Biography
Visual artist, activist, cultural operator. My creative path revolves around the themes of human mobility, territories, and borders together with grassroots communities and artistic collectives. In 2016 I founded together with Francesco Martone the artistic collective A4C artsforthecommons.
I studied art at the Faculty of Arts of the Universidad Central of Ecuador and at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba, completing my education with a postgraduate diploma at the Royal School of Arts in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2004 I attended a Masters in Cultural Mediation at the Roma 3 University.
I have been living and working between Rome and Quito since 2000. I have participated in various urban and social intervention workshops in Rotterdam, Venice, Barcelona, Quito and Medellin. I was part of the action research group of the CETOJ training project together with the Corporation of Latin Kings and Queens of Ecuador and FLACSO. I am a member of the Mediterranean Cultural Parliament, Lovedifference – Michelangelo Pistoletto and ambassador of the Third Paradise project of the Cittadellarte foundation. I worked in the Cartas de Mujeres – UN Women project, Quito, as an art coordinator and I played the same role in the Sar-san project, participation and community building through art with Roma (gypsy) children and adolescents, in the city of Rome. Winner of the ARTEA Residency, Sudantártica of the Ministry of Culture of Ecuador, 2013. I represented Ecuador at the 56th Venice Biennale of Art in 2011. I participated in the 23rd Sydney Biennale, Australia 2022, the Mediterranean Archipelago Biennale 2022 I was invited to the sixteenth Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador next December 2023 with a work on the theme of democracy.
From 2013 to 2015 I was coordinator of the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito (CAC). From 2016 to 2021 I was Cultural Secretary of IILA, the Italian Latin American International Organization. In these contexts, I have organized exhibitions and events of contemporary art and heritage in venues such as the National Gallery of Rome, the Pigorini Museum, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Quito, among others.
Curriculum
EDUCATION
2003-2004 Università Roma 3, Italy, Master in Cultural Mediation and Politics.
1996-1998 Kungliga Konsthögskolan, Royal College of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden; postgraduate student at the Printmaking Department.
1995 Intituto Superior de Arte, La Habana, Cuba; printmaking and theory postgraduate courses.
1990-1994 Universidad Central del Ecuador, Faculty of Fine Arts. Colegio Americano de Quito, class of 86
EXHIBITIONS
2022
23rd Sydney Biennale, Rîvus, curated by José Ignacio Roca, Australia.
II BAM Biennale del Mediterraneo, Palermo, Italy.
Overground Resistance, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito. Curator Oliver Ressler.
2021
Have a Wonderful Time, N24 Gallería, Quito.
Historia de un arroyo, Tālo Galería, Cuenca, Ecuador.
NOmade Biennale, MAAC, Museo de Antropología y Arte, Guayaquil,curated by Francis Naranjo.
2017
Cancel Erase Delete, Artstays Festival, Solvenia.
2016
BNL Media Festival. Maxxi, curator Valentino Catricalà, april.
From the Shores of Tripoli to the Hills of Moctezuma, Ex- Elettrofonica, Roma, Feb.
2015
Bocs Cosenza, curator Alberto Dambruoso, Cosenza, Italy, October.
Poéticas del presente. Actualidad del arte ecuatoriano, Museo de
Pumapungo, Cuenca, Ecuador, curator José Luís Corazón Ardura
2014
Bienal del Fin del Mundo, La Plata, Ushuaia, Valparaíso, curator
Micol di Veroli, November 2014- February 2015.
Y habían dicho que era un paseo, Galerìa NoMInimo, Guayaquil, curator Pily Estrada.
VII Semana del Videoarte Iberoamericano, Còrdova, Alcàzar, Sevilla, Quito, La Paz, curator Edú Carrera.
2013
MUCHO MÁS AL SUR – VOL II – aproximaciones al paisaje,
curators No Lugar-Arte Contemporaneo, Galeria El
Conteiner, Quito, October.
El Museo del Barrio, Espacio Vacio, Guayaquil, october.
Stupor Mundi, del Archivo del Hielo y otras derivas, Arte Actual
FLACSO, Quito, September.
Ya no es magico el mundo, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Quito, curator Eduardo Carrera, September.
Souvenirs del Ecuador, Centro Cultural Cervantes, Roma, curator
Federica La Paglia, July
Materia Prima, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Quito, a curator
Maria del Carmen Carrion, May.
