Exhibition History:
Declaration of Incongruence, 1415 Gallery, Albuquerque, NM (group) Jul 3–31 2026
Hares on the Mountain, Desert Mystery Center, Albuquerque, NM (group) Mar 20–May 31 2026
Expansion, Revolt Gallery, Taos, NM (group) Mar 6–Apr 11 2026
The Search for Radiance in the Grotesque, Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (group) Feb 27–Apr 4 2026
Laughing doesn’t need your help | Rio Grande River, Albuquerque, NM, (performance) Jul–Aug 2025
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! | the space in-between, TX, Online (group), Mar 2023
CTRL: Fuck That! | El Chante Casa de Cultura, Albuquerque, NM, Nov 2022-Mar 2023
Queer and Trans Joy | N4 Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, Nov-Dec 2022
Bedtime Stories | Meow Wolf, Santa Fe, NM (group), Sep 2022
Plantasia | Millennium Film Workshop, New York City, NY (group), Sep 2022
I’m Sorry (I cannot hold you) | Vital Spaces, Santa Fe, NM (solo), Jun-Jul 2022
WE PROTECT EACH OTHER | Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM (solo), Jul 2022
the space in between | the space in-between TX, Online (group), Oct 2021
Axle Contemporary Summer Performance Series | Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe NM (solo), Oct 2021
but when you come from water | The Chapter House LA, Online (group), Mar 2021
Feminist Art in the Era of Trump | Axel Contemporary, Santa Fe NM (group), Sep 2020
REMNANTS: What’s Left Behind | Specto Art Space, Harrisonburg VA (group), Nov 2019
PASEO Festival | PASEO Project, Taos NM (group), Sep 2019
Brown Arts Initiative Grant Show | Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Providence RI (group), Apr 2018
¿Se Aculilló? Groundhog Day | Trade Pop-Up, Providence, RI, Feb 2018
Entropy: Chaos and Order | Brown University Science Center, Providence, RI, Oct 2017—Mar 2018
¿Se Aculilló? Are You Scared? | AS220, Providence, RI, October 2017
The Piñata Exhibition (Sure to Be a Smash Hit!) | National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM, Jun 2017—Mar 2018
Brown Arts Initiative Grant Show | Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Providence RI (group), Apr 2017
Touchable Art | Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Providence RI (group), Apr 2017
ATTACH FILES | 50/50, Kansas City, MO, Apr 2017
Beyond the Pale | Think Tank Gallery, LA, 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
Awards:
Fulcrum Fund: A grant program of 516 Arts in partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts 2025 for Laughing doesn’t need your help, Albuquerque, NM
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
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, LA, CA
Education:
Brown University, MA Public Humanities 2018, Providence, RI
University of Southern California, BA Cognitive Science, Narrative Studies, and Communications Design 2016, LA, CA
Speaking:
FUSION: arts for a new era | El Palacio Reading and Q&A, Jan 2025
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:
Albuquerque Journal | Bad Bunnies, good art by Logan Royce Beitmen, May 2026
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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