I’m Swedish-Ecuadorian and moved to Houston, Tx. in January 2017 after 7 1/2 years of living and working in S. Korea. I left my native Ecuador at a young age to study in USA to later move to Norway, Sweden and South Korea, where I had the opportunity to continue my education and learn other languages. I earned a MFA in Oil Painting at Kyungsung University in Busan, S. Korea with further studies in Printmaking. Between 2009 and 2016 I established a studio in Busan while I’ve been actively exhibiting in solo and collective shows locally and internationally.
Travelling between Sweden’s countryside and Ecuador coast for the holidays, I also do studio work in both countries.
Through my work I address the human condition, the female body, and the realms of spirituality in work spanning mediums from paintings and printmaking to installation and textiles.
Significant exhibitions have been at The Beaney Museum, UK in 2016, Koehnline Museum of Illinois, USA in 2013 and 2015 and in S. Korea at Dream Forest Museum in Seoul in 2016, Hangaram Museum in Seoul in 2014, Busan Biennale 2012 and Art Show Busan from 2014 until 2016. Aiming to promote social change, I’ve also exhibited in NYC at Soho20 Chelsea Gallery and at the A.I.R. Gallery. Also, in 2016 the Ecuadorian Embassy in the Republic of Korea sponsored my VII Solo Exhibition in Busan, South Korea: “When leaving becomes arriving”.
My artists’ books have been on exhibition in 2016 at the Edward Hopper Art Center and Museum in New York for “Small Matters of Great Importance”, curated by Michelle Donnelly, Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Also my books have been shown in 2014 at“Outside the Margin” at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in MD, USA which was juried by Doug Litts, head of the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art/National Portrait Gallery and in 2016 at “Prescriptions” at The Beaney Museum in Canterbury, UK.
My work is part of the permanent collection of the Muzeul Judeţean de Artă Prahova “Ion Ionescu-Quintus”, Ploiești, Romania since 2015 and of the Artists’ Books and the Medical Humanities project (University of Kent) since 2016.