Education
- M.A. Performance Studies, New York University (2026)
- M.F.A. Visual Arts, New Genres, Columbia University, 2021
- B.A. Art History, Wesleyan University, 2015
Research
I’m interested in Latinx ontology, metaphysics, archival practices, and the politics of visibility as frameworks to explore assimilation and memory. My work moves between autobiography and speculation, using humor to probe the ethics of reenactment and self-representation.
In particular, I’m interested in carceral aesthetics and state visuality: the domestic and transnational circulation of images of incarceration, and the political work that circulation performs. My research on El Salvador looks at how power is exercised through images, headlines, and the interpretive habits of the West, situating this within a longer genealogy in which El Salvador has been repeatedly rendered visible as crisis and object of interpretation.
My exploration of image-making practices in the Americas also draws me to colonial New Spain and Indigenous-language translation, with a particular focus on Nahua philosophy. I am thinking through Mexica conceptions of pollution and sacrifice as an energy transfusion, and what that relational logic can offer for translation and thinking about images today.
Lately, I’ve been working on a Spanish–English analysis of 17th-century Nahuatl play adaptations by Bartolomé de Alva, and on an ongoing visual research project on carceral aesthetics and viral imagery of Salvadoran prisons.
Publications and Presentations
- “New American Paintings,” Issue #176, Northeast Edition, curated by Laura Phipps (2025)
- “Why Would Anyone Need to be a Different Person?” MODA Critical Review, Ellipses #2 (2021)
Presentations & Talks
- Moderator, We are the People Who Leap in the Dark, Latinx Project Graduate
Symposium (2026) - Get on the Couch, PRAXIS, INC., NYU Performance Studies Department (2026)
- David Humphrey’s Radio Show (2025)
- In conversation with Tamara Khasanova, White Columns Online (2023)