The following traces a practice moving between image, space, and community - shaped by migration, constructed worlds, and the question of who is allowed to belong.

EDUCATION

PhD, Art Education, University of Munich, 2012
Visiting Scholar, Raza Studies, San Francisco State University, 2010
Art Therapy & Social Work Studies, Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Freiburg, 2007

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Immigrant Song, Schelfhaudt Gallery, University of Bridgeport, CT, 2026
Beyond Familiar, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Queens, NY, 2025
Rituales de Resiliencia, Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY, 2025
Environmental Justice, Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Queens, NY, 2025
Fungi, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY, 2025
The de Young Open, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, 2020
Yosemite Renaissance 35, Yosemite Museum, CA, 2020

SELECTED PROJECTS & SPATIAL WORKS

Block-long environmental mural, Colegio Villa Per Se, Peru — collaborative work addressing ecological systems and collective responsibility.
Public hospital mural, Roatán, Honduras — site-responsive work integrating cultural narratives and environmental awareness.
Installation, Pittsburg Health Center, CA — layered wood panel work exploring care, interdependence, and embodied memory.
Detention facility mural, Martinez, CA — collaborative project with incarcerated participants engaging visibility, confinement, and identity.
Scenic design, Ars Minerva, San Francisco, CA — large-scale staged environments exploring constructed worlds, narrative space, and power.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Founder & Artistic Director, CULTIVATIVE, San Francisco, CA, 2014–2022
Led international, site-responsive public art projects across the U.S. and Latin America, with a focus on cultural identity, environmental responsibility, and community collaboration.

PUBLICATIONS

Brooklyn Art Library, 2018–2019
Doctoral thesis on cultural identity and community murals, UTZ Verlag, Munich, 2013

AWARDS

Second Best in Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Honorable Mention, Yosemite Museum, CA

PRACTICE

Works across painting, installation, and site-responsive environments, engaging migration, identity, and social justice through dark surreal and narrative forms. Over 20 years of international work in public, institutional, and community spaces.