Artist and contemporary craftsperson specializing in set design work and art direction for film and television. I'm drawn to the storytelling potential of objects and the symbols and histories they contain--much like the props and set pieces that make cinematic worlds possible.
My work is deliberately eclectic and often kitschy. I design and build a variety of aesthetic and utilitarian objects, resisting a fixed style in favor of material and technical exploration. Things can hold nostalgia, irony, depth, sentimentality and subversion all at once, making them powerful narrative tools.
BIO/CV
My work has been exhibited in venues including Roman Susan (Chicago), Maddox Arts (London), Ojo Rojo (Bogotá) Prague Academy of Arts (Prague), Cook County Jail (Chicago), Sullivan Galleries (Chicago), and the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago). My film and media work have been exhibited in outlets such as BBC Latin America, Las2Orillas, Exploded View Cinema (Tucson), Ex-TV (Chicago), Ballroom Projects (Chicago) and Cine a La Calle Festival (Barranquilla).
I have worked on projects for HBO (Duster), Canal Telecaribe (Colombia) and Food Network Latin America, among others. Traspatio, a documentary series I co-created with Ismael Egui of Icaro Films, was awarded the It Gets Better Project Global Grant, as well as Best Audiovisual Project grant from IDARTES in Bogotá.
I was the recipient of a Merit Scholarship (2011) and a James Nelson Raymond Fellowship (2014) from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where I received a BFA (Film, Video & New Media) and BA in Visual and Critical Studies in 2015. I attended the Escuela de Artes y Oficios Santo Domingo in Bogotá for a technical degree in woodworking in 2017 and have been focused on craft since 2021. I attended Haystack School of Crafts as a Teaching Assistant for Norman Teague’s workshop “Objects in Narrative Play” and am a graduate of FabLab Barcelona’s Fab Academy where I studied digital fabrication and rapid prototyping!