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I live and work between Guadalajara and New York.
I am a Mexican researcher and curator. I am a PhD candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at New York University (NYU), where I completed the Certificate in Culture and Media at the Tisch School of the Arts, with an emphasis on ethnographic film and documentary practices. I hold an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), Bard College. My practice brings together ethnography, curating, and critical museum studies through feminist and political ecology approaches, with an emphasis on collaborative methodologies. My research examines exhibitions, archives, and collections as contact zones and sites of epistemological dispute. I am currently developing Guardianxs del fuego y terror verde (Fire Keepers and Green Terror), a project that approaches fire as an ancestral technology and communal force in the Purépecha Highlands of Michoacán, exploring its political, symbolic, and affective dimensions in contexts of violence and territorial defense.
I have developed projects and collaborations with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (Washington, D.C.), the Museo de Arte Moderno and the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico City), Museo Cabañas (Guadalajara), and the Hessel Museum of Art (New York), as well as with international initiatives such as the Equity for Indigenous Research and Innovation Coordinating Hub (ENRICH) and Local Contexts. I participated in the programs of the Center for Curatorial Leadership and Independent Curators International, and I am 1/4 of the curatorial collective Department of Love.
My research has been supported by the Smithsonian Institution, Mexico’s National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies (CONAHCYT), Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, New York University, and the Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo, among others. In 2021, I received the Ramapo Curatorial Prize.