Bio
Pursuing inspiration, I have traveled the world and learned from many different art traditions. Coming from Ecuador, a plurinational country, my major interests in life are ancestral culture and traditions, classical art, and cooking.
My artistic career started at the age of 8 when I was admitted to the National Conservatory of Music in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador to study classical music. After studying there for 12 years, I graduated as a piano teacher. Free to pursue other art forms, I moved on to study graphic design and fine arts at ESPOL in Ecuador, learning from artists like Saidel Brito and Xavier Patiño. After graduating, I started to work at advertising agencies for several years. In 2011, I realized that I wanted more time to pursue learning fine art. I quit my job and went to study Etching and Engraving with the artist Alejandra Winkhaus in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Afterwards, I returned to ESPOL, getting my bachelor’s degree in arts, specializing in Audiovisual Production.
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In 2014, I studied Pre-Columbian ceramics at the MAAC, discovering my passion for working with clay. I learned the basics of ceramics in a 3-month workshop learning pre-Columbian technologies and techniques taught by the Anthropological Museum restorers. The same year I won a scholarship to study traditional art and Batik at Universitas Negeri Semarang in Indonesia, with Rodia Syamwil. My interest in cultural art traditions brought me on journeys to learn Thangka Painting in Ladakh, India, and to visit small villages around Asia, finding inspiration from their creations. I was back in Ecuador in 2017 where I committed to learning and traveling in the Amazon Rainforest.
In 2018, I came to live in New Orleans, and years later I moved to Mandeville with my partner Zach. Since Summer 2021, I've started to participate in local Arts Markets at the Park in New Orleans. The following year I committed to a full-time professional practice in Art, quitting my part-time job as a preschool art teacher. Since the Fall of 2022, I started to participate in juried art festivals inside and outside Louisiana. I’ve exhibited at the Ogden Museum, Le Mieux Gallery and Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans.
