Colombian New Media artist with a MFA in Studio Arts, Intermedia at Concordia University (CA). She has experience in photography direction, Virtual reality, video, photography, video installation, post-production, and audiovisual creation.
Her research and artistic practice explores the experience of embodiment and how the body is perceived and recontextualized in digital media and the environment. She creates video collages, video installations, and video performances using different formats and approaches to audiovisual media, including chroma key and Virtual Reality to examine themes of self, self-recognition, and remnants in digital media. She is interested in studying the body and its interactions with external phenomena, creating installations where the subject is transformed, re-contextualized, and its corporeality is explored in relation to the environment.
Her most recent research investigates the multi-dimensional role of the sun, examining its geopolitical, social, and environmental implications. She explores alternative practices inspired by the sun, adopting a Symbiocene approach that emphasizes a positive revaluation of our relationship with the world and its influence on human and ecological systems. Her work is informed by Solarpunk theories framing solar energy as a guide to re-evaluate pressing climate and social crises. Her work has been exhibited in Colombia, Mexico, South Korea, and Canada.
Studies
2022 -2025 MFA graduate, Studio Arts, Intermedia / Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2015 - 2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts and Electronic Media / Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, CO.
2015 - 2016 Minor in biology / Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, CO.
Scholarships and Awards
2024 Leadership in Environmental and Digital innovation for Sustainability (LEADS) Scholarship
2023 Fine Arts Scholarship for (2023-2024) academic year/ Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2023 Elspeth McConnell Fine Arts Internship Award / Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2022 International Tuition Award of Excellence (2022- 2024) academic year/ Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2022 Merit Scholarship (2022-2023) academic year / Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2019 Distinction of Excellence, for obtaining the best semester average of the program/ Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, CO.
2018 Scholarship "Fondo Guillermo Wiedemann", Faculty of Arts & Humanities / Universidad De Los Andes, Bogotá, CO.
2015 National Government Scholarship for Higher Education in High-Quality Accredited Institutions / Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, CO.
Exhibitions
2025 Chapter 4 We once found ourselves in Toronto, Las Sabinas, Maureen X, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
2024 Tensio, Experimental LOOP, International video Festival, New York, USA
2024 Las Sabinas, We Once Found Ourselves in Madrid, Embodied Interventions, LePARC Milieux, Montreal, Canada
2024 Las Sabinas, Esperar / Repotting / Signifier, Maureen IX, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
2023 I'm not there, Maureen VIII, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
2021 I'm not there, Factible: Fábrica de creación, Mexico City, Mexico.
2020 La utopía ciclista, with Art Collective Birula Gráfica, Abierto Mexicano de Diseño, Mexico City, Mexico.
2018 Pináculo, International Photo Exhibition of Incheon Marine Festival and Film, South Korea.
2018 Periferia, No es lo que esperaba pero estoy satisfecha, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
2016 Gravedad, La Muerte Chimba, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico.
Research Groups
2024 Member of the CREATE-LEADS program (Leadership in Environmental and Digital Innovation for Sustainability
2023 Member of Loyola Sustainability Research Centre / Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2023 Member of Hexagram / Montréal, QC
2022 Research Assistant at Elastic Spaces Lab / Concordia University, Montréal, QC
Artist Talks
2025 Angles of Consequence, Performance Season - A Line is a Circle: A Solar Performance / Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2023 Social Justice, Migration, and the Environment - Thinking Allowed Fall Colloquium / Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2023 IMCA Lunchtime Talks, Studio Arts department / Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2022 IMCA Lunchtime Talks, Studio Arts department / Concordia University, Montréal, QC