Education
2025 | Theory-based Art PhD
Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2017 | MFA in Contemporary Art Practice
Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2014 | PG Diploma in Communication and Cultural Management
Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen, Universidad de Chile, Chile
2014 | BA in Fine Arts with major in Painting
Facultad de Artes, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Accreditation
2023 | AFHEA, Accredited as Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Grants & Funds Awarded
2024 | SLAS 2024 Conference Grant, Society for Latin American Studies grant to attend SLAS 2024 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2023 | FONDART Chilean National Funds for the Arts and Culture, Research Project titled Participation at the LASA 2023 Congress (Vancouver, Canada), Ministry of the Arts, the Cultures and Heritage of the Chilean Government
2022 | Paul Mellon Centre Fund to attend the Art and Labour Summer School at University of Yale, London
2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 | Postgraduate Research Expenses Grant, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
2021 | FONDART Chilean National Funds for the Arts and Culture, Research Project titled 2011: 10 years, Ministry of the Arts, the Cultures and Heritage of the Chilean Government
2018 | Activities Development Fund, Edinburgh University Students’ Association, University of Edinburgh
2017 | ANID Becas Chile Scholarship, Chilean National Research and Development Agency funding for Doctoral studies at the School of Art, The University of Edinburgh (2018 – 2022)
2015 | CONICYT Becas Chile Scholarship, National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research funding for Master studies at the School of Art, The University of Edinburgh (2015 – 2017)
Teaching Experience
Hubei University
Feb – Mar 2024 | Lecturer • Theory and History of Art
Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh
Jan – Apr 2023 | Postgraduate Teaching Assistant
• Building Near Futures • Course Organisers: Dr Drew Hemment, Dr Matjaz Vidmar and Dr Maria Maclennan
• Strategic Change Leadership for Creative Industries • Course Organiser: Prof John Amis
• Gamifying Historical Narratives • Course Organiser: Dr Gianluca Raccagni
• Critical Creative Diversity • Course Organiser: Dr Elysia Lechelt
Nov 2022 | Postgraduate Teaching Assistant • Relationality, Creative Practice and Education • Course Organisers: Dr Andrea English and Dr Kirsten Lloyd
Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
Mar 2021 | Guest Lecturer • Visual Culture: Approaches to Visual Culture • Course Organiser: Dr Jake Watts
Jan 2021 | Guest Lecturer • Critical and Cultural Theories of Contemporary Art • Course Organiser: Dr Emma Balkind
Jan – May 2021 | Tutor • Visual Culture: Approaches to Visual Culture • Course Organiser: Dr Jake Watts
Jan – May 2021 | Tutor • History of Art 2B: From Modernism, Avant-Gardes to Postmodernism and Globalisation • Course Organiser: Dr Michelle Foot
Sept – Dec 2020 | Tutor • History of Art 2A: Reason, Romance, and Revolution: Art from 1700 to 1900 • Course Organiser: Dr Michelle Foot
Faculty of Arts, University of Chile
Mar – Aug 2015 | Tutor • History of Art: Paradigms of Art • Course Organisers: Prof Maria Teresa Lobos and Prof Alejandra Morales
Mar 2014 – Aug 2015 | Tutor • Programa Tutorías Integral Par • Programme Organiser: Gustavo Castro
Paper Presentations
1-4 July 2024 | SLAS Conference 2024
Society for Latin American Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Oral presentation: “Contemporary art praxis in the social protest: Reflections on Art and Resistance in the Chilean student movement of 2011 and October 2019″
25 May 2023 | LASA International Congress 2023
Latin American Studies Association, Vancouver, Canada
Panel Brotes de la Revuelta: Arte de Protesta en el movimiento estudiantil chileno 2011-2013
Oral presentation: “Arte dialógico y procesos creativos: Análisis en torno a las estrategias y prácticas artísticas colaborativas en el movimiento estudiantil chileno de 2011-2013”
31 August 2021 | Conference Student Movement of 2011: Micropolitics, aesthetics and rebellions
