EDUCATION
2016 Master of Fine Arts in Studio: Fibres and Material Studies, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada
2011 Interdisciplinary Bachelor in Fine Arts, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS, Canada
2009 Advanced Diploma in Fine Arts, Fanshawe College London, ON, Canada
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2023 You can’t have honey without an onion, (Collaboration with Rima Sater), Film installation,
Khyber Center for the Arts, Halifax, Canada.
2021 The Novels of Elsewhere (Episode 4): Camouflaged Screams,(Collaboration with Santiago Tavera),
Multimedia installation, OPTICA – Un centre d'art contemporain, Montréal, Canada.
2020 The Novels of Elsewhere (Episode 5): If I saw you, I don’t remember,(Collaboration with Santiago Tavera),
Multimedia installation and performance, Montréal Arts Interculturels, Montréal, Canada.
2018 The Novels of Elsewhere (Episode 3) Live Despecho, (Collaboration with Santiago Tavera), Multimedia
installation and performance, 17th International Images Festival, Manizales, Colombia.
2015 Introspective Landscapes Exhibition, (Collaboration with Danica Olders), Installation and performance,
Nuit Blanche, Montréal, Canada.
2011 Selfish Bitch, Textile installation, Residencia Corazón, La Plata, Argentina.
Group Exhibitions
2022 Changwon Sculpture Biennale, The Novels of Elsewhere (Episode 1): When the River Sings, Stones It Brings
(Collaboration with Santiago Tavera), Virtual online installation, South Korea.
2022 One flower, a million paths, 3Lix, Video Performance installation, Celine Bureau, Montréal, Canada.
2022 At a distance - from within, The Novels of Elsewhere (Episode 1): When the River Sings, Stones It Brings
(Collaboration with Santiago Tavera), Multimedia installation, Projet Casa, Montréal, Canada.
2021 Resonances du Réel, The Novels of Elsewhere (Episode 1): When the River Sings, Stones It Brings (Collaboration
with Santiago Tavera), Multimedia installation, Maison de la Culture Claude-Léveillée, Montréal, Canada.
2018 Ser/Viniendo, Textile installation and performance, TAP, Montréal, Canada.
2018 Code:Corps, The Novels of Elsewhere (Episode 3) Live Despecho, (Collaboration with Santiago Tavera),
Multimedia installation and performance, HTMLles Festival by Ada-X, Articule, Montréal, Canada.
2018 Returning to the Present: A Textile Exhibition, Empaquetada, Installation and performance, Cultural Institute of
Mexico, Montréal, Canada.
2016 Fall Program Exhibition, Word of the Pig, Video installation, Never Apart, Montréal, Canada.
2015 Visitations, POE Radio, Installation and radio broadcast, FOFA Gallery, Montréal, Canada.
2013 Emergent Sculptors Exhibition, Textile installation, Sculptors Society of Canada, Toronto, Canada.
2013 Latin American Exhibit, Textile installation and performance, The Arts Project, London, Canada.
2012 Art Basel, Textile installation, Solange Guez Arte Contemporaneo Gallery, Aqua Hotel, Miami, USA.
2012 EGGO Art Fair, Textile sculpture, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2012 Jardín de las Delicias, Curation, Solange Guez Arte Contemporaneo Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Performances and Screenings
2022 The Novels of Elsewhere (Episode 5): If I saw you, I don’t remember,(Collaboration with Santiago Tavera), Video
Video piece, Grande rencontre des arts médiatiques, Gaspésie, Canada.
2021 The Novels of Elsewhere (Episode 4): Camouflaged Screams ,(Collaboration with Santiago Tavera), Short Film,
Printemps Numérique, Montréal, Canada/ Brussels, Belgium.
2020 HOMX LUDENS, Public Performance, Centre d’exposition Lethbridge, Montréal, Canada.
2019 VAN GO Collection, (Collaboration with Danica Olders), Performance, 25th Wiggle Festival, Musée des
Beaux Arts, Montréal, Canada.
2019 A-5H1, (Collaboration with Paz Ramírez Larrain), Short Film, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada.
2016 Word of the Pig, Performance, Mainline Theatre, Montréal, Canada.
2015 VAN GO Intervention, (Collaboration with Danica Olders), Performance, 4th Fresh Meat Theatre Festival, Arts Court,
Ottawa, Canada.
PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIENCE
2017-Present Head of Wardrobe, Theatre Department, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.
2015 Part time instructor, Fine Arts Department, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
FBRS 240: Introduction to Fibres Structures
2013- 2015 Teacher Assistant, Fine Arts Department, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
FBRS 240 Fibres Structures
FBRS 397 Topics in Fibre Structures – UpCycling strategies
FBRS 361 Intermediate Textile Print & Dye
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2020-2021 Board member of administrative council , La Centrale artist-run centre, Montréal, Canada.
WORKSHOPS
2019 New Media Dramaturgy, Presented with Santiago Tavera and Milton Riaño, Theatre Department,
Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.
2019 Virtual Hyper-Naturalisms, Presented with Santiago Tavera and Milton Riaño, 18th International Image
Festival, Manizales, Colombia.
2018 EMPAQUETADA: Exploring the performativity of women in the work space, Presented with Marcela
Borquez, Cultural Institute of Mexico, Montréal, Canada.
