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ACADEMIC AND ARTISTIC EDUCATION
2020-2023 [Expected]. MA in Fine Art, Photography, Video and Imaging program. School of Art, University of Arizona; Tucson, USA.
2018. Contemporary Photography Program-Bancomer. PFC; Tijuana, BC.
2017. Contemporary Photography Program. PFC; Tijuana, BC.
2016. Contemporary Art Production Program. Relaciones Inesperadas; Tijuana, BC.
2005-2010. Bachelor's Degree in Sociology, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Graduated with honors; Tijuana, BC.
SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS AND PRIZES
2021. Marcia Grand Centennial Sculpture Prize, School of Art; University of Arizona; Tucson Arizona, USA.
2021. GPSC Research and Project Grant, Graduate and Professional Student Council; University of Arizona; Tucson Arizona, USA.
2021. Mellon-Fronteridades Grad Fellowship Award, Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry; University of Arizona; Tucson Arizona, USA.
2020. The University Fellows Award, Graduate College, University of Arizona; Tucson Arizona, USA.
2020-2022. Study Abroad Scholarship, Fundación del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in collaboration with Consejo Nacional para la Ciencia y la Tecnología; México, MX.
2020-2021. Study Abroad Scholarship, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo; México, MX.
2019. Second Sight Award, Medium Photo Festival; San Diego, US.
2018. Northern Exposure, Artist Fellowship, Medium Photo Festival; San Diego, US.
2018. Contemporary Photography Program, Artist Fellowship, PFC-Bancomer; Tijuana, MX.
2018. Emerging Artists Grant, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes; México, MX.
2012. Research Grant for the Arts, Artistic Development and Creative Support Program, Instituto de Cultura de Baja California; Tijuana, MX.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021. “After America Day by Day: A Counter-cartography”, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Tucson, USA.
2019. “Penumbra of the Visual'', Centro Cultural Tijuana; Tijuana, MX.
2018. "Sparrows also Know", Galería Deslave; Tijuana, MX.
2017. “Walking Photographers”, Centro Cultural Tijuana; Tijuana, MX.
2014. “(Trans)formation”, Festival Internacional de Cine y Genero IMPERFECTU, Universidad de Tijuana CUT; Tijuana, MX.
2013. “Walking Photographers. Alchemists of the ephemeral”, Museo de Historia de Tijuana; Tijuana, MX.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021. “Rescue Operation: From Aliens to humans”, Pastor Projects, Galería de Ciudad; Tecate, MX
2021. “Matrix of mobility: networks of objects and exchange”, The Eighth Annual Wollesen Memorial Art History Symposium, University of Toronto, [Virtual].
2021. “Homeplace as a site of resistance”, in collaboration with the Sienna Collective, a student-led organization for artists of color, Visual Arts Graduate Research Laboratory; Tucson, USA.
2019. “Creation on the move”, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso; Mexico City, MX.
2019. “Everything but a ghost”, Centro de la Imagen; Mexico City, MX.
2019. “PFC 17”, Centro Cultural Tijuana; Tijuana, MX.
2018. “A dangerous obsession. A thriller of plastic moments”, Human Resources; Los Angeles, US.
2018. “A column of tracks”, Galería Internacional de la ciudad; Tijuana, MX.
2017. “On the run / From hand to mouth”, Galería de la Ciudad; Mexicali, MX.
2017. “Nowhere but here”, The Front Arte Cultura; San Diego, US.
2017. “Tools to dismantle the vision”, Centro Cultural Tijuana; Tijuana, MX.
2016. “X Photography biennial of Baja California”, Centro Estatal de las Artes; Mexicali, MX.
2016. “II Biennial of photography of Oaxaca”, Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo; Oaxaca, MX.
2016. “Relooking ourselves: (re)enunciate (to) the archive”, Recinto del Patrimonio Universitario; Saltillo, MX.
2015. “Remedies for an absent archive syndrome. Records, appropriations, montages, translations, amendments of the image”, Centro Estatal de las Artes; Tijuana, MX.
2015. “IX Photography biennial of Baja California”, Centro Estatal de las Artes; Mexicali, MX.
PUBLICATIONS
Author
2018. “Photography and Monument: Representation, Fiction and Power”. Goethe Institut. Publication in the context of the artwork "La Border Curios" carried out at the US-Mexican Border by Italian photographer Laura Fiorio. The essay has been translated into English and German and presented at Goethe Institut; Mexico City, MX and ECCHR (European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights); Berlin, DE.
2012. “Soundscape of Tijuana: the local rock scene (1962-1972)”, Centro Cultural Tijuana, publication in the context of the research for the exhibition Obra Negra, curated by Olga Margarita Dávila and Carlos Ashida.
