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Education

  • 2020 MFA Directing, Theatre, California Institute of the Arts
  • 2013 BFA Acting, Experimental Theatre Wing, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
  • 2012 International Theatre Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (ITW/NYU)

Professional Teaching Experience

  • 2023 Memory-Scripting through the Moving Image | School of Making Thinking, New York City
  • 2022 Professor of Film and Video | Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
  • 2020 Professor of Arts in Practice | Bard College at Brooklyn Public Library
  • 2020 Visiting Professor, Performance and Multimedia | California Institute of the Arts

Residencies, Fellowships, & Commissions

  • 2025 Watermill Center, Watermill, NY
  • 2024 Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist Residency, Headlands, CA
  • 2024 Making Home, Cooper Hewitt Triennial commission, with Sofía Gallisá
  • 2023 Mellon Foundation/CENTRO Bridging the Divides Fellowship
  • 2023 San Juan 721, Santurce, Puerto Rico
  • 2023 Pioneer Works Visual Arts Residency, Brooklyn NY
  • 2023 Inarú Marú, Baja California Sur, MX
  • 2022 Puerto Rican Artist Fellow, MassMoca Studio Residency, North Adams, Massachusetts
  • 2022 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington DC
  • 2022 Amant Artist Residency, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2021 PAOS GDL, Guadalajara, MX
  • 2018 The Harbor, Beta-Local, Puerto Rico
  • 2016 Fonderie Darling American Artist Residency, Montréal, CA

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2024 2024 En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy (Part I), Amant, Brooklyn NY; Curated by Natalia Viera Salgado; organized by Ruth Estévez and Isabella Nimmo
  • 2024 2024 Foreign in a domestic sense, Dazibao, Montreal, Québec
  • 2024 Joint Custody, SlashArt, San Francisco; curated by Amanda Nudelman
  • 2023 Foreign in a domestic sense, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Puerto Rico; curated by Marina Reyes Franco
  • 2021 Libreto Escrito, Aún no Existe, Hidrante, Santurce, Puerto Rico ; curated by José López Serra
  • 2018 La Ruta del Progreso, Pública, Santurce, Puerto Rico; curated by Natalia Viera Salgado
  • 2018 Retiro, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, QC; curated by Ji-Yoon Han

Collective Exhibitions (Selected)

  • 2024 Making Home:Cooper Hewitt Triennial, New York
  • 2024 Dig where you stand, KADIST, Cotonou, Benín
  • 2023 22a Biennale Sesc_VideoBrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • 2023 New Devotions, The Clemente, New York, NY
  • 2023 Once upon a time, El Kilómetro, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • 2023 Entangled Spaces, Contemporary Art in the Caribbean, MoCa Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2022 Unraveling the (Under-) Development Complex or Towards a Post- (Under-) Development Interdependence, SAAVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
  • 2021 Enterrar los pies en el paisaje, Museo Cabañas & Kadist, Guadalajara, México ; Curated by Lorena Peña Brito
  • 2021 Reensamblaje, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Bienal de Fotografía, Islas Canarias, España ; Curated by Teresa Arozena
  • 2021 Constant Storm, Art from Puerto Rico & its Diaspora, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; Curated by Noel Smith and Christian Vivero-Fauné
  • 2020 The Backroom, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MX ; curated by José López Serra
  • 2020 Temporal, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; curated by Dalina Pérdomo
  • 2019 Imagen Inquieta, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC), 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 ; curated by Angélica Arbélaez

Awards and other recognitions

  • 2024 Máquina Simple, Beta Local, Puerto Rico
  • 2024 National Endowment of the Arts, Interdisciplinary Artist Grant
  • 2023 Puffin Foundation Grant
  • 2022 Foreign in a domestic sense, Best Experimental Film, Blackstar Film Festival
  • 2022 Catapult Arts Grant
  • 2021 Foundation of Contemporary Arts, Visual Arts Grant
  • 2019 National Association of Latino Artists and Cultures (NALAC) Artist Grant

Festivals & Individual Screenings

  • 2024 Foreign in a domestic sense, w/ Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami, Florida
  • 2024 Passage of the Spiral, RedCat, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2023 Foreign in a domestic sense, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2023 Foreign in a domestic sense, CounterFlows, Batalha Cinema, Porto, Portugal
  • 2023 Foreign in a domestic sense, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY
  • 2022 Foreign in a domestic sense, Cinema Moderne, Montréal, CA
  • 2022 Foreign in a domestic sense, Flaherty Seminar, Colgate University, NY
  • 2022 Foreign in a domestic sense, BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, USA
  • 2022 Foreign in a domestic sense, Amant, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2021 Retiro, Teorética’s Transoceanic Visual Exchange, Costa Rica
  • 2021 Paro Tríptico, Proyecciones Caseras, curated by Akili Tomassino, Puerto Rico
  • 2020 La Ruta & Retiro, Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles, California

Theatre and Multimedia Performance Projects (Selected)

  • 2026 En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy (Part II & III), Abrons Art Center, New York City, curated by Ali Rosa-Salas
  • 2024 Retiro, performance with Gloria Morillo, Slash Art, San Francisco
  • 2021 The Night and Other Electric Flowers, Center of New Performance, California
  • 2019 Antigone, Walt Disney Modular Theater, Valencia, CA
  • 2018 EN PARABOLA / Conversations on Tragedy, Galería Diagonal, Santurce, Puerto Rico
  • 2017 Retiro, Miami Theatre Center, Miami, Florida
  • 2017 A Study in Cohabitation, Fonderie Darling, Montréal

Presentations, Talks, Conferences

  • 2024 Tactics of Transmission, Vera List Center Conference, New York City
  • 2024 Retiro, Ciclo de Cine Experimental, Departamento de Género, UPR Recinto de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
  • 2024 Sites of Rehearsal, Amant, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2024 Between Memory and Image, Lacey Lennon, Genesis Baez, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, SlashArt, San Francisco, CA
  • 2023 A Threaded Archipelago from the suit of memory, Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • 2023 Sites of Rehearsal, Union Docs, Ridgewood, NY
  • 2023 Herstories and a Collaborative Future Beyond Tragedy, with Iris Morales, Amant, Brooklyn, NYC
  • 2023 Lessons in Living Otherwise, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY
  • 2022 Reimagining Land From a Distance, Amant, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2022 Transoceanic Visual Exchange, Teorética + Fresh Milk, Barbados
  • 2021 Geografías Afectivas, Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX
  • 2021 In the Studio, Americas Society for the Contemporary Arts, New York City
  • 2020 Behind the Lens, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
  • 2020 Cine Nueva Onda: Conversation with Natalia Lassalle-Morillo and Mónica Rodríguez, Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles, California
  • 2018 En Parábola, conversation with Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Awilda Sterling and Gloria Morillo, La Espectacular Residencia, Santurce, Puerto Rico
  • 2016 Artist Talk: Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, QC

Publications (texts written by me)

  • 2023 Documentando lo indocumentable, Observatorio de Lagunas, Editorial Emergente
  • 2023 Slow dancing together, written with Sofía Gallisá Muriente for Springerin, 2023
  • 2023 A Region in the Mind: Terrenos y Cuentos; G. Rosa-Rey in Conversation with Natalia Lassalle Morillo, Latinx Project, Spring 2023
  • 2021 Border Theatrics, Dolce Still Criollo