Quito, Ecuador 1968

From November 2013 to March 2015, Director of the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito (CAC). As director, she handled research, non-formal art education, cultural promotion, budget management, annual programming, interinstitutional relations, and the promotion of Ecuadorian contemporary art in the Andean Region and Latin America.

She has lived and worked in Rome since 2000. A visual artist, activist, and cultural mediator, she completed specialization courses at the Higher Institute of Art in Havana, Cuba, furthering her training with a course at the Kungliga Konsthogskolan (Royal School of Art) in Stockholm, Sweden, and a master’s in Policies of Encounter and Cultural Mediation at Roma Tre University. Her work addresses human mobility in migratory contexts and participatory artistic production alongside grassroots organizations.

Curator at Ceroinspiracion Arte + Residencias, an independent art space in Quito. Member of the FLACSO (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences – Ecuador) research group on street youth gangs, where she coordinated the audiovisual area. Member of the Mediterranean Cultural Parliament, Lovedifference – Michelangelo Pistoletto. She took part in the project "Lettere di Donne" (UN Women, Quito) as artistic and documentary coordinator, and in the same role for the Sarsan Project, promoting artistic participation with Roma children and youth in Rome. She represented Ecuador at the 54th Venice Art Biennale in 2011. Winner of the Sur Antartida Residency, ARTEA, Ecuador.

Her works have been exhibited at: Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Ushuaia, Valparaiso, La Plata, 2015; ART STAYS, Ptuj, Slovenia, 2012 and 2013; Artissima 2011, Turin; Vessel Art Project, 54th Venice Biennale 2011; X Havana Biennial 2009; 11th Freewaves Festival, L.A. 2008; Loop Festival Barcelona 2008; V Bienal de La Paz, Bolivia 2007; ARCO Fair 07, Madrid; 10th Freewaves Festival L.A. 2006; III Latin American Video Art Biennial, Washington, 2006-2005; I Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2004; FotoGrafia, I and II International Festival of Rome; III Ibero-American Art Biennial of Lima, Peru 2002.