BIO

I am a Mexican-American artist who has lived on both sides of the San Diego-Tijuana border. Born in Arcadia, California, in 1963, I currently work and live in Tecate, Mexico.

2018 Art Residency, Lagos, Mexico City, Mexico.
2017 Art Residency at Museo Internacionale Dinamico di Arte Contemporanea, Belforte Del Chienti,
Italy.
2016. San Diego Art Prize.
2007. Residency at La Curtiduría, Oaxaca, Mexico.

2001. Fellowship by the Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes, Baja California, Mexico.
1999. Diploma in Visual Arts from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico
1998. Founding member of Grupo Martes (Mujeres-en-las-Artes: Spanish for Women-in-the-arts,), Tijuana, Mexico.
1997-2000. Seminars and workshops at the Centro de Humanidades de Baja California, Mexico.
1995. Honorable Mention at the X Baja California Biennial, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexicali, Mexico.
1983-1985. Fashion Design degree at Plaza Three Academy, Phoenix, Arizona.

Selected solo shows:
2019-2020. Herself and the other: to become relationally, The Front Arte Cultura, Sn Ysidro, California
2019-2020. Una y el otro: devenir en relación, Centro cultural Tijuana, Mexico
2018. Cultural Exhibit San Diego International Airport, San Diego County Regional Airport, San Diego, California.
2018. Latin American Art Fair, Bread and Salt, San Diego, California.
2018. Espejos y Mandalas, Lagos Art Residency, Mexico City, Mexico
2017. Espejos, Museo Internazionale Dinamico di Arte Contemporanea, Belforte Del Chienti, Italy
2016. Cartografías del Espíritu, La Caja Gallery, Tijuana.
2014. Iconografías Infiltradas, Casa Valencia Gallery, San Diego, California.
2009. Identidades Revestidas, Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico.
2004. Tramas y Condiciones, Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City, Mexico.
2002. Anecdotario Ancestral, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico.
2001. Cosidos, Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Tijuana, Mexico.

Selected collective exhibits:
2020 Women with serpent skirts and eagle talons, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, California
2020 Edges Frayed, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad City Library complex, Carlsbad, California
2019. Convergence, Escondido Center for the Arts, Escondido, California.
2017. Extra-ordinary Collusion, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, California.
2017. Displacement/Replacement, San Diego Art Prize Recipients,
SDVAN San Diego Art Prize, Atheneaum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California.
2016. Punto de Fuga, La Caja Gallery, Tijuana, Mexico.
2015. Shaped in Mexico, Barge House, Oxo Tower, London, England.
2011. Obra Negra, CECUT, Tijuana, Mexico.
2010. Banner Biennial (Bienal de Estandartes), CECUT, Tijuana, Mexico.
2007. Viva México, Zacheta National Art Gallery, Poland.
2006. Tijuana Organic, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England.
2005. Espejos Invertidos: Arte Contemporáneo de México en los Estados Unidos, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
2003 Aparentemente Sublime, XII Salon de Arte Bancomer, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City.
2002. Banner Biennial (Bienal de Estandartes), CECUT, Tijuana, Mexico.
2000. Seventh Havana Biennial, Cuba.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am a multidisciplinary artist who works with textile in all its forms, that is, fabric, garments,
embroidery and woven materials. Textile, a manufactured material that protects, gives form and
defines social, cultural and economic standards, is for me a universal language given its strong
ties to the whole human condition. Dyed, decomposed, embroidered or reconfigured, textiles
accentuate marks of trauma and detonate individual, family and collective memories that enable
me to address identity, memory, gender, spirit and energy issues.
The act of constructing is evident in my artistic production since most of the fabrics I use are
acquired, recycled or commissioned, and with them I create assemblages and collages that
sometimes incorporate painting and photography. My art, immersed as it is in the poetics of
textile matter, depends strongly on texture, color, pattern and shape, as well as on the social,
historical, and geographical references they confer.
My work is deeply rooted in the revaluation of sewing as a high art. Traditionally pondered as a
womanly activity, the act of sewing has been long considered a domestic task, a craft and,
therefore, a lesser form of art. Hence, resorting to this “minor” language, I try to discover,
emphasize, and balance the feminine that exists in each of us in order to raise it to the level it
deserves. Given the patriarchal system in which we live, through my art I stress the importance of
the feminine as a means to achieve the balance, harmony, and equilibrium that will allow us to
create a free, comprehensive, and equitable world.
During my stay in Oaxaca, 2008-2009, I worked under the name of Eduardo Poeter. This
nickname is part of an ongoing piece where I question not transgender issues, but the ways we
name the things that surround us.