Addison Gallery of American Art
2019 Southern Constellations Fellowship, Elsewhere Museum
2019 18 under 40 honoree, Southwestern University
2018 Prix de la publication d’art, Ontario Association of Art Galleries. Publication: Theaster Gates: How to Build a House Museum: a Guide (contributed essay)
2017 Carol Bowers Norris Visiting Artist, DePauw University
2016 Distinguished Former Odessan Award, Odessa Heritage Foundation
2014 WorkSpaceBrussels Studio Residency
2014 Binghamton Foundation Travel Grant, Binghamton University
2013-14 Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research
2013-14 PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellowship, Imagining America
2013 Provost Academic Project Fund award, Ithaca College
2013-14 Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship, Ithaca College
2013 Dissertation Award for Primary Source and Field Research in Art History, Binghamton University
2013 Anthony D. King Travel Award, Art History Department, Binghamton University
2012 Finalist, Austin Critic’s Table Awards. Project: MARFITA
2010-13 Clifford D. Clark Fellowship, Binghamton University
2008 Judge’s Choice, Non-fiction. The Thing Itself (literary journal of Our Lady of the Lake University)
Exhibitions + Performances
2024 Presentiments: How is the Weather?, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Arts, University of Texas El Paso, January 25 — April 20. Co-curators: Laura August, Adán Vallecillo. Fellow artists: Donna Conlon & Jonathan Harker, Sofia de Grenade, Jessica Kairé, Asunción Molinos Gordo, Ana Navas, Gabriel Rodriguez Pellecer, Mario Santizo, Adán Vallecillo
Perspectiva (Seeing Through Stone), Davis Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, January 25 — February 24. Curator: Meghan Jordan. Solo show
2023-24 Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse, Syracuse University Art Museum, August 24 — May 12. Curator: Melissa A. Yuen. Permanent collection intervention
2022 Solo overnight performance, Ghost Ranch, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, July 13 – 14. performance for video
Art Meets History: Technologies of the Spirit, 516 ARTS, June 11, 2022 – September 3. Co-curators: Ric Kasini Kadour, Alicia Inez Guzmán, PhD. Fellow artists: Paola de la Calle, Karsten Creightney, Moira Garcia, Jackie Mitchell Edwards, Laurie O’Brien, Eric-Paul Riege (Diné/Navajo) and Marcus Zúñiga
The Formless Body, Olga Korper Gallery, June 4-July 2. Curator: Jarrett Earnest. Fellow artists: Stephen Andrews, Ching Ho Cheng, Alexandra Chowaniec, Christine Davis, Kalale Dalton-Lutale, Darrel Ellis, Robert Flack, Christy Gast, Leonie Guyer, Simone Kearney, Matthew Leifheit, Ian Lewandowski, Âhasiw Maskêgon-Iskwêw, Jamie Ross, Cason Sharpe, Linda Simpson, Adrian Stimson, Tim Whiten
2021 POCHO, virtual exhibition, Zygote Press, January 22-March 12. Curator: Lauren Cardenas. Fellow artists: Julia Arredondo, Häsler Gomez, Margaret Perez, Lauren Cardenas
2020-21 Wayfinding: Contemporary Artists, Critical Dialogues, and the Sidney R. Knafel Map Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, October 17 – February 28. Co-curators: Allison Kemmerer, Stephanie Sparling Williams. Fellow artists: Sonny Assu, Andrea Chung, Liz Collins, Spencer Finch, Heidi Whitman
2019 Mayahuel Meets Guadalupe (We are the vessels and the witness.), Agave Festival Marfa, June. Producer: Tim Johnson. Collaborators: Santa Barraza, Kay Turner
2018-19 Work as Art / The Primitives’ Revenge, solo show, Studio SoHy, December – March. Curator: Bronwyn King
2017 Scriptorium con safos: Prologue, installation and performance, DePauw University, October 6
Cultivo de babosas / Slugs’ Garden, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Belgium, May 4-14. Choreographers: Fabian Barba, Esteban Donoso. Fellow performers: Thiago Antunes, Thomas Hauert, Tuur Marinus, Gabriel Schenker, Samantha van Wissen & students of the ISAC (Institut Supérieur des Arts et des Chorégraphies), Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles (ArBA EsA): Paula Almiron, Maïte Alvarez, Estelle Czernichowski, Camille Dejean, Sophie Farza, Swan Gautier, Fanny Heddebaut, Shankar Lestrehan, Elena Moreno, Rosandra Nicoletti, Juliette Otter, Leen Van Dommelen, Castelie Yalombo, Victor Schmidt Guezennec
2016 Honoring Lydia Cabrera’s Story: Altar, Performance, and the Living Archive, HistoryMiami Museum, October. Curator: Kay Turner
DEADLANDS / Karkaot Maot, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY, April-May. Curator: Rotem Rozental. Fellow artists: Michal BarOr, Assaf Evron, Dor Guez, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Yaron Lapid, Metehan Özcan, Alona Rodeh
