Hola, I'm Fernanda, a cultural producer, curator, and artist working between Oaxaca, Mexico City, & New York.
Over the past decade, I've worked with arts nonprofits in the US and Mexico, supporting artists and cultural workers through exhibitions, residencies, and public programming.
To me, art is a means of connection and mutual understanding. This became especially important during my time at the Mexican Cultural Institute in New York (2016-2019), where I helped shape the Consulate General's cultural agenda. There, I curated exhibitions and organized public programs in collaboration with institutions such as The Met, New Museum, and Lincoln Center, which not only highlighted Mexican art but also created spaces where the Mexican diaspora could feel seen, included, and represented.
From New York, I moved to Oaxaca, first to direct La Señora, an independent gallery committed to collaborative, self-managed cultural production. Later, I joined Pocoapoco as Program Director, where I spent six years helping transform a small independent project into a sustainable international nonprofit, strengthening its programs, building community around it, and securing the support needed for its growth.
My curatorial work investigates ecological relationships, territorial transformation, and the politics of cultural translation, questions that have consistently shaped both the institutions I've built and the artists I've supported.
My art practice extends this same inquiry through material and form. Working with latex sculpture, sound, video, and print, I explore queerness as a mode of productive failure, engaging histories of extractivism, erasure, and heteronormative inheritance in a Latin American context. It's not a new direction, but part of the same conversation.
I'm available for curatorial collaborations, institutional consulting, program design, and research projects.
I also come from a background in food and journalism, which makes me a reliable source for restaurant recs.