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Natalia Lassalle-Morillo (b. Río Piedras, Puerto Rico)
natalia.lassalle.m@gmail.com
Education
2020 Directing, Theatre, California Institute of the Arts , Master of Fine Arts
2013 Experimental Theatre Wing, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, Bachelor of Fine Arts
2012 International Theatre Workshop, Tisch School of the Arts and Amsterdam School of the Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fellowships & Residencies
2023 Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
2023 INARU MARU, Baja California Sur, MX
2022 MassMoca Studio Residency, Puerto Rican Artist Fellowship
2022 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington DC
2022 Amant Foundation, Brooklyn, NYC
2021/2022 KADIST/PAOS GDL, Museo Cabañas y Museo de Arte de Baja California Sur, MX
2018 Konvent; Cal Rosal, Cataluña
2018 La Espectacular at Galería Diagonal; Santurce, Puerto Rico
2017 Miami Theatre Center Sandbox Residency; Miami, Florida
2016 Miami Light Project, Here and Now Residency; Miami, Florida
2016 Fonderie Darling, Latin American Artist Residency; Montréal, Canada
2015 Lake Studios; Berlin, Germany
Awards & other recognitions
2021 Foundation of Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant
2020 Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grant
2020 KM 0.2 Cuarentena Grant
2019 Artist Grant, National Association for Latino Arts and Culture
2016 Miami Film Development Project Women’s Film Fund Recipient
2015 El Serrucho Grant Recipient, Beta-Local, Puerto Rico
2015 Jennylin Duany Light Bulb Fund Recipient
2012 Gilman International Scholar Grant Recipient
Selected Theatre (Directing) and Performance Projects
2025 En Parábola
2021 An Atlas to The Night and Other Electric Flowers, by Marigloria Palma
2020 Calígula, California Institute of the Arts, CA
2019 Antígona, Walt Disney Modular Theatre, Valencia, CA
2018 – (ongoing) EN PARABOLA / Conversations on Tragedy , Galería Diagonal, Santurce, Puerto Rico
2018 Shakespeare’s MACBETH, California Institute of the Arts, CA
2017 RETIRO, Miami Theatre Center, Miami, Florida
2016 IRMA, Miami Light Project, Miami, Florida
2015 ON DROWNING, Dixon Place, New York, NY
2015 DROWNING PART I, Lake Studios, Berlin
2014 A STUDY IN COHABITATION, Inkub8, Miami, FL
2013 WIMMIN, Glasshouse ArtLifeLab, Brooklyn, NY
2013 EN TRANSITO, Tisch School of the Arts, NY
Films / Multichannel Installation Films
2025 En Parábola ( film, multichannel film and performance, in progress)
2022 El Camino Donde Nosotros Lloramos, in collaboration with Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol
2021 Foreign in a Domestic Sense , collaboration with Sofía Gallisá Muriente
2020 Matter of Waiting / la materia de la espera
2020 Paro / Tríptico : 7/19 ( multi-channel film, in progress)
2020 Retiro (ongoing, film and multi-channel video)
2019 holguín, hialeah (film and multi-channel video)
2018 La Ruta, (film and multi-channel video)
2015 Artesano, (documentary film)
2014 Tarifa, (documentary film, Spanish Ministry of Culture)
Solo Exhibitions
2024 En Parábola, Amant Foundation, Curated by Ruth Estévez and Isabella Nimmo
2023 Foreign in a domestic sense, Museo de Arte Conemporáneo, Puerto Rico
2021 Libreto escrito, aún no existe , Hidrante, Santurce, Puerto Rico
2018 Baches / Potholes, Squeaky Wheel Media Center, Buffalo, NY
2018 La Ruta del Progreso, Pública , Santurce, Puerto Rico
2018 Retiro, in collaboration with Beta-Local, Puerto Rico
2018 Retiro, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, QC
Group Exhibitions
2024 Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York
2023 Video Brasil Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
2023 Entangled Spaces, Conversations on Contemporary Art in the Caribbean, MoCa Taipei, Taiwan
2022 Unraveling the (Under-)Development Complex or Towards a Post- (Under-) Development Interdependence, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2022 Meeting Points, Port-Au-France, Matinique ; Curated by Marianna De Marzi/Cassandre Langlois
2022 Unraveling the (Under)-Development Complex, or Towards a (Post) Underdevelopment Interdependence, SAAVY Contemporary, Berlin
2021/2022 Enterrar los pies en el paisaje, Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX
2021 Reensamblaje, Bienal de Fotografía, TEA Tenerife, Islas Canarias, Spain
2021 Constant Storm, South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
2020 The Backroom, virtual presentation, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MX
2020 Temporal, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
2019 Imagen Inquieta, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC), San José, Costa Rica
2019 Will you still love me tomorrow?, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
2019 It will never become quite familiar to you, Oolite Arts, Miami, FL
2019 Topologies of Excess, Contemporary art in Puerto Rico and the Diaspora, Harold J. Miossi Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
2018 Creença, Konvent, Cal Rosal, Cataluña, Spain
2018 Isla Imaginaria, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Caribbean Research Center, part of Open Air Prisons at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles
2011 Espacios Simulados, Viejo Arsenal de la Marina Española, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Festivals & Individual Screenings
2022 Foreign in a domestic sense, Blackstar Film Festival
2022 Foreign in a domestic sense, Flaherty Seminar
2021 Paro Tríptico, Proyecciones Caseras, curated by Akili Tomassino, Puerto Rico
2020 La Ruta, Regiones Festival, Brooklyn, New York
2020 La Ruta & Retiro, Cine Nueva Onda, Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles, CA
2019 holguín, hialeah, Family Style, Oolite Arts + Supplement Projects, Miami, Florida
2019 Retiro, Proyecto Girasol, Santiago, Chile
2018 La Ruta, Third Horizon Caribbean FIlm Festival, Miami, Florida
2016 Artesano, Ciclo de Cine Caribeño, Museo de San Juan, Puerto Rico
Presentations, Talks, Conferences
2022 Reimagining Land From a Distance, Amant Foundation
2022 Geografías Afectivas, Museo Cabañas
2021 In the Studio, Americas Society of Arts, NYC
2020 Behind the Lens: Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
2020 Regiones Festival, Artist Talk: Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Poncili Creación, Kai Custodio and Mobey Irizarry in Conversation with Ali Salas
2020 Cine Nueva Onda: Conversation with Natalia Lassalle-Morillo and Mónica Rodríguez, Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles, CA
2019 Family Style, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo + Alvis Hechevarría, Oolite Arts + Supplement Projects, Miami, Florida
2019 La Ruta del Progreso, Conversation with Erika Rodríguez y Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, moderated by Nelson Rivera, Pública, Santurce
2018 En Parábola, conversation with Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Awilda Sterling and Gloria Morillo,
La Espectacular Residencia, Diagonal, Santurce, Puerto Rico
2016 Artist Talk: Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, QC.
Collections
Teaching
2021-present, Performance and Theatre, Bard College at Brooklyn Public Library
2018-present, Directing , Multimedia & Performance, California Institute of the Arts