EXHIBITIONS

  • Nomad Dreams (2011-2023)

    2023 SIGGRAPH LA, Los Angeles, California /SIGGRAPH ASIA, Daegu, South Korea. / Tiempos Migratorios/Impossible Subjects, Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas, Bogota, Colombia. / DysTorpia Media Project, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, USA. / Decolonial Aesthetics, Nasher Museum and Jameson Gallery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. / City of Merida Festival, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.

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  • Ancestral Memories (2016)

    Solo Exhibition at Jamenson Gallery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Curated by Kency Cornejo and Miguel Rojas-Sotelo. .

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  • Haceres Decoloniales (2015)

    HD: Haceres Decoloniales, a group exhibition and workshop at Facultad de Artes ASAB, Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas, Bogota, Colombia, August, 2015. Curated by Pedro Pablo Gomez.

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS / ONLINE EXHIBITIONS / FESTIVALS

  • The Future Past v. Coloniality: Decolonial Media Art Beyond 530 Years

    This online exhibition is curated by Dr. Liliana Conlisk Gallegos. THE FUTURE PAST VS. COLONIALITY is a project of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community and is scheduled to premiere at the annual SIGGRAPH ASIA conference, 6-9 December 2022 in Daegu, South Korea with a second opening at the annual SIGGRAPH conference, 9-13 August, 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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  • An Exhibition of Decolonial Transborder Art.

    PAMLA Arts Matter 2022, curated by Juan Delgado (California State University - San Bernardino) and Liliana Conlisk Gallegos (California State University - San Bernardino)

    This exhibition cleverly contemplates how the role of space in aesthetics, and further, how spatial discourse can be fruitful sites for cultural, ecological, existential, political, and psychological expressions of reclamation, transformation, or exploration.

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  • Afroyucatecxs

    Based on conversations between seven Afro-descendants who reside in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, this project creates an interdisciplinary project, working community, a museum of living memories and testimonies, and a socially engaged performance. Topics include personal stories of migration to the city, stories about Afro-descendant grandparents born in Yucatan or immigrants; Afro descendants born in Yucatan or in other regions such as the Costa Chica de Guerrero and the Caribbean.

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  • BE.BOP 2013

    Mariposa Ancestral Memory, Decolonizing the Cold War /BE.BOP 2013, Black Europe Body Politics, Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin, Germany. BE.BOP 2013 celebrated a paradigm shift that transformed the Black Body into a source of inspiration and beauty prevalent until today. Curated by Alanna Lockwood.

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  • Frameline Voices

    Merida Poscrita (1990), directed by Raul Ferrera-Balanquet and Enrique Novelo Cascante. Frameline is proud to introduce Frameline Voices, showcasing diverse LGBTQ stories with an emphasis on films by and about people of color, transgender people, youth, and elders.

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  • Merida City Festival (2009)

    Merida Th'o (2009) at the City of Merida Festival, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

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  • LatinoNetArt

    A group exhibition of Latina/o and Latin American netartists, The Java Museum, Cologne, Germany, 2003.

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Los Archivos del Cuerpo

losarchivosdelcuerpo[bodyfiles]:

An aggregation and archiving project of video, photography, drawings, and written and printed texts, and a multi-media interactive art installation, archive, and tumblr (2013 - ongoing) animated by Dalida Maria Benfield.

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo Exhibitions

2018: Eggungun: Orisha de los Ancestros, The Box Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
2016: Ancestral Memories, Jamenson Gallery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
2013: Merida T’Ho_MX, Galeria Casa Colon, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
2011: Recent Media Works, Galeria La Cupula, Cordoba, Argentina.
2011: Nomads Dreams, City of Merida, Festival, Yucatan, Mexico.
2010: Memories at the Crossroads, North Carolina Latin American Festival, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
2010: Soldados de la Memoria, City of Merida Festival, Yucatan, Mexico.
2009: Merida T’Ho_MX, City of Merida Festival, Yucatan, Mexico.
2004: The Videos of Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet, curated by Rinaldo Walcot,The Centre for Media and Culture in Education,
             University of Toronto,Canada.
1998: Erekuso, Washington Square Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1994: The Multimedia Artist, Voices Series, Gallery 400, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
1989: Imagenes del Tiempo, Galeria Peon Contreras, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
1986: Caras y Caretas, International Gallery, International Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

