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Tejano in Chicago. Time traveler working between the Texas borderlands and Mars.


Born in the southernmost point of the United States. The narratives of La Frontera, the frontier, or the Mexican-American Borderlands in The Rio Grande Valley, Texas, guide my practice. Through photography, video, and installation, I collaborate with my father to show the relationship between a father and son amid aerospace manufacturing and the past, present, and future of the brown body on Mars.


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Education

Now    Master of Fine Arts - Art, Theory, Practice, Northwestern University

2021    Bachelors of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2021    Festival University, ARS Electronica and Johannes Kepler University Linz


Awards

2020    Fred Endsley Memorial Fellowship (SAIC)

2019    Deans Grant (SAIC)

2019    Merit Scholarship (SAIC)


Group Exhibitions

2023    El Otro Lado, Filter Photo, Chicago, IL

2022    El Otro Lado, Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas Austin, TX

2021    Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021    SAIC: Spring Undergraduate Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2020    La Frontera: A New LatinX Lexicon, Humble Arts Foundation, Online

 2020    BFA Show 2020, Serving the People, Online

2019    Departures, EOB Projects, McAllen, Texas

2018     Portrait 2019, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo, South Korea

2018    Two Person Show, Galeria 409, Brownsville, Texas

2018    Brownsville Museum of Fine Arts, Brownsville, Texas

2018    Two Person Show, Platform 204, Harlingen, Texas

2018    UTRGV School of Art Juried Exhibition, Upper Valley Art League, Mission, Texas


Screening

2021    My Dreams These Days, Chicago, Illinois


Curatorial

2023    El Otro Lado, Filter Photo, Chicago, IL
2021    Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL

2021    SAIC on View “Issue No.1:Open Call”, Online

Publication

2020    “Untitled 2019” ISBN 978-0-578-66231-2


Public Collection

2019     “Two Clocks Tell Different Times” 2019 at Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Joan M. Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL


Press

2020     The 2020 LENSCRATCH TOP 25 TO WATCH