Architecture

I entered architecture seeking to play with the experience of space, with the ability to transform the everyday life through a designed context. Soon this path led me to explore the broader social and environmental conditions that interplay to produce both the actual space, and a metaphor, a story about this space. Today, I am driven to understand, how everyday life designs the city we breathe and imagine, and how this city assists to transform the conditions of its inhabitants.

· Architecture, Unviersidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City

· Masters in Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto

Installations / Performance Art

The inevitable temptation coming from architecture is to employ installations, sets, theatre, and the ephemeral condition of restaurants and landscapes to engage the experiential. I have been the designer for a range of theatrical representations, outdoor exhibits and interior spaces including:

1995-6 Outdoor installations representing the realm of architecture within the "Cultural Week" of the National Autonomous University of Mexico

1996 member of the Arts Department and curator of "The Kitsch" exhibit at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City

1995-7 Set design for "Radioranzas 42" touring across Mexico and Venezuela

1995-6 Two restaurants in Mexico City, "Alla en la Fuente" and "La Bodega"

1997 "Presagios" employing over a dozen sets in the historic core of Mexico City

1998-01 artistic advisor for Dancescapes Collective, site-specific performances including Duskdances 2000 Festival

1999 artistic advisor to "Entangled Encounters" Vari Hall, York University, Toronto

2000 design of "River Restaurant" with Ana Francisca de la Mora

2001 Site-specific performance "Inhabiting the In-Between" immersed in a historic warehouse in downtown Toronto

Exhibits

Today, I am interested in producing an exhibit that constitutes an experience in itself. Comprised by a collection of pieces, each one like the fragmented stories that constitute a city, recast singularly by each new observer. Collective exhibits of art-pieces include:

1997 Sociedad de Arquitectos de la Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. Compiled in the publication "Croquis de Arquitectos".

1998 Eleanor Winters Gallery, Toronto

2000 Eco-Art Media Festival, Toronto

2001 Mercer Union, Toronto Individual exhibits of my work have occurred at:

2001 River Restaurant, Toronto

2001 18 Spadina - In tandem with the fFIDA (fringe Festival of independent dance artists) interdisciplinary performance by the Second-Floor-Collective, Toronto

Scholarships-Grants-Awards

· FONCA (National Funds for Culture and Arts), Mexico, 1995-6

· CONACYT (National Council for Science and Technology) Mexico 1997-9

· Government of Canada Award 1997-9

· TAC (Toronto Arts Council), 2001