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Solo Exhibitions
2024 Gayle Karch Gallery, Stone Faces, women's exile and the fight of the indigenous people to protect water,the rainforest and scared plants
2023 Rose Mary Gallery, John Waldron Arts Center, The Resiliance of the Mura people protecting the Amazon Rainforest
2022 Swope Art Museum , Esx/ Coca
2018 Art Department, Universidad de Cauca, Colombia, Water protectors/ Los Protectores del Agua
McKendree Gallery of Art & Hettenhausen Center for Arts, Water Protectors
Hulman Memorial Student Union Gallery, Water Protectors
2017 Gallery Sala ASAB, Water Protectors/Mní Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋpi
Gallery HMS at ISU, Cultural Survival of the Embera and Wounaan indigenous people
2015 Museum of Folkloric Dress of Colombia, Maach Jeb/ Nuestro Territorio
Gallery at Ivy Tech Community College, Evansville, Akadoi Ebera
2014 Tintal-Biblored Public Library of Bogotá, Colombia, Akadoi Ebera
Vigo County Public Library, Akadoi Ebera
2013 Tunal-Biblored, Public Library of Bogotá, Colombia, Akadoi Ebera
Museum of Folkloric Dress, Bogotá, Colombia, Akadoi Ebera
Pasca Anthropology Museum, Colombia, Akadoi Ebera
2012 Gallery Dos Casas, Bogotá, Colombia, Akadoi Ebera
La Casa, Latino Cultural Center, Bloomington, IN, Akadoi Ebera
Arts Illiana,Terre Haute, IN, Akadoi Ebera
2011 Gopalan Gallery, Terre Haute, IN, Diaries of Death and Encounters
2010 Halcyon Gallery, Terre Haute, IN, Stone Faces
2009 Halcyon Gallery, Terre Haute, IN, Dream and Nightmares
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Esx/ Coca group show Record (ando) FAR Center for Contemporary Arts
2022 Play Time/ Tiempo de Juego Galería La cometa, Colombia
8Th Annual Jury Show Exhibition, SWope Art Museum
2021 77th Annual Jury Show Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, USA
2020 Stone Faces/Rostros de Piedra y Esx/Coca, Moench Hall, Rose Hulman, USA
2019 Farewell to the Sinú River/ Do Wambura, "De Hidroituango a Santurban, Biblioteca Hoqabiga, Colombia
Pereira Art Museum Museum, Colombia, A Line of Powder: Art and Drugs in Latin America, Colombia, ESX/COCA
Sala de Arte, Universidad de Cauca, Colombia/ Gallery of Art Cauca University, Water Protectors/Mní Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋpi
2019 Centro Cultural del Oriente, Colombia From Hidroituango to Santurbán, Farewell to the Sinú River/Do Wambura
El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, New Mexico, ESX/ COCA: The HandmadePhotograph
Dysturb: Female Genital Mutilation: 68 million girls at risk, 2019, United Nations, Washington
2018 Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia, Word Press Exhibition, Los Embera
2017 Gallery Fotojueves, Bogo†á, Water Protectors/Mní Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋpi
Gallery River Art City, Indiana Water Protectors/Mní Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋpi
2015 Shircliff Gallery of Art, Vincennes, IN. Taking place: Documentary photography by Elizabeth M. Claffey & Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo
Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana, Jury show/ Art Noir/
2013-14 Arts Illiana, Terre Haute, IN, Stone Faces
ONIC, Bogotá, Colombia, Indigenous Women in Colombia
2012 Gallery Sextante, Bogotá, Colombia, Alternative Photographic Process
Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, Terre Haute City, Stone Faces
2011 Arts Illiana, Terre Haute, IN
Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, Annual Juried Show / Stone afces
