BIO

 

I am a queer Latinx visual artist, sound artist, and performer, currently living in the land of the Coast Salish peoples – Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam (also called Vancouver/Canada in its colonial statement).

 

Here, I research intersections between new media, performance, and cultural identities, and I organize Durations, an independent sound art + video art festival. I work at Massy Arts Gallery, in Vancouver's Chinatown, as a curator + arts coordinator, and at Emily Carr University as a Research Assistant for New Media + Sound Art.

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Academically, I hold a Master’s degree in Visual Arts - Contemporary Artistic Processes and two graduate certificates in Contemporary Literature and Semiotics, researching anti-colonial + anti-capitalist poetic practices, identity-based politics, and political counterattacks through artistic work. Currently, I am pursuing a degree in New Media + Sound Art at Emily Carr University of Arts + Design.
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*Text last updated in March 2024

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ARTISTIC RESUME

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

 

• 08 years of experience in Visual Arts, Education and Communications

• 08 years of experience working with independent art collectives, and independent art spaces

• 05 years of experience teaching Visual Arts, Art History, Poetry, Humanities, and Critical Theory

 

• Master’s degree in Visual Arts - Contemporary Artistic Processes (2016) with dissertation on anti-capitalism practices in Visual Arts, artistic autonomous zones, decolonial artivism and urban art; and graduate degrees in Contemporary Literature (2018), and Semiotics (2012)

 

• Currently pursuing a bachelors’ degree on New Media + Sound Art at Emily Carr University (2026)

 

• Winner of the following grants: British Columbia Arts Council / Individual Arts Awards – Professional Performing Artists Grant (2022), British Columbia Arts Council / Scholarship Awards (2022), City of Vancouver's Creative Spark Grant (2022), Vancouver Downtown Eastside Arts Grant (2022), Canada Council for the Arts - Research and Creation Grant (2023), British Columbia Arts Council / Individual Arts Awards – Visual Artists Grant (2023), and the Y.P. Heung Foundation Post-Secondary Award (2023)

 

• Through my work as a curator + arts coordinator at Massy Arts Gallery, between 2021-2023 I have organized over 10 exhibitions and 80 cultural events, such as artistic workshops, poetry reading events, book launches, public lectures, and artist talks with emerging and established local and national artists + organizations + universities

 

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Research Assistant / (New Media + Sound Art department)
2024 - Current  /  Basically Good Media Lab at Emily Carr University

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Mentor Artist + Artist Apprenticeship Coordinator / Media Arts + Sound Art
2023 - Current  /  Ideas To Make The World Bearable, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts

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Curator + Community Arts Coordinator
2021 - Current  /  Massy Arts Society  + Massy Arts Gallery / Vancouver, Canada 

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Artist in Residence
2019 (March) - Current  /  Lote84 Gallery /  Brazil 

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Dean / Bachelor's Degree in Communications
2014 / 2019  -  UNIFEBE - University of Brusque / Brazil 

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Artistic Director + Grant Writer + Project Coordinator
2012  /  2019  -  Hiato Art School and Hiato Book Publisher / Brazil
 
Instructor / Communications, Graphic Design, Game Design, Fashion Design
2014 / 2019  -  UNIFEBE - University of Brusque, Brazil 
 

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EDUCATION

 

Bachelor’s Degree – Media Arts / New Media + Sound Art, at Emily Carr University

Current (Class of 2026)  /  Vancouver, Canada

 

Graduate Certificate – Contemporary Literature, at Gama Filho University

2018  /  São Paulo, Brazil 

 

Master’s Degree – Visual Arts (Contemporary Artistic Processes Program), at UDESC University

2016  /  Santa Catarina, Brazil 

 

Graduate Certificate – Semiotics, at Braz Cubas University

2012  /  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 

 

Bachelor’s degree – Communications, at Univali University

2010  /  Santa Catarina, Brazil

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LATEST COURSES

 

