The Artists

I'm a multidisciplinary artist primarily working in sculpture and performance. In my performance piece "Where I Live Again", I explore themes of identity and spirituality. Through this work, I examine how faith transforms my experiences, especially moments of brokenness, into something that holds meaning.

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In the performance, I use my body to convey the idea of finding beauty within brokenness, revealing a deep awareness of the human condition and our vulnerability. These moments of internal loss create a space where identity feels fragmented and uncertain. Ultimately, the work moves towards transformation and release, as I step into a renewed sense of identity: one shaped by faith, restoration, and the act of living again.

I am an artist whose work focuses on the human body, specifically fat bodies. I use self-portraiture to express my experience as a fat woman, exploring this weight through graphite and ink drawings on paper. I work with small details and repetitive mark-making, focusing on close-up views of my skin and surface, while also incorporating a flat, geometric style. This creates a heavy, bold feeling alongside the focused, intimate quality of the graphite. My goal is to evoke a sense of vulnerability, as well as confidence by presenting my bare figure without surroundings, transforming my previous insecurities into a visual reality that reflects the weight I carry on a daily basis.

I am a multimedia sculpture artist in my figural sculpture series Woman's World, which contains three figures made from cement-soaked textiles. It explores the female lifecycle that we as women and people with reproductive organs are expected to follow, and the weight it bears on us. Growing up in a lineage of resilient women, from my mother to my grandmothers, I have long observed the matriarchal weight placed upon women's shoulders. I have also lived the ways that these expectations drive us as young women towards unattainable goals, stripping us early of our complete freedom to choose. My practice seeks to recognize these unremarked cycles and the strength required to break free of them.

I am an artist working primarily in sculpture, using car parts and domestic objects to create large scale sculptures. My use of materials represents the bond with my father who I worked with at his repair shop from an early age. I chose art as a pathway to challenge myself in figuring out how all the pieces would fit together. Additionally, I find discovering the interplay of balance, and imbalance in my often asymmetrical sculpture fascinating. Essentially, my work aims to display what I love and care about the most: the balance in life, and my relationship with my father.

Being raised in Guatemala City and having lived in cities like Paris and Miami in my adulthood, I learned how to adapt to different cultures along the way. However, my understanding of womanhood has remained deeply rooted in what I was taught growing up. My identity, as a woman feels both inherited and constructed, shaped through generations of expectations, passed down from my mother and her mother before her. Even with the freedoms I have now, there are still unspoken rules about what it means to be "woman enough". Rules that quietly dictate how I should behave, present myself, and exist, especially in relation to others. In my work, I focus on these expectations by observing and documenting them as they naturally occur through everyday, feminine rituals that feel both personal and inherited.

I am a multimedia artist, working across collage, photography and sculpture, often centered around self portraiture. My work draws from my personal experience as a gay man and the emotional discourse that accompanies it. By sharing my internal experiences, I aim to tap into feelings that are widely shared: intimacy, insecurity, self-awareness, and the need to be seen. At its core, my work is an invitation to witness, relate, and celebrate the act of being fully and unapologetically oneself.