“Equis” Arriaga Cuellar (they / them / elle) is a multidisciplinary artist, archivist and curator from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Their creative practice spans sonic experimentation, site-specific research, archival work, and queer study, influenced and shaped by Central American life. Archive and memory work function as source and research material for their sonic arts and curatorial practice, often reflecting themes of migration and displacement. They construct sonic landscapes that evoke memories beyond the visual archive, incorporating found audio clips and oral histories into their audio production.

Residency 2026

Lauren Vanzandt-Escobar has parallel practices in education, research, and visual art. She has spent over a decade working in literacy education programs outside of and at the margins of formal schooling and is fascinated by questions around power and politics in literacy and art education in institutional settings. She is a printmaker and has a daily drawing practice that probes the relations between language and materiality, sound and image, place and movement, and the way in which drawing can embed itself into the interstices of everyday life. Born in the United States in a Colombian-American family, she currently resides in France.

Residency 2026

My-Van Dam is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal). Her artistic practice focuses on the transmission of intergenerational trauma and its multiple physical and psychological impacts. She also explores body memory and the healing processes that foster personal and collective emancipation from oppressive systems. Her current research is rooted in the exploration of somatic theories and practices to propose a vision of care that is interdependent and collaborative.

Residency 2026

Noemí Domínguez Gaspar is a Mixe-Zapotec feminist anthropologist with degrees from ENAH and a Master’s in Women’s Studies (UAM-X). She is currently a doctoral candidate in Gender Studies at UNAM. Her work addresses human rights, gender-based violence, racism, representation, and feminist practices, and she has collaborated with academic and public institutions. Her recent publications include De divas, sandungas e indias (2022) and La participación de las mujeres a través de la cocina para la producción de agave y mezcal en Albarradas (2020).

Residency 2025

Fernanda Armada is a multidisciplinary photographer and visual artist exploring identity, memory, and image transformation. A PECDA Guanajuato beneficiary (2023–2024), she held her first solo exhibition Miradas Hambrientas in Querétaro in 2024. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in Mexico and abroad and published internationally. She studies Visual Arts at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro and is a member of Same Faces Collective.

Residency 2025

Sonte’nish Myers is a filmmaker with roots in the U.S. and Jamaica whose work draws on folklore and cultural memory. Working across drama, sci-fi, and fantasy, she centers familiar worlds to explore preservation and identity through film and photography.

Her award-winning short Cross My Heart (Vimeo Staff Pick, streaming on SHOWTIME ANYTIME) led to fellowships with Sundance, Tribeca, and Film Independent. Her period sci-fi feature Stampede (The Black List, Sundance Labs) is currently in development, alongside new projects in near-future thriller and fantasy.

A graduate of NYU’s Graduate Film program, where she now teaches, she has also directed music videos for artists including Tank and the Bangas and Samara Joy.

Residency 2025

Nahima Quetzali Dávalos-Vázquez is a digital anthropologist and learning designer based in Oaxaca City. Her practice explores the intersections of technology, the body, inequality, and creativity through academic and applied projects. She focuses on guiding processes that approach technology through affective and sensory experiences, collaborating with collectives and institutions at the edges of the digital and reframing disconnection as a space for reinterpretation and meaning-making.

Residency 2025

Mayra Cernas is a transdisciplinary creator whose practice brings together textile craft, research, and situated pedagogy. Her work explores visual culture, regional dress, gender, and collective memory from the margins. Trained in sewing in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, she integrates textile labor into her ongoing project Cómo hacer un huipil, which combines historical research, material experimentation, and inherited practices.

Residency 2025

Ica Sadagat attends to the body as text, text as material, and material as collective labor and practice. A trained organizer, perpetual editor, and former crisis counselor, Ica started Sadagat School of Motion & Text in 2022 to offer more sites for embodied learning, close listening, and guerrilla poetics. She has taught and performed in plenty spaces; some of her work can be found. Beyond all of this, Ica spars and surfs.

Residency 2025

Catherine Anabella Lie is an Indonesian interdisciplinary artist, designer, researcher, and educator based in Mexico City. Her practice centers on commoning and uses scores, video, and text to explore alternative histories beyond dominant narratives. She collaborates with more-than-human presences in everyday life—stuffed animals, a broken phone tracing global copper mining, and sourdough starter—as tools to examine kinship, identity, design, and ecology.