Photographer
2015. “Juvenile homicide. Ayotzinapa and precarious lives in Latin America and Spain”, Coord. José Manuel Valenzuela, NED Ediciones, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte e ITESO. Publication presented at the Feria Internacional del libro de Guadalajara, MX.
2012. “Nos/otros – Them and us. Arts, culture and identity on the US/Mexican Border”, José Manuel Valenzuela, Dirección General de Culturas Populares. Publication presented at the Feria Internacional del libro de Guadalajara, MX.
2012. “Welcome amigos to Tijuana. Graffiti on the border”, Coord. José Manuel Valenzuela, Editorial RM in co-edition with Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes y El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Publication presented at the Feria Internacional del libro de Guadalajara, MX.
2012. “Thirst for evil. Feminicide, youth and social exclusion”, José Manuel Valenzuela, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte.
Photoeditor
2017. “Santa Muerte. Spaces, worships and devotions”, Coord. Alberto Hernández, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, El Colegio de San Luis. Publication presented at the Feria Internacional del libro de Guadalajara, MX.
Lectures
2021. “America Day by Day: A Counter-cartography”, The Eighth Annual Wollesen Memorial Art History Symposium, University of Toronto, [Virtual].
2019. “Everything was black and yet glow”, Medium Photo Festival; San Diego, US.
2019. “From the review of the historical fragment to a critical reading of Latin American politics”, 17 Encuentro de Fotografía, Fototeca de Nuevo León; Monterrey, MX.
2018. “Abstraction and appropriation in contemporary photography”, Museum of Photographic Arts; San Diego, US.
2018. “Presences and absences in the visual question of post-photography”, Universidad Iberoamericana; Tijuana, MX.
2017. “70 years of walking photography in Tijuana”, CECUT, Tijuana, MX.
2017. “193 years of photography: frames and breaks in a story”, Centro Cultural Tijuana; Tijuana, MX.
2017. “Presences and absences in the visual question of post-photography”, Universidad Iberoamericana; Tijuana, MX.
2016. “Social applications of photography. Time, space and memory”, Universidad Iberoamericana; Tijuana, MX.
2016. “Independent practices of cultural management”, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte; Tijuana, MX.
2016. “Youth, media and audiovisual production”, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte; Tijuana, MX.
Given workshops
2020. “The inexistence of an image: photographs not taken”; workshop for photography mentors at The AjA Project.
2019. “One million yen fanzines”, 17 Encuentro de Fotografía, Fototeca de Nuevo León; Monterrey, MX.
2019. “Experimental workshop / Roberth Smithson, archive and imagination”, San Diego City College; San Diego, US.
2017. “193 years of photography: frames and breaks in a story”, Centro Cultural Tijuana; Tijuana, MX.
2017. “Fotofanzine and archive methodologies”, Museo de Historia de Tijuana; Tijuana, MX.
2017. “Frames and breaks in a story”, Cine Tonala, Tijuana; Tijuana, MX.
Film production
2015. Co-Director of the documentary “Walking Photographers. Alchemists of the ephemeral”.
2014-2015 Co-Director of the documentary “Living Words”. Research that addresses school management strategies aimed to the preservation of native languages according to the indigenous diversity of Baja California.
2012. Co-creator of the documentary “Between the Spray and the Wall”. Audiovisual research that addresses different practices developed in the field of Graffiti and Urban Art in the city of Tijuana, as well as the multiple meanings given by the actors in this activity.
Seminars attended
2021. History of Latin America: sugar, oil and cocaine, by Fiebre Ediciones; [virtual]
2019. Bodies and languages in the neoliberal era. A view from the Italian philosophy, by Seminario Permanente de Teoría Contemporánea; Tijuana, BC.
2018. Deleuze and Witchcraft, by Seminario Permanente de Teoria Contemporanea; Tijuana, BC.
2018. Jaques Ranciere and Dissent, by Seminario Permanente de Teoria Contemporanea; Tijuana, BC.
2017. Italian autonomous Marxism. Signs and affections in late capitalism, by Seminario Permanente de Teoria Contemporanea; Tijuana, BC.
2016. The politics of theory: a personal journey, by Prof. John Randolph Beverley II, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte; Tijuana, BC.
2016. Digital Narrative as a Research Method: Community Collaboration, Vernacular Voice, by Prof. Robert Irwin, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte; Tijuana, BC.
2016. Post-photography, by José Luis Osiris Arias. Relaciones Inesperadas; Tijuana, BC.
2014. The necessity of the artifice. Comparative history of photography, by Alex Dorfsman. Centro de las Artes de San Luis Potosi; San Luis Potosí, MX.
2014. Permeable methodologies, transmissible strategies (interdisciplinary research in Contemporary Art), by Carmen Cebreros Urzaíz. Relaciones Inesperadas; Tijuana, BC.
2013. The principle of appropriation in the documentary, by Prof. Antonio Weinrichter. Bordocs Foro Documental; Tijuana, BC.