Interactive Media Cultures (36h)   /  2024  /  Vancouver, Canada

Creative Electronics (36h)  /  2024  /  Vancouver, Canada
New Media + Sound Art Studio III (72h)  /  2024   /  Vancouver, Canada
Sound Essentials (36h)  /  2023  /  Vancouver, Canada
New Media + Sound Art Studio II (72h)  /  2023  /  Vancouver, Canada
Multilingual Approaches to Writing (36h)  /  2023  /  Vancouver, Canada
New Media + Sound Art Studio I (72h)  /  2023  /  Vancouver, Canada
Video Essentials (36h)  /  2023  /  Vancouver, Canada
Digital Photography (36h)  /  2023  /  Vancouver, Canada
Multimedia + Interdisciplinary Studio (72h)  /  2022  /  Vancouver, Canada
Creative Process (36h)  /  2022  /  Vancouver, Canada

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LATEST ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE  /  EXHIBITIONS + PROJECTS + AWARDS

 

Bodyscapes: Rebellion + Revolution
Curator / Group Show at Massy Arts Gallery / Vancouver, Canada / February 2024

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Durations - A Sound Art Exhibition
Curator + Media Artist  / Group Show at the RBC Gallery / Vancouver, Canada / January 2024

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Bestiary
Visual Artist  / Woo Publication / Vancouver, Canada / December 2023

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A Body Remembers
Curator + Media Artist  / Group Show at the RBC Gallery / Vancouver, Canada / November 2023

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The Anxious Heart
Media Artist  / Xinema - Group Screening at VIFF / Vancouver, Canada / November 2023

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Body : Infected
Media Artist + Performer  / Group Show / Neighborhood Gallery / Vancouver, Canada / September 2023

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Body : Infected
Media Artist + Performer  / Foundation Show at Emily Carr University / Vancouver, Canada / August 2023

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Body : Infected
Media Artist + Performer  / Cosmic Queerites, Community Screening /

Xinema + Vancouver International Film Festival + EPFC North / Vancouver, Canada / July 2023

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Open Studio / Blackout Poetry
Artist + Educator  /  Workshop for the Contemporary Art Gallery - CAG /

Vancouver, Canada / Aug 2023

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Queer Manufacture
Media Artist + Filmmaker  /  Solo Exhibition at Massy Arts Gallery / Video installation /

Vancouver, Canada / July 2023

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Anthropophagy
Media Artist + Filmmaker  /  XINEMA Series / Program 9 /

Vancouver International Film Festival / Short-film / Video collage / Vancouver, Canada / July 2023

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Body : Infected
Media Artist + Performer  / Queers in Space, Collective Exhibition /

Vancouver Queer Arts Festival + James Black Gallery / Vancouver, Canada / July 2023

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Ferocious Teeth: Investigating the Queer Body through Latinx Politics
Media Artist + Screenwriter + Performer  / British Columbia Arts Council Grant / Research in Screenwriting, Spoken Poetry, Sound + Video Art, and Latinx Theory / Vancouver, Canada / 2023

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Letters from the South Sun: Connections on Latinx Theory + Mail Art
Media Artist  / Grant Project / Mail Art guerrilla action supported by the

DTES Arts Grant / Vancouver, Canada / May 2023

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What The Anxious Heart Desires
Visual Artist + Filmmaker  /  ECUAD RBC Media Gallery / Duo Exhibition /

Vancouver, Canada / March 2023

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Latinx Perceptions: the poetic/political life
Media Artist + Filmmaker  /  British Columbia Arts Council / Visual Arts Grant Project /

Vancouver, Canada / Oct 2022 - Apr 2023

 

Little King
Media Artist + Filmmaker  /  XINEMA Series / Program 5 / Vancouver International Film Festival /

Short-film / Video collage / Vancouver, Canada / Feb 2023

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Aftermath 
Visual Artist /  VIBGYOR / Group Exhibition at ECUAD’s Neighborhood Gallery /

Paper collage, printmaking, installation / Vancouver, Canada / Feb 2023

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Little King
Media Artist + Filmmaker/  V i d e o S o u n d A r c h i v e / Season 6 / Short-film /

Video collage / Vancouver, Canada / Feb 2023

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A Wish To Voice
Curator /  Massy Arts Gallery / Group Exhibition / Vancouver, Canada / Nov 2022 - Jan 2023

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Ideas to Make The World Bearable
Media Artist + Filmmaker  /  ECUAD RBC Media Gallery / Duo Exhibition /

Vancouver, Canada / Oct 2022 - Nov 2022

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The Hybrid Machine
Curator /  Massy Arts Gallery / Collective Exhibition
Vancouver, Canada / May 2022 - June 2022