CV
Born in Lima, Peru.
Lives and works in London.
Publishing writer and commissioning artist.
Lecturer in Fine Arts, Goldsmiths University of London.
Co-director of not.nowhere, an artist run coop focusing on analogue film.
Member of the advisory board for The 87 Press.
Currently
Writer in Residence Whitechapel Gallery 2024-2025Upcoming
Film screening Oct 2025, Folkestone TriennialExhibition Nov 2025,
Herbert Read Gallery
Education
2008-2011BA Art Practice
Goldsmiths, University of London
2007-2008
Foundation in Fine Art Diploma
Byam Shaw School of Art, University of the Arts, London
2003-2004
MA Visual Cultures
CARTE, University of Westminster, London
1997-2002
BA Media Studies (Science of Communication)
University of Lima, Peru
Awards
Unlimited Practice Development Grant, January 2025Unlimited Practice Development Grant, April 2023
a-n Artist Bursary for practice development, February 2023
Microgrant Award for International Collaboration, Unlimited and British Council, 2022
Arts Council England Grants for the Arts, (be)longing project, 2019
The Elke Lacey Award, Goldsmiths University of London, 2011
Residencies
Hospitalfields, Writing residency, August 2025FORMA Arts and Media, Studio Residency supported by Unlimited, Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
European Alternatives and British Council, OrganizmoBloom Residency programme, Colombia, 2022
Artquest WFH Residency, 2020
Serpentine Gallery Education Projects, Writing the City - Language and Power, 2018
Associate Artis Holding Space programme at The Showroom, 2017 - 2018
TYS Project Space, Copenhagen, 2014
Solo Shows
Howl Sigh Sing, An Tobar, Isle of Mull, April 2022(Be)longing, CUSTOM, Folkestone. October 2019
Fluid Warp Generator, Ladette Space, London. March - April 2014
All across a shattered sky, Jubilee Gallery, Nagoya, Japan. October 15 to 30, 2013
Selected
Group Shows
Archipelago Visions in Orbit, Whitechapel Gallery, 2024-2025Dawn, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, 2023
YOYI! Care Repair Heal, Visions Programme, Gropius Bau, Berlin 2022
There’s Something In The Conversation That Is More Interesting Than The Finality of (A title), The Showroom, London 2018
Fugitive Desires, 198 Contemporary Arts, London 2017
Reinterpretando a Cristina Galvez, Casa O'Higgins, Lima, 2016
8bit, Kingsgate Gallery, London, 2013
No Doubt What It Saw, The Vaults, VSR Collective, London, 2013
Hyperrealz, Bruno Glint Gallery, London, 2012
GLOSS, Grey Area Gallery, Brighton, 2011
Goldsmiths Undergraduate Degree Show, London, 2011
Selected Performances
Soothsayer, Whitechapel Gallery, April 2025Gorgeous, Whitechapel Gallery, January 2025
Aerology - of clouds, chemtrails and condensation, expanded film performance with live feed, Terra Incognita Film Festival, Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam, July 2024
You can Call me Horse, Whitechapel Gallery, 2024
Rubus, The Only Lasting Thing is Change, Bergen Senter for Elektronisk Kunst, 2022
Rubus, Hospitalfields, 2022
(be)longing, Something held in the mouth, Custom, Folkestone, 2019
Coppice and Drought, curated by Taylor Le Melle, Wysing Arts Centre, 2019
Pequeña Casa de la Esperanza (e/invoking Pizarnik), commissioned for Stucco Echoes a Mouth Trembling of The Frame, Peer Gallery, 2019
(Be)longing, Intimate and Future Desires, 198 Contemporary Arts, 2017
Fruit Joy, SPILL FESTIVAL, National Platform, Ipswich, 2016
The Sun, commissioned by Bow Arts on the occasion of Boo Bah, an exhibition of works by Mary Barnes, The Nunnery, 2015
FT reading 2, Steakhouse Live at Hackney Wicked, 2014
Squaring the Circle, experimental sound session, Lewisham Arthouse, 2014
Totemic Festival, 100 year anniversary of Freud's Totem and Taboo, Freud Museum, London, 2013
Publications
Poetry
Subversive Economies, Pss Press, 2018 Commissions
Zadie Xa House Gods, Animal Guides & Five Ways 2 Forgiveness, Whitechapel Gallery, 2023Future Ritual Programme, ICA London, 2022
Three Meditations with Cards, performingborders, 2022
10x10, 10 year anniversary of ]performance s p a c e [, 2021
Salvage Festival, ]performance s p a c e [, 2019
(re)collecting (f)ears, ]performance s p a c e [ with Well Projects, 2019
Journals
Queer Diasporic Futurity, Flatness, 2022Lish Journal in the foreigner’s English, 2020
On Care, Ma Bibliothèque, 2020
Axial Tilt,The Happy Hypocrite Silver Bandages, Bookworks 2019
Dream Babes 2.0, edited by Victoria Sin, and PSS Press, 2019
Paperwork Magazine iilwimi lipsing, 2018
SALT. Magazine, 2017
E.R.O.S The Interior, 2015
Online
Penetrate: Translate, MAP Magazine, 2019Writing Prompts, Jupiter Woods online, 2018
naked tangle self, Montez Press Calendar series, 2016
Talks, Events and Conferences
Million Pound Note, Introduction to the film, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2023Radical Kitchen: POTATO, Serpentine Summer Pavilion, 2018
From a Creative Case to an Ecology of Care with Jade Montserrat, Tate Modern, 2017
Language, Process and Liminality, in conversation event with Alicia Reyes McNamara and Chandra Frank, South London Gallery, May 2017
Reading of Personal Notes on a Spiritual Mestizaje for the Brujxs listening Party exploring Latinidad and Spirituality, South London Gallery, May 2017
Panelist at Immigrant Feminisms, Goldsmiths University of London, May 2017
Panelist at International Conference for Artistic Research: Writing as Practice, Practice as Writing, The Hague, April 2016
Panelist at Feminist readings 2: theory, practice and politics of reading today, University of Leeds, 2015
Collaborative Projects
A Companion, in collaboration with Janine Soenens, International Micro Grant award from Unlimited, 2022Deslices in collaboration with Catalina Barroso Luque for Glasgow International, 2021
How to hold, behold and be held, a collaborative project with Rhiannon Armstrong in response to Wellcome Collection’s holdings on tarot and talismans, 2021
What are Words Worth, Sentient Value Systems, an ongoing exploration of value and words in collaboration with Taylor Le Melle, 2018 and ongoing
From a Creative Case to an Ecology of Care in collaboration with Jade Montserrat. Live Art Development Agency DIY 14 workshop, 2017, and Tate Lates August 2017.
Colaborar is the Name of the Game, ACE funded project in collaboration with LAWRS (Latin American Women's Rights Services), Agency for Agency and Sin Fronteras, a youth group for Latin migrant women. 2016 - 2017
Squaring the Circle, in collaboration with Natalie Marr, Dawn Ashley and Soft as Snow, a a programme of live events based on sampling practices, Lewisham Arthouse, 2014
Repeat Rewind Rephrase, in collaboration with Natalie Marr, a programme of live events based on quotation, re-enactment and appropriation, accompanied by a publication of the same title, Latymer Projects, 2012