2015 Espejos: Mirrors (in honor of Eduardo Galeano, 1940-2015), Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA), Ithaca, NY, October. Co-Curators: Carolina Osorio Gil, Sonja Gandert, Norma Gutiérrez. Fellow artists: Adriana Arango Guillén, Nao Bustamante, Kevin Cruz, Norma S. Gutiérrez, Fernando Llosa, Moh (Arturo Méndez), Cathleen Mooses, Chris Oliver (collaborator), Jennifer Ospina, Mar E. Pérez
2014 Short Stories, Lady Base Gallery for Spare Parts Studio’s MINI ART MUSEUM, Contemporary Art Month, San Antonio, March. Curator: Sarah Castillo. Fellow artists: Giovanna Carrola, Jenni Cutrer, Dani Dickson, Anel I. Flores, Shannon Gowen, Andrew Leo Stansbury, Rosalynn Warren, Chris Castillo, Celeste de Luna, Jenelle Esparza, Audrya Flores, Suzy Gonzalez, Antonio Lopez III, Fabiola Torralba, Claudia Zapata
2013 Querida Maestra, University of Texas San Antonio Art Gallery, November. Curator: Anel I. Flores. Fellow artists: Celeste de Luna, Anel I. Flores, Nancy Guevara, Ines Hernandez-Avila, Meagan A. Longoria, “Fe” Felicia Montes, Maricela Olguin, Genevieve Rodriguez, Anita Tijerina Revilla, Luis Valderas, Liliana Wilson, Claudia Zapata, Rene Rio Yañez & Sarah Guerra
2012 Transformations: Entre el cuerpo, University of Texas San Antonio Art Gallery, May. Curator: Anel I. Flores. Fellow artists: Esmeralda Baltazar, Verónica Castillo, Celeste De Luna, Ana Fernández, Anel I. Flores, Adriana M Garcia, Jason Eric Gonzales, Natalie Goodnow (collaborator), Ester Hernández, Felicia “Fe” Montes & Joel Garcia, Christina Muñiz, Peter F. Ortiz, Fabiola Ochoa Torralba, Grace Vega, Graciela Vega Cendejas, Liliana Wilson, Arts and Technologies of Women
2011 MARFITA, Co-Lab, October. Curator: Sean Gaulager. Collaborators: Alison Kuo, Joshua Saunders. Opening performance by Natalie Goodnow
2009 El Mundo Zurdo, Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, San Antonio, May. Curator: Anel I. Flores. Fellow artists: Lisa Anaya, Mary Cantu, Eric Cavasos, Ari Chagoya, Azul Frida, Adriana M Garcia, Alma Gomez-Frith, Francis Gumm, Tina Hernandez, Marco Iniguez, Lahib Jaddo, Jane Madrigal, Loretta Medellin, Dolores Zapata Murff, Cruz Ortiz, Genevieve Rodriguez, Irma Carolina Rubio, Patricia Trujillo, Liliana Wilson
Publications
2022 “Influence Inheritance (Hiram y Miguel at Play),” Joy, Play and Resistance in the Work of Miguel Luciano & Hiram Maristany, Binghamton, NY: Binghamton University Art Museum
2021 “Bridgeless (notes for Zoe and Tim),” catalogue essay, Zoe Leonard: Al Rio / To the River, Luxembourg: Hatje Cantz/Mudam Luxembourg.
“Dear Felix (On Queer Brown Envy),” publication essay, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: inbetweenness, New York: Judd Foundation.
2020 “A Questionnaire on Decolonization,” OCTOBER 174: 49-53.
“There Are No Amateurs in Far West Texas,” Third Text, Vol. 34, Issue 1, 71-87.
“American Rupestria: Teresita Fernández,” The Hoosac Institute Journal 4.
2018 “Dear Theaster: Considering Black Power and Rasquachismo,” catalogue essay, Theaster Gates: How to Build a House Museum, Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario: 48-52.
“Role Call,” Emerging Artist Grant 2016 catalogue, New York: Joan Mitchell Foundation: 3-8.
“Book review: The heart of the mission: Latino art and politics in San Francisco,” Latino Studies 16: 139-40.
2017 “Más Rudas Collective, 2009-2016 (An Archival Epilogue to an Epic Pachanga),” The Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Issue 12/13: 38 – 53.
“Book review: The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force,” Diálogo: An Interdisciplinary Studies Journal, vol. 20, no. 1: 199 – 201.
2016 “POSED-MINIMALISM,” Joshua Saunders: Rock Candy, catalogue published on the occasion of exhibition at Steve Turner Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), Austin, TX: BooBoo Books.
2015 “Yo soy Guadalupe,” Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture, Issue 8.
2014 “Dear Joshua, All My Love,” Kinda Blew, catalogue published on the occasion of exhibition at Co-Lab (Austin, TX), Austin, TX: BooBoo Books.
2013 “Rebozo [Man] in Nepantla: Gender & Arts Revolution in San Antonio, TX,” México en sus revoluciones: historia, crítica, y poéticas de la emancipacíon y la resistencia en México, Toronto: University of Toronto Press: 45 – 64.
2012 “MARFITA: A Toltec Methodology,” El Mundo Zurdo: Selected Works from the Meetings of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa, 2010 & 2011, San Francisco: Aunt Lute Press: 135 - 154.
“Long Read: Letter to Donald Judd,” …might be good 196.
2008 “(Un)traceable Circuits: Insects, Cognition, and Mexican Masks,” The Thing Itself: 60 - 66.
2006 “Anarchy and Service-Learning,” Texas Campus Compact Journal of Service-Learning: 32-36.