2010 The Bicentennial Art Center and Museum, Paris, IL
Hulman Memorial Student Union Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
2009 Turman Gallery, ISU
Arts Illiana, Terre Haute, IN
Swope Art Museum, Annual Juried Show
Hulman Memorial Student Union Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
2008 Indiana State University Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
The Cottage Cheese Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
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Reportages
2020 El Espectador (Colombia) photography and article The Mura and their struggle to protect the Amazon
Semana Sostenible (Colombia) photography and article The Embera indigenous poisoned with Methylmercury
2018 TribStar photograpyr and research Sacred Nature of Coca goo.gl/5ANr5a
2017 El Espectador (Colombia) photography and article The Sioux vs. Trump goo.gl/TnCcLT
TribStar photography and research goo.gl/YPniSE
2015 The Guardian (UK) photographer and research goo.gl/GMtDBo
2014 El Espectador (Colombia) photographer and research Embera indigenous people living in fear: goo.gl/bVNDQQ
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Awards
2022 Julia Turner Award of Recognition in memory of Phyllis Dye Turner given by the Swope Art Museum
Bill Carls Grand Prize Award, given by The Swope Art Museum
2021 Grand Prize Best in Show given by the Swope Art Museum
2019 1st place, best photograph given by River Art City Annual Jury Show
2018-17 2nd place, best photograph given by River Art City Annual Jury Show
2011 Swope Art Museum, Juried Annual Show 2011, Anonymous Award
Harriet McNeil Award, Indiana State University Juried Student Exhibition
2009 Indiana State University
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Scholarships and Grants
2022 Artist Trajectory Grant, Ministry of Culture, Colombia
2020 Drogas, Violencias y Politicas, DVP
2018 Travel Grant, Ministry of Culture, Colombia
2016-17 Individual Artist Grant on Photography by Indiana Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts
2009-2013 Research Grant Fund, School of Graduate Studies, ISU
2010 Mark Hanning Scholarship, Department of Fine Arts, ISU
2009 Marian Frutiger Scholarship, Department of Fine Arts, ISU
2008 Peggy Anderson Scholarship, ISU Alumni Association
2004 Office of Sponsored Programs, ISU/Conference in Dominican Republic
2003 School of Graduate Studies/Conference in Boulder, Colorado
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Photo Books
2011 Encounters/ Encuentros. Photography and Poetry
http://www.blurb.com/b/2458308-encounters-encuentros
2010 Diaries of Death/ Diarios de muerte. The neo-paramilitary war in Colombia
http://www.blurb.com/b/1681632-diaries-of-death-diarios-de-muerte
2009 Stone Faces/ Rostros de Piedra. Cultural diversity and Identities in
America
http://www.blurb.com/b/1146541-stone-faces-rostros-de-piedra
2008 Dreams and Nightmares/ Sueños y Pesadillas. Photography and Poetry
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Teaching and Workshops
2020 VIrtual Workshop on Platinum Palladium Photographic process Cali FOTO FEST
2019 Palladium and Platinum Photographic Process, Universidad Javeriana, Colombia, workshop
2018 Palladium and Platinum Photographic Process, UniCauca,Colombia, workshop
Palladium and Platinum Photographic Process, McKendree University, workshop
2016-17 Beginning Photography/ Silver Gelatin Process, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Winter trimester