Group Exhibitions

2023: The Future Past v. Coloniality: Decolonial Media Art Beyond 530 Years, curated by Liliana Conlisk Gallego, SIGGRAPH LA, Los Angeles, California, USA .
2022: The Future Past v. Coloniality: Decolonial Media Art Beyond 530 Years, curated by Liliana Conlisk Gallego, SIGGRAPH ASIA conference, Daegu, South Korea.
2022: An Exhibition of Decolonial Transborder Art, , PAMLA Arts Matter 2022, curated by Juan Delgado (California State University - San Bernardino) and Liliana             Conlisk Gallegos (California State University - San Bernardino), Los Angeles, California, USA.
2022: Afroyucatecxs, MeridaFest, Yucatan, Mexico.
2019: La posible reconstrucción de nuestros mundos, curators: Andres D. Abreu y Roxana de los Ríos, TECNOLOGÍASQUEDANZAN, XIII Bienal de La Habana,            Galería Zoom-Sala Lezama Lima, Gran Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso, Havana, Cuba.
2018: Virtudes VS. Pecados, Galería de Arte El Caimito, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
2018: II Festival de Cine Intercultural de la Zona Maya, Intercultural University Jose María Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
2018: Tiempos Migratorios/Impossible Subjects, curated by Dalida Maria Benfield and Pedro Pablo Gomez, VIII Bienal ASAB, The Institute of (im)Possible Subjects and Art Department, Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas, Bogota, Colombia.
2015: HD: Haceres Decoloniales, ASAB, Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas, Bogota, Colombia.
2015: Los Archivos del Cuerpo [Body Files], a collective project organized by Dalida María Benfield,
           Huret and Spector Gallery, Emerson College, Boston. Massachusetts, USA.
2014: Indigeneity /(De)coloniality/@rt, Fredric Jameson Gallery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
2010: The Last Book, a project organized by Luis Camnitzer, Zentral Bibliothek in Zurich, Switzerland, March-July.
2008: De aqui, de alla: Cuban artists residing in Merida, Mexico, Centro Cultural Olimpo, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
2006: 05982:01, Fundacion de Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2005: Plastica Contemporanea de Yucatan, 33 International Cervantino Festival, Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico.
2002: Reactions, Exit Art Gallery, New York City, New York.
2001: Grand Opening, Galeria Mundo, Los Angeles, California.
2000: The Cuban Allure, The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Caroline.
2000: Visions of Astronomy, Castle Duchess of Fiano, Fiano, Italy.
1998: Havana/Newark 98, Sumei Multidisciplinary Arts Center, Newark, New Jersey.
1997: Word and Image, Artesian Gallery, Mill Valley, California.
1995: Strange Fruits, Resolution Gallery, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, California.
1992: Body Parts: A Physical Examination, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los
          Angeles, California.
1991: Pieces of Minds, No Name Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1990: Mini Print International, Taller Galeria Fort, Barcelona, Spain.

Museum Shows

2012: Variaciones Culturales / Cultural Variations, Collective Exhibition, Casa Museo Quinta Montes Molina. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
2012: Nomad Dreams and Selected Videos, DysTorpia Media Project, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, USA.
2011: Decolonial Aesthetics, exhibition and workshop series organized by Walter Mignolo, Nasher Museum and Jameson Gallery,
           Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
2008: Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art, curator: Jorge Santis, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
2006: Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, USA.
2001: Rememorando el Arte de Accion, a project by Pedro Pez, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Maracay, Venezuela.
1999: Transmigrant Fibers: Latino and Latinamerican Artists in the Internet, Museum of the
           City of Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico.
1995: Cuba: La Isla Posible, Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
1994: Mix Brazil, Museum of Image and Sound, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1993: Breaking Barriers: Selections from the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art´s Permanent Contemporary Cuban Collections, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
1993: The Gulf Crisis TV Project, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York.
1992: Latino Media Arts: Theory and Culture, Film and Video Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.
1992: Cuba/USA: Video Series, The Tampa Museum of Arts, Tampa, Florida.
1991: Cuba-USA, the First Generation, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Chicago, Illinois.
1990: Premio Alzate Alvedaño, Museo de Arte Actual, Bogota, Colombia.

