Inaccesible landscapes
Her work functions as a visual representation of the inherited conflicts that encompass the territory of the southern US and northern Mexico. She focuses on those daily life moments of ambivalence in which death and joy coexist at the same time and place.
Curriculum
Vitae
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2018 - MFA, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM
2018 - BA in studio art, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM
Solo exhibitions
2024 - A trajectory of grief, Women and Their Art, Austin, TX
2023 - The Place Where Clouds are formed, Museo de Art de Nogales, Nogales, Sonora
2019 - The distance was very frightening, Cruces Creatives, Las Cruces, NM
Selected group exhibitions
2023 - The Place Where Clouds are formed, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
2024 - The Place Where Clouds are formed, UA Poetry Center, Tucson, AZ
2018 - Circa Circuit/Contemporary Fabrication, Cruces Creatives, Las Cruces, NM
2018 - Not Only, But Also, University Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM
2018 - Exhibition juried by Cathy Lee Crane, University Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM
2018 - Emergent, Bank of the West, Las Cruces, NM
2017 - AiR Exhibit, Green Olives Arts, Tetouan, Morocco
2017 - Wild Cuts, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 - New Acquisitions, University Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM
2017 - Exhibition juried by Steven Randall, University Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM
2016 - Interjecting Manuscripts, Downtown Las Cruces, Las Cruces, NM
2016 - Exhibition juried by Alejandro Almanza, University Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM
2015 - Making Sense, Art Obscura, Las Cruces, NM, USA
2015 - Speculative Future, Williams Hall, Las Cruces, NM, USA
2013 - Iman, Universidad Autonoma de Durango, Juarez, México