2015 Cyanotype for children and teenagers, Museum of Folkloric Dress of Colombia.
Palladium and Platinum Photographic Process, Vincennes University, workshop
2014 Palladium and Platinum Photographic Process, Ivy Tech Community
College, workshop
Digital Photography for Kids, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, instructor
2013 Palladium and Platinum Photographic Process, Arte Dos & Sextante
Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia, workshop director
Cyanotype, Arte Dos & Sextante Gallery, Colombia, workshop director
Digital Photography for Kids, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, instructor
2012 Visual Arts and Civilizations, Art Department, ISU, adjunct professor
Summer Workshop: Cyanotype, Indiana State University, workshop
2011 Visual Arts and Civilizations, ISU, Federal Prison, adjunct professor
2010 Photography, Indiana State University, instructor
2008-09 Introductions to Speech Communication, ISU, Wabash and Plainfield
Facilities, adjunct professor
Visual Arts and Civilizations, Art Department, ISU, instructor
2007 20TH Century Hispanic Literature, UNICA, The First Bilingual University,
Bogotá, Colombia, adjunct professor
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Lectures
2o24 Women in exile, Gayle Karch Gallery and the Fight of Indigenous people to protect the Rainforest, water and scared plants, Indiana University
2023 The Resiliance of the Mura people protecting the Amazon Rainforest from Deforestation, Indian University
ESX/COCA Kalamazoo University, Ivy Tech Community College, Fotocultura Colombia
2002 ESX/COCA, Ohio State University, Indiana University, Indiana State University,
ESX/COCA, Swope Art Museum
ESX/COCA Ojo Rojo Fabrica Visual
2021 MURA : Warriors of the Amazon Rainforest from Deforestation, NorthWestern University, Loyola University, ISU, Saint Mary of Woods College and Rose-Hulman
2020 MURA : Warriors of the Amazon Rainforest from Deforestation, Indiana State University, Human Rights Day
2020 ESX/COCA, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (online)
2020 Farewell to the Sinú River/ Do Wambura, Unitarian Universalist Church (online)
2020 Farewell to the Sinú River/ Do Wambura, Universidad del Sinu, Colombia (online)
2019 ESX/COCA Swope Art Museum
Farewell to the Sinú River/ Do Wambura, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
ESX/ COCA Museum of Art in Bucaramanga, Colombia
Farewell to the Sinú River/ Do Wambura, Museum of Art in Pereira, Colombia
2018 Exs/ hoja de coca, UniCauca, Colombia
Coca Leaf&Marijuana from the Sacred to the Profane, Loyola University
Los Protectores del Agua, Ojo Rojo fábrica Visual, UniCauca, Colombia
The Embera and the Wounaan Cultural Survival in Colombia, Eastern Illinois University
The Embera and Wounaan Cultural Survival,McKendree University
2017 Water Protectors/ NODAPL, ISU Human Rights Day, History and Honor Programs at ISU,
DePaul University, NorthWester University, Champaign Urbana,
DePaw University, Saint Mary of the Woods College and Galleries ASAB and FotoJueves
Cultural Survival
2016 Akadoi Embera, Ojo Rojo Fábrica Visual, Bogotá, Colombia
Female Genital Mutilation on the Embera, Human Rights Day
Hope of the Embera/ Displacement and Confinement,The Media Fellows Programs,
DePaw, University
2015 Hope of the Embera, Human Rights Day
2014 My artwork, Ivy Tech College, Evansville
Akadoi Ebera, Tintal-Biblored Public Library of Bogotá, Colombia
2013 Akadoi Ebera, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN
Museum of Folkloric Dress, Bogotá, Colombia, Akadoi Ebera
2012 Akadoi Ebera, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
Akadoi Ebera, La Casa, Latino Cultural Center, IU, Bloomington, IN
The Displacement of the Embera People in Colombia, Saint Mary of the
Woods College, Terre Haute, IN
The Displacement of the Embera People in Colombia, Human Rights Day
Indiana University, Terre Haute, IN
2011 The Embera’s Plea for Help/ Displacement in Colombia, Indiana University
Diaries of Death/ The Neo-Paramilitary War in Colombia, ISU
Stone Faces / Rostros de Piedra, Diversity in America/ Photo-Sculpture, ISU
2008 Plan Colombia/ Cashing-in on the drug war failure in Colombia, Rose
Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN
Miradas a la Bogotá mística recreada desde la literatura Contemporánea
Biblored, Network of Public Libraries of Bogotá, Colombia
The Latin-American women in the visual arts, Museum of Modern Art in
Colombia, MamBo
2004 The Visual Thoughts of Magritte in the Poetry of Ylonka Nacidit Perdomo
International Conference of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers,
Santo Domingo, Dominic Republic.
2003 The Erotic in the Poetic Space of ¿Acaso el amor no quiebra la tristeza?
Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature in the United States,
University of Boulder, Colorado
2002 Doris Salcedo: The Uncanny in the Violence in Colombia, Oswego
University, New York
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Education
2008-2013 Indiana State university: Masters of Fine Arts, MFA,Photography
2002-2004 Indiana State university: Masters Degree in Arts, MA Hispanic Literature
1986-1991 Universidad Externado, Bogotá, Colombia: Bachelors in Journalism and
Communications.
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Languages
English and Spanish