Artist & Disability Advocate

Education

  • 2023: Painting Certification, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

  • 2021: BA, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL

  • 2018: AA, Associates in Arts, Truman College, Chicago, IL

  • 2015: Summer Intensive, Center for Arts & Medicine, University of Florida

Awards, Grants & Fellowships

  • 2024: Good Hart Artist Residency, Harbor Springs, MI

  • 2023: Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability (LEAD) Conference, Boston, MA

  • 2022: 3Arts/Bodies of Work Residency, Chicago, IL

  • 2021-2022: Artist Residency, DCAL (Disability Culture Activism Lab), Chicago, IL

  • 2021: Renny Golden Award for Leadership in Activism, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2024: Dunning Exhibition, Center for Mad Culture, Chicago, IL

  • 2024: Voices Embodied: Reverberations, Design Museum of Chicago, IL

  • 2024: Girlfriends Exhibition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

  • 2023: Crip Paint Power (Permanent Exhibition), Disability Culture Center, University of Chicago, IL

  • 2022: Dia Internacional de la Mujer, Pintoras Mexicanas Chicago, Mexican Consulate, Chicago, IL

  • 2021: Engaging Frida, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL

  • 2021: Diversity and Inclusion through Art, La Grange Art League Gallery and Studio, La Grange, IL

  • 2020: Creadores y Musas, Casa Michoacán, Chicago, IL

  • 2016: Unbroken: Art after Injury, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL

  • 2013-2025: Art in Motion, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL

Solo Exhibition

  • 2023: Feminist Crip Paint Power, Curb Appeal Gallery, Chicago, IL

Group Memberships

  • 2025-present: Agitator Artist Collective

  • 2024-present: National Young Women Caucus for Art

  • 2022-present: Cuerpos Justificados (Disabled Artist Collective)

  • 2018–present: Member, Cambiando Vidas (CV), Access Living (Organizing for Immigrants with Disabilities)

  • 2017–2022: Member, Advance Your Leadership Power (AYLP), Access Living (Disability & Racial Justice Group)

Lectures & Workshops

  • 2022: Crip Paint Power: Portrait Series (Public Event)

  • 2022: Crip Paint Power: Representation as a Feminist Act (Student Event)

  • 2021: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Symposium, Northeastern Illinois University

  • 2020: Art & Trauma Recovery Webinar, The Illinois Self-Advocacy Alliance

  • 2020: Brushstrokes and Activism: Artist Talk, Chicago Votes

Other Creative Works

  • 2024: Performer in Eve of a Great Remembering, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, IL

  • 2023: Performer in SHIFT, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

  • 2016: Model for Rebirth Garments, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL