Born in USA, 1984​

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2017: MA' Education from The College of New Jersey

2006: BA' Cultural Anthropology from the University of Missouri-Columbia

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- Paraguayan and American with roots in Brasil, I began my art career in my early 20s in South America while doing ethnographic research and came into a method of applied anthropology through street art.  Since I was a child, I'd always studied and mixed cultural ideas, constantly seeking out distant societies to understand what it meant to be human, to better know my place in the world. I paid close attention to the world around me and eventually discovered a manner to build a world by design, a refuge from the egotistical and materialistic 21st century globalized world. My artwork came to represent both real and imaginary people, shown through a fictional island nation named Kilombu. A middle-way, agrarian island pulling inspiration from the collective cultural resilience of the Global South in the face of marginalization, capitalism, cultural erosion, and post-colonialism.

 

Kilombu has grown and evolved across many countries; though it found and connected its roots between my homes in Paraguay, Brasil, Thailand, China, and Senegal.  Kilombu, to date, has resulted in 180+ murals, 8 solo exhibitions, 16 group exhibitions, and 4 art residencies (Nigeria, China, Thailand, and Cape Verde).

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Aside from being an artist, I currently work as the Head of Equity and Inclusion for the International School of Dakar, working directly in applied anthropology to address issues in international education in Senegal and across Africa.-