Selected Awards and Honors

 

  • 2014 Anderson Ranch for the Arts Residency

  • 2013 Recipient of Four Freedoms Fund Innovations Grant

  • 2012 SPIN Academy South Alumna

  • 2011 University of Florida Dr. J. Michael Rollo Diversity Impact Award

  • 2007 Art League of Marco Island Scholarship

 


Institution Building

Owner, NOMADA Graphics & Multimedia, 2012 - Current

NOMADA Graphics & Multimedia is a small graphics design company specializing in designs for print and web. Our company is firmly rooted in the ideals of social justice and is dedicated to to creativity, craft and client satisfaction. We are committed to our clients and to developing designs that are uniquely crafted for their needs.    

 

Co-Founder & Graphics and New Media Director, Collier County Neighborhood Stories Project, 2011 - Current

The Collier County Neighborhood Stories Project is a grassroots effort to engage and empower immigrant community members to enter in
dialogue about the police abuses they have experienced and witnessed in their daily lives. 

 


Selected Exhibitions

Cabeza en las Nubes, 2022
ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2022

Giro Gráfico: Como en el Muro la Hiedra, 2022
Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico 2022

Reconnecting With, 2022
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2022

Red Conceptualismos del Sur: Giro Gráfico, 2022
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain 2022

Queer Rights Are Human Rights: Posters of LGBTQ+ Struggles & Celebrations, 2021
Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Culver City, CA 2021

The Design of Dissent, 2020
MOD, Atlanta, GA 2020

Hear Us Rise - APA Voices in Feminism Exhibit, 2020
Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA 2020

Like the Waters, We Rise: Climate Justice in Print, 2019
Nathan Cummings Foundation, NY, NY 2019

We The Future, 2019
X Gallery, NY, NY 2019

Design for Belonging, 2019
Center for Architecture & Design, Seattle, WA 2019

Alma Alienígena, 2018
Hemispheric Institute, NY, NY 2018

#UndocuJoy, 2018
Citizens Engagement Lab, Oakland, CA 2018

Para Lxs Migrant Queers, 2017
Galeria de La Raza, San Francisco, CA 2017

I Am An Immigrant, 2017
NYC, LA 2017

Here.There.Everywhere: LA Queer Latinx Exhibition, 2017
Los Angeles, CA 2017

Trans Life + Liberation, 2017
Citizen Engagement Laboratory, Oakland, CA 2017

Take This Hammer, 2016
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2016

We Are The Storm, 2015
BUSHEL, NY 2016
Impact Hub/OMI Gallery, Oakland, CA 2015

Visions From the Inside, 2015
Betti Ono Art Gallery, Oakland, CA 2016
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, NY 2016

Carving Through Borders, 2014
Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery, NY 2016
Galeria de La Raza, San Francisco, CA 2015
Museo Del Barrio, NY 2015

Transcending the Margins, 2015
University of California Santa Barbara, CA 2015

UndocuNation, 2015
Atlanta, GA 2015

Art of Migration, 2014
Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL  

Mass Produced: Addressing Bias in the Media, 2014
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL


Somewhere We Are Human, Harper Collins 2022

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, Oxford Press 2022

This Magazine Can Help You Get An Abortion, New York Magazine 2022

Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Tookit for Educators, AK Press 2021

Unlivable Lives, University of California Press 2021

We the Future - Keep Our Families Together, Library of Congress 2020

We the Future Are - Unapologetically Queer, Library of Congress 2020

Down to Earth, New Press 2020

Queer and Trans Migrations: Detention, Deportation and Illegalization, University of Illinois Press 2020

The Art of Protest, Palazzo Editions 2020

Holy Troublemakers & Unconventional Saints, Watchfire Media, Inc 2019

Original Plumbing: Art as Activism, 2017

Madness and Oppression Guide: Mad Maps, Icarus Project, 2017

ExtrACTION: Impacts, Engagements, and Alternative Futures, Kirk Jalbert et al., 2017

Visions of Peace And Justice: Volume II, Inkworks Press, 2015

#TransLivesMatter, Third Woman Press, 2015

Featured Art In Print


Selected Lectures, Workshops and Keynotes

2022

ArtRage Gallery, Cabeza en las Nubes, Featured Artist and Speaker, Syracuse, NY 

University of Southern California, Resistance in Portrait, Speaker, Los Angeles, CA 

2021

Gonzaga University, Art As Resistance, Speaker, Spokane, WA 

Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Panelist, Culver City, CA

Middlebury College, Speaker, Middlebury, VT

2018

Brown University, Undocu-QTPOC Artists Creating Beyond Borders, Panelist, Providence, RI

2017

Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics, Re-imagining Existence: Migrant Artists in Conversation, Panelist, NY 

2015

Dartmouth College, Keynote, Hanover, CT 

University of Texas San Antonio, Workshop, San Antonio, TX 

2014

University of Houston, Art and Social Change, Lecture

Florida Immigrant Coalition Congress, Movement Street Art, Workshop, Fruitland, FL 

2013

University of Florida, Art & Storytelling: Sharing Our Identities, Workshop

University of Florida Hispanic-Latino Collegiate Forum, Identity, Resistance and Transcending Borders, Workshop and Lecture

University of Florida, Out of the Shadows, Keynote