2012
It’s just a game, Muspac Museo Esperimentale d’arte contemporanea dell’Aquila, curator Martina Sconci, May.
Tutto, Galeria 26cc. Curators Sabrina Vedovotto y Cecilia Casoratti,
Roma, May – June.
Gap Generazioni a Confronto, MAXXI Contemporary Art
Museum, curator Micol di Veroli, Roma, March.
Cartas de Mujeres, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Quito, Ecuador, curator Ana Rodriguez and Edu Carrera, March.
“Mi Casa es tu Casa” Casa delle Letterature, Rome, curator
Laura Estrada Prada, February.
100% Periferia, Pallazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, curator
Donatella Pinocci, February.
2010
II Latin American Film Festival, Beirut, Lebanon, October.
V Latin American Film Festival, Roma, October.
While Not in Rome, Esthia, Rome, curator Christina Heger,
septiembre.
Entre Siempre y Jamas, 54th Venice Biennale, curator Alfons
Hug, Venice, june – november.
Motion of a Nation, Galleria V.M.21, curator Antonio Arevalo, Roma, March.
Señales Rojas, Instituto Italo Latinoamericano, Rome,
November, curator Patricia Rivadeneira, November. VARIACIONES SOBRE LA MOVILIDAD HUMANA, Museo de la Memoria y la Tolerancia, Alameda Central, Mexico City, Jorge Salgado Curator, November.
MIGRALAB, Ceroinspiracion, Quito, Ecuador, October. Festarte, International Video Festival, MACRO La Pelanda, September, Roma.
Videholica Film Festival, Varna, Bulgaria, Juy
Quito en Zaragoza, Zona de Obras, Giuramento, Zaragoza,
May, curator Paúl Rosero.
DE FRENTE Y PERFIL: retratos antropológicos en México y Ecuador, Arte Actual, Quito, curator Maria Fernanda
Troya, March.
Cadaver Exquisito Video, Bay Window Project, September, London.
Cadaver Exquisito Video, Cinema Aquila, March, Rome.
Cadaver Exquisito Video, Project Room Arte Actual, February, Quito.
2009
Optica Video Festival, Gijon, Spain, Curator Maria Belen
Moncayo, November.
Los Rostros de la Migracion-Els Rostres de la Migraciò,
Palau Robert, Barcellona, Curator Malena Bedoya , November.
Señales Rojas, Instituto Italo Latinoamericano, Roma, October, Curator Patricia Ribadeneira. Cinemambiente Torino, Fundación Sandretto di Rebaudengo, October, Curator Silvia Cirelli.
Memorabilia, X Bienal Internacional de Cuenca, Ecuador,
October, Curator, Jose Antonio Noceda.
Birds of passage, Matera, Italy, curator Federica La Paglia, May.
Aequatorlab V.4, X Bienal de la Habana Eventos Colaterales, Cuba, March. Simonetta Lux e Domenico Scudero, curators.
2008
Video Fest, encuentro de artistas audiovisuales, Córdoba, Argentina, November.
30 años de otro arte, Centro Cultural Itchimbia, curator Lenin
Oña, Quito, November.
11th Freewaves Internacional Video Festival, Los Angeles, October.
EMERGENZE CREATIVE, Museum of the city of Ravenna,
curator Silvia Cirelli, October.
Archetypos, Museo de Antropología y arte contemporaneo del
Ecuador, curator, Guayaquil, September.
NeMe, Internacional Video Festival, Cyprus, september. Aequatorlab V.3 , Archivo Sur, Futura Gallery, curator Antonio Arevalo, Prague, September.
Aequatorlab V.3 , Galeria Arte Actual, Quito, July.
ReALISMOS RADICALES, Museo del Banco Central Quito, curator Ana Rodríguez, May.
Loop Video Festival, Barcelona, May.
Video Latino, MIART 08, Milan, curador, , April.
Aequator V.2, Museo Laboratorio de Arte Contemporaneo, Rome, curator Domenico Scudero, Febbruary.
2007
Latino Latino, Trip Gallery, Naples, curator Raffaella
Guidobbono, February.
Container ARt 2007, Enzimi 07 Talents OUT!, Rome, Jerusalem, Luisa Castellini, curator, Dec.
Coexistence, NoRio, New York, DIc. Raùl Martinez and,
curators.
