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Member of Flag since: 2025
STATEMENT:
I am Colombian-born artist living full-time in Florida, with a passion for color and the sensory act of painting. My current body of work revolves around my experience of motherhood and capturing intimate moments of family life.
I am putting brush to canvas and pastels to paper as an exercise to encode fleeting memories in my mind. I savor the process by intensifying colors, applying gestural brushstrokes, and enhancing the narrative through deliberate composition decisions. I am creating a record made up of snapshots of life I can go back to time and time again. My work is inspired by the brushwork, luminous palettes, and emotive intimacy of artists like Joaquín Sorolla and Malcolm T. Liepke. My paintings celebrate the beauty and transience of these personal experiences, inviting viewers to connect with the universal through the deeply personal moments of everyday life.
RESUME:
Highlights
- Classically trained artist in drawing, oil, and pastel painting
- 2019 Women in the Visual Arts First Place Scholarship Recipient
- More than 15 years of experience working in Higher Education inclusive of Peer Education program management, marketing, and branding.
- Passionate about interdisciplinary education and professional practices
- Extensive public speaking experience
- Bilingual (English and Spanish)
EDUCATION:
Florida International University (FIU) Miami - Master of Fine Arts – Portrait & Figurative Art Academy 2023
- Certificate in Portrait and Figurative Art
- 2019 Women in the Visual Arts First Place Scholarship Recipient Florida International University (FIU) Miami Master of Arts in Teaching Art Education December 2010
- Robert Bellamy Scholarship Recipient
- Daniel E. Greene Portrait Workshop, North Salem NY (07/10)
- Art and Education in China Study Abroad (07/09)
- France en Plein Air Study Abroad (07/08)
- Florida International University (FIU) Miami Florida International University (FIU) Miami, FL Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies December 2007
- Minor in Anthropology
- Magna cum laude
- Dean’s List
- Honors College Graduate
- Honors College: Art and Architecture in Italy Study Abroad (05/07)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: - FIU Student Health & Wellness Miami, Assistant Dir of Marketing & Communications, 01/21 – Present
Manages a team of in-house professionals to conceive and implement multi-faceted marketing and educational public health and wellness campaigns for the college population. - The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Miami, Docent 11/08 – 01/12
Provided tours to museum visitors ranging from 3rd grade students to adults; Represented museum in professional art fairs such as Art Miami, Arteamericas, and Miami; International Art fair; Assisted with museum’s special events such as Target Wednesday After Hours and the Steven and Dorothea Green Critics’ Lecture Series; Attended training sessions once per week.
EXHIBITIONS:
Solo exhibitions - Valió La Pena, Miami International Fine Arts Gallery, Miami, FL, December 2025
Selected group exhibitions - Confetti: Tiny Vices and Virtues – Warsaw, IN – November 2025
- Self-Portrait – Sarasota Art Center – Sarasota, FL August 2025
- Café con Arte – Futurama Gallery – Miami, FL July 2025
- Art Education Master’s Alumni Exhibition – Graham Center Gallery – Miami, FL – February 2025
- Kovens Cultural Art Series – Kovens Conference Center – Miami, FL – February 2025
- International Women’s Month Art Month Exhibit – Doral Cultural Arts Center – Doral, FL – March 2025
- To Be Young, Wild, and Free! – Arts Garage – Delray Beach, November, 2024
- Euphoria! – Sarasota Arts Center – Sarasota, FL – October, 2024
- Cartoline Dall’Utopia – Mostra D’arte Itinerante – Galleria del Palazzo Ducale, Alvito, Italy, Sept, 2024
- Papel Deux – Green Library Gallery – Miami, FL – March 2024
- As It Is – Online Exhibition, FL Emerging Art – February 2024
- Birds of a Feather – Art Spotlight Gallery – Ormond Beach, FL – July 2023
- Cycles: The Stages of Motherhood – Miami International Fine Arts Gallery – May 2023
- Mnemosyne’s Reverie – Patricia and Philip Frost Art Museum – April 2023
- Uprooted Memories: Echoes of Our Past – Miami Beach Visual Arts Gallery – November 2022
- Aspirational Bubbles – Miami Mural Festival – December 2021
- Twelve – Laundromat Art Space – Little Haiti, FL – December 2021
- The Academy – The Frank Art Gallery – Pembroke Pines, FL – February 2020
- Paint Me Miami – Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL – August 2019
- Small Works – Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY – February 2014
- Women Painters of the Southeast 2nd Annual Juried Exhibition – Franklin, Tennessee – April 2013
- Oil Painters of America – Online Showcase – Fall 2012
- Artists Exhibiting Artists – South Florida Art Center – Lincoln Road, Miami – September 2012
- Wrestlemania Premiere Party – Star Island, Miami Beach, FL – March 2012
- Spring into Art – Lowe Art Museum – Miami, FL – March 2011
- Tata Gala – Sarasota Design Center – Sarasota, FL – November 2009