Areas of focus
Interdisciplinary art practice in relation to critical pedagogy
and civic engagement. Research interest in praxis and cultural preservation, anthropology
and science and its relationship to art and community building arts and
cultural transnational policies, ethnography, post colonization, gender issues
and performance art.
EducaTION
MFA Performance, 2004
School of the Art Institute de Chicago, Chicago Illinois
BA Fine Arts, 2000
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras,
Puerto Rico
Teaching Certification Program, 2010
Illinois College, Jacksonville IL
Skowhegan School of
Painting and Sculpture, 2002
Skowhegan,
Maine EU
Experience
(selected)
2008 –
Present
Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School, Chicago IL
Curriculum
Development and Implementation in Arts Education, Puerto Rican History/Studies
and Literacy
2010-2015
National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts
and Culture (NMPRAC)[1], Chicago IL
Exhibition
development featuring Puerto Rican Artists in Chicago and of Barrio Arts Fest
2006–2008
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto
Rico, Santurce Puerto Rico
Interpretative
design and conceptualization of Museum's permanent collection.
2005-2006
Escuela de Bellas Artes de Carolina,
Carolina Puerto Rico
Teaching
basic to advance sculpture techniques K-12
2001
Teaching Assistant (TA)
Performance Department,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Performance Art studio
class assistance with Prof. Tom Jaremba
2002
Performance Programs Intern
Museum of Contemporary
Art of Chicago, Chicago IL
Department Assistant,
programming development and coordination
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED):
Puerto Rican Artists Communities, Feat. Article. Chicago Art
Magazine, Chicago IL 2010
Galactic visions: other territories and somatic landings, Collección Maravilla, San Juan PR, 2010
On Antropophagia: Marisol Plard Nárvaez”, Wynwood Art Magazine/ArtPULSE,
MIAMI, 2008
“Cada una tiene Nombre: Norah Hernández”
Revista ARTES, Republica Dom. 2005
Curatorial (selected)
2014-15
HomeComing: Puerto Rican
Artists in Chicago.
Feat. Candida Álvarez, Jose Lerma, Nora M Nieves, Bibiana Súarez, Edra
Soto and Josue Pellot
National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, Chicago IL
2010
Cause
It might fade away,
Selection of contemporary Puerto Rican women
artists in Chicago
Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture,
Chicago IL
2008
Érase una vez... Once upon a time…
Selection of works from
the Permanent Collection dedicated to children
Lexus
Hall- Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico
FEMINISMOS: Ensayo sobre el Cuerpo, la Conducta y el Artificio
Selection of works from
the Permanent Collection and guest artists exploring post feminist theories in
the past two decades
MCS
HALL Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico
2007
DESEMBARCOS:
reflexiones de una ISLA Barco
Selection of Cuban contemporary
art from the Berezdivin Collection
BPPR
HALL Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico
RESTOS: Estudio
Arteológico/REMAINS: Arteological Study
Selection mix media works
from the Permanent Collection of the MAC
MCS
HALL, 2 and New Tendencies –Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico
2006
Nuevas Adquisiciones del MAC/New
Adquisitions of the MAC
Selection of new works
2004-2006 from the Permanent Collection of the MAC
LEXUS
Hall –Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico
Objetos
de Gravamen y Causa: Interpretaciones
Contemporáneas sobre el tema del consumo
BPPR HALL –Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto
Rico
Shin
Matsunaga: La Estética del Consumo
MCS
HALL–Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico
Selected EDUCATIONAL/workshops
(Selectted)
2006-2008
Visiting Artists Program
Included forums,
colloquiums and conferences by visiting artists such as Tania Bruguera,
Diogenes Ballester, Rimer Cardillo, Víctor Vazquez among others) General
Public, Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico
De la Mano La ciencia y el Arte
Cultural Luggage on
Biotechnology and its relationship to art produced by Museo de Arte
Contemporáneo and Amgen Foundation
Languages in Contemporary Art: a view of MAC Permanent Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico
2002-2003
Performance Workshop/ Introduction to New Media, Puerto Rican
Cultural Center, Chicago IL
2001-2002
Girls Group! Insight Arts, Chicago IL
14 week-workshop designed
for Latina immigrants ages 13-18)
Lectures/
presentations (Selected)
2008
Performance Department Propositions Lecture Series, School of the Art Institute
of Chicago
Curando Latino América Program at El Centro Cultural de España, El Salvador
2005
Brenda Torres
Figueroa- Last Call. Fine Arts Department, University of Puerto
Rico, Rio Piedras
2003
Brenda
Torres-Figueroa & Edra Soto: Contemporary Puerto Rican Artists in Chicago
Lecture Series, Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, Chicago IL
Women on
Migration, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
ARTIST’S Exhibition
RECORD
2008
Lick , Hemispheric Institute
Collaborative performance with Faith Wilding, University
of Illinois at Chicago
2005
Homeless, Sin Título Galería de Arte Contemporáneo,
San Juan PR
2004
Las Negritas No lloran, Sin Título Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan PR
2002
Homeless, Collage Gallery of the Americas, Chicago IL
Homeless, Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
An Ocean Without Red Boats, L’Montage, Art Institute of Chicago
Refuge, Collage
Gallery of the Americas, Chicago IL
2001
Underbride, Women
Performance Jam Benefit Fall, Chicago, IL.
Rojokirmizi, Lady Fest
Midwest Chicago, Chicago, IL
Al Sur del Océano, Dr. Pedro Albizu
Campos Museum, Chicago IL
2000
Y para cada Santa hay una vela, Insight
Arts, Chicago IL
Public Intercourse/ Nuptial Discourse, Women Performance Jam
Benefit, Chicago
La femme qui n'existe pas, Sin Título Contemporary Art Gallery, San Juan, PR
Vestida de Hogar y Refugio, Espacio ?, #157 San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Group Shows (selection)
2004
Colored Girls Don't Cry, Curated Project: MFA Thesis Show, Gallery 2 SAIC, Chicago, IL
2003
Puerto Rico and Colombia: Caribbean Connections, Galería Tinta Roja. Chicago,
IL
2002
Haciendo Patria, Collage
Gallery of the Americas. Chicago, IL
The Body as a Poetic Space, Collage Gallery of the Americas, Chicago, IL
The Body as a Poetic Space, Collage Gallery of the Americas, Chicago, IL
1999
Clonación II, Museo de Arte de Caguas.
Caguas PR
Graduandos, Galeria Francisco Oller. UPR Rio Piedras, PR
Fotografía Medio de Visíón e Ideas, Galería Francisco Oller, UPR Río Piedras
Artículos Femeninos, Universidad Interamericana, Hato Rey, PR
Graduandos, Galeria Francisco Oller. UPR Rio Piedras, PR
Fotografía Medio de Visíón e Ideas, Galería Francisco Oller, UPR Río Piedras
Artículos Femeninos, Universidad Interamericana, Hato Rey, PR
1998
Cuarta Bienal de Artes Plásticas, Museo Casa Roig, Humacao,
PR.
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