exhibitions + public interventions
2022 “Día de Lxs Muertxs” | Portland Mercado, Portland, OR
“Make Ready for the Revolution” | Kent State University, Kent, OH (on view)
“Re-membering and Re-seeding for Liberation” | Vanport Mosaic Festival, Expo Center, Portland, OR
“Indigenous Futures” | Native Arts and Culture Foundation, Portland OR
“Enmeshed”| Dorsa Brevia, Portland, OR
2021 “Science Stories: A Collaborative Exhibit of Book Artists and Scientists” | University Of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA (traveling)
“See Me. iAm. HEAR.” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2020 “Make Ready for the Revolution” | Kent State University, Kent, OH
“De Colores” | Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR
“Tu lucha es mi lucha” | Alder Commons, Portland, OR
“Be Ti Mismx and The World Cambiará” | Buckman Middle School, Portland, OR
“Year Of Asé” | Orí Gallery, Portland, OR
2019 Literary Arts Fair | Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
“La Lucha” | Wieden + Kennedy, Portland, OR
“gotxs: antojos sureños” curated by letra chueca press | Milepost 5, Portland, OR
“A Taste Of Latinoamérica” | Portland Mercado, Portland, OR
“Bark for Change” | Bark’s Base Camp, Mt. Hood National Forest, OR
Steamroller Printing Spectacular | OMSI, Portland, OR
“Americans at Work: United to the Core” | Centro Latino, Tacoma, WA
“Huddled Masses” | Hoxton Hotel, Portland, OR
“The Lushness of Print” | The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
2018 “Impresionante” | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Parque Forestal, Santiago, Chile
“Uncensored Celebration” with ACLU Of Oregon | Lagunitas Community Room, Portland, OR
Steamroller Printing Spectacular | OMSI, Portland, OR
“A Taste Of Latinoamérica” | Portland Mercado, Portland, OR
“Tú Eres Precious” | Fruit Salad Club, Portland, OR
“Latinidades” curated By Una Gallery | Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber, Portland, OR
“Sí Se Puede” | Madison High School, Portland, OR
Nat Turner Project Book Release | City Hall, Portland, OR
Día del Niñx with RACC | Centro Cultural De Washington County, Cornelius, OR
Letterpress Printers Fair with Design Week Portland | AudioCinema, Portland OR
“Barrio Propaganda” curated by Paulina Ramirez | La Leonila, Cuenca, Ecuador
“Printing sin fronteras” with Michele Holands + Idania del Río | Portland Mercado, Portland, OR
“Posamor” curated by Paulina Ramirez | La Leonila, Cuenca, Ecuador
2017 “We the Dreamers: An Art Show to Defend DACA” | Ecotrust, Portland, OR
“Nuestras Victorias” | IPRC, Portland, OR
East Portland Arts & Literary Festival | APANO, Portland, OR
Propaganda Printing With Just Seeds | Paragon Gallery, Portland, OR
“A Taste Of Latinoamérica” | Portland Mercado, Portland, OR
“Noche de Arte” with Pochas Radicales | Q Center, Portland, OR
“Strange Dreams” | Ecotrust, Portland, OR
Letterpress Printers Fair with Design Week Portland | The Redd, Portland, OR
2016 “A Taste Of Latinoamérica” | Portland Mercado, Portland, OR
“Our Stories” | Centro Latino, Tacoma, WA
Letterpress Printers Fair with Design Week Portland | Bison Building, Portland OR
2015 “Blood Quantum” | 23Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR
education + training
2016—2018 Offset Lithography | Scout Books, Portland, OR
2013 Apprenticeship in letterpress printing and bookbinding | Em Space Book Arts Center, Portland, OR
2012 Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Latinamerican Literature + Studio Art Minor, cum laude | Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR
2011 Facultad de Literatura Hispanoamericana and El Instituto de Arte (Dept. of Hispanoamerican Literature and The Art Institute) Pontificía Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
awards, residencies + honors
TBD Print Residency | C.C. Stern Type Foundry, Portland, OR
2021 Support Beam Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
2020 Precipice Fund Round 8 | PICA, Portland, OR
2019 Project Grant Awarded by Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
2018 Golden Spot Residency | Funds Awarded by Caldera Arts Center, Sisters, OR
lectures + press
2022 “Type Jam” with C.C. Stern Type Foundry (upcoming)
2021 “Supporting Community Through Letterpress, Humor, and Activism: letra chueca Interviewed” by Gerry Peña, Variable West
2020 Diseñar Hoy: conversaciones sobre el cambio | Mes del Diseño presented by the Ministry of Arts and Culture in Chile
“The Ecstasy of Ekphrasis” | Winter Poetry Festival, PNCA
2019 “La Tienda (The Shop)” | Fort Ripper, Portland, OR
“Buscando América” with Tania Gomezdaza, KBOO
Show & Tell: Letra Chueca | Portland State University, Portland, OR
“Poets’ Peace Breakfast: Invocations” | Lawrence-Minh Búi Davis + Fred Sasaki, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
Reed Arts Week | Letra Chueca Press, Portland, OR
Tertulia | Teatro Milagro, Portland, OR
“Poetry Foundation Exhibits Reed Broadsides” by Ben Read, The Reed College Quest
2018 “Cultivating A Creative City – Hear What’s Up In Portland’s Arts Ecosystem” Open Signal, Portland OR
“Letra Chueca en la feria de arte impreso y publicación independiente, Impresionante 2018: ‘Lo Personal Es Político’” | Marcela Infante, Zancada, Santiago de Chile
“Letra Chueca” by Emilly Prado, Mercatus My People’s Market, Vol. 2
2017 “Portland’s Letra Chueca Brings Printmaking Back to the People” by Emilly Prado, Portland Monthly
publications
2020 "por la lucha" and "always aquí" Estados silvestres, fron//tera Revista Literaria Bilingüe vol. 3
2018 “ni de” Huizache (The Magazine of Latino Literature) #8