Exhibition History:
Nothing is Fixed | Ma’s House, Brooklyn NY, (group) Aug–Oct 2025
I grieve for our gone | Friends of Orphan Signs, Albuquerque NM, (solo) Jan–Mar 2025
Love me like little rabbit | Revolt Gallery, Taos, NM, (solo) August 2024
Selfhood | Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, (group) Jan 2024
WE ARE. HERE TOGETHER. | (solo) Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM, Sept 2023
FUCK THE SYSTEM! | Llorona Chingona the space in-between, TX, Online (group), Mar 2023
CTRL: Fuck That! | Multiple works, El Chante Casa de Cultura, Albuquerque, NM, Nov 2022-Mar 2023
Queer and Trans Joy | Multiple works, N4 Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, Nov-Dec 2022
Bedtime Stories | Coyote & The Star Meow Wolf, Santa Fe, NM (group), Sept 2022
Plantasia | Yucca goes to group Millennium Film Workshop, New York City, NY (group), Sept 2022
I’m Sorry (I cannot hold you) | Vital Spaces, Santa Fe, NM (solo), June-July 2022
WE PROTECT EACH OTHER | Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM (solo), July 2022
the space in between | Yucca goes to group the space in-between TX, Online (group), Oct 2021
Axle Contemporary Summer Performance Series | Tortilla Baby Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe NM (solo), Oct 2021
but when you come from water | Father’s Day performance with yucca flowers The Chapter House LA, Online (group), March 2021
Feminist Art in the Era of Trump | Llorona Chingona Axel Contemporary, Santa Fe NM (group), Sept 2020
REMNANTS: What’s Left Behind | What’s Left of CARTharsis Specto Art Space, Harrisonburg VA (group), Nov 2019
PASEO Festival | Acequia Madre Tours with La Llorona, The Paseo Project, Taos NM (group), Sept 2019
Brown Arts Initiative Grant Show | Am I Brown Enough Yet? Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Providence RI (group), April 2018
¿Se Aculilló? Groundhog Day | Party Pelts 3, Trade Pop-Up, Providence, RI, February 2018
Entropy: Chaos and Order | Party Pelts 2, Brown University Science Center, Providence, RI, October 2017—March 2018
¿Se Aculilló? Are You Scared? | Please Love Me and Soft (performance), AS220, Providence, RI, October 2017
The Piñata Exhibition (Sure to Be a Smash Hit!) | No Mas La Lengua Mata, Dear Diary it’s me Teen Angst, and Nestor, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM, June 2017—March 2018
Brown Arts Initiative Grant Show | What’s Left (traces of Santuario), Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Providence RI (group), April 2017
Touchable Art | Weeds of the West, Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Providence RI (group), April 2017
ATTACH FILES | Paying our debt to society, 50/50, Kansas City, MO, April 2017
Beyond the Pale | CARTharsis (documentation), Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, May 2016
Residencies & Practicums:
Risolana Book Cohort 2025, Albuquerque, NM
Friends of Orphan Signs Symbiosis Residency 2025, Albuquerque, NM
Paseo Project Community Engaged Residency 2024, Taos, NM
Harwood Art Center Art & Social Justice Residency 2023, Albuquerque, NM
Santa Fe Art Institute Labor Residency 2022, Santa Fe, NM
Studio Museum in Harlem Museum Education Practicum 2020, Online
Curatorial:
Charlotte Street Foundation, Visual Artist Awards Juror 2022, Kansas City, MO
New Mexico Arts, Community Arts Development Panelist 2022, Santa Fe, NM
RISD Museum, Public Programs Development 2018, Providence, RI
John Nicholas Brown Center Public Humanities, Gallery LAB Curator of Moonhaus 2018, Providence, RI
David Winton Bell Gallery, Curator of Llevando La Cultura: Conflicting Narratives in Mexican Art 2018, Providence, RI
National Hispanic Cultural Center, Public Programs Development 2017, Albuquerque, NM
David Winton Bell Gallery, Co-curator of Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series 2017, Providence, RI
Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Curator of Santuario 2017, Providence RI
University of Southern California Main Campus, Curator of CARTharsis 2016, Los Angeles, CA
Education:
Brown University, MA Public Humanities 2018, Providence, RI
University of Southern California, BA Cognitive Science, Narrative Studies, and Communications Design 2016, Los Angeles, CA
Awards:
Brown Arts Initiative Grant 2018 for Moonhaus, Providence, RI
Brown Arts Initiative Grant 2017 for Am I Brown Enough Yet?, Providence, RI
Brown Arts Initiative Grant 2016 for Santuario, Providence, RI
Renaissance Scholarship 2016 for interdisciplinary graduate study awarded by USC, LA, CA
Global Scholar 2016 for research abroad awarded by USC, LA, CA
Order of Troy 2016 for contribution to the USC community awarded by USC, LA, CA
Undergraduate Writing Conference First Prize for Analytical Essay 2016 awarded by USC, LA, CA
Turkish Coalition of America Travel Grant 2015 for studying Turkish language and culture awarded by the Turkish Coalition of America, Istanbul, Turkey
speaking:
Santa Fe Playhouse | Skeletal Series shop/talk, Aug 2022
Santa Fe Art Institute | SFAI 140, Jun 2022
Coe Center | Word!, May 2022
Association for the Study of Arts of the Present (ASAP) Conference 12 | Critical Theories & Practices of Softness, Nov 2021
Reviews:
Taos News | Rica Maestas’ Radical Care: Paseo welcomes next artist in residence, August 2024
Santa Fe New Mexican Pasatiempo | Be the balm in the gilead by Michael Abatemarco, July 2022
Santa Fe Reporter | What Becomes Part of You by Alex DeVore, July 2022
The Coastal Post | The Rooms Where We Are Born by Bethany Tabor, 2021
Maine arts Journal | Feminist Art in the Trump Era by Lucy Lippard, 2020
Providence Journal | Revolution and Intrigue by Channing Gray, 2017
Brown Daily Herald | Grad student’s exhibit honors New Mexico landmark by Roland High, Nov 2016
published artwork:
The Round | Sleeplessness and Single and Domestic AF, May 2017 (print)
SOMOS Latinx Literary Magazine | The Final Offering, December 2017
The Round | How Many Hands Does It Take to Hold This Seasons Must Haves?(cover), Domestic Bliss, and Our Lady of Wherever, December 2016 (print)
Make/Shift: Feminisms in Motion | Follow Me (front cover) and Holy Interiors (back cover), June 2016 (print)
Adsum: USC’s Student-Run Literary Magazine |Run-Off, In the Weeds, and Burn Me, April 2013
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