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Natalia Lassalle-Morillo (b. Río Piedras, Puerto Rico)

natalia.lassalle.m@gmail.com

www.vimeo.com/natalialassalle

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

2025 Watermill Center, Watermill, NY

2023-2024 Bridging the Divides Fellow, Princeton + Mellon Foundation + Center of Puerto Rican Studies

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

2024 Foreign in a domestic sense, Dazibao, Montréal

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 22a Bienal Sesc_Videobrasil , 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 

Kadist

Teaching

2021-present, Performance and Theatre, Bard College at Brooklyn Public Library

2018-present, Directing , Multimedia & Performance, California Institute of the Arts