Online Exhibitions

2014: Frameline Voices, Merida Poscrita, Diverse LGTB Stories, Framelie Distribuio, San Francisco, California.
2006: Digital Evento, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada
2003: Traveling Corners, Sex, Food and Politics, Moon Radio Web TV, England.
2003: LatinoNetArt, The Java Museum, Cologne, Germany.
2002: Havana Blues, Markszine, Detroit, Michigan.
2001: Frontera Sur, Borderhack Attachment, Tijuana, Mexico.
2000: MAAP Festival, Alchemy Projects: ANAT, Brisbane, Australia.
1999: Presente Continuo, My Millennium Project , trAce Online Writing Community, Nottingham, England.

Installation/Performances

2018: (De)Encounters and The Weaving of Relational Memories in the MeXicanx_Latinx Territories (1987-2017), Performance Talk, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary            Exhibitions), Los Angeles, California.
2018: Wiwa Turi Éek‛ Yuman/Memories of Stars and Constellations, Territorios Inexplorados / Encuentro de Arte Accion en Yucatan,
            Curated by Debora Carnevali and Omar Gongora (La Periferia), Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
2013: Mariposa Ancestral Memory,Decolonizing the Cold War /BE.BOP 2013, Black Europe Body Politics,
            Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin, Germany..
2009: Merida T’Ho_MX, City of Merida Festival, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
2008: Open Borders, Telematic Performance organized by Adriene Jenik and Charley Ten,
             Actions of Transfers: Women’s Performance in the Americas, UCLA Broad Center, Los Angeles, California.
2007: Voces Xicanas, a collaboration with Juana Alicia Montoya, Mueso de la Cancion Yucateca, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
2003: Travelin g Corners, Arte Nuevo IntereactivA, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico.
1995: Home is Where I live, Installation/Solo Performance, Slam Text, Multimedia Gallery and Performance Space, UCSD, San Diego, California.
1993: Ways of Crossing Borders, Multimedia Performance/Video Presentation, a collaboration with Maria Dalida Benfield, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago.
1992: Ebbo for Elegua, Solo Performance/Installation, Multimedia Performance Space, IowaCity, Iowa,
1990: Port of Entry: Transmigrant Departure, a collaboration with Coco Fusco, Igñigo Manglano-Ovalle, and Jose Bedia, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1990: Vengo de la Tierra, Solsticio, Group Exhibition, Eve Drewler Gallery, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

Video Exhibitions

2013: Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet Retrospective, aluCine Toronto Latin Film and Media Festival, Jackman Hall,
            Art Galery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.
2001: The Cuban Allure, Museum of Art, Colorado University, Bolder, Colorado.
2000: The Cuban Allure, The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Caroline.
1999: Mira/JUNTOS, 911 Media Arts Center Seattle, Washington.
1999: San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival, San Francisco,California.
1997: A Retrospective of the Video Collaborations Between Raul Ferrera- Balanquet and Enrique Novelo Cascante,
            Mix Mexico, Cine Eleketra, Mexico City, Mexico.
1997: Cruzando Fronteras/Crossing Borders, Habourfront, Toronto, Canada.
1996: Mix New York 96, The Victoria Theater, New York City.
1995: Mix New York 95, Film Anthology, New York City.
1995: 11th Rio Cine Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1994: The Spirit of the Body Machine, American Film Institute National Video Festival, LosAngeles, California.
1993: CinemaFest-CineSanJuan, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1993: 39th Robert Flaherty Seminar, Wells College, Aurora, New York.
1992: Con la Lenguan en la Camera: We Name Ourselves, L.A. Freewaves, Los Angeles, California.
1992: San Antonio CineFestival, San Antonio, Texas.
1991: Images, Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, Canada.
1991: 13th Latin American Film, Video and Television Festival, Havana, Cuba.
1990: Lines of Flight, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York.
1990: 16th San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival, SanFrancisco, California.