Residency 2025

Espartaco Martínez is an Actor and creator trained at La Casa del Teatro, with an international career across Japan, Europe, the Americas, and Korea. He explores dance, clown, and butoh as languages of resistance in works such as La Bestia, Inhumano, and The Heart Sutra. Author of Bitácora de Oriente and Dejarse ir, he has collaborated with Romeo Castellucci and Daisuke Yoshimoto.

Residency 2025

Alexis Convento (she/they), queer Filipino-American artist based in Berlin. Working as Ulam, they create performative and edible installations connecting personal storytelling, ancestral memory, and care. Their projects include Kamayan feasts inspired by the Manila–Acapulco route. They are also Head of Production and Planning at LAS Art Foundation..

Residency 2025

Matt Thomas is an architect, artist, and urban designer exploring the systems that shape everyday life. Director of The Paseo Project and founder of Studio Taos, he focuses on the intersections of food, water, and the built environment. He has taught at Columbia, Parsons, the American University of Beirut, and Chongqing University.

Residency 2025

Tania Mata is a dancer from Oaxaca with 17 years of experience in Graham technique, contemporary dance, acrobatics, and aerial movement. She has performed at Teatro Alcalá, Teatro Degollado, and Foro Larva, and since 2022 has taught contemporary dance and acroyoga at Necia.

Residency 2025

Mario Cruz is a sociologist and visual anthropologist from San Jacinto Chilateca, Oaxaca. His photography, awarded Best Portfolio at FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2024, is part of the Contemporary Image Catalog at the Centro de la Imagen. He founded the Club de Experimentación Fotográfica and has exhibited in Mexico and Chile.

Residency 2025

María Conchita Díaz, a Zapotec filmmaker from Oaxaca and graduate of the CCC. Her thesis La Soledad won the BAFTA Student Award and Yugo Student Choice Award, making her the first Mexican and Latin American recipient. Co-founder of IXMATI Films, she is developing Ascio o Día sin Sombra.

Residency 2025

Oscar Javier Martínez, also known as “Oxama,” is a music journalist, musician, and producer from Oaxaca. Co-founder of Cinema Domingo Orchestra with Steven Brown (Tuxedomoon), he has collaborated with Ana Díaz, Lila Downs, and Susana Harp. He leads Mori Trío and hosts El Sexto Continente, a long-running jazz program.

Residency 2025

Guyphytsy Aldalai is a multidisciplinary artist from Guadalajara whose practice integrates dance, philosophy, and literature to explore the body as a political and poetic territory.

Casa Abierta 2025

Aura Arreola is a performer, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist specializing in Butoh dance, sound performance, and intermedia collaborations.

Casa Abierta 2025

Julia Barrios de la Mora is a choreographer and performer, whose practice investigates relational ecologies between human and non-human bodies -

Casa Abierta 2025

Raymundo Rafael Pavón Lozano is a jaranero (traditional musician), composer, and singer from Xalapa, founder of La Calandria and collaborator of Natalia Lafourcade.

Casa Abierta 2025

Mirna Gómez Silva is a stage artist from Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, with over 18 years of experience in contemporary dance and Afro-diasporic styles such as son jarocho and Guinean ballet.

Casa Abierta 2025

Natalhi Vázquez is an interdisciplinary stage creator trained in dance and theater in Oaxaca since 2005, with a focus on performative pieces and improvisation.

Casa Abierta 2025

Frida María Cruz Trujillo is a contemporary dance artist from Oaxaca who works as an independent artist and collaborates with La Locomotora Foro Escénico.

Casa Abierta 2025

Luis Vallejo is a stage artist from Orizaba with a prominent career as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher both in Mexico and abroad.

Casa Abierta 2025

Xiomara Valdez is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher from Chiapas, a graduate of the Universidad Veracruzana, whose career is centered on contemporary dance as a form of spiritual expression.

Casa Abierta 2025

Juan Pablo Miranda is an editor, cultural manager, and radio producer with a degree in Hispanic Literature from UNAM.

Casa Abierta 2025

Getse Zato is a stage artist, photographer, and psychotherapist with international experience in film, performance, video art, and theater.

Casa Abierta 2025

Rafael Chitiva is a Colombian artist specializing in contemporary dance, physical theater, and stage lighting, with over ten years of professional and pedagogical experience in Latin America.

Casa Abierta 2025

Eduardo Orozco Gómez is an actor, director, and playwright trained at CUT-UNAM with several diplomas in literary and choreographic creation.

Casa Abierta 2025