Cortofonino Film Festival, Terni, Italiy, December.
Parallax. New Visual Tendencies Festival Belgrade. Dec. Maja
Cric, Raùl Martinez and , curators.
Femlink, Instants Video, Caracas, Nov.
Attack, VAD FESTIVAL Electronic Arts, Girona, Spain,
October.
AEQUATOR, 5th Siart Biennale, La Paz, Bolivia, October.
Atlante Latinoamericano, Foro Nacional de las Culturas, Monterrey Mexico, Antonio Arévalo, curator. September. Des-figuraciones, Salon Nacional Mariano Aguilera, Quito, May, Carlos Rojas, curator.
S/ago/me 547, Ministry of Foreign Affaires, Rome, Jan.
Artbus, ARCO 07, Madrid, February.
Femlink, RESISTANCE, video collage, various venues, February.
2006
V Festival arte en la calle, Quito, Dec.
Freewaves, 10th Biennial Festival of Film, Video and
Experimental New Media, Los Angeles, Nov.
Diva art fair, Paris, special project, by Antonio Arévalo, Oct.
III Inter-American Biennial of Video Art, Washington D.C.
ENZIMI FESTIVAL 2006, Forte e Chiaro, Rome, Sept.
Attack, III Biennale di Arti Nuove, RAID, curator Antonio
Arévalo, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, August.
Roma Design +, Culture Hibride, curator Federica
Lapaglia, ExMagazzini Generali, Rome, June.
2005
Agua Universo Cultural, YAKU Museo del Agua – Quito,
curators Monica Vorbeck and Trinidad Perez, Quito, Dec. Arte Città Società, Fondazione Città dell’Arte Michelangelo Pistoletto, Venice Internacional, University, Venice, Sept.
LA MOSSA DELLE IDEE – Videodays 2, Sala Santa Rita, Roma, curator Fiammetta Strigoli, Sept.
Feel at Home, artwork and interventions at 317 So. Van Ness, San Francisco, California, curator Maria del Carmen Carrión, August.
Ocaso Latino Americano “notte dei poeti”, performance, 51
Venice Biennale, curator Antonio Arévalo, July.
Acción Directa, curator Marco Scotini, Lucca, Italy,May.
S/ago/me 547, Traforo di Vía Nazionale, Roma, marzo.
2004 Rojo, Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico curator Jose Ignacio Roca, Decemer.
LA MOSSA DELLE IDEE – Videodays 2, Cinema Alfieri
Atelier, Florence, curator Fiammetta Strigoli, December.
Biennale Adriatica Arti Nuove, San Benedetto del
Tronto, Italia, curator Antonio Arévalo, July.
Designed for Livin’, Centro de Extension, Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, curator Antonio Arévalo, July. Produciendo Realidad, Chiesa di San Matteo, Lucca, Italia, curator Marco Scotini, June.
VI Salon Internacional de arte Digital, Pablo de la Torriente
Abreu, Havana, Cuba, June.
Rojo, Semana del Ecuador en Gènova, Casa America, Génova, May
Migranti, Foier Auditorium Parco della Musica, Roma,
January.
VIII Bienal Internacional de Cuenca, International selection. Cuenca Ecuador, March. Curator Monica Vorbeck.
2003
Inchiostro Indelebile / Impronte a regola d’arte, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, November. Mostralonga, Festival Citt@rt, Venice, November.
V Salon Internacional de arte Digital, Pablo de la Torriente
Abreu, Havana, Cuba, June.
DNA “DIESEL NEW ART”, Stockholm, Sweden, May. Upperground, Facoltà di Architettura – Rome 3 (ex mattatoio), May.
FotoGrafia, II Photo Festival Rome, Calcio di Rigore, curator
Antonio Arévalo, Rome, Italy, May.
Archiviosud, Videogalleria Aleph, Rome, curators Antonio
Arévalo and Maria Cristina Bastante, April.
Upperground, University Campus, 8th DISTRIOT SPITALGASSE 2, Vienna, Austria, April.
No Money – No Honey, Area contenitore d’arte contemporanea, curator Antonio Arévalo Palermo, Italy, January.
2002
Fratelli d’Italia, Galeria El Conteiner, Quito, curator Antonio
Arévalo, Quito, November.
Which reality?, Galeria Edo city, curator Sabrina Vedovotto, Rome, Italy, July.