Universidad de Valparaíso
Oral presentation: “A critical approach to art praxis and protest”
15 May 2021 | Webinar Acts of Defiance: Exploring Protest Art
Scottish Society for Art History, Public Statues and Sculpture Association and the University of Dundee
Oral presentation: “Artivism and Resistance: Rethinking the art praxis during the Chilean student movement of 2011-2012”
9-10 December 2020 | II National Conference in Art Research
Universidad Mayor, Universidad Academia Humanismo Cristiano, Universidad de Valparaíso, and the Art and Humanities Research Association
Oral presentation: “Art interventions and the role of art during the Chilean student protests of 2011”
11 December 2019 | ECA Postgraduate Research Symposium 2019
The University of Edinburgh
Oral presentation: “Artivism: Art production in the Chilean student movement of 2011
1 June 2019 | Art + Identity: Latin American Art and Cultural Research Symposium
University of Oxford
Oral presentation: “Art production and generational identity in the Chilean student movement”
22-23 February 2019 | Conference Thinking Chile: Fresh ideas and new perspectives. Chile Global Seminars
The University of Edinburgh
Oral presentation: “Understanding Protest Art: A case study around the student movement of 2011”
9 November 2018 | Conference Artivismo: The place of Art and Politics in Latin America
University of Cambridge
Oral presentation: “Artworks and political action in the Chilean student movement of 2011”
Other Working Experience
May 2023 | Session Organiser and Chair, Panel Brotes de la Revuelta: Arte de protesta en el movimiento estudiantil chileno 2011-2013, LASA Congress 2023
Oct 2022 – April 2023 | Digital Curator, Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, SGSAH
Mar 2021 – Jan 2023 | Principal Researcher and Project Coordinator, Research Project 2011: 10 years funded by the Ministry of Arts, Culture and Heritage of the Chilean Government
Apr 2021 – Dec 2022 | Student Reviewer at Internal Periodic Review, School of Economics, School of Law, and Moray House School of Education and Sport, The University of Edinburgh
Sep 2018 – Feb 2021 | Art PhD Postgraduate Student Representative
School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh
Mar – Apr 2019 | Member of the Evaluation Panel for the Teaching Awards, The University of Edinburgh
Oct 2018 – Oct 2019 | President of the Edinburgh Chilean Society, The University of Edinburgh
Feb 2019 | Installation Assistant for Conflict Textiles Arpilleras Exhibition, Roberta Bacic Collection, Latin American Village, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Jun 2016 – Jun 2018 | Principal Researcher and Creative Artist, Commissioned art project for the PDI, Santiago, Chile
Jan – Apr 2016 | Intern in Conservation and Restoration, Scottish Wall Paintings Conservators, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Mar – Aug 2014 | Intern in Conservation and Restoration, Museo de Arte Popular Americano, Santiago, Chile
Awards & Nominations
Outstanding Course Award Nomination 2021
Edinburgh University Students’ Association Teaching Awards
For the course Visual Culture: Approaches to Visual Culture where I worked as a tutor and delivered a lecture. University of Edinburgh
Outstanding Team Award Nomination 2021
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Recognition Awards
For the course History of Art 2B: From Modernism, Avant-Gardes to Postmodernism and Globalisation where I worked as a tutor. University of Edinburgh
Three Minutes Thesis Competition 2019
Finalist, University of Edinburgh
People’s Choice Award, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh
1st Place Award, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
Honor Mention 2015
IV Concurso Nacional Piensa en Cobre / IV National Art Contest Piensa en Cobre
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MAC and Minera Los Pelambres, Santiago, Chile
Finalist 2014
World Citizen Art Competition, London, United Kingdom
Honor Mention 2012
XXXIV Concurso Nacional de Arte Joven / XXXIV National Contest of Contemporary Youth Art
Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile
