exhibitions + public interventions
(*indicates public intervention)
2024 TBD (juried show), Harwood Art Center’s 6th Street Studio in Albuquerque, NM, March 8 - 15, 2025 (forthcoming)
“SE IMPRIME,” El Persa Victor Manuel, Santiago de Chile
“let it go to seed,” Jean Cocteau Theater, Santa Fe, NM
“(((HOWL))),” Mattox Sculpture Center, Albuquerque, NM
Curated and participated in “arroyo lento,” 6th Street Studio, Albuquerque, NM*
“Double Take,” John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
“something tender from it all,” Las Vegas Arts Council: Gallery 140, Las Vegas, NM*
Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair, New York, NY
2023 “AI, AO,” Art Annex, Albuquerque, NM
“At First Sight,” 6th Street Studio, Albuquerque, NM
“swallowed it whole,” Masley Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA
2022 “Cempohualxochitl,” Portland Mercado, Portland OR*
“Make Ready for the Revolution” | Kent State University, Kent, OH
“Re-membering and Re-seeding for Liberation,” Vanport Mosaic Festival, Expo Center, Portland, OR*
“indigenous futures: a collective poem,” curated by Native Arts and Culture Foundation, Portland OR*
“take to the water, with joy!” Colonel Summers Park, Portland OR*
“Enmeshed” (solo show), Dorsa Brevia, Portland, OR
2021 “Science Stories: A Collaborative Exhibit of Book Artists and Scientists” curated by Lucia Harrison, et al, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
“See Me. iAm. HEAR.” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR*
2020 “Tu lucha es mi lucha,” Alder Commons, Portland, OR*
“Be Ti Mismx and the World Cambiará,” Buckman Middle School, Portland, OR*
“Year Of Asé” curated by Leile Haile and Maya Vivas, Orí Gallery, Portland, OR
2019 Literary Arts Fair, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
“Por La Lucha!” curated by Becca Ramos, Wieden + Kennedy, Portland, OR*
“gotxs: antojos sureños” curated by letra chueca press, Milepost 5, Portland, OR
“A Taste Of Latinoamérica,” Portland Mercado, Portland, OR*
“Bark for Change,” Mt. Hood National Forest, OR*
“Americans at Work: United to the Core,” Centro Latino, Tacoma, WA (juried exhibition)
“Huddled Masses,” Hoxton Hotel, Portland, OR*
“The Lushness Of Print” (solo show), The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
2018 “Impresionante,” Museo De Arte Contemporáneo del Parque Forestal, Santiago, Chile
“Uncensored Celebration,” curated by ACLU Of Oregon, Lagunitas Community Room, Portland, OR
“A Taste Of Latinoamérica” Portland Mercado, Portland, OR*
“Tú Eres Precious” (solo show), Fruit Salad Club, Portland, OR*
“Latinidades” curated by Una Gallery, Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber, Portland, OR
“Sí Se Puede,” Madison High School, Portland, OR*
Nat Turner Project Book Release, City Hall, Portland, OR*
Día del Niño with RACC, Centro Cultural De Washington County, Cornelius, OR*
Letterpress Printers Fair with Design Week Portland, AudioCinema, Portland OR
“Barrio Propaganda” curated by Paulina Ramírez, La Leonila, Cuenca, Ecuador
“Printing sin fronteras” with Michele Holands + Idania del Río (Cuba), Portland Mercado, Portland, OR*
“Posamor” curated by Paulina Ramírez, La Leonila, Cuenca, Ecuador
2017 “We the Dreamers: An Art Show to Defend DACA” curated by UndocuPDX, Ecotrust, Portland, OR*
“Nuestras Victorias” curated by Paulina Ramírez, IPRC, Portland, OR*
“A Taste Of Latinoamérica,” Portland Mercado, Portland, OR*
“Noche de Arte” curated by Pochas Radicales, Q Center, Portland, OR
“Strange Dreams” curated by Heldáy de la Cruz, Ecotrust, Portland, OR*
Letterpress Printers Fair with Design Week Portland, The Redd, Portland, OR
2016 “A Taste Of Latinoamérica,” Portland Mercado, Portland, OR*
“Our Stories” (juried exhibition), Centro Latino, Tacoma, WA
Letterpress Printers Fair with Design Week Portland, The Bison Building, Portland, OR
education + training
2023—Present Masters of Fine Arts Program in Art & Ecology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2022 Atabey Medicine BIPOC Apprenticeship, Portland, OR
2016 Offset Lithography, Work Source through Scout Books, Portland, OR
2013 Apprenticeship, Em Space Book Arts Center, Portland, OR
2012 Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Hispanoamerican Literature; Minor, Studio Art, cum laude, Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR
2011 Facultad de Literatura Hispanoamericana and El Instituto de Arte, Pontificía Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
awards, residencies + honors
2024-2025 Joan Gentry Endowed Scholarship
Lynnie Wienecke Scholarship
2024 Stelo Summer Invitational Residency, Camp Colton, OR
2023-2024 Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities Fellowship, Albuquerque, NM
2023 Invited to Mural Arts Institute's “Created, Together. symposium.” in Philadelphia, PA
2021 Funds awarded by Oregon Arts Commission, Portland, OR
Support Beam, Regional Arts And Culture Council, Portland, OR
2020 Precipice Fund Round 8, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, OR
2019 Project Grant awarded by Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
2018 Golden Spot Residency, funds awarded by Caldera Arts Center, Sisters, OR
lectures + press
2023 “At First Sight,” 6th Street Studio, Albuquerque, NM December
2022 “Type Jam” with C.C. Stern Type Foundry
2021 “Supporting Community Through Letterpress, Humor, and Activism: letra chueca Interviewed” by Gerry Peña, Variable West
2020 Diseñar Hoy: conversaciones sobre el cambio | Mes del Diseño presented by the Ministry of Arts and Culture in Chile
“The Ecstasy of Ekphrasis” | Winter Poetry Festival, PNCA
2019 “La Tienda (The Shop)” | Fort Ripper, Portland, OR
“Buscando América” with Tania Gomezdaza, KBOO
Show & Tell: Letra Chueca | Portland State University, Portland, OR
“Poets’ Peace Breakfast: Invocations” | Lawrence-Minh Búi Davis + Fred Sasaki, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
Reed Arts Week | Letra Chueca Press, Portland, OR
Tertulia | Teatro Milagro, Portland, OR
“Poetry Foundation Exhibits Reed Broadsides” by Ben Read, The Reed College Quest
2018 “Cultivating A Creative City – Hear What’s Up In Portland’s Arts Ecosystem” Open Signal, Portland OR
“Letra Chueca en la feria de arte impreso y publicación independiente, Impresionante 2018: ‘Lo Personal Es Político’” | Marcela Infante, Zancada, Santiago de Chile
“Letra Chueca” by Emilly Prado, Mercatus My People’s Market, Vol. 2
2017 “Portland’s Letra Chueca Brings Printmaking Back to the People” by Emilly Prado, Portland Monthly
published work
2024 “6-11-2021,” fantasmas // fantasmas, fron//tera Revista Literaria Bilingüe vol. 4
2020 "por la lucha" and "always aquí" Estados silvestres, fron//tera Revista Literaria Bilingüe vol. 3
2018 “ni de” Huizache (The Magazine of Latino Literature) #8