Da New York a Santiago del Cile, FotoGrafia 1Festival di fotografia di Roma, curator Antonio Arévalo, Roma, June.
Andata e ritorno, Galeria ARTCO, Lima, Perù, April.
III Bienal Iberoamericana de Lima, curator Betty Wapenstein, Lima, Peru, April.
Andata e ritorno, Casa Hispanoamericana, Milan, Italiy,
March.
Visiones del arte digital del Ecuador, Centro Cultural
Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru, January.
2001
Bienal Itinerante de arte acontecimiento, Cuzco, Peru, October.
La Huella del Grabado, Centro Cultural Universidad Católica
de Quito,Quito, Ecuador. August.
Visiones del arte digital del Ecuador, Aliance Francaise, Asunción, Paraguay, July.
Mis Mujeres, Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Rome, Italy, May.
Visiones del arte digital del Ecuador, Aliance Francaise,
Buenos Aires, Argentina, April.
La mujer en la plástica ecuatoriana, Casa de America,
Madrid, Spain, March.
2000
Grabado Ecuatoriano, 2 Bienal Internacional de Lima,October.I Salón de Jóvenes Fotógrafos, Bogotá Colombia, June.Mis Mujeres, Encuentros Abiertos de Fotografía, Galería Arte x Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March.
On the Line: Arte Digital del Ecuador, Foto Fest 2000, Galveston, TX, USA, March.
Art Wired International, Foto Fest, University of Houston- Down Town, Houston, TX USA March, award.
1999
On the line: Arte Digital del Ecuador, Foto Septiembre at
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX USA.
September.
Contemporary Ecuadorian Photography, The Camera Club,
NY, USA, July.
Real Unreal, Gallery Atelier 35, digital prints, Bucharest,
1998
Romania, April.
¡Ay Dios! ampárame, Bar Café El Pobre Diablo, Quito,
Ecuador, November.VI International Art Biennale Cuenca,
Cuenca, Ecuador, November.
Extranjeros, Galería Art Forum, Quito, Ecuador, March.
EXPERIENCE
2016- present
Co Founder A4C ArtsForTheCommons
2016-2020 Cultural Vice Secretary at IILA _Rome
2013_2015 Director Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, CAC.
2012 Sarsan Project, participatory processes through
2011-2012 art for Roma children and adolescents ,Tor Sapienza,
Rome, participatory video and documentation. Cartas de Mujeres Project, UN Women, Giz,
20011-2012 artistic direction and documentary, Quio.
Advisor at Ceroinspiracion, arte+residencias, Quito
2009 -2010 Advisor Secretaria Nacional del Migrante, SENAMI,
2008
Rome, Italy. (Ecuadorian Migration Ministry)
Audio visual coordinator, CETOJ project, FLACSO,
2006-2007
Quito.
Teacher for European project MU-SE
1998-2000
Printmaking lecturer at Universidad San Francisco
1994-2000
de Quito (Fine Arts Faculty)
Printmaking lecturer at Pontificia Universidad
1994-1995
Católica del Ecuador, Architecture, Design and
Fine Arts Faculty.
Academic coordinator at Catholic University, Quito.
FILMS
2012 Cartas de Mujeres, documentary, 30min, GIZ, Ecuador.
2010 LK 360, documentary, Cetoj – Flacso, 85min.
2007 Permit of Stay, 2min Femlink video collage, various venues and countries.
Oldplast, short documentary, 12 min, Latino Latino, Naples.
2006
11th Environmental Festival,Turin.
Forte e Chiaro, short, 5 min. Roma Medfest 2006. G2,
short, 10 min. Moustafa Sohuir Prize, Italy.
2005
Tudo, short, 5 min, III IDB Video Art Biennale,
La Polverera, documentary, 30 min, !0th Freewaves
Festival, L.A., Roma Medfest 2006, NY
INDEPENDENT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL, NY;
FIKE 2005 – Évora International Short Film Festival,
Portugal, Mediterraneo Video Festival 2005, Paestum;
Italia XXVII Festival Internazionale CINEMA e DONNE
“Ma l’amore no” – Firenze, Ciampino Film Festival,
TekFestival, Rome; Edge Festival, Rome,2006,
2004
Intermundia 2006, Rome.
TO BE OR TO FAO, documentary, 32 min, 40th
International Pesaro Film Festival, Italy, June
