Presented as part of Axle Contemporary’s summer series of performance art, Tortilla Baby is a tenderly absurd performance of viviparity, wherein I built myself in to an horno-like structure in order to be born (or perhaps escape) to ruminate on birth, belonging, and the fraught yet intimate relationship between parents and children.
Axle Contemporary Summer Performance Series | Tortilla Baby Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe NM (solo), Oct 2021
Trying too hard to be Brown
Funded by the Brown Arts Initiative, this series restages, remixes, and riffs on iconic images by Latinx artists in search of an “authentic” “performance” of identity as a queer, mixed-race femme.
Selfhood | Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, (group) Jan 2024
FUCK THE SYSTEM! | the space in-between, TX, Online (group), Mar 2023
but when you come from water | The Chapter House LA, Online (group), March 2021
Feminist Art in the Era of Trump | Axel Contemporary, Santa Fe NM (group), Sept 2020
Brown Arts Initiative Grant Show | Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Providence RI (group), April 2018
The Final Offering
In response to historic preservation changes to El Santuario Chimayo preventing the public engagement that had once made the site so dynamic, I made my final offering.
SOMOS Latinx Literary Magazine | The Final Offering, December 2017
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