I am an artist and cultural researcher working across visual media, sound, and participatory systems. My practice examines how power, technology, and dominant narratives shape perception and determine who is seen, heard, and excluded. I approach institutions, public space, and emerging technologies as material, using art to reveal hidden structures and create new forms of access, authorship, and shared agency.

My work is informed by a background in human rights education and over fifteen years designing community-centered cultural initiatives within museums, schools, and public institutions. I understand art as a framework: I investigate how cultural value is produced, how knowledge circulates, and how creative labor is distributed across social, political, economic, and technological contexts.

I explore themes of migration, hybridity, resource extraction, and digital power, particularly in relation to the Global South and diasporic experience. Drawing from my own photographs, field recordings, and paintings, I merge lived reality with surrealism and abstraction. I often work from the concept of the “sur (real)” to examine how global power structures shape perception and material conditions.

My projects take many forms: experimental films, sound-based works, participatory platforms, and long-term initiatives centered on access, equity, and shared authorship. Through a culturally hybrid perspective, I reflect on how people and nature become commodified within extractive economies. My artistic and educational work form a single inquiry into infrastructure impacts on lived experience, and how art may intervene.

Technology plays a critical role in my practice. I engage with AI, blockchain, and digital media as forces that reflect and reproduce existing power relations. My work focuses on what these technologies omit, distort, or erase, and how human intervention and care can be reintroduced through interactive archival structures that challenge centralized narratives, and in support of alternative futures.

I have presented work internationally and participated in residencies and research programs that bridge art, technology, and social inquiry. Education functions as a methodology grounded in listening, co-creation, and long-term relationship building. At its core, my practice asks: How might cultural futures be designed to be more just, inclusive, and regenerative, while remaining accountable to the communities and contexts they engage?

BFA + MA