2018 Shapes in Space: Drawing and Performance workshop, Fine Arts Department, Fanshawe College, London,
Canada.
2017 Projected Narratives of Being and Belonging, Presented with Santiago Tavera and Anthony Head,
23rd International Symposium on Electronic Art/XV International Image Festival, Manizales, Colombia.
RESIDENCIES AND SEMINARS
2022 Viafarini Residency, Milan, Italy.
2019 Casa Na Ilha Residency, Ilhabela, Sao Paolo, Brasil.
2019 Conversations on Performance Seminar, Festival TransAmériques, Montréal, Canada.
2015 Scoring Philosophy: How to Choreograph Thought via Conversation, Action & Movement Seminar,
Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.
2015 Visitations Residency, FOFA Gallery, Montréal, Canada.
2012 Research on Jalq’a Weaving, Ministry of Tourism, Bolivia.
2011 Corazón Residency, La Plata, Argentina.
ARTIST TALKS
2022 Canadian-Latin American Art course, Fine Arts Department, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.
2021 OPTICA–Un centre d'art contemporain,(Presented with Santiago Tavera and Shauna Janssen), Montréal,Canada.
2021 Hybrida Weavings of Weavings: A Conversation, Virtual round table discussion on textiles and new media based
on the work of Amor Muñoz, (Presented with Santiago Tavera), General Consulate of Mexico in collaboration with
Art Souterrain, Montréal, Canada.
2019 Virtual and Corporeal dislocation, (Presented with Santiago Tavera), 18th International Image
Festival, Manizales, Colombia.
2019 Virtual and Corporeal dislocation, (Presented with Santiago Tavera), PULSE Salón, Performative Urbanism Lab,
Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.
2018 Fine Arts Department, Fanshawe College, London, Canada.
2014 Fibres Talk Series, Fine Arts Department, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.
2014 Fibres and Material Practices Exchange, Visual arts department, SAIC, Chicago, USA.
2012 Fine Arts Department, Fanshawe College, London, Canada.
2011 Visual Arts Department, National University of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina.
PUBLISHED MENTIONS
2023 Acosta, Laura and Tavera, Santiago, The Novels of Elsgüer. Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of
Environmental Humanities (forthcoming June).
2023 Borquez, Marcela, [Exhibition Review], A Flower and a Thousand Paths: stories of ambivalence and
(dis)encounter. Vie des arts magazine, «https://viedesarts.com/en/reviews-en/willful-ambivalence-in-a-flower-
and-a-thousand-paths/».
2021 Janssen, Shauna. Camouflaged Screams - Immersive & Scenographic Constructions of Wilding
[Exhibition text], Optica, centre d’art contemporain: «http://www.optica.ca/programmation/index.php#1002»
2021 Cécilia Bracmort, Exhibition review, Vie des Arts magazine, «https://viedesarts.com/en/reviews-en/immersion-
dans-un-monde-de-paradoxes-a-optica/».
2019 Canadian Art, Exhibition agenda, «https://canadianart.ca/agenda/the-novels-of-elsguer-episode-5-if-i-
saw- you-i-dont-remember-laura-acosta-santiago-tavera/».
2018 Nuria Carton de Grammont et Tatiana Navallo. « Poétiques du déplacement dans la pratique
performative latino-québécoise », Vues transversales. Panorama de la scène artistique latino-
québécoise, Mariza Rosales Argonza (éd.), Montréal : Les Éditions du CIDIHCA / La fondation LatinArte,
2018, p. 173-223.
2018 Tina Lamm, Virtual Gaze, Online essay, «http://articule.org/en/article/virtual-gaze».
2018 Tammer El-Sheikh, Exhibition review, Akimbo Blog, «http://www.akimbo.ca/akimblog/?id=1370».
2018 Canadian Art, Exhibition agenda, «https://canadianart.ca/agenda/performances-ser-viniendo-be-
coming-de-venir/».
2018 Ixchel Ledesma, Returning to the Present: A Textile Exhibition, Curatorial essay, Terremoto Magazine,
«https://terremoto.mx/regresando-al-presente-un-acercamiento-al-textil/».
AWARDS
2023 Sobey Art Award Long list, (Nomination with Santiago Tavera), National Gallery of Canada,
2023 Composite Project to realization grant (with Santiago Tavera), The Canada Council for the Arts.
2023 Concept to realization grant (with Rima Sater), The Canada Council for the Arts.
2022 Concept to realization grant, The Canada Council for the Arts.
2021 Creation Grant (with Santiago Tavera), Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
2021 Digital Now Grant (with OPTICA – Un centre d'art contemporain and Santiago Tavera), The Canada Council for
the Arts.
2020 Concept to Realization Grant (with Santiago Tavera), The Canada Council for the Arts.
2019 Travel Grant (Arts Abroad), The Canada Council for the Arts.
2019 Vivacité Grant (with Santiago Tavera), Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
2019 Concept to Realization Grant (with Santiago Tavera), The Canada Council for the Arts.
2019 Travel Grant (Arts Abroad), The Canada Council for the Arts.
2018 Travel Grant (Arts Abroad), The Canada Council for the Arts.
2014 Project realization Grant, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University.
2014 Travel Grant, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University.
2013 First prize recipient of Emergent Sculptors Exhibition, Sculptors Society of Canada.