Born in Argentina in 1970, she studied design at the Martin Malharro School of Visual Arts, Mar del Plata, Argentina. In 1998 she studied Photography at the Speos Ecole de la Photographie in Paris and earned a MFA in Photography from Barry University, Miami in 2009.
Since then she has exhibited extensively at galleries, museums and cultural institution in the US and abroad. Her work is present in various public collections such as the MDC Museum of Art+Design, Miami, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the Frost Art Museum at FIU, the LOWE Art Museum at The University of Miami, FoLA, Fototeca Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina, The Bunnen collection in Atlanta , the Girls' Club collection in Fort Lauderdale and various private collections throughout the world.
Her photo-based work explores ideas about identity, gender, territory, language, memory and the forces of the unconscious.
Her first monograph Anatomy is Destiny, was published in collaboration with Minor Matters Books+ Dina Mitrani Gallery on April 2018; and it was selected by the Aperture Foundation to be part of the PhotoBook Spotlight during AIPAD 2019, NY, NY.
She currently lives and works in Miami Beach and her work is represented by Dina Mitrani Gallery.
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